Resource Allocation in the Public Sector - Values, Priorities and Markets in the Management of Public Services

List of contents

1 The problematics of public service resource allocation 2 The heuristics of resource allocation: how people determine priorities 3 The apologetics of public sector organisations 4 The rhetoric of resource allocation: arguments about how priorities should be set and resources allocated 5 The mechanics of making markets 6 The dialectic of resource allocation 7 A polemic: conclusions about resource allocation and public services

About the author

C.M.Fisher is Principal Lecturer in HRM at Nottingham Business School.

Summary

What determines the allocation of resources in the public sector? This book examines the competing values that underlie the public service ethic including the role of markets and quasi-markets.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Fisher, Fisher Colin
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.1998
• EAN: 9780415178747
• ISBN: 978-0-415-17874-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Weight: 560 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, Economics, Civil service and public sector, Civil Service & Public Sector