Next steps : improving management in government?

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Next steps : improving management in government?

edited by Barry J. O'Toole and Grant Jordan

Dartmouth, c1995

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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In 1988 the government published "Improving Management in Government: the Next Steps", the report which set into motion organizational and constitutional changes. This analysis aims to catalogue and assess these changes, addressing their implications for the government of the UK.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The context of the Next Steps: the Next Steps - origins and destinations, Grant Jordan and Barry J. O'Toole
  • the Next Steps reforms and current orthodoxies, Chris Painter
  • implementing the Next Steps - a choreography of management change, Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins. Part 2 Agencies in action: managing strategic resources in a Next Steps department - information agendas and information systems in the DSS, Christine Bellamy
  • the Employment Service as an agency - the first three years, Michael Hunt
  • Next Steps and performance measurement, Patricia Greer and Neil Carter. Part 3 Questions and controversies: Next Steps - consequences for the core and central departments, Peter Barberis
  • parliamentary accountability, Barry J. O'Toole and Richard A. Chapman
  • Next Steps - the end of Whitleyism?, Barry J. O'Toole
  • lessons from the Antipodes, Jonathan Boston
  • the Next Steps to market testing?, Barry O'Toole and Grant Jordan.

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