Please use the links in the table below to download recent IPAA NSW public sector book reviews in PDF format.
Book title and author |
Publishing details |
Reviewer
|
Date of review |
Download |
| Modernising the Welfare
State: the Blair Legacy, edited by Martin Powell |
Policy Press, University of Bristol, 2008.
ISBN 978-1-84742-039-8 |
Professor Ian Marsh, Australian Innovation
Research Centre, University of Tasmania |
April 2009 |
PDF
68KB |
| Kevin Rudd: An Unauthorised Political Biography, by Nicholas Stuart |
Melbourne, Scribe, 2007. 280pp. ISBN 978-1-92121-558- |
Catherine E. Allen |
September 2007 |
PDF 57k |
| Unlocking Public Value:
A New Model for Achieving High Performance in Public
Service Organisations, by Greg Parston and Martin Cole |
John Wiley & Sons, 2006. 188pp. ISBN
0-471-95945-6 |
Maura Boland & Vicki Buchbach |
July 2007 |
PDF
122k |
| Humble and obedient servants: the administration of New South Wales Volume 2: 1901 – 1960, by Peter J.Tyler |
UNSW Press, 2006. 257p. ISBN 0-86840-824-7 |
Mark England |
November 2006 |
PDF 126k |
Politics, patronage and public works: the administration of New South Wales, Volume 1. 1842 * 1900, by Hilary Golder
|
UNSW Press, 2005. 268p. ISBN 0-86840-511-6
|
Vicki Buchbach |
October 2006
|
PDF 130k |
| Governing by network: the new shape of the public sector, Stephen Goldsmith and William D. Eggers |
Brookings Institution Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8157-3129-9 |
Popy Mourgelas |
March 2006 |
PDF 124K |
| A profile of the public
service of Australia: current good practices and new
developments in public service management, by the Commonwealth Secretariat |
London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003.
165 pages, ISBN 0-85092-706-4 |
John Casey, Charles Sturt University |
December 2005 |
PDF
135K |
Women and men in management
3rd ed., ed.
by Gerry N. Powell & Laura Graves |
Sage Publications, 2003, 262 pp., ISBN
0-7619-2196-6 |
Katherine Emerton, Councillor, IPAA NSW |
September 2005. Originally published
in PAT issue 4, September 2005. |
PDF
165K |
| When sparks fly: harnessing the power of group creativity, Leonard, Dorothy and Swap, Walter |
Harvard Business School Press, 2005. 256pp. ISBN 1-591-39793-6 |
Fran Morris |
August 2005 |
PDF 160K |
| King, Cheryl Simrell & Zanetti, Lisa, Transformational public service: portraits of theory in practice. |
Armonk, New York, ME Sharpe, 2005. 172pp. ISBN 0-765-60947-9. |
Cathy Nunn |
2005 |
PDF 121Kb |
| Roger L Kemp (ed), Community renewal through municipal investment: a handbook for citizens and public officials |
McFarland and Company Inc., North Carolina, 2003. |
Julie King |
August 2005 |
PDF 105Kb |
| Viviane Illegems and Alain Verbeke, Moving towards the virtual workplace: managerial and societal perspectives on telework |
Edgar Elgar, Cheltenham UK, 2003. |
Julie King |
August 2005 |
PDF 108Kb |
| Managing conflicts of interest in the public sector: guidelines and toolkit |
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (NSW) and the Crime and Misconduct Commission (Qld), 2004. |
Christine Lithgow |
May 2005 |
PDF 142Kb |
| Inventing the organizations of the 21st century, edited by Thomas W. Malone, Robert Laubacher and Michael S.Scott Morton. |
MIT Press, 2003. 433 pp. |
Jim Longley |
September 2004 |
PDF 112Kb |
| The Triple Bottom
Line: Does It All Add Up?: Assessing the Sustainability
of Business and CSR,
edited by Adrian Henriques & Jullie Richardson eds. |
Earthscan Publications, 2004. 224pp. ISBN
1-84407-015-8 |
Mary McCrudden, Karen Powell, Fiona Campbell
and Karen Lambert |
August 2004 |
PDF
123Kb |
| Providing Quality in the Public Sector: a practical approach to improving public services, Lucy Gaster and Amanda Squires |
Open University Press, 2003. 292pp. |
Rick Sondalini |
July 2004 |
PDF 107Kb |
| The essential public manager, by Christopher Pollitt |
Open University Press, 2003. 196pp.
|
Connie Salat |
December 2003 |
PDF 107Kb |
The experience of middle Australia: the dark side of economic reform, by Michael Pusey
|
Cambridge University Press, 2003. 244pp. |
Colin Johnston |
June 2003 |
PDF 110Kb |
