Product Description

`Norman Flynn's excellent book has long been the publication of choice as a core text on public management. The new edition continues this tradition and is to be warmly welcomed' - Stephen Osborne, Aston Business School

`Norman Flynn's Public Sector Management has established itself as a definitive source for anyone interested in the changing forms and fortunes of public services. This latest edition continues the high standards of combining comprehensive coverage with critical reflection in a lucid and accessible style.'

John Clarke, Open University

The Fifth Edition of this popular book has been fully revised and updated to include the latest research and comment on changes in public sector management and two new chapters on Public-Private Partnerships and Privatisation and Regulation. Maintaining its highly accessible yet analytical style, this book examines in detail the major management issues of strategy, competition, co-operation and collaboration, service design and delivery, people management, organisational structures, financial management and the management of performance.

This new edition includes extra features to assist students using the book: each chapter will include a new summary-introduction and a list of sources, including reading and weblinks, for students writing assignments. In addition there is a website, which will be updated annually, containing updated sources, updated tables and links to government departments and other sites useful for students.

(The author's own website can be accessed from www.normanflynn.me.uk)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153482 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 328 pages

From the Author
Features in the new edition include: summary-introduction for each chapter;
a list of sources, including reading and weblinks, for students writing
assignments; and a website containing sources, tables and links to
government departments and other sites useful for students.

From the Back Cover
Respected by both academics and practitioners alike, this popular text has been fully revised for this 4th edition, including the most up-to-date research and comment on changes in public sector management in the UK since the arrival of the Blair government. The book maintains its highly accessible yet analytical style and examines in detail the major management issues of strategy, competition, co-operation and collaboration, service design and delivery, people management, organisational structures, financial management and the management of performance.
Key and New Features-
New chapters on control through audit and inspection, contracting to collaboration and on managing money in the public sector;
Discussion of highly relevant topics such as the minimum wage, public-private partnerships, new deal for schools, developments within the NHS and the theory behind the decisions;
Uses the theme of the search for appropriate modes of control within the public sector;
Covers the Third Way approach to policy and management ;
Quotes from speeches of relevant politicians;
Further reading sections at the end of each chapter;
Contains an abundance of case studies and examples of the impact of policy on managers and of managers' efforts to improve management throughout. Includes some spectacular failures, such as government ICT procurement and examines the reasons for them. Highly recommended by academics and practitioners to those studying public sector management as part of business, social policy, sociology and politics degrees.
Norman Flynn runs the Public Services Management Programme at the LSE and consults with public and voluntary organisations in the UK and overseas.

Customer Reviews

Public Management Review
It is obvious that any academic book appearing as a fourth edition must be meeting the desires and aspirations of its market. The first edition of Norman Flynn’s Public Sector Management was published in 1990 and that this fourth edition is published twelve years later is evidence of real success. It is easy to see how Flynn has met what his audience wants. Public Sector Management is described in the introduction as ‘a book about management in the public sector in the United Kingdom’. This is its brief, its ambit and its ambition. There are lots of facts and figures about the public sector in that country. The book aims to help ‘anyone in the public sector to understand and cope with the recent changes, and places them in the context of the development of the welfare state’. This it does and this it does well.

Owen Hughes
Australia and New Zealand School of Government
Public Management Review

readings.
a study book that I found hard to absorb at times. But other members of the group found it most satisfactory.