Fundamentals of Public Administration

In this book learn how to influence the operations of public agencies-helping them learn to affect positive changes, regardless of whether they are working outside the agency as citizens or within the agency as managers. With a strong emphasis on ethics, public administration increase your chances of being effective by developing such personal and interpersonal skills as personal management, communication, delegation, motivation, and decision making. Important topics such as nonprofit management, the global dimensions of public administrations as well as organizational theory are covered. A dominant theme throughout the book is a critical reflection on the utility of scholarly theory and the extent to which government practices inform the development of this theory. To this end it serves as an essential guide for both the practice of public administration today and its on-going development as an academic discipline. A major landmark publication the fundamentals of public administration will be indispensable to the teaching, study and practice of public administration for students, academics and professionals everywhere.