Managing Under Austerity, Delivering Under Pressure: Performance and Productivity in Public Service

by Hsu-Ann Lee, John Wanna, Sophie Yates

Contemporary public managers find themselves under pressure on many fronts. Coming off a sustained period of growth in their funding and some complacency about their performance, they now face an environment of ferocious competitiveness abroad and austerity at home. Public managers across Australia and New Zealand are finding themselves wrestling with expenditure reduction, a smaller public sector overall, sustained demands for productivity improvement,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925022668
• ISBN13: 9781925022667
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.8"