Product Description: Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience is based on the real-life experience of 64 high-level executives who served in the Obama Administration. Most were at the agency head level. From 2009 to 2015, the authors conducted a series of interviews with these individuals, gaining insights into running government organizations...read more

Product Description: Learning the Ropes: Insights for Political Appointees is geared to providing helpful advice to new political appointees on a variety of topics related to the challenge of managing in government. Chapter two by Judith Michaels presents key lessons learned from two surveys of previous political appointees, as well as personal interviews with nearly 50 former political executives from both Democratic and Republican administrations...read more

Through an examination of people in the workplace, this book offers a look at the four factors that drive human beings and lead them to the choices that they make. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Transforming Organizations provides in-depth case studies of outstanding government executives who dramatically changed both the performance and management of their organizations. The book includes case studies of Dan Goldin of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ken Kizer of the Veterans Health Administration, James Lee Witt of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and four high-ranking government officials who changed procurement in the Department of Defense...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work is organized in seven sections around major themes of socio-economics. The first section outlines socio-economics in an historical perspective, drawing on the "Methodenstreit" in the German school of economics at the turn of the century...read more

Product Description: Many companies today are either undergoing drastic organizational changes or are faced with the prospect of having to make these changes in the near future. The need for change may arise from internal sources - growth in the size of the company, the problem of aging - or, more frequently, from external sources: changes in the nature of markets, in the technology of the industry, or even cultural beliefs about the 'proper' rewards of work and behavior for employers and employees...read more

Product Description: A detailed comparative study of management techniques in the United States and the Soviet Union. The authors discuss how management decisions are made - how managers in each country develop business plans, hire and fire personnel and make capital investment decisions.

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Product Description: Analyzes the connection between a company's outside influences (technological, market, and economic) and its pattern of organization and administration. A Harvard Business School Classics Edition.

Product Description: Book by Walton, Richard E.

Draws attention to the social, organizational, individual, and interpersonal elements of behavior as they affect problems in management