Making It Happen' in Public Service: Devolution in Wales As a Case Study - Softcover

Connolly, Michael; Prosser, Stephen; Hough, Rod; Potter, Kathryn

 
9781845400606: Making It Happen' in Public Service: Devolution in Wales As a Case Study

Synopsis

This book examines the change management strategies and processes employed to ensure that the Labour Government's commitment to devolution became a reality in Wales. It is an account of constitutional, cultural, organizational and human change set within a dynamic political context and is based on unprecedented research access to devolution papers and the politicians and civil servants concerned with the changes.

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About the Author

Michael Connolly worked as a high school, middle school and upper elementary school principal in urban, suburban and rural school districts in the USA before going to work in international schools in Thailand, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and finally Vietnam. Mike is the author of two books: What They Never Told Me in Principals School and Teaching Kids to Love Learning, Not Just Endure It, both published by Rowman and Littlefield. His articles about education have been and are being published in numerous national and international journals.

Review

"[Making it Happen] offers some useful lessons on the management of change even in fairly complex areas where civil service co-operation and accommondation cannont necessarily be taken for granted."

(The Commonwealth Lawyers' Association and Contributors)

"A celebration of administrative empiricism, the artful way in which the UK civil service gets on with building new arms, without apparently much (conceptual) thought."

(Public)

"The research that produced this engaging volume is still exceptional in an institution shockingly neglectful of the country whose needs it was created to serve."

(David Barnes Planet)

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