The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat articles from June 1995

The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat archives from June 1995

Linking resources to results: management and budgeting in a time of resource constraints. (Government Performance and Results Act of 1993)
June 22, 1995... Given today's questioning of government, we must work harder. GPRA gives us a set of tools, an excuse to do what we should be doing anyway. Luncheon speakers have a little license. They can step back from the mechanics and the details--ably...

Introduction: issues unaddressed by the National Performance Review.
June 22, 1995... The articles that follow are intended as starting points for additional debate about these important issues. In September 1993, with great fanfare, President Clinton and Vice President Gore unveiled the results of the initial phase of the...

Let's reinvent veterans preference now.
June 22, 1995... In today's environment we need a simpler, more understandable, and streamlined federal hiring system that promotes adherence to the statutory merit system principles. Veterans preference wasn't examined during the National Performance...

Smaller government: new paradigms for reductions-in-force.
June 22, 1995... Involuntary separation practices that are not grounded in organizational performance and interest may lead to negative consequences. Over the past few decades, individual federal agencies have grown or shrunk with changing circumstances,...

Poor performers: how much due process?
June 22, 1995... An effective way to deal with the perennial problem of the poor performer is to change the culture. The federal government appears to be constantly trying to get a handle on the problem of how to handle poor performers. In 1978, President...

Federal HRM oversight gets a fresh start. (human resource management)(includes related article)
June 22, 1995... OPM's personnel management oversight program is undergoing its most significant overhaul in 15years. In February 1995, US Office of Personnel Management Director Jim King established a new Office of Merit Systems Oversight and...

Effective downsizing: lessons learned.
June 22, 1995... A NAPA study of public and private downsizing efforts can be a helpful reference document. In the past year, 32 federal agencies have sponsored a National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) project, Implementing Real Change in Human...

Reinvention battle must continue and must be won.
June 22, 1995... Supervisors and managers are the real personnel managers in the federal sector. They are the decisionmakers, the ones who are positioned to win the reinvention battle. Or are they? We all recognize that supervisors and managers are the real...

Treasury poised for action. (US Department of Treasury)
June 22, 1995... The Treasury Department took a bilateral approach for its NPR Phase II (REGO II) efforts by generating bold ideas through creation of a Treasury nucleus team consisting of senior level political and career officials. At the same time, each...

Training in times of limited resources.
June 22, 1995... In many cases, the lack of support for training can be tied to a failure to show management that the money devoted to training in the past has been wisely spent. The operations of the federal government are currently undergoing greater...

Embracing diversity in the public sector.
June 22, 1995... Achieving a multicultural organization will require comprehensive and multiyear processes of organizational change. Ever since organizations began making serious attempts to achieve a fully representative workforce, a debate has ensued as to...

You say you want a revolution. (career development and organizational change)
June 22, 1995... "You say you want a revolution, well, you know.... We all wanna change the world." A focus group of young professionals convened last November told us they wanted the experts to paint a profile of a young professional likely to succeed in...

You are us, we are you. (speech by Vice President Al Gore)(Transcript)
June 22, 1995... From the address by Vice President Al Gore at the Public Service Recognition Week opening ceremonies, May 4, 1995. Welcome to the National Mall celebration of Public Service Recognition Week. You know, public service has many faces. The 20...

How we heal our wounds. (Public Service Recognition Week)
June 22, 1995... As Vice President Gore said in kicking off Public Service Recognition Week in Washington: ... And so, in the midst of this tragedy, let us create a victory from the shattered lives and heroic acts of our public servants... ...

The power of networks. (public sector networking)
June 22, 1995... All of us who have a desire to further our career are advised to network. We are encouraged to seek out people in our field who may provide advice and guidance, to join organizations and meet people with common interests, and to tell everyone...

Reinventing the Workplace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win.
June 22, 1995... Levine, David I., Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995, 222 pp. ANOTHER BOOK ON REINVENTING the workplace? And one from the business sector at that? And at a time like this? The week I was handed this book to review, I was in...

Fine Print: The Contract with America: Devolution, and the Administrative Realities of American Federalism.
June 22, 1995... DiIulio, John and Donald Kettl, (The Brookings Institution, 1995) THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT is perhaps unique among democracies. By design, it forces the federal, state, and local governments both to compete against and cooperate with each...

The Public Manager 1995 Annual Survey: managerial perspectives on the state of public management.
June 22, 1995... How does the famous quote from Dickens go: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...?" This year's Public Manager survey of the state of public management confirms that...