... Publishing 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...

... the Government. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Africa Asia Developing Countries Divestment Joint Ventures Planning Privatization Privatization is still a much misunderstood concept in the developing countries of Asia and Africa. People and politicians in these countries feel that privatization...

... expenditures, disregarding their complementarity. The consequent imbalance between inputs and employment has resulted in practical overstaffing. Africa Asia Developing countries Employment Government Latin America Public sector Rationalization Public sector adjustment policies during...

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

... 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...

.... 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 in Nigeria evolved from 100 years...

...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...

...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...

... accordingly, this would lead to increased job satisfaction and managerial effectiveness. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Africa Management development Public sector Research Skills IJPSM 3,2 26 Managerial Skills for Senior Managers Farhad Analoui University of Bradford, UK Over the last two decades we...

... Africa Developing countries Organizational performance Public administration IJPSM 3,1 58 Efficiency and Effectiveness in an African Public Administration Context Merrick L. Jones Institutefor Development Policy and Management, University ofManchester Introduction Recently I was asked...

... 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...

...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...

...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...