Jodi Sandfort, Stephanie Moulton

Effective Implementation in Practice

Integrating Public Policy and Management

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique approach to policy implementation with essential guidance and useful tools
Cultivating Effective Implementation: The Practice of Integrating Policy and Management presents an instrumental approach to implementation analysis. By spanningpolicy fields, organizations, and frontline conditions in implementation systems, this book provides a robust foundation for policy makers, public and nonprofit managers and leaders. Detailed case studies enable readers to identify key intervention points, become more strategic, and improve outcomes. The engaging style and specific examples provide a bridge to practice, while diagrams, worksheets, and other tools included in the appendix help managers apply these ideas to team meetings, operational planning, and program assessment and refinement.

Policy and program implementation is fraught with challenges as public and nonprofit leaders juggle organizational missions and stakeholder expectations while managing policy and program impact and effectiveness. Using their own experience in practice, teaching, and research, the authors empower policy and program implementers to recognize their essential roles within the workplace and help them cultivate the analytical and social skills necessary to change.

Understand how program or policy technology constitutes the core of implementation
Study a conceptual framework encompassing power dynamics, culture, relationships in the field and the rules that are operating during program and policy implementation
Discover a multilevel approach that identifies key points of strategic action at various levels and settings of the implementation system and assesses implementation success
The integration of policy and management mindsets gives readers an insightful yet accessible understanding of implementation, allowing them to achieve the potent results desired by the public. For those in senior positions at federal agencies to local staff at nonprofit organizations, Cultivating Effective Implementation: The Practice of Integrating Policy and Management provides an invaluable one-stop resource.

Produktdetails

• Bryson Series in Public and Nonprofit Management .1
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9781118775486
• ISBN-10: 1118775481
• Artikelnr.: 41630161

Autorenporträt

Jodi Sandfort is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota and Chair of the school's Leadership & Management program, providing oversight and strategic direction to the Public & Nonprofit Leadership Center and the Center for Integrative leadership. She is the author of numerous academic articles, book chapters, and reports for policymakers and practitioners about nonprofit management, social welfare system design, organizational effectiveness, early childhood education, welfare reform, and research methodology. Stephanie Moulton is Associate Professor at The Ohio State University's John Glenn School of Public Affairs. Moulton's research, teaching, and service combine policy and management, with a focus on the implementation and evaluation of housing policies and programs, and cross-sector determinants of public outcomes.

Inhaltsangabe

Tables, Figures, and Boxes ix The Authors xi Preface xiii PART ONE The
Implementation Landscape 1 ONE Framing Implementation 5 Exploring Policy
and Program Implementation 9 Defining Implementation Effectiveness 12
Unpacking Implementation Systems 16 Bringing the Analysis to Life 28 TWO
Conventional Perspectives on Policy and Program Implementation 35 Political
Processes and Authority 37 Governance and Management 43 Policy and Program
Evaluation 52 Conclusion 64 THREE A New Perspective for Implementation:
Strategic Action Fields 67 Introducing Strategic Action Fields 69 Core
Programs 74 Unpacking Social Structures and Dynamics 82 Conclusion 96 PART
TWO The Implementation System at Multiple Levels 99 FOUR Policy Fields 103
Policy Fields in Focus 107 Analyzing the Development of the Core Program
120 Applying Policy Field Analysis 131 Conclusion 136 FIVE Organizations
139 Organizations in Focus 141 Analyzing the Integration of the Core
Program 148 Applying Organizational Analysis 155 Conclusion 162 SIX Front
Lines 163 Front Lines in Focus 166 Analyzing the Application of the Core
Program 174 Applying Frontline Analysis 181 Conclusion 188 PART THREE The
Practice of Effective Implementation 191 SEVEN Exploring Implementation in
Practice 195 Implementation Dynamics: The Hardest Hit Fund 196
Implementation Dynamics: The Quality Rating and Improvement System 211
Opportunities for Change 222 EIGHT Leading Learning in Implementation
Systems 225 Investigating Technical Challenges 228 Engaging Others in
Adaptive Challenges 246 Bringing It All Together 259 Appendix A Policy
Field Audit 261 Appendix B Policy Field Visual Diagram 263 Appendix C
Program Process Flow 265 Appendix D Organization Program Integration Audit
267 Appendix E Frontline Interactions Audit 271 Appendix F Target
Experiences Analysis 275 Appendix G Implementation Dynamics and Outcomes
Analysis 279 Appendix H Implementation Improvement Blueprint 283 Notes 287
Bibliography 339 Index 379