... Limited 2010 Africa Change management Water industry Public sector organizations Developing countries Organizational restructuring The study‐at‐hand tests the applicability of the 100‐days rapid change model for the deeply troubled African public water sector. Poor performance...

... organisations oblivious to its deeper purpose of serving western economic and geo‐political interests under the guise of weeding out something falsely portrayed as a universal negative. Practical implications The paper will assist efforts to ground the anti‐corruption effort in the realities of Africa...

...Sonny Nwankwo; Darlington C. Richards The phenomenal spread of privatization initiatives in sub‐Saharan Africa since the 1980s created the impression that public infrastructure divestiture is a shortcut to economic growth and development. This has proven not to be the case due to the lack...

...Clay Wescott The Guiding Principles on Civil Service Reform were endorsed by the Special Programme of Assistance for Africa (SPA) as a tool for better co‐ordination of donor support. Because of the range of administrative problems, and the economic and political urgency of solving them, African...

...Ken Kamoche Reveals that the public sector in Africa is increasingly coming under pressure to justify its very existence through calls for financial accountability, operational efficiency, improvements in product and service quality, and so forth. Takes the view that any attempt to achieve...

... for insulating the selection and appointment of professional cadres of managers and directors from the political spoil system, are some of the initiatives where we have still a long way to go in several developing countries,particularly in Africa. On the other hand, some of the best‐run large corporate...

... – the Treasury, tax collectors, or Customs, for example, all of which deal directly with financial resources; or the armed forces and police, which have a monopoly on the use of force. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Africa Asia Developing countries Employment Government Latin America Public sector...

... not ignore the environment (the city) in which the institution operated. Africa Local government Malawi Management Organizational change Urban environment © MCB UP Limited 1993 IJPSM 6,5 24 Institution Building for a Third World City Council Some Lessons from the Practice Ronald McGill...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1993 Africa Development Land use Management Nigeria Planning (town and country) Town and Country and Administration Planning in Nigeria Town and Country Planning in Nigeria Ebenezer O. Aka Jr Morehouse College, Atlanta, USA 47 Early town and country planning...

... of employment and pay, the enhancement of efficiency and productivity and capacity building. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Africa Civil Service Employment Human resource development Pay Personnel Sub‐Saharan Africa IJPSM 6,3 A Note on Civil Service Personnel Policy Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa 38...

...Victor Ayeni The focus on women and gender‐related issues is clearly one of the most important concerns of development administration today. Against this background, examines the problem of ensuring that gender issues are fully incorporated into management education in Africa. The discussion...

...Dele Olowu Findings of the Secretariat of the African Association for Public Administration and Management (AAPAM′s) study on “Administrative Responses to the Economic Crisis in Africa” (1989) are summarised,focusing on the experiences of four African countries: Ghana, Nigeria,Tanzania and Zimbabwe...

...Damien Ejigiri The article reviews the Lagos Plan of Action (LPA) towards economic development in Africa by the year 2000 and examines the level of preparedness in African countries to implement the Plan. Nigeria is used as a case study. The Lagos Plan of Action approved a strategy to de‐emphasise...

... setting. This was deemed necessary in order to determine what Glub and Margerison[11] refer to as "finding out what people really want and what their needs really are". After an initial appraisal it was decided that Zimbabwe, already a forerunner in development in Southern Africa with a reasonably well...

...James B. Ghartey Social scientists have done a substantial amount of work on the causes and problems of development in Africa and other parts of the developing world. Literature on the deficiencies and proposed remedies of Third World accounting has burgeoned in the past generation. During...

...Ladipo Adamolekun The central argument of this article is that institutional capacity building in sub‐Saharan Africa in the 1990s must be related simultaneously to the issues of both economic development and of governance. The importance of institutions that are undergirded by democratic values...

... to make judgements about the efficiency and effectiveness of public administration systems in Africa. As an organisation which commits considerable resources to help African nations to improve the management of their resources, SIDA is inevitably drawn into such problematic questions. This article...

...Olu Fadahunsi Management institutions in Africa experience socio‐economic problems far worse than any which exist in the Western World. Solutions of the past are no longer relevant and are therefore inadequate. The IMF/World Bank's prescription for economic recovery in African countries seems...

... of these measures are examined, and the potential for action assessed. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Africa Government Manpower Planning Training International Journal of Public Sector Management 1,2 40 Manpower Policy Issues: Some Emerging Considerations Highlighted in African Countries by John Fyfe...

...M.J. Balogun The factors which produced an excess of centralisation in Africa are described. The training needs arising from the new emphasis on decentralisation are then outlined. An assessment is made of current training efforts and a programme for future action offered. © MCB UP Limited 1988...