Toward a More Efficient Australian Government Administration
Author | : Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration. Task Force on Efficiency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Civil service |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration. Task Force on Efficiency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Civil service |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gerald Elliot Caiden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Civil service |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barry Ferguson |
Publisher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2019-07-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1760462764 |
Amidst growing dissatisfaction with the state of government performance and an erosion of trust in our political class, Competing for Influence asks: what sort of public service do we want in Australia? Drawing on his experience in both the public and private sectors – and citing academic research across the fields of public sector management, industrial organisation, and corporate strategy – Barry Ferguson argues the case for the careful selection and application of private sector management concepts to the public service, both for their ability to strengthen the public service and inform public policy. These include competitive advantage, competitive positioning, horizontal strategy and organisational design, and innovation as an all-encompassing organisational adjustment mechanism to a changeable environment. But these are not presented as a silver bullet, and Ferguson addresses other approaches to reform, including the need to rebuild the Public Sector Act, the need to reconsider the interface between political and administrative arms of government (and determine what is in the ‘public interest’), and the need for greater independence for the public service within a clarified role. This approach, and its implications for public sector reform, is contrasted with the straitjacket of path dependency that presently constricts the field.
Author | : Australian Society of Accountants. A.C.T. Division. Government Accountants' Group |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Administrative agencies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joanna Monie |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 611 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1483188221 |
Social Policy and Its Administration contains an index of literature that defines the output created by social scientists for the welfare of human beings. This literary survey originates out of the need to present a comprehensive bibliographic work. The book covers areas that encompass the concept social policy. Topics such as the standards in social welfare services are also the focus of the book. The book traces the beginning of social science and the major proponents of the subject. The improvements made on the field are also enumerated and the countries that contributed to the progress of society are named in the book. Social revolutions such as the liberation of women and the abolishment of servitude as well as the transition from colonial status to political independence are discussed in the book. The text will be a useful tool for sociologists, historians, students, and researchers in the field of political science.
Author | : John Wanna |
Publisher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2015-10-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1925022676 |
Contemporary public managers find themselves under pressure on many fronts. Coming off a sustained period of growth in their funding and some complacency about their performance, they now face an environment of ferocious competitiveness abroad and austerity at home. Public managers across Australia and New Zealand are finding themselves wrestling with expenditure reduction, a smaller public sector overall, sustained demands for productivity improvement, and the imperative to think differently about the optimal distribution of responsibilities between states, markets and citizens. Given ever-shrinking resources, in terms of staffing, budgets and time, how can public managers and public services become more productive, more outcome-driven and more agile? How can we achieve better alignment between ever-growing citizen expectations and the realities of constrained service provision? What can we learn from the best combination of innovation and austerity already being delivered in other countries and sectors, including harnessing the grounded wisdom of frontline service delivery practitioners? This book focuses on practical ways public managers at home and abroad are dealing with these shared dilemmas. It brings together renowned scholars in the fields of public sector productivity, performance management, ‘frugal innovation’ and budget stringency, with leading international and Australasian practitioners sharing their successes and challenges.
Author | : Cheryl Saunders |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1201 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198738439 |
Providing an interdisciplinary overview of Australian constitutional law and practice, this Handbook situates the development of the constitutional system in its proper context. It also examines recurrent themes and tensions in Australian constitutional law, and points the way for future developments.
Author | : Christine Shearer |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030818969 |
This book draws on recent empirical research and reports unique insight into the craft of public administration of the most senior echelons of the Australian Public Service (APS).This work is set in the context of a comparative analysis of the significant public sector reforms by successive governments from the 1980s across Westminster polities. Such reforms and the contemporary management ideas on which they were based, including new managerialism and ‘new public management’ (NPM) travelled, were translated and transformed with some elements accepted and others rejected. This book addresses how the most senior public servants in the APS construct their craft today amid such reforms. Chapter two covers the myriad of public sector reforms across Westminster polities. Chapters three and four cover the environments and contemporary management ideas which influence public administration. Chapters five and six showcase the public actors and the responsibilities they execute when they construct their craft. The final chapter provides a conceptual model of the craft of public administration and provides implications for theory and practice.
Author | : Brian Dollery |
Publisher | : Macmillan Education AU |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780732929046 |
The last few years have seen unprecedented change taking place in the Australian local government arena. In all states the functions and responsibilities of local authorities have been subjected to extensive reform. New legislation has redefined the role of councillors. Local governments have been required to introduce more efficient and effective management practices and become more open and responsive to their constituencies. The scope of traditional regulatory practices has been altered and councils forced to develop a competitive environment for the provision of services. The place of local authorities in the intergovernmental landscape has also changed. Different forms of interaction between Commonwealth, state and local government are evolving along with the emergence of new funding strategies to encourage a regional focus. This is the first book to offer a detailed discussion of the reforms that have taken place, and at the same time provide an informative and readable analysis for practitioners and students of government, politics and public sector management.