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Direct linkQuinn, Bríd – Teaching Public Administration, 2013
The changing nature of the world that public managers inhabit requires strategies for sense-making. This is frequently the reason why managers engage in mid-career education. Disciplinary elements provide knowledge and insights. However, growing significance is being placed on enabling practitioners to reflect on their own practice and…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Public Administration Education, Reflection, Conceptual Tempo
Hope, Kempe Ronald, Sr. – Teaching Public Administration, 2013
The purpose of this article is to provide an assessment and analysis of public sector performance contracting as a performance management tool in Kenya. It aims to demonstrate that performance contracting remains a viable and important tool for improving public sector performance as a key element of the on-going public sector transformation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Performance Contracts, Public Administration
Ferlie, Ewan; Musselin, Christine; Andresani, Gianluca – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2008
This article focuses on the steering of higher education systems in the light of political science and public management approaches. It first recalls that an important part of the existing literature on higher education is focused on public policies in terms of reforms and decision-making, while the other part is dedicated to discovering and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Political Science, Research Methodology, Public Administration
Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1982
This evaluation of information security programs in the executive agencies of the U.S. federal government was requested by the Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights, a part of the Congressional Committee on Government Operations. The report focuses on automated systems for personal, proprietary, and other sensitive…
Descriptors: Automation, Computers, Confidentiality, Federal Government
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1981
The Schools and Hospital Program, funded through the National Energy Conservation Policy Act, is not an effective use of federal monies when compared to other Department of Energy (DOE) conservation programs. It is among the highest in cost, yet among the lowest in yielding energy savings. This report identifies changes which could increase…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Energy, Energy Conservation, Federal Programs
Walker, Richard M.; Boyne, George A. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2006
We present the first empirical assessment of the U.K. Labour government's program of public management reform. This reform program is based on rational planning, devolution and delegation, flexibility and incentives, and enhanced choice. Measures of these variables are tested against external and internal indicators of organizational performance.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Policy Analysis
