2 options
A practical guide to government management / Vince Meconi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meconi, Vince, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Government executives--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Government executives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Bernan Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Practical Guide to Government Management provides a comprehensive yet one-volume work on high-level government management and can be described as a management book, reference book, and textbook all in one. It is geared towards any upper level government manager, public administration student, or anyone interested in public sector management.
- Contents:
- Contents
- Introduction
- Notes
- Part I: You: Managing Yourself
- 1 Self-Management
- Your Time
- Keeping Lists
- Meetings
- Using Your Immediate Staff
- Miscellaneous
- 2 Leadership
- Setting the Tone
- Your Leadership Style
- Coaching Your Team
- Dealing With Adversity
- 3 Ethics
- Part II: Your Organization: Managing Internally
- 4 People
- Whom to Hire
- How to Manage Your Employees
- Your Leadership Team
- Problem Employees
- Making Your Organization's Culture Managerial
- Managing Change in a Bureaucracy
- 5 Prioritization
- 6 Money
- The Budget Game
- Cutback Management
- 7 Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Making Decisions
- Solving Problems
- Negotiations
- Crisis Management
- 8 Gaining Control of Your Organization
- Control - What it is and Who Needs to Know
- Assessing Your Organization
- Gaining Control of Your Personnel
- Gaining Control of Your Agenda
- Part III: Your Environment: Managing Externally
- 9 Working for Elected Officials
- Taking and Leaving the Position
- Understanding the Boss
- Elected Officials and Management
- Helping Them Do Their Jobs
- The Executive Office Staff
- Telling Them No
- 10 The Legislative Branch of Government
- Legislative Culture
- Legislative Relations
- What Legislators Want From You
- Legislative Hearings
- Legislative Strategy
- 11 The Media
- A Different Value System
- Understanding the Media
- Media Strategy
- 12 . . . And More
- Interest Groups
- Agencies That Should Always Help You-And Sometimes Do
- Privatization, Vendors, and Contracts
- Lawsuits
- A Few Last Random Thoughts
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
- References.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 30, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-59888-753-X
- OCLC:
- 905223971
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.