The Public Administration Workbook

Dennis L. Dresang, Mark W Huddleston (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2006 | 5th edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-321-27335-2 (ISBN)

Infos

By providing hands-on exercises, this unique workbook engages students in the study of public administration. Connecting theory to practice, a brief theoretical introduction precedes each exercise, explaining why the technique is important and how it is relevant to the study of public administration.

Inhalt

Preface   

About the Author   

Introduction   

Overview of The Public Administration Workbook   

Theory and Technique in Public Administration   

Part One
Public Management    
What Is Public Management?    
Further Reading    
Exercise 1
    The Administrative Memo    
    An Important Telephone Conversation    
    The ABCs of Good Administrative Writing: Accuracy, Brevity, and Clarity    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions    
Exercise 2
    Designing Organizations    
    Approaching Organization Design    
    Three Models of Organization    
    Which Model is Best?    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions    
Exercise 3
    Managing Organizations: Techniques for Total Quality Management    
    Toward Quality in Public Administration    
    Total Quality Management (TQM)    
    TQM Techniques    
    Cause-and-Effect Diagrams    
    Flowcharts   
    Pareto Charts    
    Run Charts    
    Histograms    
    Scatter Diagrams    
    Further Readings    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions    
Exercise 4
    Emergency Management    
    The Special Concerns of Emergency Management   
    Developments in Emergency Management    
    Key Steps in Emergency Management    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions    
Exercise 5
    Administative Law    
    What Is Administrative Law?    
    Why Is Administrative Law Important?    
    The Status of Administrative Law    
    The Administrative Procedures Act    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions   
Exercise 6
    Administrative Ethics    
    Ethics and American Government    
    What Are Ethics?    
    What Are Administrative Ethics?    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions   

Part Two
Public Personnel Administration    
What is Public Personnel Administration?    
Rank-in-Job versus Rank-in-Person    
Why Rank-in-Job?    
Further Reading    
Exercise 7
    Job Analysis and The Job
    Description    
    A Short Fable   
    The Moral    
    What Is Job Analysis?   
    How Are Job Analyses Done?   
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions   
Exercise 8
    Performance Evaluation    
    Performance Evaluation: What, Why, and How?   
    Two Approaches to Performance
    Evaluation    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions    
Exercise 9
    Recruitment and Selection    
    Angst and The Job Interview: A One-Half-Act Play    
    Types of Selection Devices    
    The Importance of Job-Relatedness and Validation
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions    
Exercise 10
    Succession Planning
    Retirement Fallout
    Succession Planning    
    Individual Career Planning    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions    
Exercise 11
    Collective Bargaining    
    Bilateralism and Public Management    
    The Rise of Public Employee Unions   
    The Bargaining Process    
    Impasse Resolution Procedures    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions   

Part Three
Public Budgeting    
What Is a Budget?    
Why Do We Budget?    
How Do We Budget?    
Further Reading   
Exercise 12
    Line-Item Budgeting    
    Budgeting for Control    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions    
Exercise 13
    Performance Budgeting    
    Budgeting for Efficiency    
    Classifying Activities    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions    
Exercise 14
    Program Budgeting    
    Budgeting for Purpose    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions    
Exercise 15
    Zero-Base and Outcome-Based Budgeting
    Budgeting for Priorities    
    Decision Units and Decision Packages    
    Ranking Decision Packages    
    Outcome Based Planning

    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions   

Part Four
Decision Making and Policy
Analysis    
Administrators and the Policy
Process    
Further Reading    
Exercise 16
    Rational Decision Making    
    What Is Rationality?    
    Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness
    Analysis    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions    
Exercise 17
    Policy Implementation    
    What Is Implementation?    
    Implementation and the Critical Path
    Method    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise    
    Instructions    
Exercise 18
    Policy Evaluation    
    The Importance of Policy Evaluation    
    Policy as Theory    
    Evaluation Procedures    
    Further Reading    
    Overview of Exercise   
    Instructions

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2006
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 275 x 217 mm
• Gewicht: 1100 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 0-321-27335-4 / 0321273354
• ISBN-13: 978-0-321-27335-2 / 9780321273352
• Zustand: Neuware