AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: GOVERNMENTAL
STRUCTURE IN URBAN COMMUNITIES (FORM, METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION, BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATION,
Anderson, W. F. The Effective Local Government Manager. Washington: International Association of City Management, 1983.
The principal concerns of this work are the form of urban government, which is the council manager or city manager system in this instance, and administrative behavior, which, in this instance, is concerned with the behavior of the individual discharging the organizational responsibilities of a city manager. Governmental form is dealt with as a means of defining the organizational environment within which those behaviors are analyzed which are most likely to lead to an effective performance as a city manager. The author held that an effective city manager will, among other things, be an individual who recognizes the significance of public administration in contemporary American society. While this significance is often not recognized at the local level by client publics, these publics, nevertheless, rely heavily on urban public administration. The author emphasized the need for the city manager to develop an urban administration which is, at once, both responsive and sympathetic to the needs of client publics. Thus, effective urban manager type governments cannot remain isolated from client publics. Further, an effective city manager must address the issue of accountability; accountability both to the elected policy making council and to the voters who choose the members of that council. Overall, this work is a valuable contribution to the literature.
Earle, H. H. Police Recruit Training, (rev. ed.). Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1983.
This work deals with organizational behavior. The focus is on the behavioral aspects of human resources management, and the issues in the work deal specifically with the training of po...