Doing More with Less: A Structured Approach to Improving Resource Management

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Donaldson William V. “Managing Shrinking Cities—Cincinnati.” The Bureaucrat, 10: 56–58, Fall, 1981.

Drucker Peter Managing in Turbulent Times. New York, Harper and Row, 1980.

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“Leadership in an Era of Retrenchment; a Symposium.” Public Administration Review, 40: 603–620, November—December 1980. Contents: Leadership in an Era of Retrenchment, by Robert D. Behn; Leadership Tactics for Retrenchment, by Robert P. Biller; Overcoming the Limits to Personnel Cut-Backs: Lessons Learned from Pennsylvania, by Robert C. Wilburn and Michael A. Worman; Leadership for Cut-Back Management: The Use of Corporate Strategy, by Robert D. Behn.

Levine Charles H. “More on Cutback Management: Hard Questions for Hard Times.” Public Administration Review, 39: 179–183, March—April 1979.

Levine Charles H. “Hidden Hazards of Retrenchment.” The Bureaucrat, 10: 4–5, Fall, 1981.

Lewis Carol W. Logalbo Anthony T. “Cutback Principles and Practices: A Checklist for Managers.” Public Administration Review, 40: 184–188, March—April 1980.

Marshall James O'Toole Daniel “Cutback Management: The Big Case Study.” The Bureaucrat, 10: 59–61, Fall, 1981.

McTighe John J. “Management Strategies to Deal With Shrinking Resources.” Public Administration Review, 39: 86–90, January—February 1979.

“Organizational Decline and Cutback Management; a Symposium.” Public Administration Review, 38: 315–357, July—August 1978.

Partial contents: Organizational Decline and Cutback Management, by Charles H. Levine; Organizational Responses to Municipal Budget Decreases, by Andrew Glassberg; Closing a Government Facility, by Robert D. Behn; Termination: Hard Choices—Harder Questions, by Garry D. Brewer.