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Strategic management in the public sector / Paul Joyce

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, United Kingdom : Routledge, c2015Description: xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780415527637
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JF 1351 .J69 2015
Contents:
Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introducing strategic planning and management -- Part II: Strategic Decision-Making -- 2. Different national experiences of planning -- 3. International case studies -- 4. Strategic Policy-Making -- 5. How to do strategic planning -- 6. Theories and Research: Inspired by the Private Sector -- 7. Theories and Research: Practice, Politics and Managing -- Part III: The Strategic State -- 8. Politics and planning in the UK -- 9. Strategic planning as a tool for reforming public services -- 10. The strategic state -- Part IV: Conclusions -- 11. Developments, a map and a personal view.
Summary: "Strategic management is widely seen as essential to the public services, leading to better performance and better outcomes for the public. In fact, the private sector idea of strategic management has become so powerful in the public sector that politicians and policy makers have begun to talk about the importance of the modern state being strategic--and we may be witnessing the emergence of the Strategic State.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Graduate Studies General Circulation Master of Arts in Public Administration GC JF 1351 .J69 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000011166

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introducing strategic planning and management -- Part II: Strategic Decision-Making -- 2. Different national experiences of planning -- 3. International case studies -- 4. Strategic Policy-Making -- 5. How to do strategic planning -- 6. Theories and Research: Inspired by the Private Sector -- 7. Theories and Research: Practice, Politics and Managing -- Part III: The Strategic State -- 8. Politics and planning in the UK -- 9. Strategic planning as a tool for reforming public services -- 10. The strategic state -- Part IV: Conclusions -- 11. Developments, a map and a personal view.

"Strategic management is widely seen as essential to the public services, leading to better performance and better outcomes for the public. In fact, the private sector idea of strategic management has become so powerful in the public sector that politicians and policy makers have begun to talk about the importance of the modern state being strategic--and we may be witnessing the emergence of the Strategic State.

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