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traditional approach to public management development in the Australian Public Service (APS) was found wanting. By the end of the … 1980s it was broadly accepted within the APS that the correct management development path to follow involved the … articulation of management competences. The next challenge was to determine how best to inculcate these desired competences. Public …
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This paper outlines a study designed to investigate the development needs of women managers in a large local authority in the North of England. The study arose as a result of a proposal to design a new development programme for women within the organisation. Both qualitative and quantitative...
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Policy services have generally escaped performance evaluation techniques. Traditionally, the evaluation of the quality of policy services has been internally driven, and has tended to rely on definitions and process practices determined by the service provider rather than customer definitions of...
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working with senior executives, initially as a consultant and currently as Vice President, Management Development, for the …
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conventional “think tanks” and the relative rise of management consultants and “ideological” groups. The paper presents an … policy making and post hoc governmental accountability.  …
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In this article, the perceptions of reform agents regarding the degree of success of different aspects of the reform program during the period of the Iranian second five‐year plan (1995‐2000), by using a questionnaire, is analyzed. To supplement the findings of the questionnaire, the...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine if business and public administration have distinct identities based on perception of curriculum areas. Design/methodology/approach – PROSCAL, and algorithm for multidimensional scaling was used. Findings – Business and public...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a framework to integrate emergent management theory into graduate …. Findings – Media used to teach management theory must not remain static. It should be updated periodically to remain effective … as part of a comprehensive approach to teaching management theory and concepts.  …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that intersubjective experiences, governed by various dimensions of space, and induced actions are invaluable to invisible public administrators. Knowledge of these experiences holds the keys to good public administration practice and theory...
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the development of public administration and public management in the Third World countries with which it co … when an international agency tries to provide support to improving public sector management. It considers the problems of … management has to be done through developing training institutions which also have a research and consultancy profile.  …
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