Bøger af Terry F. Buss

Human resource management is experiencing profound change, fresh challenges, exciting accomplishments, and much uncertainty. This book brings together thinking on human resource management in the public service. It focuses primarily on federal government policies and practices.

Provides a look at the process by which governments hold themselves accountable to their citizens for performance. This book examines the aspects of the Performance Management and Budgeting issue, not only from the federal, state, and local perspectives, but also internationally in both developing and developed countries.

Evidence-based management (EBMgt) derives principles of good management from scientific research, meta-analysis, literature reviews, and case studies, and then translates them into practice. This book is the first systematic assessment of EBMgt and its potential application in public management.

Presents an analysis of the management and administrative issues that arise in expanding health care coverage. This book identifies the core administrative functions that need to be performed in assuring access to health coverage, and describes how these functions are performed.

Offers insights into various developments in community development financing and performance management. This book shows how community development organizations and programs are offering many fresh services, entering into partnerships, developing extensive networks, and attracting alternative sources of funding.

Presents an analysis of the problems of US foreign assistance programs - why these problems have not been solved, and how they might be solved. This book focuses on US foreign assistance and foreign policy as they apply to nation building, governance, and democratization.

A guide to leadership development in the public sector. It offers a wealth of advice for teachers, students, trainers, human resource officers, and established leaders. It contains chapters that include discussions of leadership frameworks, competencies for public leaders for the 'new governance', and strategies for senior leaders in government.

The forces of globalization are shifting our world away from hierarchy and command and control toward one of collaboration and networks. The way public leadership is thought about and practiced must be, and is being, transformed. This volume explores what the shift looks like and also offers guidance on what it should look like.

How can the traditional ethos of professionalism and technical expertise be reconciled with norms of representation and citizen participation at a time when technology is transforming communication between citizens and government? Written for public administration professionals, scholars, and students, this book addresses this question.

This practical guide for doing policy analysis is written for academics who want to get their research to the attention of decision-makers in the public sector, or who want to train their students in the skills necessary to undertake policy-relevant research.

This timely and important work addresses the controversy surrounding discouragement among the unemployed.

Even after years of receiving considerable foreign aid, Haiti remains an impoverished, tremendously fragile state. Over a span of ten years, the United States spent over $4 billion in aid to Haiti, yet the average Haitian still has to survive on one dollar a day.

Policy makers--Republican and Democrat, liberal and conservative--call for federal intervention to fund emerging high-growth industries, believing they are starved for capital.