Resources: Research Publications

The Resources Library provides all kinds of interesting small articles, training and learning tools, research papers and ‘think-pieces’ plus other materials that are all free to use (for non-commercial purposes).

Public Sector Management – Masters Module

This pack introduces theoretical under-pinning for the existence of the public sector. It introduces historical, economic, political-economic and organisational theories and explanatory ideas. It was compiled for management students but suitable for any intermediate level upwards. Public Sector Theory and History MBA reading group

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Empowerment Report

This report provide en evaluation of a three-year programme of projects and services provided in the South East as well as a few articles about community empowerment.

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Care Co-Ops “Limited Editions”

This is a service-user led evaluation report. It evaluates a training, learning and workshop project run as a social enterprise. This report feeds back on the evaluation of one of Care Co-ops services – ‘Limited Editions’– and particularly a one year project that forms part of it, the “SUCP” (Service User Commissioning Project).  An independent

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New Public Management

This paper is a précis of the full treatment given in the public sector reform paper – Discovering Facilitative Public Management.  It contrasts the management, public involvement and the organisational dynamics of conventional bureaucracy with a sharper model of public management. New Public Management in – Discovering “Facilitative Public Management” Summary The public sector needs

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The Outcomes Star

The London Housing Foundation’s outcomes programme The Outcomes Star Collection is published as part of the London Housing Foundation’s outcomes programme. The programme started life in 2001 to explore ways in which the homelessness sector could improve its delivery of services by systematically setting, measuring and learning from the outcomes of their work with homeless

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