Theories of performance: organizational and service improvement in the public domain

Theories of performance: organizational and service improvement in the public domain

Talbot, Colin

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How well do governments do in converting the resources they take from us, like taxes, into services that improve the well-being of individuals, groups, andsociety as a whole? In other words: how well do they perform? In this book, Colin Talbot examines how we can understand this issue of performance in the public services. INDICE: 1: Introduction; Section I: Performance and Theory; 2: Problematics of Performance; 3: Theories and Performance; Section II: Governance and Performance; 4: Performance Regimes: Institututions; 5: Performance Regimes: Interventions; 6: Performance and Public Value(s); Section III: Performance and Organizations; 7: Performance and Organizations; 8: Performance and Public Organizations; Section IV: Conclusions; 10: Individual, Managerial, and Organizational Responses; 11: Shaping Public Performance

  • ISBN: 978-0-19-957596-1
  • Editorial: Oxford University
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 272
  • Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2010
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés