Administration category: 6852 books
Bridge Leadership
Connecting Educational Leadership and Social Justice to Improve Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is the first chronicle of the history of social justice as a line of inquiry within the field of educational administration. Editors Tooms and Boske have amassed a collective voice of leaders in the field of Educational Administration who have broken barriers and expanded the field through their...
Public Values and Public Interest
Counterbalancing Economic Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Economic individualism and market-based values dominate today's policymaking and public management circles—often at the expense of the common good. In his new book, Barry Bozeman demonstrates the continuing need for public interest theory in government. Public Values and Public Interest offers a direct...
Ethics for Governance
Reinventing Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive overview of India’s public services and bureaucratic systems, and explores why widespread corruption and inefficient delivery have slowed development. It:
discusses the underlying reasons for the prevailing inefficiency in public services;
examines the...
Public Service Efficiency
Reframing the Debate
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focused on the costs of service delivery, governments across the world have introduced a series of business like practices – from performance management to...
A Presidential Civil Service
FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
A Presidential Civil Service offers a comprehensive and definitive study of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM). Established in 1939 following the release of Roosevelt’s Brownlow Committee report, LOPM became a key milestone in the evolution of...
Higher Education Administration
50 Case-Based Vignettes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies Series Editors Edmund T. Hamann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Rodney Hopson, George Mason University For most of US history, most of America's Latino population has lived in nine states-California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado,...
by Margaret Brock
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
This book was written to fill a need for a basic text about medical social work. The material has specific reference to social work in the hospital organization, but much of it is applicable to social work within the broader context of health care.
Any printed material now available on the...
by Jock Lul Pan Chuol
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
This Book is overview of Outer executive Departments and 64 Independent Federal Agencies; the Outer Executive Departments are--United States Department of Interior, Labor, Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Education, and Veterans...
IT in the Public Sphere
Applications in Administration, Government, Politics, and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
To be successful in the 21st century, governments must make use of digital and communication technologies in order to coordinate resources and collaborate with their citizens. IT in the Public Sphere: Applications in Administration, Government, Politics, and Planning evaluates current research and best...
by William L. Sharp, James K. Walter
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2003
Designed to teach the principal to become efficient and effective in accomplishing noninstructional roles, this book offers advice on expectations and survival techniques to ensure the principal's longevity in the district. Like the previous edition, it provides a practical guide to practice and procedure...
China's Sent-Down Generation
Public Administration and the Legacies of Mao's Rustication Program
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
During China’s Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong’s "rustication program" resettled 17 million urban youths, known as "sent downs," to the countryside for manual labor and socialist reeducation. This book, the most comprehensive study of the program to be published in either English or Chinese...
Comparing Public Bureaucracies
Problems of Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
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The comparative study of public policy once promised to make major contributions to our understanding of government. Much of that promise now appears unfulfilled. What accounts for this decline in intellectual fortunes and change in intellectual...
Helping America Vote
The Limits of Election Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
A repeat of the Florida debacle in the 2000 presidential election is the fear of every election administrator. Despite the relatively complication-free 2008 election, we are working with fairly new federal legislation designed to ease election administration problems. The implementation of the Help...
Representative Bureaucracy: Classic Readings and Continuing Controversies
Classic Readings and Continuing Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The readings in this collection provide a comprehensive guide to the established knowledge and emerging issues regarding democratizing public bureaucracies by making them socially representative. The book includes both classic and cutting-edge works, and presents a contemporary model for analyzing...