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This textbook examines what it means to have efficient management and good quality services in the public sector and how public sector performance can be improved.
For more than thirty years the solution to all Britain's problems has been better management. As a result management schools dominate higher education and managers are at work everywhere developing 'strategies' and 'systems' and quantifying 'outcomes'. There are now more managers on the rail network than train drivers, yet the benefits of modern management of railways, schools, hospitals and universities are elusive. This is because 'management' does not exist--the academic study of 'management science' and the assumption that there are universal management skills are bogus. This book shows how modern management practices have all but destroyed politics, education, culture and religion--modern management is the cause of our national malaise.
Introducing the scope and scale of government, competing approaches to the study of management in the public sector, different forms of service delivery and the major topics in the subject such as strategic management, leadership and performance management, this book continues to be a key point of reference for lecturers and students in the field. This leading text has been completely revised and updated throughout. It covers the whole field of public management and administration, offering discrete chapters on the main topics in the field.
This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors influencing the pathways of reform. It demonstrates how public employment regimes have unravelled in different domains of public service, contesting the idea that the state remains a 'model' employer.
Edward Spalding (fl.1630/1633-1669) emigrated about 1630/1633 from England to Braintree, Massachusetts, and married twice, moving later to Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Michigan, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsi, Minnesota and elsewher. Some descendants immigrated to Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada. Some details are given about other Spalding immigrants to Maryland and Georgia.