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Park, A School, And Two Strained Budgets - Cases In Effectiveness: Relating To Other Organizations

de Charldean Newell e Gary L. Sears

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Relating to Other Organizations: A Park, a School, and Two Strained Budgets focuses on the desire of a city school board to close a school and adjacent park and use the proceeds from the sale to improve other school facilities and programs. This e-book highlights the challenges most local government administrators face negotiating with other public bodies over the use or development of community resources.
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Contracting For Trash - Cases In Effectiveness: Policy Implementation, Productivity, And Program Evaluation

de Charldean Newell e Scott D. Lazenby

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Policy Implementation, Productivity, and Program Evaluation: Contracting for Trash poses an analytical problem that will face most if not all county and city governments: how to find the best (i.e., the most cost-efficient and effective) system for collecting residential trash. This e-book also examines a service delivery option that local governments are considering with increasing frequency: contracting with a private firm to provide a public service-in this case, the collection of the city's residential trash.
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Performance Measurement Sea Change - Cases In Effectiveness: Policy Implementation, Productivity, And Program Evaluation

de Charldean Newell e Kathryn Kloby

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Policy Implementation, Productivity, and Program Evaluation: Performance Measurement Sea Change focuses on the challenges associated with implementing a performance measurement initiative in a culture resistant to the notion of collaborating to improve performance. This e-book portrays the strategies needed to get buy-in from all stakeholders.
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County Prison Overtime - Cases In Effectiveness: Essential Management Practices

de Charldean Newell e Tom Mills

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Essential Management Practices: County Prison Overtime discusses a classic example of the difficulties of budget implementation and sets the stage for continuing dialogue, and sometimes confrontation, between the budget office and line departments. This eBook also provides a glimpse into a little-known and less-understood public service function: the management of a county correctional facility.
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Ethics And Internal Hiring - Cases In Effectiveness: Essential Management Practices

de April Konitzer, Michael Richards e Tim Styka

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Essential Management Practices: Ethics and Internal Hiring discusses how fresh perspectives can be incorporated into hiring and promotional practices with a city used to cronyism. This e-book offers hiring teams alternative methods for managing the local governments' human resources.
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Human Side Of Hr Decisions - Cases In Effectiveness: Essential Management Practices

de Charldean Newell e Victoria Gordon

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Essential Management Practices: The Human Side of HR Decisions explores the options of how to ask whether applicants have been convicted of a crime on employment applications. This e-book stresses the need for all employers, in consultation with their attorneys, to develop two things: (1) appropriate releases for reference checking and background investigations and (2) appropriate policies to respond to questionable results that are in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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Race, Politics, And Low-Income Housing - Cases In Effectiveness: Promoting The Community'S Future

de Charldean Newell e Saundra Reinke

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Promoting the Community's Future: Race, Politics, and Low-income Housing focuses on a city administrator with a major crisis on his hands. The state's medical school, a major employer in the city, is under pressure to expand to a new satellite location in another part of the state. To keep the school in town, the city administrator worked out a plan to sell the medical school a large public-housing project so it could have the land to expand. This e-book highlights an economic development plan that has become the centerpiece of a prominent racial controversy.
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Conflict And Cooperation - Cases In Effectiveness: Promoting The Community'S Future

de Charldean Newell, Julie Car e Leighann Moffitt

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Promoting the Community's Future: Conflict and Cooperation explores a county manager's options for development and open-space preservation in a complex political and regulatory setting-currently an agricultural area. This e-book describes how the county manager must chart a course that protects both the environment and the residents while addressing the concerns of the elected officials.
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Chief Versus The Council Member - Cases In Effectiveness: Enhancing The Governing Body'S Effectiveness

de Charldean Newell e June S. Speakman

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Enhancing the Governing Body's Effectiveness: The Chief versus the Council Member focuses on the challenges associated with changing the culture of a police department that operated under a loose assortment of practices, policies, and rules. The new town manager knows that these changes proposed by the new police chief will be unwelcome. This e-book demonstrates the challenges of managing expectations of the council and a department head.
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Riding The Development Dragon - Cases In Effectiveness: Enhancing The Governing Body'S Effectiveness

de Gary L. Sears

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Enhancing the Governing Body's Effectiveness: Riding the Development Dragon is based on the challenges facing a newly hired public administrator in a primarily rural mountain community of 1,500 people called Rosedale. The project will pose its share of contentious land use, environmental, and construction management issues. This e-book highlights the difficulties in meeting the conflicting interests of the town population and the town board.
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Political Ambitions Versus The Public Good - Cases In Effectiveness: Enhancing The Governing Body'S Effectiveness

de Jerry Kloby

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Enhancing the Governing Body's Effectiveness: Political Ambitions versus the Public Good portrays a situation where a mayor is forced to investigate a landlord's claim that wholesale eviction of his tenants was required by a utility company to upgrade an inadequate heating system in a housing complex. This e-book highlights the tensions that arise when a community experiences rising living costs and competing demands for economic development.
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Theft In An Elective Office - Cases In Effectiveness: Achieving Effective Community Leadership:

de Jack Manahan

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Achieving Effective Community Leadership: Theft in an Elective Office focuses on how local government staff should handle a situation when a colleague is accused of theft. The crime was committed by an ex-employee, who later admitted to the theft. This e-book describes how local governments should handle such an event with the media and the public to keep it from becoming a scandal by focusing on what was done correctly.
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Town And Gown - Cases In Effectiveness: Achieving Effective Community Leadership

de Carmine Scavo

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Achieving Effective Community Leadership: Town and Gown focuses on the challenges associated with a town-gown community. This e-book highlights conflicts over parking, late-night party noise, lack of upkeep in rental properties, and general lifestyle issues that arise within communities within close proximity to a university.
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Fire File - Cases In Effectiveness: Achieving Effective Community Leadership

de Scott D. Lazenby

4,69€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Achieving Effective Community Leadership: The Fire File focuses on the challenges associated with an initiative by the city's voters, which has precipitated a serious budget crisis, forcing the city government's officials to consider major changes in the way it serves (or discontinues serving) its citizens. This e-book is based on Scott D. Lazenby's novel, Playing with Fire (New York: Writers Club Press, 2001).
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Cartgate - Cases In Effectiveness: The Professional Local Government Manager: Leadership Style:

de Susan M. Opp

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: The Professional Local Government Manager: Leadership Style: Cartgate describes the challenges associated with a city government accused of waste, inefficiency, and corruption. As a result, the city council fired the long-standing city manager amidst resident demands for accountability. This e-book also highlights what happends when the city council begins to view the search for a new city manager as an opportunity to secure its own future in a community trying to change its image.
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No Easy Road To Recovery - Cases In Effectiveness: The Professional Local Government Manager: Leadership Style

de Victoria Gordon

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: The Professional Local Government Manager: Leadership Style: No Easy Road to Recovery focuses on how local government staff should handle a situation when the CFO is accused of embezzlement. This e-book also portrays how to deal with the media and scandals in public office and how to regain the respect and trust of residents.
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Managing Without Fear Or Favor - Cases In Effectiveness: The Professional Local Government Manager: Leadership Style

de Craig M. Wheeland e Larry M. Comunale

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: The Professional Local Government Manager: Leadership Style: Managing without Fear or Favor focuses on the challenges of changing a growing suburban community's form of government. In Fargo, with no professional manager in place, each board member was responsible for a municipal department and had broad decision-making authority regarding its operations. This e-book features the adoption of a commission-manager form of government with a code of ethics in a new home-rule charter.
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Jail In City Center - Cases In Effectiveness: Relating To Other Organizations

de Bill R. Adams, Glen W. Sparro e Ronald L. Ballard

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Relating to Other Organizations: A Jail in City Center is described from the vantage point of the city, and the decision problem is posed as one that the city manager must resolve. From an intergovernmental perspective, the central issue is the resolution of a conflict between two local governments, each legally independent of the other but with overlapping jurisdiction. This e-book demonstrates the challenges posed by differences in objectives and the impact on the manager's freedom to act.
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Manager'S Role In Promoting Sustainability - Cases In Effectiveness: Relating To Other Organizations

de Charldean Newell e Ellen Szarleta-Yancy

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Relating to Other Organizations: The Manager's Role in Promoting Sustainability describes how while communities within a region have moved forward with coordinated plans to revitalize economically, socially, and environmentally and newer communities engage in visioning programs, this particular community is being left behind. This e-book highlights the challenges with deciding on a city's future direction, and then implementing policies that support the vision.
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Fire Or Be Fired - Cases In Decision Making

de John L. Pape

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Fire or Be Fired demonstrates the level of complexity that can confront public administrators and presents a challenge found in both private and public sectors and at all levels of organizational responsibility: what to do when your boss, in this case the city council, wants you to violate your personal ethical principles. This e-book also features the ICMA Code of Ethics as a guideline for decision making.
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Principles Under Pressure - Cases In Decision Making

de Harry G. Gerken

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Principles under Pressure focuses on how a local administrator should handle a situation when external circumstances make it impossible to avoid politics. The manager's failure to get involved could undermine the integrity of the council-manager form of government as practiced in the community and probably cost the manager his job as well. This e-book also features the ICMA Code of Ethics as a guideline for decision making.
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County Prison Overtime - Cases In Decision Making

de James M. Banovetz e Tom Mills

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: County Prison Overtime discusses a classic example of the difficulties of budget implementation and sets the stage for continuing dialogue, and sometimes confrontation, between the budget office and line departments. This eBook also provides a glimpse into a little-known and less-understood public service function: the management of a county correctional facility.
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Welcome To The New Town Manager? - Cases In Decision Making

de James M. Banovetz e Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Welcome to the New Town Manager? highlights that budget planning and preparation in local government is policymaking. This eBook also describes every manager's worst nightmare: an apparently healthy and tranquil government suddenly thrown into crisis conditions with a plethora of hard choices to be made and little time to make them.
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Redesigning The Budget Process - Cases In Decision Making

de James M. Banovetz e Samuel E. Tapson Jr.

4,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Redesigning the Budget process describes the challenge of developing a budget process that meets both administrative and legislative expectations produces tensions that underscore the policy importance of the budgetary process. This e-book highlights how the administrator's influence in the government is shaped by two budgetary functions: the process of budget preparation and the process of budget implementation.
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