The Public Manager articles from December 2000

The Public Manager archives from December 2000

The Manager Musings.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... People THIS ISSUE'S MUSINGS begin with our publisher's apologies to Gloria Cousar of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and Vola Lawson, former city manager of Alexandria, VA. Seems their photos were reversed on the back...

Behind the Scenes of Census 2000.
December 22, 2000... The Census Bureau's chief financial officer shares the story of how this gargantuan effort took shape and what managers learned from the experience. Most everyone in the country is aware that Census 2000 has been taking place over the past...

Models of Staffing Innovation Through Partnering.
December 22, 2000... Three initiatives Census used to increase collaboration and principles that can be adapted by other public managers to help meet their unique requirements. The successful completion of Census 2000 depended upon the assembly of a labor...

Partnering for Census 2000.
December 22, 2000... How the Census Bureau increased public awareness and cooperation through a comprehensive national partnership and outreach program. Over the past few decades, public willingness to participate in decennial censuses, as measured by the...

Two Workhorse IT Systems of Census 2000.(computer systems used by United States Census Bureau in Census 2000)(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2000... Achieving high performance, high dependability, and synergy by linking career Census information technology (IT) professionals with cutting-edge private sector counterparts. Since the beginning of the computer age, when the Universal...

Philip H. Hudson.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
December 22, 2000... AN APPRECIATION The only time we print an appreciation of a departed notable is when he/she is "one of us"--a present or former member of our editorial family. Phil Hudson was a member of our corporate board of directors. Even if he had...

Partnering with Private Industry: A Procurement Success Story.(Census Bureau partnerships improved performance for Census 2000)
December 22, 2000... How a streamlined acquisition process and partnership with the private sector helped the Census Bureau improve performance for Census 2000. For Census 2000, the Census Bureau decided to contact for several major components necessary to...

Attaining Sustainability in the Federal Workplace.
December 22, 2000... "If everybody on earth lived like today's North Americans, it would take at least two additional planet earths to produce the resources, absorb the wastes, and otherwise maintain life-support." Mathis Wackernagel William Rees Is...

The Benefit of Dialogue in Public Management.
December 22, 2000... How to overcome defensive routines and communication breakdowns by making genuine dialogue an integral part of the organizational culture. Robert McNamara, in debriefing the Vietnam War with his North Vietnamese counterparts, discovered...

Justifying Training Needs in the IRS: A Cost-Benefit Application.
December 22, 2000... Case study of the impact of the IRS performance development system on revenue agents in Pennsylvania. How could you use cost-benefit analysis to support the allocation of training funds within your agency? This article describes the...

Monitoring the E-Government Revolution.
December 22, 2000... The new feature editor of The Public Manager's (TPM's) technology series sets the table for hearing from the public and private sector's top leaders in the digital arena about challenges, opportunities, and what is underway. About a year...

Peace Corps: Building Bridges Over the Digital Divide.
December 22, 2000... From the bottom up and the top down, Peace Corps volunteers and managers work together to share technology with people all over the world. Since its inception in 1961, over 160,000 Peace Corps volunteers (PCVs) have worked at a grass-roots...

Knowledge Management and the FAR: Charting a New Course at GSA.(US Federal Acquisition Regulation, General Services Administration)
December 22, 2000... What the federal acquisition community is doing to create and share new knowledge. The acquisition workforce has been in steady decline in recent years. An accelerated exodus of personnel is expected between 2003 and 2008 based on...

Federal Acquisition Institute 2001.
December 22, 2000... How the government is providing career development strategies for its business leaders of the future. Change Is in the Air Experts agree that the whole scope of acquisition is changing, as is the acquisition workforce. A smaller, aging...

Strategic Sourcing, ESOPs, and Nonprofit Privatization.(Employee Stock Ownership Programs, Department of Defense, Department of the Navy)(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2000... Welcome to the brave new world of alternative sourcing approaches, including recent innovations from the Department of Defense. In April 2000, the Department of Defense (DOD) expanded its commercial activities program, designed to save $11...

Carrying on the Business of Government.(political opinion on United States politics)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... Why does the public believe that government won't do "the right thing," what is the effect on public employees, and how will you react to the Public Employees Roundtable's call for action? Americans live in a much different world than that...

The Dark Side of the Internet: Divided About the Digital Divide.(opinion by Gail Feldman)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... It's easy to become cynical when reading reports such as the recent US Department of Commerce's (DOC's) "Falling through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion (October 2000)." Cynical, not just because the data on computer ownership and Internet...

Management Ins and Outs.(list of management topics)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... Reinvention is passe. Everyone knows that--even the files from the NPR/NPRG have been boxed up and sent some where to the management archives in the sky. One can only hope that they'll rest peacefully with the their 10 counterparts (using Ron...

INTRODUCING VIEWS' NEW CO-EDITOR.
December 22, 2000... When asked by my colleague, Al Hyde, to join him co-editing The Public Manager's Views You Can Use, my immediate reaction was "why me?" I like to put myself in the theorist camp of public administration; public management is neither my main...

Deja vu all over again.(public administration)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... Nesterczuk, George, with Donald J. Devine and Robert E. Moffit, "Taking Charge of Federal Personnel," The Heritage Foundation, Washington DC, 2001. www.heritage.org/library/backgrounder/bg1404.html Among federal personnel circles, a recent...

In search of business models for public managers.
December 22, 2000... Kessler, Thomas G. and Patricia Kelley, The Business of Government: Strategy, Implementation and Results, MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS, Vienna, VA 2000. "Entrepreneurial," "value to customer--value to public," "customer-centric--results-driven,"...

In defense of books, offices, and universities among others in the digital world.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Brown, John Seely and Paul Duguid, The Social Life of Information, Harvard Business School Press, 2000. 320 pp. The Social Life of Information is for all those who like me have shuddered at the futurist vision of a world where individuals...