1st Edition

Complexity and the Experience of Managing in Public Sector Organizations

Edited By Ralph Stacey, Douglas Griffin Copyright 2006
208 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

A fundamental problem of public sector governance relates to the very way of thinking it reflects; where organization is thought of as a ‘thing’, a system designed to deliver what its designers choose. This volume questions that way of thinking and takes a perspective in which organizations are complex responsive processes of relating between people. Bringing together the work of... Read more

 1. Introduction  2. Ways of Thinking about Public Sector Governance  3. The Experience of Leading Public Sector Organizations in a Performance Management Regime  4. The Emotional Experience of Performance Management in the Health Sector: The Corridor  5. The Experience of Clinical Risk Assessment in the Health Sector  6. The Experience of Power, Blame and Responsibility in the Health Sector  7. The Experience of Strategic Planning and Performance Management in the Education Sector

Biography

Ralph Stacey is director of the Complexity and management Centre at the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire and director of the Doctor of Management programme run by the Centre. He is one of the editors of the "Complexity and Emergence" series, and the editor of two books in this series.

Professor Douglas Griffin is an associate director of the Complexity and management Centre at the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire and a supervisor on the Doctor of Management programme run by the Centre. He is also an independent consultant. He is one of the editors of the "Complexity and Emergence" series, and the editor of two books in this series.