Description
Book SynopsisPublic administration is a craft that demands real-world application of concepts and theories often learned in a classroom. Yet many students find it difficult to make the leap from theory to practice completely unaided. The Public Administration Workbook, 8e is specifically designed with the theoretically-grounded, practice-minded student in mind. It reviews scholarship in political science, law, industrial psychology, and the sociology of organizations and then allows students to see how these intellectual fields inform the analytical and managerial tasks that comprise public administration. Where standard public administration textbooks examine the nature of public agencies and explain how bureaucracies relate to other institutions, this workbook promotes a more effective way of learningby doingand more directly prepares those who will pursue careers in public agencies.
Each chapter begins with a discussion of relevant concepts and scholarship before moving i
Trade Review
"Especially in academic disciplines like public administration and political science, one frequently hears that there is a huge gap between theory and practice, between what is in the textbook and what happens in the real world. The Public Administration Workbook comes closer to filling that gap than any other book in the field. It offers students the opportunity to deal with real world problems that public administrators are constantly required to address." – Allen Rosenbaum, Florida International University, USA
Table of ContentsPart 1: Decision Making and Policy Analysis
1. Rational Decision Making
2. Policy Evaluation
3. Designing Organizations
4. Administrative Ethics
Part 2: Public Management
5. Operational Management: Techniques for Total Quality Management
6. Project Management: Critical Path Method
7. Contract Management: Privatization
8. Regulatory Management: Administrative Law
9. Emergency Management: Tabletop Exercise
Part 3: Human Resource Management
10. Job Analysis and Job Description
11. Performance Evaluation
12. Classification and Compensation
13. Succession Planning
14. Recruitment and Selection
15. Collective Bargaining
Part 4: Budgeting
16. Line-Item Budgeting
17. Performance and Program Budgeting
18. Outcome-Based Budgeting
