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Record Nr.

UNINA9910719617403321

Autore

Dunleavy Patrick

Titolo

Growing the productivity of government services / / Patrick Dunleavy, Leandro Carrera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Northampton, Mass., : E. Elgar Pub., 2013

ISBN

1-283-99258-2

0-85793-499-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CarreraLeandro

Disciplina

352.375

352.3750941

Soggetti

Government productivity - Great Britain

Organizational effectiveness - Great Britain

Administrative agencies - Great Britain - Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Nationally provided government services -- pt. II. Analysing decentralized government -- pt. III. Sustainable increases in productivity.

Sommario/riassunto

Productivity is essentially the ratio of an organization's outputs divided by its inputs. For many years it was treated as always being static in government agencies. In fact productivity in government services should be rising rapidly as a result of digital changes and new management approaches, and it has done so in some agencies. However, Dunleavy and Carrera show for the first time how complex are the factors affecting productivity growth in government organizations - especially management practices, use of IT, organizational culture, strategic mis-decisions and political and policy churn.