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The Public Manager archives from June 1991
Better government requires better people management. (Editorial)
June 22, 1991... THOSE OF US IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY often complain about the operations of government, as is fashionable these days among all sectors of society. But only rarely do we have the opportunity to help forge solutions to the problems we see.
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Personnel issues for the 90s.
June 22, 1991... Here we are in the century's last decade, marching toward all those predictions made about "life in the year 2000." With less than 10 years left, what are the "real" issues that personnel directors and other managers in the public service...
Good government needs good people. (includes related article on an Office of Personnel Management award)
June 22, 1991... Behind the efforts in the past few years to rebuild the public service were the strong recommendations of the National Commission on the Public Service, better known as the Volcker Commission. For the first time, a group of leading citizens...
Performance management: where are we going?
June 22, 1991... What's the policy direction going to be for employee performance management in the federal government? We won't know for awhile. However, March 1991 was a real milestone month for this controversial subject, as at least three important things...
White collar classification: time for change.
June 22, 1991... Last spring the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) began an earnest dialogue with 13 federal personnel directors on their concerns with the current classification system. Out of this dialogue grew a NAPA project to study the...
Revitalizing federal training and development.
June 22, 1991... When Constance Berry Newman became director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in june 1989, she identified several top priority personnel issues. These critical areas included comprehensive reform of the federal pay system,...
Federal labor-management issues.
June 22, 1991... With its publication in 1987, Workforce 2000 sent shock waves through the human resource community. All indications were that the familiar workforce and workplace of the past decades would be undergoing marked transformation. What does this...
Challenges to the federal employer.
June 22, 1991... There are two broad societal forces which are defining the challenges that the federal government faces as an employer today and in the coming decades. The first is economic; the second is demographic. Economic Forces
The current...
Workforce diversity.
June 22, 1991... In the last two years the Department of Transportation (DOT) has managed rescue and clean-up operations after earthquakes, hurricanes, and oil spills; responded to airline strikes, mergers and bankruptcies; created landmark aviation...
Looking backward: federal personnel automation 1995-1990.
June 22, 1991... The time is now September 30, 1995. it has been almost five years since the federal government's personnel community embarked upon a bold venture consciously, actively, and coherently to exploit the application of computer technology in...
Getting comfortable with TQM. (total quality management)
June 22, 1991... When I was asked by the Federal Quality Institute (FQI) to write an article for The Bureaucrat on our office's involvement in developing a quality improvement program, I decided that my target audience should be those managers who are still...
Maggie the manager: administrative reform in Britain. (Margaret Thatcher)
June 22, 1991... The longest serving prime minister of the century, Margaret Thatcher, was the dominant figure of British politics for over a decade. Much will be written about her tumultous years in office; but it is unlikely that great amounts will be...
Professional development in times of "certainty".
June 22, 1991... Throughout the 1980s, the federal government seemed besieged by problems of declining pay comparability with the private sector and mounting inability either to fill critical vacancies or stop the exodus of talented workers from the federal...
Standards of conduct. (includes related article, President Bush's Executive Order on Standards of Conduct)
June 22, 1991... What is this new ethics fad? Why do people suddenly feel as if they can't trust civil servants? Why is Congress always passing new ethics laws? These kinds of questions tend to be the focus of many of my discussions with fellow bureaucrats....
Flares and reflections. (reflections on the Persian Gulf War and military policy)
June 22, 1991... Civilians in the Gulf IN A MARCH 15 LETTER to the president of the United States, the president of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) outlined the contributions civilian employees of the federal government made to the...
Public Service Recognition Week 1991.
June 22, 1991... PUBLIC SERVICE Recognition Week observations took place in more than 600 cities across the country during the week of May 6-12. That's up from 300 last year and from only four in 1986, when the Public Employees Roundtable (PER) and the...
Using evaluation to improve program performance.
June 22, 1991... A program is a set of resources and activities directed toward one or more goals, typically under the direction of a single manager or management team, With this understanding, any organization or group of related programs can be thought of...
Lobbying Congress: How the System Works.
June 22, 1991... Wolpe, Bruce, Lobbying Congress: How the System Works, Congressional Quarterly, 1990. How are legislative-private sector relationships cultivated, and alliances maintained? A major gap in the literature on iron triangles, or on peak sector...
