Improving Public Management

Examines ways of improving public administration. This book looks at management and efficiency in government, decentralization and the influence of the marketplace. The author lists developments in the field, such as the creation of agencies for operational management within the civil service.

Now in paperback in an Enlarged Edition, this volume explores the lessons of one of the most comprehensive attempts to improve public management.

Metcalfe and Richards describe and assess Thatcher′s Efficiency Strategy as an exercise in improving public management. They explain how the strategy has gone about improving administrative performance by increasing cost-consciousness in the use of resources and creating flexibility for managing change. They analyze major themes such as: decentralization, information systems and budgets as management tools, organization design, and the management of interdepartmental relations.

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