Biometrics

• Record Nr.: UNINA990008919110403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Biometric Society
• ISSN: 0006-341X
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico

Leadership of public bureaucracies : the administrator as conservator / / Larry D. Terry ; foreword by Douglas F. Morgan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910969589303321
• Autore: Terry Larry D.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2015
• ISBN: 0-7656-3637-9; 1-317-36349-3; 1-315-66923-4
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 352.3/9; 352.39
• Soggetti: Leadership; Bureaucracy; Public administration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2003 by M.E. Sharpe.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface to First Edition""; ""Preface to Second Edition""; ""1. Bureaucratic Leadership in a Democratic Republic""; ""The Neglect of Bureaucratic Leadership""; ""Leadership in Administration""; ""The Concept of Administrative Conservatorship""; ""2. A Model of Administrative Conservatorship""; ""Growth as a Secure ; Social Value""; ""The Anticonservative Bias of Public Administration and Organization Theory""; ""The Heroic Conception of Leadership""; ""The Preservation of Institutional Integrity""; ""The Continuum of Leadership Roles and the Preservation of Institutional Integrity""""The Functions of Administrative Conservatorship""; ""3. Conserving Mission""; ""The Authority of Public Bureaucracies""; ""Preserving Executive Authority""; ""Preserving Nonexecutive Authority""; ""Summary""; ""4. Conserving Values""; ""A Viable Executive Cadre""; ""Summary""; ""5. Conserving Support""; ""Conserving External Support""; ""The Binding of Parochial Group Egotism""; ""Summary""; ""6.The Administrator as Conservator""; ""The Janus-Faced Nature of Conservatorship""; ""The Leadership of Public Bureaucracies""""Bibliography""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: The revolution in public management has led many reformers to call for public managers to reinvent themselves as public entrepreneurs. Larry D. Terry opposes this view, and presents a normative theory of administrative leadership that integrates legal, sociological, and constitutional theory.