The State and Human Services: Organizational Change in a Political Context

by Laurence E. Lynn Jr. and Laurence E. Lynn

State human services agencies are frequently criticized by state executives, legislators, and service recipients who contend that reorganization will improve performance and efficiency. This study points out, however, that the proponents and architects of change commonly fail to recognize the extent to which reorganizing a state agency is a political rather than an administrative or managerial act and that many pitfalls await them. The book asserts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262120844
• ISBN13: 9780262120845
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 232 Pages