By Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. DealIn this third edition of their best-selling classic, the authors explain the powerful tool of ‘reframing’. They have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle. Their four frames view organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples. 

Fourteen police forces are to get financial help to build community partnerships to tackle crime, under the Policing Priority Areas scheme. The seven hundred thousand pound funding has been announced by the Home Secretary, David Blunkett.The funding will support the creation of new Priority Areas to help forces promote effective partnership working in specific neighbourhoods. 

The final stages of the Electoral Commission consultation on the funding of political parties, begins today with the first of a series of public hearings of evidence. This evening will also see an open debate on the issues at the House of Commons.The hearings, which are scheduled to take place in a number of major cities, begin in London when the first evidence will be taken from political parties, trade unions, major donors, think tanks and others.