Quality and public service
By: Walsh, Kieron.
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ArticleSubject(s): Bureaucracy | Civil Service | Efficiency, Administrative
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Public Administration (UK)Summary: The author in his article says that the issue of quality of service is becoming increasingly important in the public service as a result of new approaches that are being adopted to management, notably the development of contract-based management. The argument of this article is that the concept of quality is a particularly difficult one for the public services, because of problems of information asymmetries. The first sections of the article are concerned with the meaning of the concept of quality and the problems of managing quality in the service sector and the public service in particular. The central argument of the article is that there are important problems of information asymmetries between service p
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | Issue no: 69(4) Winter 91, p.503-14 | Available | AR2849 |
The author in his article says that the issue of quality of service is becoming increasingly important in the public service as a result of new approaches that are being adopted to management, notably the development of contract-based management. The argument of this article is that the concept of quality is a particularly difficult one for the public services, because of problems of information asymmetries. The first sections of the article are concerned with the meaning of the concept of quality and the problems of managing quality in the service sector and the public service in particular. The central argument of the article is that there are important problems of information asymmetries between service p
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