Civil service and public sector

Training and Promotion in Nationalised Industry (1951) is the results of a study made into the personnel department and into certain aspects of personnel policy in the nationalised coal, electricity, gas, transport and airways industries in postwar Britain.

This book assesses local civil society responses to conflict, militarism, climate change, and disease in the global south.

As governments throughout the world experience increasing fiscal challenges, the pressures on public sectors to streamline services and harness technological advances is unprecedented.

For the first two thirds of the twentieth century, British government was among the most stable in the advanced industrial world.

The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private sector.

This wide-ranging book sets discussion of the various approaches to local government decentralisation in the context of the changing nature of public service management and the possibilities for new kinds of public involvement in government decision-making.

This Handbook responds to the needs and aspirations of current and future generations of development economists by providing critical reference material alongside or in relation to mainstream propositions.

Measuring government effectiveness is essential to ensuring accountability, as is an informed public that is willing and able to hold elected officials and policy-makers accountable.

In recent years civil society has been seen as a key route for democracy promotion and solving development 'problems' in low-income countries.

Any Chainnan of the British Post Office dwells in the shadow of Rowland Hill, and, if he were an honest man, he probably from time to time, while singing the praises of Rowland Hill, as is his due, thinks a silent thought of sympathy for his predecessor Colonel Maberly, the head of the Post Office, the Champion of established orthodoxy, the leader of the Professionals, who had to endure the irresistible force of Hill's arguments combined with his skills as a pamphleteer, agitator, and political propagandist.

"e;Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration"e; presents cutting-edge perspectives on the role of ethics in public sector management - what it is and where it is going.

In a time of austerity, the U.

This work focuses on the creation of new knowledge, and how this has happened throughout all ages, as far back as the time of ancient philosophy to today.

Singapore was ranked first for the competence of its public officials from 1999 to 2002 by "e;The Global Competitiveness Report"e;.

This fully updated edition of the bestselling textbook on Health Service Operations Management provides an invaluable reference for students and researchers in the fields of healthcare management, operations management and patient flow logistics.

Over the past decade, putting public services on-line has been a focus of huge policy and financial investments aimed at providing more joined-up service delivery.

Located in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, Bhutan practices the philosophy of Gross National Happiness ("e;GNH"e;) that embraces environmental conservation as one of the main building blocks for its sustainable development goals.

'Policy work' is increasingly conducted by public managers at different levels of seniority, and in a variety of settings.

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The book offers a theoretical and practical analysis of the contemporary approach to art, culture and innovation, with special emphasis on the relationship between culture, innovation and the economy, in the context of green transition, as an indispensable sustainability factor.

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This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

This edited volume brings together international and national scholars and major activists leading or spearheading basic income guarantee political initiatives in their respective countries.

This book investigates the political, social, and economic dynamics and structures that influence the leadership of Civil Society Organisations at the local, national, and global levels.

In The Financiers and the Nation (1934) Mr.

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"e;Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration"e; presents cutting-edge perspectives on the role of ethics in public sector management - what it is and where it is going.

From its beginnings, NASA was convinced that its real mission was to create the opportunity for a much different and better society on Earth, namely through human space flight.

This book explores the incentives and effects of modern welfare policy, contrasted with outcomes of global basic income pilots in the past seventy years.

BSW/MSW education funded by Title IV-E of Social Security Act ("e;Title IV-E Child Welfare Education"e;) is an important incentive to encourage social workers to stay in the child protection field.

With over 20 million people on its payroll, the government is the largest employer in the country.

This work focuses on the creation of new knowledge, and how this has happened throughout all ages, as far back as the time of ancient philosophy to today.

The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private sector.

This book presents fresh research on how Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), patterns of clustering, digitalization and innovation policies, interact and influence India's industrialisation and its greening or sustainability.

Risk assessment and risk management are essential across the public sector to improve processes and outcomes.

Proving that public service excellence is not an oxymoron but an achievable reality, The Three Pillars of Public Management provides a framework, based on the experiences of senior managers and a survey of top-performing public service organizations around the world, for building and sustaining effective public service organizations.

In the public sector inspection regimes and performance targets provide a powerful and dominant narrative, often placing pressure on professionals and organisations to continuously quantify the quality of services and to achieve targets.

This volume contains the papers, along with the discussant's re- marks, presented at a conference on 'Federal Fiscal Responsibility', held at The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, on 26-27 March 1976.

The 17 chapters in this book, which evolved from a conference on measuring the contributions of ITS sponsored by the California Department of Transportation in February 2002, examine the costs and benefits of ITS in an economic and business policy context.

City and county governments provide a wide array of highly technical urban services.

"e;Approval Voting"e; proposes a compelling way to elect some 500,000 officials in public elections.

Is art for everybody?

The vast majority of Canadians are blissfully unaware that every man, woman and child in Canada now owes a $35,000 share of government debt and must pay this back, with interest!

This book reflects the futuristic scientific view of the consequences of transition to Industry 4.

In most municipalities across Canada, the top public servant is the chief administrative officer (CAO) or city manager.

Innovation is seen as an interactive process that involves many actors within and across organizational boundaries.

Originally published in 1986, this volume brings together papers on the organisational structure of select public enterprises from nine countries, developed and developing.

Almost a fifth of all employees work in the public sector.

The ageing, financial and labour market challenges facing the old age pension systems of the member states of the European Union are well known.