The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat articles from March 1996

The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat archives from March 1996

Professional public management, demolition politics, & trust in government.(Forum: 25 Years of Public Management and the Executive Branch)
March 22, 1996... Increasingly, demolition politics have characterized America during the 25 years of publication of this journaL What difference have the journal and professional public management made? The first issue of this journal opened its initial...

The institutional presidency: a tale of retreat and decline.(Forum: 25 Years of Public Management and the Executive Branch)
March 22, 1996... Presidents have left the management of government to others. This strategy will be insufficient for the future. When the editor of The Public Manager (nee The Bureaucrat) invited me to contribute a piece to a 25th-year celebration issue of the...

The 25-year bureaucrat.(Forum: 25 Years of Public Management and the Executive Branch)
March 22, 1996... Historians will look back on the US civil service as a phenomenon of great value. Let us hope they do not do so from the perspective of irretrievable loss. The Bureaucrat is 25-years old this year. We refer, of course, to the journal which...

Human resources management in the federal government: a retrospective. (includes related article about federal workers)(Forum: 25 Years of Public Management and the Executive Branch)
March 22, 1996... The decentralization which is occurring should provide opportunities for the development of more strategic HRM systems which are better linked to agency missions. Change of incredible proportions continues to dominate the world of human...

The Death and Life of the American Quality Movement.
March 22, 1996... In the brave new world of downsizing, reengineering, and organizational transformation, there aren't many new books appearing on quality management or what is better known as TQM. Indeed, there are a number of articles and editorials proclaiming...

Senior Executive Service had high hopes.(Forum: 25 Years of Public Management and the Executive Branch)
March 22, 1996... The need continues for a higher civil service. The current system needs to be essentially flushed. The Senior Executive Service (SES), a stillborn recommendation of studies going back to the first Hoover Commission, came alive in 1979 as a...

Managing government: key Nixon initiatives. (former Pres. Richard Nixon)(Forum: 25 Years of Public Management and the Executive Branch)
March 22, 1996... The core of the continuing and deepening problem of sound management practices starts at the top. Some 20 years ago I recorded my experiences in government and my observations on the management initiatives of the Nixon administration in a...

The original vision of the SES ... revisited. (Senior Executive Service)(Forum: 25 Years of Public Management and the Executive Branch)
March 22, 1996... Any major reform of management must be led to success by SES members. This resource has not been sufficiently utilized. When we originally contemplated civil service re form in the late 1970s, we did it with one over riding purpose: to improve...

Managing change: a Reagan imperative. (former Pres. Ronald Reagan)(Forum: 25 Years of Public Management and the Executive Branch)
March 22, 1996... Presidential emphasis on sound management based on strategic planning made a valuable contribution to political and policy success. Managing the United States government - with its broad scope, gigantic size and tremendous cost - is a daunting...

Public management: take stock of it and put stock in it.(Forum: 25 Years of Public Management and the Executive Branch)
March 22, 1996... Governments fail as well as succeed, not because they are necessarily incompetent or ill-managed but because they attempt to ameliorate the most intractable of problems. This journal should receive our collective congratulations for a quarter...

GSA's new business discipline: asset management. (General Services Administration)
March 22, 1996... Series Editor's Introduction In spite of the recent winter storms - both political and natural - departments and agencies continue to heed the Clinton administration's call to improve government services. This article sets forth specific...

The manager's role in stopping unwanted sexual attention.
March 22, 1996... Today's managers can't afford a workforce hobbled by the misconduct of some of its members; it is management's business to set the right tone. For managers whose business it is to get the job done, sometimes it doesn't much matter whether...

Should careerists question public policy?
March 22, 1996... This article focuses on organizational learning and addresses a fundamental question: what is the role of the civil service in our governance process? Do career civil servants ever consider what it means for their organization to learn? In...

Threats to the public service: challenge and response.
March 22, 1996... Restoring public service to a position of respect and value will require changes in political patterns and actions by public administrators. Public administrators face an extraordinarily challenging environment today, one characterized by...

E-mail: essential ingredient in streamlining operations.
March 22, 1996... What are the organizational, cultural, and technical barriers restricting effective introduction and use of e-mail? For the purposes of this article, electronic mail, or e-mail, is defined as the communication of short messages and the exchange...

Thoughts for the next administration.
March 22, 1996... Editor's note: This piece was excerpted from a speech made by the author upon receiving the 1988 Roger W. Jones Award from American University. Originally published in The Bureaucrat, Summer 1988. The author's premise was that of 1988 - neither...

The Washington monument syndrome. (bureaucracy)
March 22, 1996... Call It Medishare Yes! We have struck legislative gold. Grimaldi has solved the budget crisis. No more mindless shutdowns. No more stupid budget tricks. No more threat of insolvency that send capital markets into a tail-spin. No more threats...

Breaking the Silence: Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues in Public Administration.
March 22, 1996... In breaking the silence, Wallace Swan offers a thoughtful examination of public policy and workplace issues as they relate to what is sometimes referred to as the last major civil rights battle of the 20th century. The edited volume, in which...

The Foundation of Merit: Public Service in American Democracy.
March 22, 1996... Most public managers have a right to be skeptical about yet another new book that comes along about federal personnel management in general and civil service reform in particular. After all, in the now decade-and-a-half since the passage of the...