Product Description
Municipal Management: Serving the People (4th edition) (WebPDF)
Author: G van der Waldt
Format: Digital
What are the dynamics around the quality and quantity of municipal services in South Africa? What kind of systemic, structural and managerial adjustments should be made to improve local government? Who decides what in municipalities? How could active citizen participation in local affairs be stimulated? These and other questions are addressed in Municipal Management: Serving the people.
The authors take a bird’s-eye view of issues such as the constitutional dispensation, regulatory frameworks, municipal administrative and managerial systems, community and political dynamics, as well as municipal functions and services.
This third edition reflects new features of, and the latest developments in, the local sphere of government, which makes the book even more relevant to –
• Contextualise the local sphere of government within a system of co-operative governance and intergovernmental relations
• Appreciate the role and functioning of local, district and metropolitan municipalities in South Africa
• Uncover core municipal policies, strategies and programmes
• Comprehend the significance of municipal capacity for effective resource utilisation and service delivery
• Pinpoint best practice regarding managerial systems, processes and procedures.
Contents:
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Chapter 1 Municipal management: An orientation
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Chapter 2 Fostering local democracy
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Chapter 3 The statutory and regulatory framework for local government
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Chapter 4 Municipal structures
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Chapter 5 Local government and its external environment
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Chapter 6 Integrated development planning as an approach to sustainable development
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Chapter 7 Managing municipal performance
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Chapter 8 Local economic development and municipalities in South Africa
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Chapter 9 Local government and service delivery
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Chapter 10 Municipal human resource management
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Chapter 11 Municipal financial management
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Chapter 12 Municipal supply chain management
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