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Local government management : Current issues and best practices

by Watson Douglas J
Additional authors: Hassett Wendy L
Published by : M.E.Sharp (New York) Physical details: 426p. ISBN:0-7656-1127-9.
Subject(s): Local government. -- Administration -- Relations between elected officials and professional staff : Manager is a politician, city manager - professional helping hand or political hired hand, mayor as a policy leader in council manger form of government, dichotomy and duality- reconceptualizing the relationship between policy and administration in council manger cities, reject policy leadership, case for reinterpreted dichotomy of politics and administration as professional standard in council manager government, shifiting boundary between elected officials and city managers in large council -manager cities -- Using tax dollars wisely- budgeting and financial management : Financial management - balancing act for local government chief financial officer, budget reform and political reform, budgetary balance, analyzing how local governments as borrowers, litigation costs, budget impacts, and cost containment strategies -- Changing world of public personnel management : Municipal government personnel system, affirmative action in municipal government, explaining the tenure of local government managers, what municipal employees want from their jobs v/s what they are getting, managerial responses to an aging municipal workforce, performance appraisal practices for upper management in city governments, values management in local government -- Making local governments more productive and responsive : Issues in productivity measures for local governments, improving the goal setting process in local government, strategies for management of decline and productivity improvement in local government, applying strategies decision making in local government, implementing TQM in local government, re-ing of local government- understanding and shaping government change -- Citizen involvement- opportunities for participation : Gender and local government- comparison of women and men city managers, bureaucratic enterpreneur- city managers, dealing with cynical citizens, standards of excellence - US residents evaluations of local government services
Year: 2003
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