Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. O'Hara, Patrick, 1946-

Description

1. xviii, 510 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. USA. Textbook on public administration - covers organization of institutional framework, human relations, bureaucracy, personnel management, conflict and collective bargaining, government policy making, roles of the national budget, public finance, evaluation of programmes, use of EDP, etc. Bibliography after each chapter, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, references.

Subject

1. Public administration
2. Administrative agencies
3. 88.10 government: general
4. Administrative agencies
5. Public administration
6. Organisation
7. Openbaar bestuur
8. public administration
9. institutional framework
10. human relations
11. bureaucracy
12. personnel management
13. conflict
14. collective bargaining
15. government policy
16. national budget
17. public finance
18. evaluation
19. EDP
20. administration publique
21. cadre institutionnel
22. relations humaines
23. bureaucratie
24. gestion du personnel
25. conflit
26. négociation collective
27. politique gouvernementale
28. budget de l'Etat
29. finances publiques
30. évaluation
31. traitement électronique des données
32. administración pública
33. organización institucional
34. relaciones humanas
35. burocracia
36. administración de personal
37. conflicto
38. negociación colectiva
39. política gubernamental
40. presupuesto nacional
41. hacienda pública
42. evaluación
43. elaboración electrónica de datos
44. USA
45. USA
46. Etats-Unis
47. Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

1. Textbooks (form)
2. textbook.
3. bibliography.
4. illustration.
5. photograph.
6. reference.
7. manuel d'enseignement.
8. bibliographie.
9. photographie.
10. référence bibliographique.
11. libro de texto.
12. bibliografía.
13. fotografía.
14. ilustración.
15. referencia.

Contents

1. Ch. 1. Public administration : an interdisciplinary crossroad -- Public administration : an intersection of the social sciences -- A definition and a summary -- Organizations, people, and public policy -- New approaches to public policy making -- Approaching the materials -- A send-off -- ch. 2. Perspectives on organizations -- A generic profile of organizations -- Organizations: a view from below -- The relationship between society and organizations -- Weberian bureaucracy : the ideal type -- Bureaucracy: deviatins from the ideal -- The legal framework of organizations -- Public versus private organizations -- Categories of public organizations -- ch. 3. Who rules in organizations -- A road map -- Blueprints and calculations : top-down rule and organizational design -- Criticizing the blueprint -- Perspectives on informal organization -- The potential of authority : Milgram's experiments -- ch. 4. Organization and environment -- Classical theory and organizational obedience -- A redefinition of organizational functions in society -- The organization as a living system -- Forms of adaptation -- Border-spanning agents -- Information theory : a framework for analysis -- Monitoring the environment : some implication for organizational design -- ch. 5. People -- Taylorism -- The Hawthorne experiments : the group influence in organization -- From sociological to psychological humanism -- Interpersonal competence -- The hierarchy of needs -- Scorecards for management -- Experiments in organizational change -- Human relations movement : critiques from within -- Contingency theory -- ch. 6. Public personnel policies, processes, and problems -- Government by aristocrats -- Andrew Jackson : the democratization of the civil service -- Civil service reform -- Merit system personnel management -- Case study: Long hair in the merit system -- Federal personnel innovations -- State and local personnel innovations -- The search for representative bureaucracy -- Community control and equal employment opportunity -- Government employment as public policy -- Role conflicts in the public service -- ch. 7. Collective conflict in the public organization -- "The harmony bias" in organization studies -- Public sector unionization -- The collective bargaining games: moves and motives -- Public sector labor relations -- Public employee unionism : trends and prospects -- Conflict in the executive ranks -- Professionalization
2. Ch. 8. Administration and the public policy environment -- Philosophies for governance -- The ascendant presidency -- A further separation of powers : the executive and administration -- Administrative roles -- Administration as a focus of values -- The word from the tower : a case study -- Administation and public policy -- The public interest reasserted -- Summary: Does public policy serva a public interest? -- ch. 9. The roles of the budget : setting policies and reviewing organizational performance -- The budget as public policy -- The incremental character of budgetary decision making -- Backdoor spending : constraints on budgetary decision making -- Putting together the budget manuscript -- Budgetary gamesmanship : PPBS and ZBB -- A closing thought -- ch. 10. Financing govenment -- The emergence of public finance -- Theoretical approaches to public finance -- Categories of government services -- Paying for public goods -- The federal financial setting -- The national economic policy process : executive style -- Tax legislation -- The federal financial picture : an overview -- The federal financial picture : an critique -- The state and local financial environment -- Theories of state and local finance -- State and local taxes -- Intergovernmental transfers -- State and local borrowing -- ch. 11. Increasing the responsiveness of government organizations -- Remedies for institutionalization -- Project wildcate -- Antidotes for pluralism -- ch. 12. The systems approach to policy analysis -- Circumstances beyond incremental control -- What are systems? -- Looking at a government system : criminal justice -- Urban systems -- The basics of model building -- Conclusion: The goals of systems analysis -- ch. 13. Evaluating programs -- Defining programs -- The evolution of program evaluation -- Evaluating organizational achievement -- Quantifying criteria -- A systematic approach -- Evaluation design : the real meets the ideal -- Putting evaluation to work -- ch. 14. Computers and government administration -- More data processing for more data -- Management information systems -- Types of computer applications -- The problems with computers.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographies and index.