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Confronted with rising citizen discontent, the Reinventing Government movement, andnew technological challenges, public organizations everywhere are seeking means ofimproving their performance. Their quest is not new, rather, the concern with improvingthe performance of government organizations has existed since the ScientificManagement Movement. Public Sector Performance brings together in a single volumethe classic, enduring principles and processes that have defined the field of public sectorperformance, as written in the words of leading practitioners and scholars. Taken as awhole, this volume provides a performance compass for today's public managers, helpingthem to reconstruct the public's confidence in, and support of, government. Defined hereas managing public organizations for outcomes, performance is examined in all its varieddimensions: organizing work, managing workers, measuring performance, andovercoming resistance to performance-enhancing innovations. The selected articles areinteresting, thought provoking, and instructive. They are classics in that they have beenwidely cited in the scholarly literature and have enduring value to public managers whoseek to understand the many dimensions of performance. The book is organized intothree sections: Performance Foundations, Performance Strategies, and PerformanceMeasurement. Excerpts from additional selected articles feature special topics andwisdom from performance experts.Keywords: public administration, public affairs, textbookPublic Service: Callings, Commitments, and Contributions. Holzer, Marc. Colorado:Westview press, 1999.http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/perseus/simple_search.do?searchText=Marc+Holzer&imprintCid=PS&x=10&y=8This volume includes perspectives on public service selected from six decades of majorpublic administration journals. Recurring themes include: motivations to enter the publicservice, positive and negative images of public servants and of government, conflictsbetween loyalty to the organization and loyalty to the public, morale, burnout, andturnover. The volume also includes cross-national analyses of the public service in othersystems, proposals for rethinking public service systems, and questions as to the future ofthe public service. It recaptures a long, continuing debate as to the health of the publicservice, and in so doing suggests agendas for university research and administrativeaction.Keywords: public administration, public affairs, textbookThe Craft of Public Administration. 8th. Berkley, George E. & Rouse, John Edward.N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Higher Education. 2000.http://www.mhhe.com/383