The Public Administrator's Companion: A Practical Guide, Second Edition - Softcover

Emerson, Sandra; Van Ness, Kathy; Streeter, Georgianna; Sundstrom, Linda-Marie; Emerson, Parker G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 147864950X ISBN 13: 9781478649502

Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc, 2022

Synopsis

The second edition of The Public Administrator's Companion: A Practical Guide examines the most important elements of public administration. The authors provide readers with a keen understanding of how government works, useful for both students and practitioners of public administration. The book discusses governmental structure, human resources, and public funding. It delineates administrators' actions in strategic planning, consensus building, budget development, performance measurement, and public policy assessment and implementation.

This edition includes new chapters on nonprofit organizations and leadership for administrators, as well as an appendix about preparing and making presentations. The previous edition's appendix on getting a job in local government has been revised to include interviewing and hiring from the perspectives of both the agency and applicant. Real-world examples and cases from the local, state, and federal level reinforce key topics. Each chapter ends with a "Practicing Public Administration" section that provides helpful exercises for building the skills described in the chapter and a "Bibliography," which provides useful source materials that can broaden the reader's comprehension of the chapter.

Titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Johnson, Public Administration: Partnerships in Public Service, Fifth Edition (ISBN 9781478610908) and Raadschelders-Fry, Mastering Public Administration: From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9781478648024).

Edition details

• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147864950X
• ISBN 13: 9781478649502
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 510