'Change (Transformation) in Government Organizations' discusses recent efforts to bring aboutchange in government organizations. The book brings together contributions by a number ofmanagers, practitioners, academics and consultants in the study of international, federal, state,and local government efforts to respond to increased calls for change (transformation) in publicsector organizations. Each contributor describes their work in this area using as a backdrop thefact that public sector organizations continue to be under new and substantial pressures tochange and transform themselves. Hence a collection of current contributions such as those inthis book are intended to add to the ongoing debates and rewriting of the success and failures ofchange in public sector organizations.The ultimate purpose of this book is to further our knowledge about the related issuesand current efforts to bring about change or transformation in public sector organizations. The contributors, all experts with extensiveexperience as change agents in both public and private sector organizations not only support their analyses and discussions of specificcases and change (transformation) management issues but also provide practical tools, ideas and lessons learned, intended to begeneralizable to other public sector agencies and helpful to those responsible for developing, implementing and evaluating similarefforts in the years to come. The audience for the book will be government managers, scholars and others interested in undertaking orlearning about such efforts.
