Handbook of public services management

List of Figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface. Introduction. Part I: Evaluating Public Services. . 1. Evaluating the Performance of Central Government: John Brown. 2. Assessing the Performance of Schools: Brian Wilcox. 3. Evaluating Health Services: from Value for Money to the Valuing of Health Services: Andrew F. Long. 4. The Audit Commission: Mary Henkel. 5. An Overview of the Use of Performance Indicators in Local Government: David Burningham. Evaluating Public Services: Reflections: Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt. Part II: Controlling Public Service Professionals. . 6. Controlling Doctors: Brain Edwards. 7. The Case of Local Authority Social Workers: Alan Butler. 8. The Management of Staff: the Case of the London Fire Brigade: Graham Salaman. Controlling Public Service Professionals: Reflections: Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt. Part III: New Approaches to Resource Management. . 9. Local Management of Schools a New System of Resource Allocation and Accountability: Rosalind Levacic. 10. Resource Management in Universities: John Sizer. 11. The Civil Service and The Financial Management Initiatives: Andrew Grey and Bill Jenkins. 12. Changes in Resource Management in the Social Services: Norman Warner. 13. Resource Management in the National Health Service: David Symes. 14. New Approaches to Resource Management: Reflections. Stephen Harrison and Christopher Pollitt. Part IV: Strategic Management. 15. Organizational Design and Development: the Civil Service in the 1980s: Kate Jenkins. 16. Organizing the Strategic Management: the Personal social Services: Gerald Wistow. 17. Strategic Management in Local Government and the NHS: Rodney Brooke. 18. The Organizational Structure of the Police: Roy Wilkie. 19. Strategic Management in the Prison Service: Chris J. Train and Christine Stewart. 20. Strategic Management in Social Service: Norman Tutt, Jean Neale and William Warburton. 21. Strategic Management: Reflections: Stephen Harris and Christopher Pollitt.