Download or read book The Learning Organization in the Public Services written by Janice A. Cook and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The learning organization is an idea informing management strategy in all sectors. Much of the pioneering work for this has already taken place in a public service context. This challenging book brings together the experiences of a wide range of people engaged in developing and applying the relevant concepts.Part I introduces the theoretical background and examines some current issues, including transferability and community learning. Part II presents case histories drawn from a variety of organizations, among them central and local government departments, a national charity, a fire brigade and a police force. Each chapter is contributed by someone personally involved. They show what worked - and what didn't - and what the main benefits and drawbacks proved to be.With its combination of analysis and practice, this unusual book will provide both information and inspiration for anyone concerned to improve efficiency, raise morale, enhance the quality of performance, design new ways of managing or simply create a more rewarding place to work in.

Download or read book Organizational Learning A Framework for Public Administration written by Karol Olejniczak and published by Karol Olejniczak. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to face the challenge of effective organizational learning in our public policies, we need to address three pressing questions: 1. How does learning work in our public organizations? 2. What promising practices can we implement to advance learning in public organizations? 3. What changes in public management are required to combine learning with the growing demands of performance and accountability? This book is an attempt to address those questions in a systematic and empirical manner. The answers presented in this volume are the result of a four-year empirical research project conducted in Polish ministries and study visits in public institutions of twelve countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Download or read book Managing Public Services Implementing Changes written by Tony L. Doherty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on change as a constant factor in the management of any organization, this informative book helps the student and practitioner to develop the skills and knowledge they require to underpin the work of a modern service manager in rapidly-changing public sector organizations - whether publicly owned, privately managed or sub-contracted. Taking a distinctive approach, emphasizing management and organizational learning as keys to organizational success, this introductory text is solidly practical and is supported by strong pedagogical features including: case studies review questions illustrative vignettes. This comprehensive text has been specifically designed and developed to meet the needs of students studying public services management at undergraduate, certificate diploma and postgraduate level. It allows the reader to develop transferable skills in thinking and learning as they work through the book and gives greater awareness of the benefits of continuous learning for staff and managers.

Download or read book Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization written by Mark Easterby-Smith and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-04-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `A valuable resource for academics and practitioners in management and corporate strategy, as well as those involved in mangement training and development' - European Foundation for Management Development 'The editors' overall assessment is that there has been insufficient dialogue between the two camps of action research and theorizing.... As a contribution to mapping this divided house, the text is an apt illustration of these problems. The editor's overview is of interest...' - Stephen Gibb, University of Strathclyde, MCB University Press The debates surrounding concepts of `organizational learning' and the `learning organization' receive a welcome synthezis in this book. Inte

Download or read book Handbook of Research on the Learning Organization written by Anders Örtenblad and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Handbook establishes the ‘contextualization’ of the learning organization idea as a research field.

Download or read book Essentials of Public Service Second Edition written by Mary E. Guy and published by Melvin & Leigh, Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essentials of Public Service is the most accessible, student-friendly introductory Public Administration text on the market. The book prepares students for careers in today’s public service, whether in government or nonprofits. Each chapter teaches the public service context, essential public service skills, and what it takes to do the job, whether managing or providing direct service.

Download or read book Social Work Critical Reflection and the Learning Organization written by Mark Baldwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical characteristic of human service organizations is their capacity to learn from experience and to adapt continuously to changing external conditions such as downward pressure on resources, constant reconfiguration of the welfare state and rapidly changing patterns of social need. This invaluable, groundbreaking volume discusses in detail the concept of the learning organization, in particular its relevance to social work and social services. Contributors join together from across Europe, North America and Australia to explore the development of the learning organization within social work contexts and its use as a strategic tool for meeting problems of continuous learning, supervision and change. The volume addresses a range of important topics, from strategies for embedding learning and critical reflection in the social work learning organization, to the implications of the learning organization for the new community-based health and social care agenda.

Download or read book Public Sector Leadership written by Petri Virtanen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing its origins from the Human Relations movement of the early 20th century and from public leadership orientations emphasising human aspects, human-centred public leadership approaches leadership from a system ́s perspective. It explores societal institutions, organisations, and phenomena as an emergent system structure that manifests its existence through the multilateral and reciprocal interaction of its parts. Systems thinking and the need for systemic change suggest that one can only understand and improve a system by looking at how all the parts interact with each other and how they are integrated. The systemic nature of public leadership refers to dynamic learning mechanisms as they relate to the contents of leadership development tools which are derived mainly from the changing mode of the operating environment, from the leaders’ own experience, from their own personalities, from a learning-by-doing approach to leadership development, and from the ways in which leaders learn and unlearn. This book presents key concepts, approaches, origins, applications, and best practices to understand the evolution and nature of human-centred approach in public leadership. It introduces a new public leadership paradigm that is needed in a complex, internationally interconnected social, economic, cultural, and political environment. Based on scholarly public leadership research in addition to the authors’ professional experience as academics, managers, practitioners and consultants, this volume offers guidance for decision-makers, public, business, and non-governmental sector leaders, managers, and practitioners about how to create a context and contents for human-centred leadership in the age of complex society and turbulent operating environment. It will be of value to researchers, academics, and students in the in the fields of leadership and public management.

Download or read book How Ottawa Spends 2004 2005 written by G. Bruce Doern and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the work of academics and other experts from across Canada, Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration's annual book takes a focused and robust look at an era where a political coronation seemed inevitable but high expectations had to be managed downwards almost immediately. A less-than-buoyant fiscal surplus, escalating concerns about liberal ethics and corruption, and a growing volatility in public opinion are examined as are Canadians' increasingly uncertain views about the new Liberal leadership versus the old Liberal Party's ten-year hold on power. A new Conservative Party and a suddenly feisty New Democratic Party are also a central part of the new 2004-2005 Canadian political and policy milieu.

Download or read book Big Data and Analytics Applications in Government written by Gregory Richards and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within this context, big data analytics (BDA) can be an important tool given that many analytic techniques within the big data world have been created specifically to deal with complexity and rapidly changing conditions. The important task for public sector organizations is to liberate analytics from narrow scientific silos and expand it across internally to reap maximum benefit across their portfolios of programs. This book highlights contextual factors important to better situating the use of BDA within government organizations and demonstrates the wide range of applications of different BDA techniques. It emphasizes the importance of leadership and organizational practices that can improve performance. It explains that BDA initiatives should not be bolted on but should be integrated into the organization’s performance management processes. Equally important, the book includes chapters that demonstrate the diversity of factors that need to be managed to launch and sustain BDA initiatives in public sector organizations.

Download or read book Managing Change and Innovation in Public Service Organizations written by Kerry Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The context and environment of public services is becoming increasingly complex and the management of change and innovation is now a core task for the successful public manager. This text aims to provide its readers with the skills necessary to understand, manage and sustain change and innovation in public service organizations. Key features include: the use of figures, tables and boxes to highlight ideas and concepts of central importance a dedicated case study to serve as a focus for discussion and learning, and to marry theory with practice clear learning objectives for each chapter with suggestions for further reading. Providing future and current public managers with the understanding and skills required to manage change and innovation, this groundbreaking text is essential reading for all those studying public management, public administration and public policy.

Download or read book The Politics of Public Management written by David A. Good and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Good's The Politics of Public Management is a 'textbook case' in public administration; it deals with the events and circumstances surrounding the scandal of the grants and contributions audit at Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC). More specifically, Good argues that the HRDC scandal or crisis was the result of a complex series of factors, which transformed a fixable administrative matter into media headlines alleging that the government had lost one billion dollars. The author further contextualizes this scandal by analyzing the dichotomies and contradictions inherent in public administration and supporting the larger premise that certain trade-offs must be made in the administration of any public organization. Good skillfully weaves together into a coherent and comprehensible whole both theoretical (or conceptual) and practical considerations. He draws on current scholarship throughout his analysis and captures for the reader the nuances and complexities of public administration. The first and only extensive critical examination to date of the events surrounding the scandal at HRDC, this text offers an original and groundbreaking contribution to current scholarship on public administration and management in Canada.

Download or read book ICICKM 2018 15th International Conference on Intellectual Capital Knowledge Management Organisational Learning written by Prof. Shaun Pather and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Civil Service Systems in Anglo American Countries written by John Halligan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Civil Service Systems in Anglo-American Countries' presents a comprehensive overview of the important issues in modern bureaucracies, combined with a comparative analysis of the civil service systems & administrative traditions of five Anglo-American nations.

Download or read book Knowledge Management in the Public Sector written by David E. McNabb and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2006 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces public management students and government and nonprofit administrators to the practices of Knowledge Management. This book focuses on knowledge management techniques in government agencies, and it covers such concepts as collecting, categorizing, processing, distributing, and archiving critical organization data and information.

Download or read book From Bureaucracy to Hyperarchy in Netcentric and Quick Learning Organizations written by Lawrence R. Jones and published by IAP. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the inherent contradiction between bureaucracy, hierarchy, and the vision inspired by the architecture of modern information technology of a more egalitarian culture in public organizations. We agree with Evans and Wurster and others who have argued that, in the future, knowledge-based productive relationships will be designed around fluid, teambased collaborative communities, either within organizations (i.e., deconstructed value chains), or in collaborative alliances such as those with "amorphous and permeable corporate boundaries characteristic of companies in the Silicon Valley" that is, deconstructed supply chains. In such relationships everyone can communicate richly with everyone else on the basis of shared standards and, like the Internet itself, these relationships will eliminate the need to channel information, thereby eliminating the trade-off between information bandwidth and connectivity. "The possibility (or the threat) of random access and information symmetry," they conclude, "will destroy all hierarchies, whether of logic or power."

Download or read book Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration Public Policy and Governance written by Ali Farazmand and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 13623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This global encyclopedic work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration, public policy, governance, and management. Written and edited by leading international scholars and practitioners, this exhaustive resource covers all areas of the above fields and their numerous subfields of study. In keeping with the multidisciplinary spirit of these fields and subfields, the entries make use of various theoretical, empirical, analytical, practical, and methodological bases of knowledge. Expanded and updated, the second edition includes over a thousand of new entries representing the most current research in public administration, public policy, governance, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, and management covering such important sub-areas as: 1. organization theory, behavior, change and development; 2. administrative theory and practice; 3. Bureaucracy; 4. public budgeting and financial management; 5. public economy and public management 6. public personnel administration and labor-management relations; 7. crisis and emergency management; 8. institutional theory and public administration; 9. law and regulations; 10. ethics and accountability; 11. public governance and private governance; 12. Nonprofit management and nongovernmental organizations; 13. Social, health, and environmental policy areas; 14. pandemic and crisis management; 15. administrative and governance reforms; 16. comparative public administration and governance; 17. globalization and international issues; 18. performance management; 19. geographical areas of the world with country-focused entries like Japan, China, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe, North America; and 20. a lot more. Relevant to professionals, experts, scholars, general readers, researchers, policy makers and manger, and students worldwide, this work will serve as the most viable global reference source for those looking for an introduction and advance knowledge to the field.