peon Union Directive, 72 pp., £20.00,
Part 2: Collective Bargaining in Europe
and the UK, 64 pp., £20.00. Back on
Track: The Global Rail Revival, MARCIA
D. LOWE, Worldwatch Institute (1994),
54 pp., $4.00. Also a number of interesting pamphlets have been produced
by The Philip Morris Program in BuMhess+Society at Baruch College,
Developing Leadership Diversity in
Organizations, ANN M. MORRISON,
16pp., American Competitiveness and
American Brains, ROBERT B. REICH, 9
pp., The Business Self: The Recovery
of Public Esteem, BENJAMINDeMoTT, 45
pp., The Capital Connection: Business,
Science, and Government, PETERCAWS,
99 pp., $4.50 for the full set. (Same
price for individual copies!)
Sharing Power: Public Governance and
Private Markets, DONALDF. KETTL,The
Brookings Institution (1993), 320 pp.,
$22.95.
Provides detailed case studies of some
of the problems in governance and
management in government and argues
that it needs the more aggressive management of contracts if it is to build
successful partnerships with outside
contractors. The increasing importance
of openly debating strategic issues
(both content and process) in the public
sector in being reflected by the growing
number of publications on the subject,
such as Public Sector Management:
Theory, Critique and Practice, DAVID
McKEvITTand ALANLAWTON,The Open
UniversitUSage Publications (1994),
306 pp., £14.95. (A valuable reader that
contains 19 papers primarily academically focused and based on UK
experience). And Organisation and
Management in the Public Sector, ALAN
LAWTON and AIDAN G. ROSE, Pitman
(1994), second edition, 256pp., £17.99.
(Applies organizational theory literature to UK management practices in the
public sector.) Even more focused
coverage is provided by the ten papers
in Evaluating the NHS Reforms, Edited
by RAY ROBINSONand JULIANLE GRAND,
King's Fund Institute (1994), 288 pp.,
£9.95 (paper), £25.00 (hard) and
Internal Consultancy In the Public Sector: Case Studies, Edited by GLAREHUFFINGTON and HELINA BRUNNING, Karnac
Books (1994), 172 pp., £15.95. (A valuable discussion of the problems and pitfalls of internal consulting and how to
construct and undertake projects, particularly in the public sector, through
the use of three cases each from the
Social Services, NHS and Education-UK based). A fascinating dimension to
the-more macro issues surrounding the
whole subject is provided by Adam
Smith Goes to Moscow: A Dialogue on
Radical Reform, WALTER ADAMS and
JAMES W. BROCK, Princeton University
Press (1993), 156 pp., £25.00.. (The dialogue between the head of a hypothetical ex-socialist East European
country and a fervently market-minded
American advisor.)
General 'Futures' issues provide important inputs into strategic thinking and
these are reflected in a wide range of
publications that cover almost everything from physics and philosophy to
every crevasse of the environment.
Examples: The Gnat Is Older than Man:
Global Environment and Human
Agenda, CHVaSTOPHERD. STONE, Princeton University Press (1993), 339 pp.,
$25.00. And The Quantum Society:
Mind, Physics and a New Social Vision,
DANAR ZOHAR and IAY MARSHALL,
Bloomsbury (1993), 303 pp., £14.99.
Strategy: Process, Content, Context-An International Perspective, BoB DE
WIT and RON MEYER, West Publishing
(1994), 877 pp., $25.00
A impressive (massive) teaching text on
strategy. Covers the nature of strategy
and the strategic process, plus an international dimension and 22 case studies. Well presented and up to date.
Another massive teaching text (more
US focused) is Strategic Manage-
merit and Business Policy, THOMAS L.
WHEELENand J. DAVIDHUNGER,Addison
Wesley (1994), Fourth edition, 1138
pp., £23.95. 41 cases plus several
optional extras inclu4ing Instructor's
Manual, videotapes, computerized test
bank and transparency acetates. Both
excellent value.
Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture, GARYCROSS, Routledge
(1993), 294 pp., £13.99.
Provides a fascinating historical analysis that attempts to explain why the
consumer culture is biased towards
goods and against free time. Pity it is so
concerned with historic data and not
more concerned with future trends.
Leisure is rapidly becoming the main
source of consumer expenditure. A
book that emphasizes the importance
of customer service is Incredible Customer Service: The Final Test, DAVID
FREEMANTLE, McGraw Hill (1993), 203
pp., £9.95. Full of sound advice that
needs to be rediscovered time and time
again--unfortunately.
Performance-Related Pay in Education,
Edited by HARRYTOMLiNSON,Routledge
(1992), 212 pp., £12.99.
An in-depth study of recent (UK) developments in the salary structure for
teachers, and of how best these may
be used. A difficult and controversial
subject. But how do Nou pay/motivate
professionalswespecially when they
operate in the public Sector?
Systems Thinking for Harassed Managers, NANO MCcCAUGHAN and BARRY
PALMER, Karnac Books (1994), 138 pp.,
£13.95 Systemic ideas are explained
and contextualized and the usefulness
of these ideas, to both managers and
consultants, are then illustrated with
'real-life' case studies. Although 'har-
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