00000nam 2200000zi 4500 9.893418 CaOODSP 20250319091455 m o d f cr |n||||||||| 201109s1977 onca b f00| 0 eng d CaOODSP eng rda CaOODSP n-cn--- En102-2/14E-PDF Chevalier, Michel, author. A field concept of public management / Michel Chevalier and Thomas Burns. Ottawa : Environment Canada, Planning and Finance Service = Environnement Canada, Service de la planification et des finances, 1977. 1 online resource (iii, 37 pages) : illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Report - Office of the Science Advisor ; no. 14 Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada]. "A working document prepared for the Advanced Concepts Centre and the Science Policy Branch." Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-37). "A cornerstone of modern management - the point of departure and return for the process itself - is the objective. Planning of all kinds begins with the definition of objectives; that is, explicit statements of purpose or intent. The conventional wisdom of management places great stress on the arrangement of objectives into hierarchies which are intended to integrate the activities of an enterprise into a single and comprehensive whole. Programs of activity are developed from or combined into broader policies and priorities which are themselves articulated in terms of sweeping supra-objectives. This approach has become ever more refined in recent years, and has become the stock-in-trade for an ever expanding number of policy analysts, management experts, budget specialists and program evaluators. On the surface it seems the very essence of rationality, but on closer examination we find that it is not"--Page [1]. Management by objectives. Public administration Canada. Direction par objectifs. Administration publique (Science) Canada. Canada. Environment Canada. Planning and Finance Service, issuing body. Canada. Environment Canada. Advanced Concepts Centre‏, issuing body. Canada. Environment Canada. Science Policy Branch, issuing body. Report (Canada. Environment Canada. Office of the Science Advisor) no. 14 (CaOODSP)9.893396 PDF 1.49 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2020/eccc/En102-2-14-eng.pdf