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作者:BERRY, FS; WECHSLER, B
作者单位:University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要:Strategic planning has been touted as one of the ''hot'' management innovations in the public sector promising managers the benefits of a highly structured future-oriented management technique taken directly from the best-run business corporations. Little has been known, however about the actual experience of public agencies with strategic planning. Frances Berry and Barton Wechsler conducted a national survey of state agencies to determine rates of utilization, types of strategic planning pro...
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作者:MANI, BG
摘要:Doer Total Quality Management (TQM) simply redefine and consolidate principles and techniques that have been studied and applied by public administrators since the inception of the field? Should bureaucracies discard the philosophy as costly duplication or should bureaucracies adopt the philosophy because benefits, such as improvements in productivity and customer service, outweigh the costs of TQM implementation? The author presents a case study with empirical data describing the impact of TQ...
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作者:LEWIS, G
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作者:TSAO, KK; WORTHLEY, JA
作者单位:Seton Hall University
摘要:What has been happening in the public administration arena of the largest country in the world? Despite major developments in the People's Republic of China over the past decade, little empirical and comparative analysis hac appeared Bared on their extensive work in China over this period, Worthley and Tsao describe and analyze the Chinese reforms in the context of political and economic development. They find that the considerable changes described have been consistently and insistently ancho...
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作者:BIGELOW, B; STONE, MM
作者单位:Boston University
摘要:Through the use of four comparative case studies, Barbara Bigelow and Melissa Middleton explore the range of factors that influence how community health centers respond to pressures from finders to make substantial cuts to center budgets. Data from these cases suggest that the inter-relationship between internal constellations of power and certain elements in the centers' environment shaped four different responses to institutional pressures. The cares demonstrate that responses to institution...
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作者:AUFRECHT, SE; BUN, LS
摘要:What do Western scholars and administrators need to know about China to understand Chinese civil service reform? During the last 15 years of reform, the Chinese government has studied and incorporated many Western ideas, Nearly all their reforms are labeled ''reform, with Chinese characteristics'' Steven Aufrecht and Li Siu Bun identify those Chinese characteristics most necessary to understand Chinese civil service reform. The authors use Suzanne Ogden's model of three basic competing Chinese...
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作者:LEWIS, G
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作者:LEWIS, G
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作者:SWAIN, JW; REED, BJ
作者单位:University of Nebraska System