Reinventing the Pentagon: how the new public management can bring institutional renewal

If defense spending is to be reduced without enfeebling the military, the Pentagon must make major changes in the way it does business - it must restructure, decentralize, and trim away the fat

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Main Authors: Thompson, Fred 1942- (Author), Jones, Lawrence R. 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco Jossey-Bass Publ. 1994
Edition:1. ed.
Series:The Jossey-Bass public administration series
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Summary:If defense spending is to be reduced without enfeebling the military, the Pentagon must make major changes in the way it does business - it must restructure, decentralize, and trim away the fat
Reinventing the Pentagon provides the solutions to many of the restructuring problems the Department of Defense now faces. Fred Thompson and L. R. Jones take the key concepts of the new public management - streamlining controls; implementing mission-driven, results-oriented budgets; creating more flexible and responsive hiring systems; and more - and tell how to organize the Pentagon to make these reforms work
Abstract:As the Cold War winds to an end, cuts in the military budget are a certainty. This new fiscal reality presents a difficult, long-term, highly complex managerial challenge. It calls for solving serious problems of organization and control, managing relationships with suppliers, and choosing between alternative institutional designs
Physical Description:XXI, 298 S.
ISBN:1555427103