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A field concept of public management / Michel Chevalier and Thomas Burns. : En102-2/14E-PDF

"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].

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Ministère/Organisme
  • 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.
TitreA field concept of public management / Michel Chevalier and Thomas Burns.
Titre de la série
  • Report - Office of the Science Advisor ; no. 14
Type de publicationMonographie - Voir l'enregistrement principal
Langue[Anglais]
FormatTexte numérique
Document électronique
Note(s)
  • 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).
Information sur la publication
  • Ottawa : Environment Canada, Planning and Finance Service = Environnement Canada, Service de la planification et des finances, 1977.
Auteur / Contributeur
  • Chevalier, Michel, author.
Description1 online resource (iii, 37 pages) : illustrations.
Numéro de catalogue
  • En102-2/14E-PDF
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