Strategic Planning and Management in Public Organizations: Behavior in Organizations

By Meshack M. Sagini

Strategic Planning and Management in Public Organizations presents an in-depth analysis of organizational planning and management within public and nonprofit institutions. Using four Michigan colleges as case studies and an empirical and comparative research approach, the book explains the practice of effective and scientific organizational management. The research discusses not only the relationship between the means and ends of the organizational mission(s) but, also shows how this relationship brings to bear upon the major environmental trends that influence decision making.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761832394
• ISBN13: 9780761832393
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"

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A seminal study that is notably articulate, academically impressive, quite meticulous in argument

"Strategic Planning And Management In Public Organizations: Behavior In Organizations" by Meshack M. Sagini (Professor of Political Science and Director of the Office of Scholarly & Scientific Research at Langston University) draws upon the case studies of four Michigan colleges to provide students, scholars, non-profit agency managers, and government agency policy makers with an empirical, comparative, in-depth analysis and approach to explaining the impact of planning on the management of any public organization, be it public or private. The research employed and succinctly laid out bear upon the relationship between the means chosen by an organization's management and the ends or results those selected means achieve (or fail to achieve) in terms of organizational goals both stated and implied. A seminal study that is notably articulate, academically impressive, quite meticulous in argument, "Strategic Planning And Management In Public Organizations" is an outstanding study that should be a part of every professional, academic, corporate, and governmental management research reference collection and supplemental studies reading list.