Civil service and public sector

Industrial Action (1976), written by an experienced active trade unionist, brings valuable real-world examples to an examination of the many facets of trade union organising.

This edited volume takes a closer look at various European pension-plan models and the recent challenges, trends and predictions related to the design of such schemes.

In every part of the world information and technology are changing society and challenging the structures, roles, and management of traditional government institutions.

This book's purpose is to shed light on the threats and opportunities arising from the incentives and restrictions of governmental actions which food industry managers discover in their search for profits.

This book offers a multidisciplinary account of the 'rule of law' as a central pillar of the classical liberal tradition.

YOUR GUIDE TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUCCESS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR There may be no simple formula for success in public-sector projects, but Public-Sector Project Management delivers the next best thing: a complete set of skill-building strategies that puts success well within your reach.

This book focuses on the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT), second round effects and the inflation process in South Africa.

"e;This book is able to explain and analyze what has eluded both scholars and thought leaders in business and the media - how and why populism has grabbed center stage.

Multidisciplinary economics deliberately uses the insights and approaches of other disciplines and examines what consequences their contributions have for existing economic methods, theories and solutions to economic problems.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-year period.

This book covers a diverse range of topics situated at the intersecting fields of economic management, public administration, and green development.

In this volume are papers written by students and co-authors of Stanley Reiter.

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field.

Sunshades in October (1963) argues that under certain circumstances economic domestic restraint will in fact do precisely the opposite.

Understanding Police Operational Performance provides a roadmap for police agencies to implement performance-improvement strategies that work.

Having spent almost fifty years of my life defending the separate accou- ing, arm's length pricing method, I have to admit that I was somewhat surprised to be asked to contribute to a book suggesting that the European Union might do well to consider adopting a formulary approach to deal with the taxation of inter and intra company transactions.

This handbook is chocked full of useful protection/security tips for the average person living in the modern age.

This is Element explores behavioural economics with reference to key developments in public policy, freedom of choice and human welfare.

The rise of hybrid ventures is proof that another way of doing business is possible.

Challenging some of the established practices of public policy and administration, which have been called into question in recent years by the financial and banking crises of 2008, the authors specifically seek to investigate current public sector management and the public managers acting in the interests of civil society to get to the heart of best practice.

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas.

In The Financiers and the Nation (1934) Mr.

Divided into four sections-public safety agencies, key issues like interoperability and cybercrime, management skills, and emerging trends like the transfer of military technologies to civilian agencies, Managing Public Safety Technology illustrates how essential managing technology is to the success of any project.

Since the first edition was published in 1997, Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations has become the go-to reference for public and nonprofit human resources professionals.

Prepared by Patrick J.

Therapists must increase their understanding of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to maintain and improve competence.

The absurdity of bureaucracy offers a humorous ethnographic account of policy implementation set in contemporary Danish bureaucracy.

Consumers have always been concerned about the quality, and particularly the safety, of the foods they eat.

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.

The more than 200,000 men and women that make up the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workforce have been entrusted with the ultimate responsibility - ensuring that the homeland is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards.

This book analyzes collective protests and contentious politics in Chile over a span of 13 years.

Probability, Statistics and Other Frightening Stuff (Volume II of the Working Guides to Estimating & Forecasting series) considers many of the commonly used Descriptive Statistics in the world of estimating and forecasting.

Arts and Business aims at bringing arts and business scholars together in a dialogue about a number of key topics that today form different understandings in the two disciplines.

Several Supreme Court battles during the Warren-Burger era finally brought public sector employees under constitutional protection, setting forth a new legal framework for personnel management.

This book discusses the most critical issues relating to the recovery of bad loans - a major problem that European banks urgently need to address and resolve.

This book explains the nuts and bolts of affordable housing development.

Many optimization questions arise in economics and finance; an important example of this is the society's choice of the optimum state of the economy (the social choice problem).

Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Markets is an edited collection of papers drawn from the conference held at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in June 1997.

Corruption has been part of our economic and political life since ancient times.

Public Corruption in the United States provides a comprehensive view of public corruption, including discussion on its types, methods, trends, challenges, and overall impact.

Examining schools, libraries, prisons, asylums, and vaccines, this study is the first comprehensive look at the origins of public services.

This book provides an authoritative account of the first significant overseas diplomatic missions and forays made by Indian civil servants.

The Conservative's privatisation programme was one of the most ambitious aspects of their attempt to redraft the political and economic map of the United Kingdom.

Focusing on the region of the Arab world--comprising some two hundred million people and twenty-one sovereign states extending from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf--this book develops a theory of social change that demystifies the setbacks this region has experienced on the road to transformation.

The growing economic power of government has prompted many studies to seek to establish the optimum size of government and how it might relate to economic growth, productivity and inflation.

This book has been several years in the making.

This book considers why institutional forms of modern capitalist economies differ internationally, and proposes a typology of capitalism based on the theory of institutional complementarity.

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

The premise of this volume is that business regulations are expected to grow in the near future as a consequence of the emergence of a "e;(world) risk society.

Getting what you want - even if you are the boss - isn't always easy.