Jack Rabin - Böcker

Revised and updated for the second edition, the Handbook of Strategic Management provides a set of broad-based bibliographic essays on strategic management. It covers synoptic approaches, complexity theory, organizational capacity, financing strategy, networks, and chaos theory and offers an in-depth look the use of strategic management in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. The National Institute of Personnel Management called this book "…the most comprehensive single-source treatment of strategic management." New topics discuss the role of strategic management in political decision making, uncertainty, the absence of strategy, productivity, teamwork, leadership, and change.

This is an Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy.

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Managing Administration represents the only introductory text covering management in every occupational setting. This matchless single-source provides the conceptual framework vital to comprehension of the whole system ... offers the foundation for resource deployment-crucial in day-to-day organizational function and problem solving ... and presents a basis for asking pertinent questions, necessary to make the fullest use of specialists within the system. Managing Administration tackles the subject in four logical sections. The first addresses the ad­ministrative setting, and sets up a conceptual framework. Next, the section on information re­sources in administration explores key research tools. The third unit examines human resources in administration, highlighting organizational change and labor relations. Finally, the section on financial resources delves into financial management, decision making, and budgeting. Managing Administration truly is a unique addition to the literature. It is the ideal text for grad­uate as well as undergraduate students of public administration, personnel administration, busi­ness management, organization theory, information systems management, and political science. Moreover, any practicing management personnel will find this insightful work indispensable as a reference.