Collaborating to Manage: A Primer for the Public Sector

✍ Scribed by Robert Agranoff

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Series: Public Management and Change series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Collaborating to Manage captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era where government must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies to work together to solve difficult public problems. In this primer, Robert Agranoff examines current and emergent approaches and techniques in intergovernmental grants and regulation management, purchase-of-service contracting, networking, public/nonprofit partnerships and other lateral arrangements in the context of the changing public agency. As he steers the reader through various ways of coping with such organizational richness, Agranoff offers a deeper look at public management in an era of shared public program responsibility within governance.Geared toward professionals working with the new bureaucracy and for students who will pursue careers in the public or non-profit sectors, Collaborating to Manage is a student-friendly book that contains many examples of real-world practices, lessons from successful cases, and summaries of key principles for collaborative public management.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
CHAPTER 1 To Manage Is to Collaborate......Page 14
CHAPTER 2 Intergovernmentalization and Collaborative Public Management......Page 36
CHAPTER 3 Conductive Public Agencies......Page 65
CHAPTER 4 Forging External Agreements......Page 89
CHAPTER 5 Managing Agency Connections......Page 116
CHAPTER 6 Processing Deep Collaboration: Managing in Networks......Page 142
CHAPTER 7 Identifying and Overcoming the Barriers to Collaboration......Page 172
CHAPTER 8 The New Public Organization......Page 198
CHAPTER 9 Conclusion: Collaboration Works!......Page 223
A: The Lower Platte River Corridor Alliance......Page 246
B: Lower Platte River Regulatory Study Guide......Page 247
C: Ten Challenges in Contract Management......Page 249
D: Explicit Knowledge Management Activities......Page 250
E: Tacit Knowledge Management Activities......Page 251
F: Twenty-Two Public Values Contributed by Networks......Page 252
G: Alternative Dispute Resolution Processes......Page 253
H: Milestones in Metro School’s Development......Page 254
References......Page 256
B......Page 272
C......Page 273
G......Page 274
I......Page 275
K......Page 277
L......Page 278
N......Page 279
P......Page 281
T......Page 282
W......Page 283