Conducting the People's Business: Issues, Dilemmas, and Opportunities - Softcover

Meyer, C. Kenneth; Noe, Lance J.; Geerts, Jeffrey A.; Frank, Garry L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977088138 ISBN 13: 9780977088133

Publisher: Millennium HRM Press, LLC, 2008

Synopsis

Conducting the People s Business: Issues, Dilemmas, and Opportunities is a comprehensive casebook that empowers graduate and undergraduate students in political science, public affairs, public policy and administration to put the theory of their field into practice. Contemporary and Salient Issues Brought to Life: green urbanism, coproduction and organizational change. Constitutional Issues Addressed: speech, religion, race, gender, association and privacy, quality of life, risk management, eminent domain, trust, and leadership. As a peer reviewed book, it received rave comments for its content, comprehensiveness, relevance, and style of writing. Easy Instructional Guide to Case Selection: Index of Topics - As an aid to instructors in selecting cases, management and policy topics are alphabetically arranged in the Index of Topics. This listing ties each case to the major and minor topics which receive emphasis. The topic listings are followed by the case numbers in which they are addressed. Case Histories Keyed To Topics - An additional learning tool which lists the cases by number and title according to the table of contents and topics emphasized in the cases. Index of Names, Positions, and Organizational Types - This handy reference tool ties the name of characters and their position to the pages of the case studies where they are mentioned. Student Tools and Learning Assessments: Case Logs and Administrative Journal Entries - Each case is accompanied by a set of questions and instructions intended to stimulate thinking and discussion about the problems under consideration. This case analysis and learning assessment is printed on perforated pages and may be removed from the book for time-saving evaluation purposes. Timelines - A timeline following each case helps students accurately order the major case events to learn how the timing of these events influenced the ultimate outcome. Mental Jogger - Following each case is a mental jogger section which allows learners to note ideas they want to remember or discuss in class. Personal Reflections - Each case contains a section for additional notes and observations as well as a section for personal reflections where students can write topics or concerns to be addressed in other case analyses.

About this title

About the Author:

C. Kenneth Meyer co-authored Practicing Public Management used in more than 350 public administration programs across North America. C. Kenneth Meyer is an author of nearly a dozen books on public personnel management, public management practice, violence in American society, public administration, and public policy. He has published nearly 100 scholarly articles on a range of topics including: effective and efficient government, program evaluation, workplace violence, organizational training and development, policy evaluation, and public participation strategies. During C. Kenneth Meyer s 37 years of teaching at the university level, he has taught more than 45 diverse courses for the public administration field including public administration, public policy, research methods and statistics, empirical theory, international policy, American government, politics and public participation. Among these courses is an international award-winning comparative public management and public policy class incorporating a European study abroad component. The class is focused specifically on identifying the best worldwide practices in the public, nonprofit and private sectors. The information learned and resources gathered from these identified best models and best practices are incorporated in the cases presented in these new must have teaching resources. Jeffrey A. Geerts, M.P.A - Special Projects Manager, Iowa Department of Economic Development, Nationally Selected as a Top 7-Up-and-Coming Professional, By Resource Recycling magazine - Jeffrey A. Geerts is a leader in policy development and implementation. He has gained extensive experience in policy development and grassroots democracy while working for Iowa s Departments of Economic Development and Natural Resources and the state Senate. Lance J. Noe, M.P.A - Director, Center for Professional Studies, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa - Lance J. Noe instills in these texts his years of experience as a consultant to local governments on entrepreneurialism and local and county government consolidation. He is an instructor of professional development seminars and grant writing seminars for state and local governments and nonprofit organizations. Garry L. Frank, Ph.D. - Professor of Public Administration, College of Business and Public Administration, Drake University - Garry L. Frank has been an instructor in the field of public administration and business for 25 years. He is an extensively published author both domestically and internationally. Garry specializes in instructing, writing and speaking on ethics along with corresponding policy issues in public service, non-profit and private industry.

Review:

Conducting the People's Business has international appeal because the challenges of bureaucracy are global. These well written case studies address wider perspectives, offer specific illustrations in the context of global views, combine varieties of the general to the particular. This book enjoys a long shelf life. What I mean by that is the contexts of these cases last past any generation of readers. In 50 years, this volume will be consulted. Conducting the People s Business is both comprehensive and creative. It addresses real life situations. To paraphrase Thomas Friedman, Conducting the People s Business, ...articulates flat world challenges. This task is creative. This book is a work of art. These well written case studies address wide perspectives, offer specific illustrations in the context of global views, and combine varieties of the general to the particular. This book even has international appeal because the bureaucracy challenges it addresses are universal. Overall, it addresses real-life situations in a timeless creative way. --Professor John Rouse, Department of Political Science, Ball State University

Human Relations in Action presents a useful, diverse set of case studies for consideration and analysis. It provides questions for student response that will generate contemplation and discussion. --Dr. Jeffrey Brudney, Albert A. Levin Chair of Urban Studies and Public Service, Cleveland State University

A timely and vital contribution to the study of human relations; Human Relations in Action would be a useful addition at either the undergraduate or graduate level of instruction. --Dr. Glenda Hufnagel, Professor, Department of Human Relations, The University of Oklahoma

Human Relations in Action presents a useful, diverse set of case studies for consideration and analysis. It provides questions for student response that will generate contemplation and discussion. --Dr. Jeffrey Brudney, Albert A. Levin Chair of Urban Studies and Public Service, Cleveland State University

A timely and vital contribution to the study of human relations; Human Relations in Action would be a useful addition at either the undergraduate or graduate level of instruction. --Dr. Glenda Hufnagel, Professor, Department of Human Relations, The University of Oklahoma

About this edition

• Publisher: Millennium HRM Press, LLC
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0977088138
• ISBN 13: 9780977088133
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Sheryl Geerts