Resource Allocation in the Public Sector
Values, Priorities and Markets in the Management of Public Services
Published on 4. January 2002
304 pages
978-1-134-68310-9 (ISBN)
Description
In the public sector at the moment resources are scarce - or at the very least finite and limited - how they are allocated is therefore of crucial importance.
This book analyses this process and examines the competing values that underlie the public service ethic, including the role of markets and quasi-markets, in the delivery of public services.
Topics discussed include:
* whether people should be denied the public services they need because public bodies are short of money
* what balance we should strike between markets and public organisations to provide public services
* whether the use of markets has gone too far and whether we need to return to a public service ethic
This book analyses this process and examines the competing values that underlie the public service ethic, including the role of markets and quasi-markets, in the delivery of public services.
Topics discussed include:
* whether people should be denied the public services they need because public bodies are short of money
* what balance we should strike between markets and public organisations to provide public services
* whether the use of markets has gone too far and whether we need to return to a public service ethic
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
4,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-68310-9 (9781134683109)
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Colin Fisher
Resource Allocation in the Public Sector
Values, Priorities and Markets in the Management of Public Services
Book
06/1998
1st Edition
Routledge
€272.70
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Colin Fisher
Resource Allocation in the Public Sector
Values, Priorities and Markets in the Management of Public Services
Book
06/1998
1st Edition
Routledge
€94.10
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
C.M.Fisher is Principal Lecturer in HRM at Nottingham Business School.
Content
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
