Civil Service & Public Sector Books

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11. Evidence-Based Medicine

    In its Place

    Edited by Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen, Gavin Mooney

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

    Evidence based medicine is defined as the conscientious explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. This superb collection takes a critical view of this concept and examines the economic implications of its imposition....

    Published May 17th 2006 by Routledge
12. Lessons in Leadership

    Meeting the Challenges of Public Service Management

    By Eileen Milner, Paul Joyce

    Using international case study material, this book examines how ideas of visionary leadership have been developed and discusses their applicability to the public sector. The book covers: the tensions that can arise between administrative/bureaucratic traditions and the leadership styles required...

    Published March 2nd 2005 by Routledge
13. The Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective

    A Quest for Control

    Edited by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre

    Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy

    This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a comparative framework the authors address issues such as compensation, appointments made from outside the civil service system, anonymity, partisanship and...

    Published May 5th 2004 by Routledge
14. Public Management

    Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

    Edited by Stephen P. Osborne

    Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

    Since the 1980s, the public sector throughout the Western industrialized world, the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and South East Asia has undergone major changes. The main thrust of these changes has been to bring public sector management practices closer to...

    Published December 12th 2001 by Routledge
15. Public Service Employment Relations in Europe

    Transformation, Modernization or Inertia?

    Edited by Stephen Bach, Lorenzo Bordogna, Giuseppe Della Rocca, David Winchester

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment Relations

    The book provides an up-to-date analysis of the restructuring of public service employment relations in six European countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark and the UK. Each of the chapters on national systems is organized around a set of themes and policy issues including: *...

    Published August 25th 1999 by Routledge
16. Employee Relations in the Public Services

    Themes and Issues

    Edited by Susan Corby, Geoff White

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment Relations

    Almost a fifth of all employees work in the public sector. Employees working in the civil service, NHS, local government, education, the police and fire services also represent a large and growing body of students taking degree courses at universities. Exploring this important and rapidly...

    Published February 24th 1999 by Routledge
17. Resource Allocation in the Public Sector

    Values, Priorities and Markets in the Management of Public Services

    By Colin Fisher

    In the public sector at the moment resources are scarce - or at the very least finite and limited - how they are allocated is therefore of crucial importance.This book analyses this process and examines the competing values that underlie the public service ethic, including the role of markets and...

    Published June 3rd 1998 by Routledge