Valuing Bureaucracy

Valuing Bureaucracy
Author: Paul R. Verkuil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 110717659X

In this book, Verkuil uses his inside perspective on government to examine the increasing impact of private contractors on governance. Outsourcing of government functions is on the rise and is of concern to scholars and practitioners, and the reputation of the author will bring considerable attention to this book.

Valuing Bureaucracy

Valuing Bureaucracy
Author: Paul R. Verkuil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2017-05-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781316629666

To be effective, government must be run by professional managers. When decisions that should be taken by government officials are delegated to private contractors without adequate oversight, the public interest is jeopardized. Verkuil uses his inside perspectives on government performance and accountability to examine the tendencies at both the federal and state levels to 'deprofessionalize' government. Viewing the turn to contractors and private sector solutions in ideological and functional terms, he acknowledges that the problem cannot be solved without meaningful civil service reforms that make it easier to hire, incent and, where necessary, fire career employees and officials. The indispensable goal is to revitalize bureaucracy so it can continue to competently deliver essential services. By highlighting the leadership that already exists in the career ranks, Verkuil senses a willingness, or even eagerness, to make government, like America, great again.

The Values of Bureaucracy

The Values of Bureaucracy
Author: Paul Du Gay
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199275467

The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science, as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play, a vital and productive role in ordering our political, social, economic, and cultural existence. The book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures, and seeks to highlight some of the costs of attempts to de-bureaucratize organizational life in business, government, and the third sector. Overall the volume highlights the values of bureaucracy and at the same time indicates why distinctively bureaucratic forms of organization should continue to be valued.

Outsourcing Sovereignty

Outsourcing Sovereignty
Author: Paul R. Verkuil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2007-12-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0511346360

Reliance on the private military industry and the privatization of public functions has left our government less able to govern effectively. When decisions that should have been taken by government officials are delegated (wholly or in part) to private contractors without appropriate oversight, the public interest is jeopardized. Books on private military have described the problem well, but they have not offered prescriptions or solutions this book does.

The Innovative Bureaucracy

The Innovative Bureaucracy
Author: Alexander Styhre
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2007-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134156421

Original and based on unique empirical research in the areas of organization theory and organizational behaviour, focusing on two major companies, this work makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on bureaucracy and innovation.

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher: Dead Authors Society
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2017-04-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781773230467

Author Ludwig von Mises was concerned with the spread of socialist ideals and the increasing bureaucratization of economic life. While he does not deny the necessity of certain bureaucratic structures for the smooth operation of any civilized state, he disagrees with the extent to which it has come to dominate the public life of European countries and the United States. The author's purpose is to demonstrate that the negative aspects of bureaucracy are not so much a result of bad policies or corruption as the public tends to think but are the bureaucratic structures due to the very tasks these structures have to deal with. The main body of the book is therefore devoted to a comparison between private enterprise on the one hand and bureaucratic agencies/public enterprise on the other.

The Dynamics of Bureaucracy in the US Government

The Dynamics of Bureaucracy in the US Government
Author: Samuel Workman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-04-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107061105

This book assesses the influence of bureaucracy in American politics, asking how government agencies and Congress come to know about, and understand, important policy problems confronting citizens and government officials.

The Art of Business Value

The Art of Business Value
Author: Mark Schwartz
Publisher: IT Revolution
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2016-04-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1942788053

Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid scant attention to what business value means—and how to know whether or not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from requirements “tossed over the wall” by business stakeholders. An empowered team needs to understand its goal! Playful and thought-provoking, The Art of Business Value explores what business value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software development and delivery practices. More than any other IT delivery approach, DevOps (and Agile thinking in general) makes business value a central concern. This book examines the role of business value in software and makes a compelling case for why a clear understanding of business value will change the way you deliver software. This book will make you think deeply about not only what it means to deliver value but also the relationship of the IT organization to the rest of the enterprise. It will give you the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy, and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead.

Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective

Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective
Author: K. Henderson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1999-06-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0333983351

This volume seeks to explore bureaucratic forms of administration in the Third World and alternatives to them. Experts with wide experience in development are assembled to deal with issues of reform, indigenization, and desirable futures.