This new multidisciplinary series will present works devoted to the indigenouspeoples of North America the First Nations Native Hawaiians NativeAmericans and t... » 

This new multidisciplinary series will present works devoted to the indigenouspeoples of North America the First Nations Native Hawaiians NativeAmericans and the Indians of Mexico. Topics will range from the socialsciences to education law criminology health the environment religionarchitecture linguistics and agriculture including innovativeinterdisciplinary approaches. Books featuring Native voices and issues ofparticular current significance to Native peoples will be featured.Changing Public Sector Values has 7 captured the essence of the new publicadministration movement...a firstrate book that is accessible to bothscholars and students. Stuart C. Gilman Georgetown UniversityThe breadth of Van Warts treatment of public sector values is trulyimpressive. He takes values an abstraction often thrown into discourse withlittle connection to concrete reality and shows how it is fundamentallyembedded in public organizations and management. Van Wart examines individualprofessional organizational legal and public interest values luciditylinking them to analysis and decision making. The result is a rich volume thatoffers the reader comprehensive and useful insights. Terry L. CooperUniversity of Southern CaliforniaManaging values is an organizational priority of the highest order. Ethics arederived from values and organizational leaders and managers have aresponsibility to clarify values support values consensus and monitorcompliance. Giving all major schools of thought equal coverage this volumeexamines values from the individual administrators perspective from thecultural framework and from the functional standpoint. Designed to be isuseful to both students and practitioners the book presents examples drawnfrom all levels of government with emphasis on such current topics asdownsizing withdrawing tenure management reductions organizational redesignjob restructuring service «