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Understanding & managing public organizations 3rd ed
The previous editions of this book reviewed the literature on management and organization theory and suggested applications to the public sector grounded in evidence from research on public organizations and the people in them. The book has thus been valuable to practicing managers, to scholars, and to students in the field, having served primarily and widely as a text in courses for master of public administration students and in seminars for doctoral students in public administration and public affairs programs. The revisions in this third edition seek to enhance the book?s usefulness in such courses. Reviewers of the first edition suggested greater integration among the chapters and the addition of an organizing framework for the material. I therefore presented in the first chapter of the second edition a conceptual framework that links the chapters and topics in the book. This framework emphasizes a fundamental challenge for leaders and members of organizations, that of integrating and coordinating the components and domains of the organization, including its environment, its strategy- and decision-making processes, its goals and values, its culture, its structure, its authority and power relationships, its tasks, its communication processes, and of course its people?the organization?s leaders, teams, and groups, and their motivations, work attitudes, and behaviors. As the book illustrates, the field of management and organizational theory has developed no comprehensive theory or scientific solution that achieves this integration. Nevertheless, the book?s chapters describe concepts and insights from the organization and management xiii Rainey.fpref 7/16/03 7:29 AM Page xiii literature that support leaders? and managers? efforts to think and act comprehensively, to integrate the myriad topics and issues they face. The final chapter illustrates how to use the framework to approach various management challenges, such as privatization of public services, in an integrative, comprehensive fashion. The rest of the book?s chapters flesh out the conceptual framework by reviewing the theories, research, and practices associated with major topics in the field of organizations and their management. As described in Chapter One, the field of public management and leadership has continued to develop rapidly since publication of the previous editions. Accordingly, many chapters and topics in this edition have been expanded to cover new material and new developments. For example, the chapters on motivation (Nine and Ten) and leadership (Eleven) include additional coverage of recent research and thought on those topics, such as the theory of goal setting as a motivational procedure, social learning theory, selfefficacy, and charismatic leadership. This edition also covers a lot of the most recent research on such topics as how public managers lead and behave, effective performance in government agencies, public service networks and third-party government, the nature of public service motivation, organizational commitment in public organizations, differences between public and private managers? perceptions of the personnel systems with which they work, organizational culture in public organizations, and many other topics. It addresses such developments as the continued progress of the National Public Management Research Conferences, the Government Performance Project, the O?Toole-Meier model of public management, and the recent stream of research on governance. The chapters on the major topics of the book show that researchers have published a profusion of studies on these and other topics since the second edition appeared, thus raising a major challenge for one who seeks to review and interpret them all. In addition, previous editions of this book have analyzed, as does this one, the distinctions between public organizations and their members, on the one hand, and other types of organizations, leaders, and employees, such as those in the business sector, on the other. Chapter Three presents a conceptual analysis of these distinctions: What do we mean when we refer to these different types of organizations and the people who work for them? How do we define them and study their differences? Subsequent chapters describe a large number of research articles and other forms of evidence that compare public and private organizations in terms of the topics that these chapters cover. Although I have tried to keep track of comparisons of public, private, and nonprofit organizations on a continuing basis, I have been surprised at how many studies of this type have appeared in recent years. Assembling these studies, describing them, and interpreting them for the reader has posed another serious challenge, but a welcome one because one of the book?s objectives is to provide the most comprehensive compilation and review possible of such research-based comparisons of public and private (and public and nonprofit) organizations. xiv Preface Rainey.fpref 7/16/03 7:29 AM Page xiv Another goal and challenge of the previous editions of the book was to cover important developments in the practice and contemporary context of general management and public management. The previous editions covered such topics as Total Quality Management, the influence of the best-selling book Reinventing Government (Osborne and Gaebler, 1992) and the REGO movement it spawned, including the federal government?s National Performance Review; and the management of privatization and contracting-out programs, among others. This edition reports on research evaluating the influence of these developments on governments at all levels in the United States and in other nations. It also covers more recent developments, such as the New Public Management movement around the world, the George W. Bush administration?s President?s Management Agenda, the human capital movement in government and the Human Capital Crisis, and some of the developments related to the new emphasis on homeland security. Such coverage is provided in part to make this edition of the book even more interesting and useful than the previous editions for practicing managers and professionals, and for students interested in such roles. This edition also offers a lot of suggestions for those who are faced with practical leadership and management challenges, including managing relations with the media (Chapter Five), enhancing one?s power and authority (Chapter Seven), motivating employees (Chapter Ten), managing and leading organizational culture (Chapter Eleven), managing conflict (Chapter Twelve), leading organizational change (Chapter Thirteen), and other topics. In addition, it gives examples of how these insights and concepts are used in the field. For instance, Chapter Eight begins with a description of the major structural transformation the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has recently undergone, and of the structural changes made at a national laboratory in response to public concerns about its safety. Chapter Ten points out that many of the efforts to reform pay systems in government would have been much more effective if they had been informed by a clear understanding of a number of motivation theories. Chapter Thirteen shows how strategies for leading organizational change have led to successful large-scale change in government agencies, and how not applying such strategies has led to failure in other instances. Ultimately, the book pursues the theme that effective leadership involves the well-informed, thoughtful, integrative use of a variety of management concepts and points rather than the hot pursuit of catchy phrases and glib advice. Illustrating this theme, many students of military strategy and history express great admiration for Carl Von Clausewitz?s classic treatise On War (1986). Clausewitz essentially takes the position that he cannot advise an individual commander on how to conduct a specific campaign because such situations are so highly varied and contingent. Rather, he aims to provide general perspective and insight on how to conceive of the nature and enterprise of war. Even persons who loathe military force and military analogies might accept the point that people Preface xv Rainey.fpref 7/16/03 7:29 AM Page xv facing practical challenges often profit from general understanding and insight as much as from detailed prescriptions.NULL.NULL
Ketersediaan
| Call Number | Location | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Tan 351 Rai u | PSB lt.dasar - Pascasarjana | 3 |
| Penerbit | San Francisco Jossey-Bass., 2003 |
|---|---|
| Edisi | 3 |
| Subjek | Public administration |
| ISBN/ISSN | 0787965618 |
| Klasifikasi | NONE |
| Deskripsi Fisik | xx, 484p; chart, tables, graphics, appendix, 30cm |
| Info Detail Spesifik | - |
| Other Version/Related | Tidak tersedia versi lain |
| Lampiran Berkas | Tidak Ada Data |