Research Catalog

Title

Public productivity handbook / edited by Marc Holzer.

Publication

New York : M. Dekker, [1992], ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

Holzer, Marc.

Description

vii, 705 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Public administration and public policy ; 45

Uniform Title

Public administration and public policy ; 45.

Subject

Government productivity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Mastering public productivity improvement / Marc Holzer -- Public productivity in retrospective / Geert Bouckaert -- The management classics and public productivity / Daniel W. Martin -- The politics of public productivity / Wilbur C. Rich and Mylon Winn -- Privatization and productivity / E.S. Savas -- Public management of privatization / Timothy K. Barnekov and Jeffrey A. Raffel -- Productivity barriers in the public sector / David N. Ammons -- Measuring productivity in the public sector / Harry P. Hatry and Donald M. Fisk -- Measuring the performance of public services / Paul D. Epstein -- Productivity monitoring : systems, indicators, and analysis / Theodore H. Poister -- Evaluation research : purpose and perspective / Arie Halachmi.
• Productivity and the budget process ; Cost-benefit analysis / Gerald J. Miller -- Approaches to arriving at superoptimum solutions / Stuart S. Nagel and Miriam K. Mills -- Managing people ; Productive work environments / Mary E. Guy -- Measuring and analyzing the productivity of professionals and managers / Paul D. Epstein -- Improving productivity of professionals and managers / Paul D. Epstein, Ellen Greenberg, and Marion J. Thier -- Productivity and the personnel process / Carolyn Ban, Sue R. Faerman, and Norma M. Riccucci -- The new American workplace / Willa Bruce and Dorothy Olshfski -- Monetary incentives and performance : is there an administratively meaningful connection? / Gerald T. Gabris.
• Nonmonetary incentives for productivity enhancement / Roe Ann Roberts -- Rewarding and punishing for productive performance / Richard A. Loverd -- Labor-management cooperation : an opportunity for change / Susan L. Grace and Marc Holzer -- Quality circles for the 1990s / James S. Bowman -- Work-related stress and productivity / Gary Helfand -- Organization theories as instigators of public productivity improvement action / Walter L. Balk -- Strategic management and productivity / Arie Halachmi -- Internal consulting / David F. Hoover -- Total quality management for public service productivity improvement / Michael W. Milakovich -- Graphic displays to enhance productivity / Roe Ann Roberts -- Developing new technologies / Robert P. McGowan and Robert Spagnola.
• Information technology for productivity : maybe, maybe not : an assessment / John W. Swain and Jay D. White -- Information search strategies / Virginia Rose Cherry.

ISBN

0824785622

LCCN

91035047

OCLC

ocm24503532

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries