Organizational Behavior and Public Management reveals how organizational behavior enables managers to direct resources that advance the programs and policies of public and government. This edition offers a public sector perspective of core topics, such as communication, decision-making, leadership, management ethics, motivation, organizational change, participation and performance appraisal. Contemporary Psychology called this book "skillful and comprehensive…There is a need for a text like this…the device of juxtaposing theory and application is a sound one." The authors discuss such topics as communication, decision making, worker participation and total quality management, organizational change, management systems, information, computers and organization theory in public management.
ISBN: | 9780824701352 |
Publication date: | 3rd March 1998 |
Author: | Michael Lee Vasu, Debra W Stewart, G David Garson |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 403 pages |
Series: | Public Administration and Public Policy |
Genres: |
Public administration |