The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat articles from December 1995

The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat archives from December 1995

Governance in the re___ing decade of the 90s. (public management innovations)(Editorial)
December 22, 1995... THE 1990S WILL BE REMEMBERED as the "re--ing decade." Governments are redesigning, reframing, rebuilding, reforming, reshaping, reworking, reengineering, reorganizing, reconstructing, reconstituting, and reinventing the institutions and processes...

Managing in a balanced budget world.(Forum: Balance Budget World)
December 22, 1995... This issue's theme had its genesis in a fall conference, "Shaking the Foundations" sponsored by the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, a section of the American Society for Public Administration. Several of The Public...

A balanced budget? Now what do we do? (public management)(Forum: Balance Budget World)
December 22, 1995... Given the reality of a balanced budget and a public mistrustful of the federal government, inaction is not a choice. We've reached a point of no return. The federal government is finally on a path toward a balanced budget. But to get...

Making the financial manager a business partner. (public management)(includes related article on activity-based costing)(Forum: Balance Budget World)
December 22, 1995... Federal program managers are going to need help in producing what the public expects--increased service and quality. While the most recent of the budget skirmishes appears to be abating, federal managers must now pick up the pieces and...

GPRA and the new dialogue. (Government Performance and Results Act of 1993)(includes related article on government efforts to help victims of the 1995 Oklahoma bombing)(Forum: Balance Budget World)
December 22, 1995... Once organizations begin to focus on outcomes they frequently will see that the way they had been doing business needs to be fundamentally altered. The last two national elections and the continuing budget and program battles between the...

Performance based budgeting: can it really be done?
December 22, 1995... Oregon embarked on a "standard" process to be used to develop performance measures, modeled after a successful pilot program. When asked recently to make a presentation on the topic of performance management, I enthusiastically agreed, eager...

How government executives view the budget.
December 22, 1995... While most career executives favor cutting back government, the desire for cuts often stops at their own agency's doors. As the elected officials flirt with government shutdowns every other November, it makes sense to ask government...

Assessing the forum and realities.(Forum: Balance Budget World)
December 22, 1995... Distinguished academic discusses the forum and suggests broader implications of management improvements and how they relate to realities of budgetary strains. The writers in this forum argue that management innovations have been...

Does reinventing government have an Achilles heel?
December 22, 1995... Well-intentioned efforts are likely to have some very costly long-term consequences that could offset or even undermine the gains. We are witnessing an exciting period in which both the White House and Congress are striving to reinvent...

Where sciences collide: interdisciplinary rift at NASA.
December 22, 1995... Could launch success rates be improved by applying methods from the social sciences? We may never know. Social scientists seeking meaningful application of their trade could find lots of targets in the nation's space program. What they...

Culture change at the Department of Education. (includes related article on helping employees cope with organizational restructuring)
December 22, 1995... The US Department of Education has taken giant steps down the road to becoming a focused and efficient agency--but our task is far from complete. Series Editor's Introduction This is the fourth in a series of articles on actions...

Rural televillage: new workplace strategy. (part three)
December 22, 1995... Liberated from the constraints of time and distance, rural areas now have the opportunity to reinvent themselves as televillages. Series Editor's Introduction This article is the third in a series on the changing American workplace....

Managing change: the future is now! (Federation of Government Information Processing Councils' 1995 Management of Change Conference XV)
December 22, 1995... This article is a synopsis of the 1995 Management of Change Conference XV of the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils (FGIPC). The FGIPC is the largest intergovernmental information technology (IT) organization in the...

Federal training programs: help or hindrance?
December 22, 1995... Mere exposure to standards, rules, and regulations does not guarantee understanding of the importance and utility of an ethics system. Agency ethics training programs for the federal workforce are complying with the training man dates...

Economic uniformity's impact on diversity, people, and communities.
December 22, 1995... Existing economic models have limitations, particularly with respect to diversity. Uniformity or identicalness in economic analysis is a fundamental factor contributing to the increasing levels of discontent by consumers (taxpayers and...

Affirmative action ... and reaction: panel of former Presidential Management interns ponders real-life aspects of EEO and AA. (equal employment opportunities; affirmative action)
December 22, 1995... Panel of former Presidential Management Interns ponders real-life aspects of EEO and AA. About the Participants The participants in the forum are former presidential management interns and members of the Presidential Management...

If not you, how? If not now, when? (media commentary on management of federal programs)
December 22, 1995... We know that our title is not original, but it is most appropriate considering current circumstances. Every time a local congressperson addresses a group of feds, he or she says that notes or phone calls of appreciation of their efforts...

Taming City Hall: Rightsizing for Result.
December 22, 1995... Seals, Gerald, (Institute for Contemporary Studies, San Francisco, 1995). Let's talk about real downsizing. For example, how does a moderate-sized American city of 50,000 reduce its operating budget to half in only six years? This is the...

DC think tanks and the World Wide Web. (government agencies use global computer network)
December 22, 1995... In the past few years, the avenues available for disseminating information have increased. Once, only very physical events or objects, such as publications, speeches, congressional testimonies, and press releases, were available for reaching the...

The "R factor" in downsizing. (patterns of response to downsizing)
December 22, 1995... This model can help us examine patterns of response to downsizing and how these patterns shift. Over the past 18 months the Center for Creative Leadership has had the opportunity to work with more than 500 leaders from a variety of...