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A Response to Occupational (Workforce) Literacy in a Large County Government Workforce

Yaffe, Jerry - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 5 (1992) 5

Over the past 12 years scores of reports and articles have been written about occupational, workforce, or workplace literacy (Workforce 2000 – economic and labour force changes, and skills requirements, impacting on America). Research and published materials have failed to address the impact...

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Impact Fees: A Method of Paying for Growth in Florida

Simmonds, Keith C. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 6 (1993) 3

Focuses on impact fee adoption as a means of financing growth in an increasing number of Florida communities. The discussion includes the types of impact fees, their multiple uses, the extent to which they have increased in number, and subsequent increases in costs to residents of ew...

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A Generic Framework for Programme Management

Ejigiri, Damien D. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 1, pp. 53-66

Provides a framework for analysing and accomplishing programme objectives, both in the public and private sectors. The framework provokes analysis beginning from what is the business of an agency to determining the appropriate mix of strategies for accomplishing programme objectives. The...

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Conflict of Multiple Interests in Cost‐Benefit Analysis

Mustafa, Husain - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 3, pp. 16-26

Most analytical techniques assign no weight to political factors even though they may have the strongest explanatory power of all variables considered. As they are generally practised, these techniques have the extraordinary deficiency of obscuring the problem of conflict of multiple interests....

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New Developments in Performance Measures of Public Programmes

Faucett, Allen; Kleiner, Brian H. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 3, pp. 63-70

Headlines on all levels of government speak of the pending crisis in public sector services: expect to pay more for … performance measurement, there is a move to convert many services to private sector contractors. Even public school children would …

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Managing Public Relief Programmes via the Privatization Paradigm

Hogan, Stephen; Porterfield, Rebecca; Robinson, Steve - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 5, pp. 15-28

analysis based on the Bureau of Indian Affairs′ (USA) recent effort to assist American Indians start and maintain viable …

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Applying total quality management to educational instruction

Babbar, Sunil - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 8 (1995) 7, pp. 35-55

How can education service managers, administrators and teachers make educational instruction more effective? Can concepts fundamental to the total quality management (TQM) philosophy be applied to teaching? Just as managers often buy the most advanced equipment but fail to integrate it fully...

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Competition as a means of procuring public services

Smyth, Judith D. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 10 (1997) 1/2, pp. 21-46

Competition is now widely used as the means of choosing the providers of essential public services in the USA and the … UK. Many different approaches are found in the USA and there are useful lessons for the UK. With particular reference to … mental health and substance abuse services, describes the effects of using competitive tendering on users, providers …

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Improving quality of life in a region

Riecken, Glen; Yavas, Ugur - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 14 (2001) 7, pp. 556-568

assessments of a local area in the Southeastern USA. Presents recommendations to aid local authorities in improving quality of …

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Deregulation of Network Industries. What’s Next?

Stratling, Rebecca - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 14 (2001) 5, pp. 439-444

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