Globalization and the Challenges of Public Administration: Governance, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Ethics, E-Governance and Sustainability in the 21st Century

by Haroon A. Khan

This book is an attempt to understand the challenges of globalization and governance in the public sector. Written from the perspectives of both developed and developing countries, it uses governance and public administration interchangeably to argue that the tasks of implementation require the cooperation of both the public and private sectors, especially in a rapidly globalizing landscape. It then utilizes statistical analyses to investigate the challenges of globalization in managing human resources, ethics and accountability, sustainability, e-governances, and leadership in the public sector.

223 pages, Paperback

Published June 4, 2019

Reviews

[Mike Lockwood · Rating 1 out of 5]

Content wise, this book is worthy of 3 stars. It lays a very wide, albeit cursory, landscape of the interactions between globalization and public administration in the 21st century. I found it somewhat helpful to appreciate the book’s premise from many different angles, though it was a little puzzling when a topic was only given a single paragraph of coverage. To that end, the depth of this book is just not there. It skims over topics without really engaging with them in any substantive way. Clearly this book wouldn’t be able to cover nearly as many areas, but the surface-level approach that the author takes lacks any real weight towards the topic.

The real reason this book gets a single star is because of its lousy presentation. This book contains no less than 25 instances of typos or grammatical errors, and there are countless examples of clunky or otherwise incoherent sentences. Moreover, there are laughable amount of times where the author literally repeats a sentence, many times closing in on verbatim, within the same paragraph. I will assume the author may be ESL. While that grants these issues some forgiveness, the overall professional editing of this text is inexcusable.

This book should be used as an index of issues between public administration and globalization, but little more. Pick a section header from this text and go read something more polished and interrogative somewhere else.