Research Catalog

Title

Strategic management of public and third sector organizations : a handbook for leaders / Paul C. Nutt and Robert W. Backoff.

Author

Nutt, Paul C.

Publication

• San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [1992]
• ©1992

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Details

Additional Authors

Backoff, Robert W.

Description

xxii, 486 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume goes beyond strategic planning to show how an organization can be managed strategically.

Series Statement

A Joint publication in the Jossey-Bass public administration series, the Jossey-Bass nonprofit sector series, and the Jossey-Bass management series

Uniform Title

• Jossey-Bass public administration series
• Jossey-Bass nonprofit sector series
• Jossey-Bass management series

Subject

• Public administration
• Nonprofit organizations > Management
• Nonprofit organizations > Planning
• Strategic planning
• Nonprofit organizations
• Organization
• Administrative agencies
• Planning Techniques
• Public Sector
• Organizations, Nonprofit
• Organization and Administration
• nonprofit organizations
• Organization
• Nonprofit organizations
• Administrative agencies
• Nonprofit organizations > Management
• Nonprofit organizations > Planning
• Public administration
• Strategic planning
• Dienstleistungssektor
• Organisation
• Unternehmensleitung
• Öffentliches Unternehmen
• Strategisch management
• Openbaar bestuur
• Niet-commerciële organisaties

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-471) and index.

Contents

Part 1: The importance of strategy in the public and nonprofit sectors -- The need for strategic management -- Why strategic management is different in public and third sector organizations -- Part 2: An overview of strategic concepts and issues -- Types of strategy and their uses -- Applying strategic approaches to public and third sector organizations -- Understanding strategic issues -- Part 3: The strategic management process -- Organizing the process -- Formulating and implementing strategy: a step-by-step approach -- Tailoring the process for specific needs -- Part 4: Useful support techniques -- Search techniques for uncovering information and new ideas -- Making sense of information: synthesis techniques -- Techniques for setting strategic priorities -- Combing techniques to match types of strategy -- Part 5: Strategy in practice: three cases -- Strategic challenges to a nonprofit Social Services Agency -- Innovation in local government -- Forging a new mission for a State Health Agency -- Conclusion: strategic principles for organizational transformation -- Resource A: Forms, worksheets, and handouts to support process stages -- Resource B: forms and worksheets for support techniques.

ISBN

• 1555423868
• 9781555423865

LCCN

91016608

OCLC

• ocm23766440
• 23766440
• SCSB-1938208

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library