The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat articles from June 1993

The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat archives from June 1993

Economic growth and environmental protection. (William A. Medina Lecture)
June 22, 1993... It is a particular privilege to be giving this lecture in memory of William Medina. I was not lucky enough ever to meet Bill Medina but having read something about his life and his career, I can see that he was really an imaginative and energetic...

Reinventing public personnel management? Introduction to forum. (Forum-Personnel Management)
June 22, 1993... Calls for change are clear and strident; less clear is what specific changes should be made and how. Here are some options and recommendations. In one form or another, significant changes are occurring in the way federal, state, and local...

Design of federal personnel management. (Personnel Management)
June 22, 1993... Transition members say improving public personnel management requires a viable strategy for reform and a clear focus on what needs to be changed. In recent years, the federal personnel system has come under increasing pressure for change. The...

Assets are people too. (Forum-Personnel Management)
June 22, 1993... To create effective and efficient government employees, it's time to try a new approach built around empowerment, commitment, and accountability. Ask yourself, or any manager, to identify your most important organizational asset....

Win-win negotiations: a model for cooperative labor relations. (Forum-Personnel Management)
June 22, 1993... We need to rethink traditional--and frequently dysfunctional--approaches to labor-management relationships. Win-win negotiations are a new way to overcome some old problems. Federal sector labor relations and the traditional negotiation...

Flexiplace: getting the job done at home. (Forum-Personnel Management)
June 22, 1993... Although some supervisors have difficulty accepting the concept of employees working at home, a major pilot project demonstrates that it can work. This past January, an interagency team designated by the President's Council on Management...

Job bridging: downsizing without RIFs. (reduction-in-force) (Forum-Personnel Management)
June 22, 1993... Downsizing is even harder when trying to avoid use of a formal RIF process yet maintain a proper skills balance. Job bridging may help. Over the next four to five years, the federal workforce will be reduced by over 300,000 jobs. Government...

Broad-banding in the federal government. (Forum-Personnel Management)
June 22, 1993... Comprehensive study of experiments reveals some potential benefits, some possible pitfalls, and no cure-all for current problems. Title VI of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 authorizes the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to grant...

Revitalizing state and local public service. (Forum-Personnel Management)
June 22, 1993... Attention has focused on reinventing the federal government; much can be learned from active efforts aimed at state and local public service. This is a period of public ferment over how to enhance governance. "R" words--rebuild, reinvent,...

Public management in Russia: failures of the old system. (International Public Management)
June 22, 1993... The Soviet Union which dissolved in 1990 was more than just a political structure. It was also an extraordinary--and extraordinarily bad--system of public management, and a bitter lesson in how bad politics creates bad management. The collapse...

Partnering: a quality model for contract relations. (Toward Quality Management)
June 22, 1993... Collaborative working arrangements between public agencies and vendors yield greater quality than adversarial relationships. What should the relationship be between government and its contractors? "Business on a handshake" appears obsolete, but...

The arena shuttles forward. (Young Professionals' Arena)
June 22, 1993... Our reconnaissance will take new twists and turns and, just like our own career journeys, bring greater rewards when we push ourselves to the outer limits. This issue of the Young Professionals' Arena marks a change in its editorship. This...

Ethics and information technology: operating in virtuous reality. (Ethics in Government)
June 22, 1993... The word ethics unfortunately seems to obliterate the appeal of a topic that speaks directly to power--social, organizational, professional, and personal. Give yourself some practical tests. An old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting...

Changing government: new designs for America. (Developing Managers)
June 22, 1993... The annual forum of the Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association covered timely issues of change for government executives. The eighth annual executive forum of the Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association (FEIAA) was the best...

Reflections on achieving career success. (Managing/Valuing Diversity)
June 22, 1993... An interview with Anita Alpern, distinguished adjunct professor in the School of Public Affairs at The American University and former assistant commissioner of planning and research in the Internal Revenue Service. Zauderer: Anita, where did...

The Washington Monument syndrome. (The Uncivil Servant)
June 22, 1993... Six Months After IT IS NOW about July as you are reading this. The Clinton administration has had six months in the saddle. Let's see how far the horse has gotten. Remember, with the deadlines for this journal what you are reading was written...

Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability, Washington, DC.
June 22, 1993... THE ENACTMENT OF the Inspector General Act of 1978 and its subsequent amendments brought on a new wave of monitoring government. The law, for the first time, brought together the auditors and the investigators to make war on fraud, waste, and...

Mismanaging America: The Rise of the Anti-Analytic Presidency.
June 22, 1993... AN OFTEN ASKED QUESTION about the presidency is what is the key to effective governance? What distinguishes a president who has successfully taken the country in a positive direction from an ineffectual or even damaging one? For Walter Williams...

Breaking Through Bureaucracy: A New Vision for Managing in Government.
June 22, 1993... MICHAEL BARZELAY'S BUREAUCRACY is a study of reforms that were implemented in the Minnesota Departments of Administration and Finance during the 1980s as part of Minnesota's "Striving Toward Excellence in Performance" (STEP) program.(*) A first...