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  • Memory and Institutional Amnesia in Government

    by Alastair Stark, Hridesh Gajurel, Jack Corbett, Dennis C. Grube, Heather Lovell, Rodney J. Scott ...
    Memory and Institutional Amnesia in Government examines the way in which government suffers from institutional amnesia, meaning that it cannot hold or use memory of the past. Consequently, a great deal of important knowledge is erased and those who work in government find themselves repeating the mistakes of the past. The book explores these issues through a comparison of the public services of ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Institutional Memory as Storytelling

    How Networked Government Remembers

    by Jack Corbett, Dennis Christian Grube, Heather Caroline Lovell, Rodney James Scott ...
    Series series Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration
    How do bureaucracies remember? The conventional view is that institutional memory is static and singular, the sum of recorded files and learned procedures. There is a growing body of scholarship that suggests contemporary bureaucracies are failing at this core task. This Element argues that this diagnosis misses that memories are essentially dynamic stories. They reside with people and are thus ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Governing the Sustainable Development Goals

    Quantification in Global Public Policy

    by Justyna Bandola-Gill, Sotiria Grek, Marlee Tichenor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and ... Read more

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  • Learning Outside the Academy

    International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher, Susan Whittaker ...
    This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other.The contributions to this book are based on material ... Read more

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  • Policy Problems and Policy Design

    by B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series New Horizons in Public Policy series
    B. Guy Peters presents a critique of conventional policy design methods, placing emphasis on the need to formulate interconnecting designs for issues that cross multiple policy areas. He advocates the use of analytic categories for understanding problems rather than functional categories, such as defence and health, to change the perspective of problems and modernise policy design.Whereas previous ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Evidence-Based Policy Making in the Social Sciences

    Methods That Matter

    Edited by Gerry Stoker, Mark Evans ...
    Drawing on the insights of some of the world’s leading authorities in public policy analysis, this important book offers a distinct and critical showcase of emerging forms of discovery for policy-making. Chapter by chapter this expert group of social scientists showcase their chosen method or approach, showing the context, the method’s key features and how it can be applied in practice, including ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Disciplining and Drafting or 21st Century Learning?

    by Rachel Bolstad,Jane Gilbert ...
    Will todays curriculum prepare secondary school students for life in the 21st century? ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Researching Real-World Problems

    A Guide to Methods of Inquiry

    by Zina O′Leary ...
    This is the perfect book for any student new to Research Methods. It is brilliantly written, witty, and always easy to understand.Taking as her starting point the need for students to conduct research for themselves in the ′real world′, Zina O′Leary guides those new to research through the whys and how-tos of the entire research process. Always student-focused, this book offers a hands on and ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Organizational Trust

    A Cultural Perspective

    Edited by Mark N. K. Saunders, Denise Skinner, Graham Dietz, Nicole Gillespie, Roy J. Lewicki ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Management
    The globalized nature of modern organizations presents new and intimidating challenges for effective relationship building. Organizations and their employees are increasingly being asked to manage unfamiliar relationships with unfamiliar parties. These relationships not only involve working across different national cultures, but also dealing with different organizational cultures, different ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Reflecting On School Management

    by Jennifer Evans, Anne Gold ...
    The reorganisation of the education system within Britain has vastly increased the managerial responsibilities of those working in schools, although the staff generally have received little management training. In this book, the various issues related to management are teased out and a selection of ideas and pragmatic solutions informing good practice are examined. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Tourism Employment

    Analysis and Planning

    by Prof. Michael Riley, Dr. Adele Ladkin, Dr. Edith Szivas ...
    Series Book 6 - Aspects of Tourism
    This book is an attempt to understand tourism employment in a holistic way. Using ideas from labour economics, work psychology and industrial sociology the authors look at tourism employment in both its workplace context and its wider economic and social environment and attempt to tell a coherent story. Both behavioural and economic perspectives are used to address questions that are salient to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Understanding and Improving Public Management Reforms

    by Thomas Elston ...
    Why do top-down reforms to public services so often over-promise and under-deliver?Using five concepts from psychology, economics and organisational sociology, Thomas Elston addresses this pressing question of good governance.Rather than focusing on the challenge of implementation, Understanding and Improving Public Management Reforms reveals how flawed policy design is often the major contributor ... Read more

    $26.99 USD