Improving Public Management: 1 (European Institute of Public Administration) - Softcover

Metcalfe, Les; Richards, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803984006 ISBN 13: 9780803984004

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1990

Synopsis

Now in paperback in an Enlarged Edition, this volume explores the lessons of one of the most comprehensive attempts to improve public management.

Metcalfe and Richards describe and assess Thatcher′s 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 analyze major themes such as: decentralization, information systems and budgets as management tools, organization design, and the management of interdepartmental relations.

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Metcalfe and Richards describe and assess Thatcher¿s 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 analyze major themes such as: decentralization, information systems and budgets as management tools, organization design, and the management of interdepartmental relations.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803984006
• ISBN 13: 9780803984004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272