How do public managers manage? : Bureaucratic constraints, organizational culture, and the potential for reform /

Ban, Carolyn

How do public managers manage? : Bureaucratic constraints, organizational culture, and the potential for reform / Carolyn Ban - San Francisco : Jossey - Bass Publishers, 1995 - xix, 300 p. / 23 cm. - The Jossey - Bass public administration series .

Bureaucratic constraints, administrative coping strategies, and the potential for reform, 1. -- The world of the public manager, 19. -- Varieties of organization : four cases, 21. -- The different roles of public managers, 53. -- How public managers cope with the civil service system, 87. -- The personel office : Friend or foe?, 89. -- The labyrinth of the hiring process, 123. -- Addressing performance problems, 157. -- The budgetary imperative, 187. -- The position classification system : A budgetary control system in disguise, 189. -- Coping with ceiling, freezes, and reductions in force, 227. -- Conclusion : Loosening constraints and changing culture : the potential for reform, 263

JF 1351 B212h 1995