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Public Sector Management: Theory, Critique and Practice
Author(s): David McKevitt (Editor), Alan Lawton
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication Date: 31 Mar. 1994
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0803977123
- ISBN-13: 9780803977129
Book Description
Drawing together key contributions to the field, this innovative Reader provides a broad-ranging overview of both the theory and practice of public service management. The book: outlines the social, political and economic contexts in which management has emerged as a crucial issue in the public sector of modern democratic countries; introduces the major theories, issues and concepts involved in defining and understanding public sector management; analyzes some of the key values underpinning the idea of the public domain; and examines some of the main challenges in terms of particular strategies, techniques and competences which have been proposed to improve management for public services.
Public Sector Management is a Course Reader for The Open University course B887 Managing Public Services.
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About the Author
David McKevitt is a Lecturer in the Open Business School, The Open University and author (with L Wrigley) of Managing Core Public Services (1994).
Alan Lawton is a Lecturer in the Open Business School, The Open University and author (with A Rose) of Organisation and Management in the Public Sector (Second Edition, 1994).
