Montgomery Van Wart
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1998. The single most important purpose of this book is to create a field of public administration values, a field that currently does not exist in a recognizable form. Surely values are discussed significantly and usefully by the fields of ethics, management, decision making, and organization behavior and theory, to mention only a few. But these discussions are inevitably narrower in scope than is necessary for a true field of values. Such a field is needed to help bridge the seeming chasm about discussions of values among the established fields. A second purpose of this text is to provide a comprehensive treatment of values. A third purpose of the text is to provide a balanced treatment, giving all the major schools of thought roughly the same coverage so that their values can be compared as dispassionately as possible. A fourth purpose of the book is to make the subject accessible to and interesting for practitioners and students.
Introduction PART I Values Endorsed in Public Administration CHAPTER 1 The Five Value Sources Used in Decision making in the Public Sector PART II An In-Depth Look at Values Endorsed in Public Administration CHAPTER 2 The Role of Individuals' Values CHAPTER 3 The Role of Professional Values CHAPTER 4 The Role of Organizational Values CHAPTER 5 The Role of Legal Values CHAPTER 6 The Role of Public Interest Values PART III Analyzing Values Using a Cultural Framework Perspective CHAPTER 7 The Cultural Framework and an Analysis of the Origins of Basic Assumptions in Public Administration CHAPTER 8 Decision making Paradigms for Public Administration: Values at Level 3 CHAPTER 9 Selection of a Decision making Process: Values at Level 2 CHAPTER 10 Using a Decision making Process: Reasoned Choice Models (Level l) PART IV Shaping and Managing Values to Ensure Coherence and Legitimacy CHAPTER 11 Encouraging the Right Values CHAPTER 12 To Monitor and Limit CHAPTER 13 Conclusion
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Montgomery Van Wart
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction PART I Values Endorsed in Public Administration CHAPTER 1 The Five Value Sources Used in Decision making in the Public Sector PART II An In-Depth Look at Values Endorsed in Public Administration CHAPTER 2 The Role of Individuals' Values CHAPTER 3 The Role of Professional Values CHAPTER 4 The Role of Organizational Values CHAPTER 5 The Role of Legal Values CHAPTER 6 The Role of Public Interest Values PART III Analyzing Values Using a Cultural Framework Perspective CHAPTER 7 The Cultural Framework and an Analysis of the Origins of Basic Assumptions in Public Administration CHAPTER 8 Decision making Paradigms for Public Administration: Values at Level 3 CHAPTER 9 Selection of a Decision making Process: Values at Level 2 CHAPTER 10 Using a Decision making Process: Reasoned Choice Models (Level l) PART IV Shaping and Managing Values to Ensure Coherence and Legitimacy CHAPTER 11 Encouraging the Right Values CHAPTER 12 To Monitor and Limit CHAPTER 13 Conclusion
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"Changing Public Sector Values has 7 captured the essence of the 'new public administration' movement...a first-rate book that is accessible to both scholars and students". -- Stuart C. Gilman, Georgetown University
"The breadth of Van Wart's treatment of public sector values is truly impressive. He takes 'values, ' an abstraction often thrown into discourse with little connection to concrete reality, and shows how it is fundamentally embedded in public organizations and management. Van Wart examines individual, professional, organizational, legal, and public interest values, lucidity linking them to analysis and decision making. The result is a rich volume that offers the reader comprehensive and useful insights". -- Terry L. Cooper, University of Southern California
Managing values is an organizational priority of the highest order. Ethics are derived from values, and organizational leaders and managers have a responsibility to clarify values, support values consensus, and monitor compliance. Giving all major schools of thought equal coverage, this volume examines values from the individual administrator's perspective, from the cultural framework, and from the functional standpoint. Designed to be is useful to both students and practitioners, the book presents examples drawn from all levels of government, with emphasis on such current topics as downsizing, withdrawing tenure, management reductions, organizational redesign, job restructuring, service
