The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat articles from June 1994

The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat archives from June 1994

Leadership education lessons learned. (Army Management Staff College)(includes related article)
June 22, 1994... Leadership education for the Army integrates curriculum, experience, and organization. It provides a structure for strikingly practical applications and strikingly real consequences. My Federal Executive Institute (FEI) experience of a few...

Missing links in the education of senior leaders. (includes related article)
June 22, 1994... The criticality of competent senior leadership has prompted a heightened interest in executive development. Typical programs omit one or more key elements. A growing, worldwide awareness of the inefficiencies and rigidities of many of our...

Transition leadership and legacies.
June 22, 1994... The complexity and rate of change affecting our nation require government executives with dramatically improved capacities to exercise relevant, reliable, and responsive leadership. Current national and international trends make it imperative...

Go forward and partner! Introduction to the mini-forum.
June 22, 1994... "Partnership" means collaboration between union, management, and employees in all agency decisions involving "reinventing" the organization. Yet, it does not mean "co-management." Striking fear into the heart of many a federal manager, the...

A challenge to change. (partnership in federal agencies)
June 22, 1994... Executive Order 12871 is a call to change the way the federal government does business. We must begin the process of change today. A challenge to change seems to be the theme of the country today. Whether it is streamlining private sector...

TQM and labor-management cooperation: a new challenge. (total quality management)
June 22, 1994... In a unionized setting, complete transformation to TQM requires simultaneous large-scale change of the organization and the union, no small task. Labor-management cooperation as a technique for managing relationships in the public sector has...

Two views of one agency: the IRS & NTEU. (National Treasury Employees Union)
June 22, 1994... Two perspectives on the opportunities and problems associated with labor-management cooperation and partnership in one agency. The efforts predate the National Performance Review. THE UNION VIEW Although the concept of labor-management...

Public service performance: what the nation wants. (Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association Executive Forum)
June 22, 1994... What kind of government does the nation want? In the words of Vice President Al Gore, one "that works better and costs less," a "reinvented" government. At the ninth annual Executive Forum of the Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association...

Award winners demonstrate excellence. (Public Service Excellence Awards)
June 22, 1994... Three themes have been developed to help control organizational destiny during transition to a different set of realities. Walking along the beach, watching the waves break against the shore, one can feel excitement, turbulence, and a sense of...

Public service recognition week.
June 22, 1994... If Americans are to believe again that government is "us" working together as a nation, we in the public service need to believe it first and lead the way. Remember Harold Hill, the Music Man? He arrived in River City and envisioned a band...

CD-ROM: a reengineering technology for business and government.
June 22, 1994... From the desktop to the computer room, information management processes are being reassessed and reengineered. CD-ROM is revolutionizing the world of electronic information. The business world is currently undergoing an intense reengineering...

Winning with integrity.
June 22, 1994... In the long run, government effectiveness will be enhanced when managers become more aware of the role of integrity in decisionmaking. Hardly a week goes by that we do not hear about transgressions of integrity by public executives. While the...

Reengineering to capture the customer's voice.
June 22, 1994... The proof of reengineering is not in changing the way things work, it is in making change work. At the Mark Twain National Forest, customers used to wait 30 days to obtain grazing permits; today they get them in a few hours. It once took...

Educating minorities for public service in the year 2000. (includes related articles)
June 22, 1994... Societal changes make imperative graduate programs to train minority administrators capable of managing a multicultural public service workforce and serving an ethically diverse population. Adequate preparation of minorities for public service...

Trading up: opportunities in international trade.
June 22, 1994... While it is difficult to land a job in the federal government, several steps can be taken to maximize one's chances through bolstering expertise. Over the last several years, countries have become more economically interdependent. With this...

Deregulating the Public Service: Can Government be Improved?
June 22, 1994... THIS BOOK AMOUNTS TO an informal technical appendix to the reports of the National Commission on the Public Service (chaired by Paul A. Volcker who once headed the Federal Reserve System) and the National Commission on the State and Local Public...

Deregulating the Public Service: Can Government be Improved?
June 22, 1994... ANY BOOK WILLING to include in its title the question of whether government can be improved merits serious attention. Further, as my long-time colleague and associate Jay Shafritz notes, when it includes highly competent work by an illustrious...