Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Golembiewski, Robert T.

Description

1. 263 pages illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

1. Public administration > Case studies
2. Public administration
3. Openbaar bestuur
4. Organisatie
5. Management

Genre/Form

1. Case studies.
2. Études de cas.

Contents

1. Perspectives on public management: three benchmarks -- Managing organizational adaptation: the manager as a change-agent -- Managing papers and procedures: the tyranny of mechanics over substance -- Managing multiple loyalties: monocratic bureaucracy versus kaleidoscopic humanity -- Managing the everyday cases: supervising others -- Managing the difficult cases: supervising the self while making decisions -- Managing the subtleties of delegation: the destruction of the Japanese cyclotrons -- Managing the demands of hierarchy and specialty: dropping THE bomb on the Japanese -- Being managed by others: influencing the fields of public managers -- Managing the technical/political mix: laboratory methods and political scalps -- Managing office dynamics and headquarters/field relations: wheels within wheels within wheels -- Managing by direct oversight or by policy control: who does what to whom in what ways in which level? -- Managing effectively within law and tradition: on being responsive and responsible -- Managing the whole ball of wax: the analysis of a disaster no one stopped.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographies.