THE AUTHORS

Understanding and Managing Public Organizations, sixth edition

Sergio Fernandez is Professor at Indiana University O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Affiliate Faculty in Indiana University African Studies Program. He also serves as Extraordinary Professor in University of Pretoria School of Public Management and Administration. He earned his PhD in Public Administration from the University of Georgia. His research focuses on organizational behavior in the public sector, public sector leadership, representative bureaucracy, and government outsourcing. His work has appeared in leading policy and management journals, including Public Administration Review, Governance, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, American Review of Public Administration, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Leadership Quarterly, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Journal of Modern African Studies. He is author of Representative Bureaucracy and Performance: Public Service Transformation in South Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). He has served on seven journal editorial boards and is an editor for Africa Today.

Deanna Malatesta is an Associate Professor at the Paul O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research foci include public sector management and governance, collaboration, and contracts. Professor Malatesta teaches several courses at Indiana University: Public Policy Problems and Solutions (undergraduate-level), Public Management, Public Program Performance and Contracting (graduate-level) and Public Organizations (doctoral seminar). She currently serves as associate editor of the International Journal of Public Sector Management (IJPSM).

She authored much of the Instructor's Guide for the fifth edition and for the current sixth edition of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations.

Malatesta received a BA/MPA from Rutgers University–Camden, New Jersey, and a doctorate from the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. Her research appears in the field's top journals, including Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, The American Review of Public Administration, Public Administration, State and Local Government Studies, and the International Journal of Public Sector Management. In 2010, she received the William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for the Best Article by an Academician in Public Administration Review, awarded by the American Society for Public Administration. She has served on the editorial boards for Public Administration Review, International Journal of Public Sector Management, Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation (JSCAN), and the Journal of Public Affairs and Education.

Malatesta has served as a consultant to federal, state, and local governments, and on various task forces for government agencies. In 2002, she was a technology consultant for the City of Philadelphia, Cable Television Franchise Renewal Contract Committee. In 2008, she was appointed by the Indianapolis City-County Council of Indianapolis and served on Mayor Greg Ballard's High Performance Governance Team. In 2012, she consulted with the Regulated Occupations Evaluation Committee (ROEC) for the State of Indiana. In 2013 and 2014, she consulted with the US Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) on the administration of the agency's Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs.

Hal G. Rainey is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He conducts research on management in the public sector, with an emphasis on leadership, incentives, organizational change, and organizational performance, and the comparison of organization and management in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

The first edition of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations won the Best Book Award of the Public and Nonprofit Sectors Division of the Academy of Management in 1992. The book has been published in Chinese- and Russian-language editions, and in other languages.

In 1995 Rainey received the Charles H. Levine Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Service, conferred jointly by the American Society for Public Administration and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. In 2003 he was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Rainey received the 2009 Dwight Waldo Award for excellence in scholarship in public administration across an extended career. In 2011 he received the John Gaus Award and lecture invitation from the American Political Science Association. The Gaus Award honors “the recipient's lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration.” In 2016, Rainey received the Frederickson Award from the National Public Management Research Association for “lifetime contributions to research on public management and to the intellectual development of the field.” In 2018, he received the Provan Award for Contributions to Empirical Theory from the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management. He has served as chair of the Public and Nonprofit Sectors Division of the Academy of Management and as chair of the Public Administration Section of the American Political Science Association. He received his BA (1968) in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MA (1973) in psychology and PhD (1977) in public administration from the Ohio State University.

Rainey has served on governmental commissions and task forces and in applied research and teaching roles at the three levels of government in the United States, and in service to governments in other nations. Before entering university teaching and research, Rainey served as an officer in the US Navy and as a VISTA volunteer.

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