| Perspectives on Management Capacity Building Contributor(s): Honadle, Beth W. (Editor), Howitt, Arnold M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 088706132X ISBN-13: 9780887061325 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1986 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Affairs & Administration - Political Science | Public Policy - General |
| Dewey: 352.007 |
| LCCN: 85008010 |
| Series: Suny Urban Public Policy |
| Physical Information: (1.30 lbs) 358 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Perspectives on Management Capacity Building provides a lively spectrum of views on the problems and prospects of improving the management and performance of municipal governments in the United States. Leading specialists in public administration probe the management needs of local governments and explore ways in which they can improve their capacity to manage. Today, state and local governments are caught in the transition between the expansionism of the post-World War II years and the retrenchment era of the late seventies and eighties. Improved management capacity has emerged as the most effective way for local governments to ride out the economic and political pressures confronting them. This book first investigates the meaning of the term management capacity. It then considers how management needs have changed in the post-war period and how these needs vary among large cities, suburbs, and rural communities. Two of the contributions explore the organizational politics of management improvement while others look at the functional areas of computers and financial management. The book also addresses human resource problems such as labor relations, management development, and training of municipal legislators, and concludes with several viewpoints on federal efforts to improve local management capacity. |