Auteur: James M. Banovetz

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Replacing the Police Chief describes the dilemma of a manager whose attempt to administer in accordance with the tenets of professionalism runs …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Developing A Purchasing System demonstrates how ambivalent local officials and the public can be in their expectations regarding government. In …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Unknown Taxpayer Preferences demonstrates the most common and difficult of contradictory public interest demands: the public’s strong, unambiguous …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Patronage shows the impact of competing values on one community’s attempt to modernize its governmental structure …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Politics, User Fees, and Barracudas looks at local politics from the perspective of a citizen who, in his capacity as an officer of a local swim …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Redeveloping the Waterfront discusses the challenges public administrators face when they get involved with economic development, which leads to …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Goodbye, Sampson, Inc.? portrays the critical link between economic development policies and local neighborhoods. In this instance, the proposed …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Providing A Municipal Ambulance Service demonstrates that the task of policy analysis clearly requires much more than simply "processing the …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Contracting for Trash poses an analytical problem that will face most if not all county and city governments: how to find the best (i.e., the most …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Moving the Multiservice Center discusses how where the county should relocate one of its multiservice centers pits political considerations …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Personnel or People? calls for a decision about the treatment of a fire chief who is discovered to be appropriating city property for personal …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Affirmatively Managing Helen focuses on the challenge to administrative leadership to secure maximum benefit from a nonproductive but competent …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Cedar Valley Slowdown describes the plight of the city administration in Cedar Valley as it attempts to respond to ill-timed wage demands, first …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: The Human Side of Privatization describes the question of privatization by looking at both the economic and the human consequences of …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Redesigning the Budget process describes the challenge of developing a budget process that meets both administrative and legislative expectations …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Welcome to the New Town Manager? highlights that budget planning and preparation in local government is policymaking. This e Book also describes …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: County Prison Overtime discusses a classic example of the difficulties of budget implementation and sets the stage for continuing dialogue, and …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Principles under Pressure focuses on how a local administrator should handle a situation when external circumstances make it impossible to avoid …

Managing Local Government: Cases in Decision Making: Fire or Be Fired demonstrates the level of complexity that can confront public administrators and presents a challenge found in both private and …

Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: Recruitment, Promotion, and Affirmative Action describes one local government’s attempt to improve its policies and procedures governing promotion in …

Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: Reductions In Force deals with the problem of employee dismissals in a local government because of the need to achieve a reduction in force (RIF). …

Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: Sexual Harassment Issues describes the challenges associated with changing attitudes and behaviors of employees concerning sexual harassment issues. …

Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: ADA Issues describes the challenges associated with implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act in the workplace. This e-book also highlights …

Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: Fringe Benefits and Health Care Describes the challenges Sun City must consider in order to provide full insurance coverage to employees and its …

Managing Human Resources: Local Government Cases: Labor-management Relations describes the plight of the city administration in Cedar Valley as it attempts to respond to ill-timed wage demands–first …

Managing Local Government Finance: Cases in Decision Making: Managing Debt and the Capital Budget describes the capital budgeting process, focusing particularly on the tough policy questions relating …

Managing Local Economic Development: Cases in Decision Making: Redeveloping the Waterfront discusses the challenges public administrators face when they get involved with economic development, which …

Keeping a community alive and healthy after the loss of an important employer-whether that employer is the military or some other governmental entity; a large, private sector business; or a tourist …

Managing Local Economic Development: Cases in Decision Making: Union County Economic Development Strategy discusses the challenge of transforming community opinion into an economic development …

Managing Local Economic Development: Cases in Decision Making: Meadowville Valley: Livable-wage Jobs Wanted demonstrates the kind of economic development work required to overcome obsolescence and to …

Managing Local Economic Development: Cases in Decision Making: Goodbye, Sampson, Inc. portrays the critical link between economic development policies and local neighborhoods. In this instance, the …

Managing Local Economic Development: Cases in Decision Making: Minority Enterprise Development In the Post-Croson Era traces one community’s attempt to respond constructively to changes in national …

Managing Local Economic Development: Cases in Decision Making: Finances and Development discusses the all too common problem facing local government staff in large metropolitan areas: a small …

Managing Local Economic Development: Cases in Decision Making: Renaissance and Reality: Redevelopment of the Homestead Works Site poses the ultimate questions that must be asked of any proposed …

Managing Local Government Finance: Cases in Decision Making: Formulating Revenue Policy describes the story of a city whose governmental and civic leaders have "bitten the bullet" and …

Managing Local Government Finance: Cases in Decision Making: Developing the Tax Base discusses the all too common problem facing local government staff in large metropolitan areas: a small community …

Managing Local Government Finance: Cases in Decision Making: Preparing the Budget highlights that budget planning and preparation in local government is policymaking. This e Book also describes every …

Managing Local Government Finance: Cases in Decision Making: Implementing the Budget discusses a classic example of the difficulties of budget implementation and sets the stage for continuing …