The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat articles from March 1993

The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat archives from March 1993

Ethics in government, 1993-1997: a vision for President Clinton. (Editorial)
March 22, 1993... October 17, 1996: Network Evening News: As the country prepares for the upcoming presidential election, President Clinton finds himself preoccupied with continuing questions about his role in the "Truthgate Scandal." The questions are what did...

Downsizing, a federal case: losing weight and keeping it off. (Variations on Gridlock)
March 22, 1993... Reductions often have uneven results in terms of improving the quality and reducing the cost of government functions. Citizens in all democracies seem convinced that their government is too large, and all successful U.S. politicians in recent...

Clinton's national security challenge. (Variations on Gridlock)
March 22, 1993... The new president faces challenges in four interrelated areas and must set priorities. He was elected to restructure this nation's economy, not to save the world. The challenges in the national security area facing Bill Clinton as he assumes...

Processes, policies, and power: budget reform. (includes related article) (Variations on Gridlock)
March 22, 1993... If the major current budget problem is an imbalance between demands and ability to satisfy them, necessary process reform cannot substitute for policy. Reform has been a perennial motif in the development of the federal budget almost since its...

Management agenda for the new administration. (President Bill Clinton government) (Variations on Gridlock)
March 22, 1993... We cannot fix the system if all we do is tweak the myriad rules that emanate from the central control points of government. Many groups around town put forth their policy agendas for the incoming Clinton administration. To date I have not heard...

Federal executive turnover: crisis or opportunity? (Mini-Forum: Succession Planning)
March 22, 1993... The NAPA study points out that agency succession planning should be strategically-based. Where is the organization going--missionwise and structurally ? A number of factors are combining to create a condition which could severely complicate...

EPA's seasoned resource. (older workers) (Managing/Valuing Diversity)
March 22, 1993... Full- and part-time older workers have been involved in every aspect of EPA's efforts. This great nation's population is aging. One of every eight Americans is 65 or older. Statistics show that by the year 2000 individuals 65 and older will...

Strategically managing the SES crisis of 1994. (Senior Executive Service) (Mini-Forum: Succession Planning)
March 22, 1993... The particular scenario that occurs in an organization will be determined by the extent to which the current SES executives leave and the availability of successors. There is a growing anticipation that the 22 to 30 percent pay raise of 1991,...

Mentoring: everyone needs a helping hand. (Managing/Valuing Diversity)
March 22, 1993... Let's start with the obvious. The success and advancement that most people achieve during their careers is the result of "helping hands" from managers, supervisors, and fellow employees who gave them the opportunity and assistance to develop and...

Driving forces for quality improvement in the 1990s. (Point/Counterpoint: Toward Quality Management)
March 22, 1993... Long-term commitment to cultural change must come from a customer revolt or from inspired leadership by either the president or Congress--preferably both. This article is based on a review of the quality management series published in The...

Barriers in implementing quality management. (Point/Counterpoint: Toward Quality Management)
March 22, 1993... More attention should be given to the seriousness of the quality problem in the public sector and the magnitude of organizational restructuring involved. Like Ron Stupak, I too am convinced that something very significant is involved in the...

Search for a glass ceiling. (women in the civil service) (Point/Counterpoint: Managing/Valuing Diversity)
March 22, 1993... Education level and internal federal labor dynamics have been dominant factors affecting the rate of women's advances governmentwide in recent years. The federal government has valued fairness for a long time. Educated women could find good...

A glass ceiling found. (women in the civil service) (Point/Counterpoint: Managing/Valuing Diversity)
March 22, 1993... Other factors than educational level of women are operating in the workforce. Dr. Schneider's analysis of the glass ceiling with respect to women in the federal government highlights some important issues about the federal career advancement...

Revising the Hatch Act: a practitioner perspective. (includes related article)
March 22, 1993... Securing balance in the legislation that emerges constitutes a great challenge to the new president, Congress, the civil service, and an impatient and angry public. These two functions of government may for purposes of convenience be...

The service marketplace: building choice into line-staff relationships. (includes related article)
March 22, 1993... It is essential that agencies devise alternative strategies for staffing and resourcing so-called overhead staff units. Empowering "line" units as customers is an answer. The single best way to make public service providers respond to the...

Negative views undermine public enterprise. (includes related articles) (Toward a Positive Image)
March 22, 1993... People have a negative image of government; people also believe government can be changed and that it would be helpful in solving problems if changes were made. In an article that appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer and other papers around...

Some thoughts on successful internships. (Young Professionals' Arena)
March 22, 1993... If successful, everyone gains. The intern learns, the organization gains a productive employee, and the supervisor acquires managerial and training experience. As professionals, many of you undertook an internship at some point in your work...

What was your answer? (Ethics in Government)
March 22, 1993... "Official" answer to case study presented in our Winter issue. Situation Dr. Wynot is the recently appointed executive director of a federal agency whose mission relates to the sciences. She was selected for the position because of her...

The Constitutional Logic of Affirmative Action.
March 22, 1993... The Constitutional Logic of Affirmative Action was edited to completion by Stephen Wasby after Ronald Fiscus died at the age of 42 in 1990. As Wasby notes, Fiscus wrote "a provocative book that demands that the reader enter into the author's...

Agenda for Excellence: Public Service in America.
March 22, 1993... Agenda for Excellence is dedicated to Charles H. Levine who "championed government's positive role." This collection reflects Levine's positive view of the federal government and presents substantial background about a number of the continuing...

Managing Change: A Guide to Producing Innovation from Within.
March 22, 1993... Public managers are very quick to point out that one thing they despise is reinventing the wheel. So the opportunity to examine a wide range of ideas and examples already put in place by a state government with a long tradition of progressive...