International Handbook of Practice-Based Performance Management

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Larger Octavo. Decorative red spine and rear board, decorative front board with color photograph are all clean and glossy. Book has a slight bumping at the head of the spine and a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the extreme tips of the four outside corners. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 534 pages. Illustrated with photographs, maps, charts, graphs, diagrams, etc. Larger, heavier book will require additional postage for orders requesting International or Priority mail service. Looks new. No dust jacket, as issued. N° de ref. del artículo 007227

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Sinopsis:

Acerca de los autores: It may sound cliche, but I always wanted to help government do better. I’ve always felt that government’s role is to ensure a good quality of life for citizens. Otherwise, what’s the point of government? But to do this, government (everywhere) needs tools. In particular, government needs tools that can provide adequate knowledge to improve decisions that will impact the quality of life of citizens. My profession and my field have allowed me to contribute to this knowledge through my contact with students and colleagues and through my research.

But more recently, as I′ve reflected on my life growing up in the Dominican Republic, my efforts to establish a public administration program there, my travels around the world and the situation in the United States, I’ve become convinced that ethics is the most critical tool that government needs. Although I don’t teach a course on ethics, I include the concept in all my classes. Also, I’ve started a line of research that looks for ways to integrate ethics in every aspect of government and especially in program performance measurement. In my mind, the more ethical government is, the more likely it is to succeed in providing a good quality of life for all citizens.

Maria P. Aristigueta is the president of the American Society for Public Administration, the Charles P. Messick Professor of Public Administration, the Associate Director of the School of Public Policy and Administra­tion, and the Senior Policy Fellow in the Institute of Public Administration at the University of Delaware. Her teaching and research interests are primarily in the areas of public sector management and include performance measurement, strategic planning, and organizational behavior. She has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and books, including Managing for Results in State Government, Managing Human Behavior in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Managing and Measuring Performance in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: An Integrated Approach, and Organizational Behavior, and she was coeditor of the International Handbook of Practice-Based Performance Management. Her doctorate is from the University of Southern California.