Improving Public Management (European Institute of Public Administration) - Hardcover

Metcalfe, Les; Richards, Sue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803981031 ISBN 13: 9780803981034

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1987

Synopsis

Since taking office in 1979, Mrs Thatcher′s Conservative government has adopted an Efficiency Strategy, to reduce public spending and reform management in government.

Metcalfe and Richards describe and assess the Efficiency Strategy as an exercise in improving public management. They explain how the strategy has gone about improving administrative performance by increasing cost-consciousness in the use of resources and creating flexibility for managing change. They analyse major themes such as decentralization, information systems and budgets as management tools, organization design and the management of interdepartmental relations.

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Review

`The most authoritative (study) to date' - New Statesman, 11.9.87

`This study is a useful and important contribution to the analysis of Thatcherism and the development of recent administrative methods' - International Review of Social Sciences,

`provide(s) a useful introduction to, and critique of, developments in civil service management between 1979 and 1985.' - Parliamentary Affairs,

`The depth of the authors' analysis is enhanced by a tight discussion of conceptual problems and an excellent knowledge of the inner workings of departments thanks to their previous involvement in teaching at the Civil Service College. - West European Politics

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803981031
• ISBN 13: 9780803981034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260