Bringing together diverse international viewpoints, this title serves as a source of information on reforming government administration. It provides case studies and analyses of reform campaigns in three European Union nations, in selected nations that have joined or are plannin…
"The field of public administration currently lacks sufficient resources for understanding the rationale, implications, and inherent practices of reforming government administration around the world. The Handbook of Administrative Reform satisfies this need by bringing together …
"The Qing Empire faced a crisis in the nineteenth century of corruption, population pressure, food shortages, ecological and infrastructural decay, rebellion, and a foreign threat from the West. This study uses the literati reformer Bao Shichen as a prism to understand contempor…
This text addresses the issue of change in organizations and the resistances and defensive behaviors that obstruct transformation.
"As a stand-alone treatment of Organizational Development (OD), this is an excellent supplement to traditional textbooks in the field and is a good addition to readings in organizational behavior and principles of management. Carnevale provides the essentials of OD and more thro…
