The 21st Century Public Manager

The 21st Century Public Manager
Author: Zeger van der Wal
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113750742X

Truly global in scope and ambition, The 21st Century Public Manager addresses key trends, challenges and opportunities facing public managers across contexts and regimes. This accessible and timely textbook aims to inspire students of public management in rethinking their roles, skills and values as they enter a VUCA world - one characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Grounded in the latest empirical evidence, but translated to the operating environment of the 21st century public manager, it looks beyond Western settings and perspectives to serve the global market of programs and schools in public management, public administration and public policy. Insightful and comprehensive, this book makes for the perfect introduction for students interested in the theories, practices and functions of public management. -- from back cover.

The Collaborative Public Manager

The Collaborative Public Manager
Author: Rosemary O'Leary
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2009-01-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1589015843

Today’s public managers not only have to function as leaders within their agencies, they must also establish and coordinate multi-organizational networks of other public agencies, private contractors, and the public. This important transformation has been the subject of an explosion of research in recent years. The Collaborative Public Manager brings together original contributions by some of today’s top public management and public policy scholars who address cutting-edge issues that affect government managers worldwide. State-of-the-art empirical research reveals why and how public managers collaborate and how they motivate others to do the same. Examining tough issues such as organizational design and performance, resource sharing, and contracting, the contributors draw lessons from real-life situations as they provide tools to meet the challenges of managing conflict within interorganizational, interpersonal networks. This book pushes scholars, students, and professionals to rethink what they know about collaborative public management—and to strive harder to achieve its full potential.

Public Sector Leadership for the 21st Century

Public Sector Leadership for the 21st Century
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2001-10-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9264195033

This is the first report to examine key leadership issues across OECD Member countries, including the strategies and practices governments are adopting, and the lessons from country experiences so far.

Public Media Management for the Twenty-First Century

Public Media Management for the Twenty-First Century
Author: Michał Głowacki
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135138397

This book analyzes the challenges facing public service media management in the face of ongoing technological developments and changing audience behaviors. It connects models, strategies, concepts, and managerial theories with emerging approaches to public media practices through an examination of media services (e.g. blogs, social networks, search engines, content aggregators) and the online performance of traditional public media organizations. Contributors identify the most relevant and useful approaches, those likely to encourage creativity, interaction, and the development of innovative content and services, and discuss how such innovation can underpin the continuation or expansion of public service media in the changing mediascape.

The Effective Public Manager

The Effective Public Manager
Author: Steven Cohen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2008-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470432527

Since it was first published more than twenty years ago, The Effective Public Manager has become the classic resource for public administrators and students. The fourth edition of groundbreaking work synthesizes the current thinking in the field and presents practical lessons and tools in a highly accessible format. Focused on helping real-world managers and managers-to-be meet the demands of their jobs head-on rather than working around the constraints of government, this book offers a fresh approach to implementing effective management tools in a dynamic political, organizational, economic, and technological context.

Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy

Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy
Author: Tina Nabatchi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1118688538

A comprehensive text on the theory and practice of public participation Written by two leaders in the field, Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy explores the theory and practice of public participation in decision-making and problem-solving. It examines how public participation developed over time to include myriad thick, thin, and conventional opportunities, occurring in both face-to-face meetings and online settings. The book explores the use of participation in various arenas, including education, health, land use, and state and federal government. It offers a practical framework for thinking about how to engage citizens effectively, and clear explanations of participation scenarios, tactics, and designs. Finally, the book provides a sensible approach for reshaping our participation infrastructure to meet the needs of public officials and citizens. The book is filled with illustrative examples of innovative participatory activities, and numerous sources for more information. This important text puts the spotlight on the need for long-term, cross-sector, participation planning, and provides guidance for leaders, citizens, activists, and others who are determined to improve the ways that participation and democracy function. Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy: Helps students and practitioners understand the history, theory, and practice of public participation Contains a wealth of case studies that explore the application of public participation in different settings Covers vital issues such as education, health, land use, and state and federal government Has accompanying instructor resources, such as PowerPoint slides, discussion questions, sample assignments, case studies and research from www.participedia.net, and classroom activities.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant

The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant
Author: Helen Sullivan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 1737
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9783030299798

The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant examines what it means to be a public servant in today’s world(s) where globalisation and neoliberalism have proliferated the number of actors who contribute to the public purpose sector and created new spaces that public servants now operate in. It considers how different scholarly approaches can contribute to a better understanding of the identities, motivations, values, roles, skills, positions and futures for the public servant, and how scholarly knowledge can be informed by and translated into value for practice. The book combines academic contributions with those from practitioners so that key lessons may be synthesised and translated into the context of the public servant.

Managing for the Future

Managing for the Future
Author: Peter Drucker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136009388

This wide-ranging, future-oriented book is sure to number among the most important and influential business books of the decade. Drucker writes with penetrating insight about the critical issues facing managers in the 1990s: the world economic order; people at work; new trends in management and the governance of organizations.

Leadership for the Twenty-First Century

Leadership for the Twenty-First Century
Author: Joseph Rost
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1993-02-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 031301843X

This illuminating study critiques the concept of leadership as understood in the last 75 years and looks to the twenty-first century for a reconstructed understanding of leadership in the postindustrial era. More similarities in past decades were found than had been thought; the thread throughout Rost's book is that leadership was conceived of as good management. He develops a new definition and paradigm for leadership in this volume that distinguishes leadership from management in fundamental ways. The ethics of leadership from a postindustrial perspective completes the paradigm. The book concludes with suggestions that can be immediately utilized in helping to transform our understanding of leadership.