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Building on the thinking of two Minnowbrook conferences that have studied basic theory and decision-making in public administration, this collection of essays seeks to improve decision-making among public administrators who operate organizations in an increasingly complex and interdependent world.

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Cutback management is a way of life for most public and private sector organisations today. This book explores the cutback management environment that policy and decision makers face, and lays out effective approaches to deal with this environment at both state and local level.

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Exploring how the theories and practices of public management has evolved, this text covers themes such as political, judicial and cultural environments. It reviews the theoretical developments from Woodrow Wilson and the classics to current schools such as Total Quality Management.

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Exploring how the theories and practices of public management has evolved, this text covers themes such as political, judicial and cultural environments. It reviews the theoretical developments from Woodrow Wilson and the classics to current schools such as Total Quality Management.

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Several Supreme Court battles during the Warren-Burger era finally brought public sector employees under constitutional protection, setting forth a new legal framework for personnel management.

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This slim volume hits hard at one major point: public relations practitoners need to abandon their dominant attitude of narrowly serving the needs of their clients and instead attempt to engender a broad-based sense of community.

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Brody examines two components of public relations practice: development of the public relations program and production of materials. The author also describes the production processes involved in detail together with associated cost and time factors, and considers all of the technological devices available to public relations practitioners.

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Designed to meet the needs of both the public relations education and public relations practitioner communities, this comprehensive text explores the types of research most used in public relations practice.

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Breadth and balance in content are the primary attributes of this practical guide designed to equip undergraduate students for the broad range of writing tasks involved in contemporary public relations practice.

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Breadth and balance in content are the primary attributes of this practical guide designed to equip undergraduate students for the broad range of writing tasks involved in contemporary public relations practice.

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Intended as a text for master's level students in public administration and public policy, this volume provides an introductory survey of the field that focuses on the structures of operation, management, and environments of modern governments.

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Put Your Dream to the Testprovides a step-by-step action plan that you can start using today to see, own, and reach your dream. Dr. Maxwell draws on his forty years of mentoring experience to expertly guide you through the ten questions required of every successful dreamer.

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Presents a pragmatic approach to identifying, supporting, and sustaining "hope" and channelling it toward productive ends to create more vibrant, creative, collaborative - and successful - workplaces. This work identifies the five key principles of hope and demonstrates how they can be developed in any type of organisation.

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A practical guide for managers for implementing effective performance management systems in the workplace.

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Explains how anyone who learns the power of vision, voice, vectors, and values in the lives of those around them can be an outstanding leader.

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Although competitive intelligence and contemporary marketing research evolved from different intellectual traditions, both are indebted to qualitative methods of research and analysis.

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Quality is an important competitive issue as customers demanding quality make it imperative to businesses to take it into serious consideration. This book, with an accounting perspective, examines how to define quality concepts as they relate to the specific activities of particular companies.

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Aims to reflect the industry's practices and efforts to provide products of a consistent quality that meet customers' needs. With information on technological advances and issues of globalization, this book shows the importance of incorporating product quality from the merchandising and design stages through production, delivery, and retailing.

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As an alternative perspective on the analysis of quality demand, the author provides three case studies examining whether, from an engineering point of view, the quality of available of available components hampered the development of particular applications.

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Numerous illustrative examples are presented.

Topics covered in the book include PERT/CPM/PDM and extensions, mathematical project scheduling, heuristic project scheduling, project economics, statistical data analysis for project planning, computer simulation, assignment and transportation problems, and learning curve analysis.