James M Banovetz - Böcker

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Replacing the Police Chief describes the dilemma of a manager whose attempt to administer in accordance with the tenets of professionalism runs into strong opposition from a politically influent...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Developing A Purchasing System demonstrates how ambivalent local officials and the public can be in their expectations regarding government. In this e-book, the professional administrator must l...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Unknown Taxpayer Preferences demonstrates the most common and difficult of contradictory public interest demands: the public's strong, unambiguous demand for lower taxes, which has persisted tog...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Patronage shows the impact of competing values on one community's attempt to modernize its governmental structure so that its operations can be made more efficient...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Politics, User Fees, and Barracudas looks at local politics from the perspective of a citizen who, in his capacity as an officer of a local swim team, attempts to negotiate a fee agreement with ...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Redeveloping the Waterfront discusses the challenges public administrators face when they get involved with economic development, which leads to simultaneously working in both the public and pri...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Goodbye, Sampson, Inc.? portrays the critical link between economic development policies and local neighborhoods. In this instance, the proposed development would help revitalize the city's cent...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Providing A Municipal Ambulance Service demonstrates that the task of policy analysis clearly requires much more than simply "e;processing the numbers"e; to find the best-case, most effi...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: 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 collec...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Moving the Multiservice Center discusses how where the county should relocate one of its multiservice centers pits political considerations against analytical (empirical) ones and, in the proces...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Personnel or People? calls for a decision about the treatment of a fire chief who is discovered to be appropriating city property for personal use. Ultimately, this e-book poses a complex questi...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Affirmatively Managing Helen focuses on the challenge to administrative leadership to secure maximum benefit from a nonproductive but competent employee who has the potential to make important c...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Cedar Valley Slowdown describes the plight of the city administration in Cedar Valley as it attempts to respond to ill-timed wage demands, first from its police officers and then from its firefi...

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Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: The Human Side of Privatization describes the question of privatization by looking at both the economic and the human consequences of privatization and by raising questions about the tradeoffs t...

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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 imp...

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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 hea...

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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...

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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 c...

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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 organizationa...

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Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: Recruitment, Promotion, and Affirmative Action describes one local government's attempt to improve its policies and procedures governing promotion in its police and fire departments. This e-book al...

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Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: Reductions In Force deals with the problem of employee dismissals in a local government because of the need to achieve a reduction in force (RIF). This e-book demonstrates that such RIFs pose major...

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Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: Sexual Harassment Issues describes the challenges associated with changing attitudes and behaviors of employees concerning sexual harassment issues. This e-book demonstrates the important role empl...

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Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: ADA Issues describes the challenges associated with implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act in the workplace. This e-book also highlights the imposed added burdens upon employers to make r...

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Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: Fringe Benefits and Health Care Describes the challenges Sun City must consider in order to provide full insurance coverage to employees and its retired employees. This e-book also highlights the n...

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Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: Labor-management Relations describes the plight of the city administration in Cedar Valley as it attempts to respond to ill-timed wage demands--first from its police officers and then from its fire...

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Managing Local Government Finance: Cases in Decision Making: Managing Debt and the Capital Budget describes the capital budgeting process, focusing particularly on the tough policy questions relating to capital financing. This e-book also describe...

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Managing Local Economic Development: Cases in Decision Making: Redeveloping the Waterfront discusses the challenges public administrators face when they get involved with economic development, which leads to simultaneously working in both the publ...

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Keeping a community alive and healthy after the loss of an important employer-whether that employer is the military or some other governmental entity; a large, private sector business; or a tourist attraction-requires a major effort to fashion a n...

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Managing Local Economic Development: Cases in Decision Making: Union County Economic Development Strategy discusses the challenge of transforming community opinion into an economic development operational strategy for Union County and improving th...

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Managing Local Economic Development: Cases in Decision Making: Meadowville Valley: Livable-wage Jobs Wanted demonstrates the kind of economic development work required to overcome obsolescence and to keep abreast of what is new in community facili...

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