'Tools' in public management
- Tools are methods or procedures, and thus operational patterns of action, applied in public administrations to solve standard problems. It is also possible to consider them as structured communication according to professional standards aiming at complexity reduction. Regularly, tools in management stem on a deductive-synoptic rationale offering a seemingly ‘objective’ decision basis. They have a strong formative influence on the organization, regularly also beyond the intended effects. The prominence of tools is sometimes confused with management as such, e.g. introducing tools is mistaken as equivalent to managing for a particular purpose. However, tools have to be closely and carefully managed regarding the objectives and purposes they should serve.
| Author details: | Isabella ProellerORCiDGND, John SiegelGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375499.tools |
| ISBN: | 978-1-80037-548-2 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-80037-549-9 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Elgar encyclopedia of public management |
| Subtitle (English): | how efficiency and effectiveness are thought to be controlled |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Place of publishing: | Cheltenham |
| Editor(s): | Kuno Schedler |
| Publication type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/08/25 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Release date: | 2023/09/20 |
| Tag: | cost cutting; instruments; methods; tools; zero-based budgeting |
| Number of pages: | 5 |
| First page: | 186 |
| Last Page: | 190 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Betriebswirtschaftslehre |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Peer review: | Nicht ermittelbar |
