Understanding and Managing Public Organizations, 6th Edition provides readers with an authoritative reference for scholars, masters, and doctoral students in public management and public affairs programs in the United States and other nations.
The 6th Edition of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations presents the latest research and insights from organization and management theory and their application to public organizations and the people in them. The book expands coverage from previous editions about organizational goals, performance and effectiveness, strategy, decision-making, structure and design, organizational change, operating environments, individuals and groups, motivation and work-related attitudes, leadership, teamwork, and more.
Authors and professors Hal Rainey, Sergio Fernandez, and Deanna Malatesta provide new and expanded coverage of such topics as
Belonging on the shelf of scholars and students in public affairs, as well as anyone interested in public management or organization theory, this new edition of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations provides an advanced and comprehensive enhancement to a widely used and compelling series of previous editions.
HAL G. RAINEY is the Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, where he teaches public administration and organization theory and behavior. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
SERGIO FERNANDEZ is Professor of Public Administration and Management at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Bloomington and Extraordinary Professor at the School of Public Management and Administration at the University of Pretoria. His research focuses on employee empowerment, representative bureaucracy in the U.S. and South Africa, organizational change and innovation, public sector leadership, and government outsourcing.
DEANNA MALATESTA is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Management at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Bloomington. Her research focuses on contracting, governance, and cross-sector collaboration.