PA 544 Productivity Improvement/Govt

Explores and analyzes current topics on productivity in public organizations, with particular attention to change management, transparency, performance, accountability, work management processes, private sector management practice, outcome measurement, E-Government strategy, and labor-management relations. Contemporary productivity theories of a more generalized nature also will be explored. Integrates conceptual works in productivity with case studies that describe actual operations of public productivity programs. Cases cover concepts of measurement, management practice, technology and capital investment, and labor-management relations, with an emphasis on understanding the linkages between theory and practice.