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Managing Change and Innovation in Public Service Organizations
Contributor(s): Brown, Kerry (Author), Osborne, Stephen P. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0415328985     ISBN-13: 9780415328982
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $68.39  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2005
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The context of public services is becoming ever more complex, particularly as governments strive to improve and modernize services. As a result, managing change and innovation is a core task for the successful public manager.
This textbook sets out to equip future and current public managers with the understanding and skills required to be effective. The text includes specially commissioned case-studies and chapters on managing cultural change, implementing and sustaining change, designing and sustaining innovation, and managing change in a volatile environment. The authors draw out the best contemporary theory and practice to provide a coherent approach to the topic that will be key reading for those studying public management and managers in the public sector.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Management - General
- Business & Economics | Public Finance
Dewey: 352.367
LCCN: 2004012505
Series: Routledge Masters in Public Management Series
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.3" W x 9.16" L (1.04 lbs) 272 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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The context and environment of public services is becoming increasingly complex and the management of change and innovation is now a core task for the successful public manager. This text aims to provide its readers with the skills necessary to understand, manage and sustain change and innovation in public service organizations. Key features include:

  • the use of figures, tables and boxes to highlight ideas and concepts of central importance
  • a dedicated case study to serve as a focus for discussion and learning, and to marry theory with practice
  • clear learning objectives for each chapter with suggestions for further reading.

    Providing future and current public managers with the understanding and skills required to manage change and innovation, this groundbreaking text is essential reading for all those studying public management, public administration and public policy.
 
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