The Public Manager articles from June 2000

The Public Manager archives from June 2000

The Manager's Musings.
June 22, 2000... A hard act to follow AS I SIT HERE ON THE OVERCAST southwest coast of Brittany, France, listening to unfamiliar bird songs mixed with the hammering sound of an occasional downpour on our rental cottage's shingled roof, TPM's new...

Introduction to the Mini-Forum.
June 22, 2000... This journal has a long and enjoyable association with the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP) Don Kull, the JFMIP's first executive director, was a long-time associate editor of The Public Manager (and its predecessor, The...

The Joint Financial Management Improvement Program Strikes Gold.
June 22, 2000... The JFMIP, at 50, continues its dedication to improved practices, as substantial legislative requirements are implemented by the feds. This year is the golden anniversary for the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP), which...

Investments in Human Capital: A Crisis for Financial Managers.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... The author describes how federal financial managers are responding to the human capital crisis in their community. Ann just started her new job as chief financial officer (CFO) for a large, well-respected federal agency. She's thrilled to...

New Frontiers for Federal CFOs.
June 22, 2000... CFOs will face significant challenges over the next few years. Significant investments in resources and revision of the CFO Act are needed. Future chief financial officers (CFOs) will face unprecedented challenges as they expand and...

Looking Back into the Future.
June 22, 2000... The federal financial community continues to face serious challenges. A 28-year retrospective. Upon joining the federal government in 1972 as a degreed accountant fresh out of college, I had one question that continually played on my mind:...

Introduction to the Forum.(Workforce conflict)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... How can managers respond to and benefit from increased workplace conflict triggered by a more diverse workforce, the impact of information technology, and the rapid rate of change? Propelled by a changing and more diverse workforce, the...

Does ADR Actually Save Agencies Time and Money?(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Is it time that traditional methods for resolving disputes be simplified? The federal government, with its approximately 1.7 million civilian employees, is the nation's largest civilian employer, and each year over 100,000...

Benefits and Detriments of Workplace Conflict.
June 22, 2000... Effective management of the diverse work team should lead to improved performance and worker morale. To stay competitive in an increasingly dynamic environment, organizations need to awake to the benefits of a new structural form. The...

An Award-Winning ADR Program.(US Air Force's alternative dispute resolution program)
June 22, 2000... The USAF shows how top management commitment, adequate resources, quality communication, and training are the recipe for ADR success. What does it take to have an award-winning alternative dispute resolution (ADR) program? According to the...

Using Technology to Support Alternative Dispute Resolution.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... A county-level decision support coordinator and an independent groupware facilitator formerly with the federal government link computer-assisted decision tools to improved results. You can speed up alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and...

Reflections on Effective Public Management.(according to Pentagon Management Director Doc Cooke)(Brief Article)(Column)
June 22, 2000... The mayor of the Pentagon shares personal learning from five decades of federal service. Character is the key to motivating the workforce. Five decades in the federal service have offered me an opportunity to observe how different...

Public Service Scholarship Essays.
June 22, 2000... Editor's Note The Public Employees Roundtable's annual scholarship program for undergraduate and graduate students is based on high scholastic standards and submission of a brief essay. This year's topic was: "Surveys show that the...

Top Undergraduates View Federal Employment.(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... Few Phi Beta Kappa students believe federal workers have much job flexibility. In 1988, the Volcker Commission found "an erosion of student interest in public life." Among other things, the commission found that: according to (a)...

The Culture of Military Bureaucracy: Civil-Military Relations in Democracies Today.
June 22, 2000... Are military professionals unaware of their own civic and strategic illiteracy? One of the most significant issues facing any democracy today, not least the United States, is the current state of civil-military relations. Why should the...

The Evolving Workplace: Avoiding Costly Work Stoppages through Telework Solutions.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... It's time to expand our definition of emergency preparedness to include a focus on productivity improvement. Unplanned work stoppages caused by disasters or weather shutdowns are unavoidable for most employers. But well-managed...

The Case for a Public/Private Partnership.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... Can private sector incentives help improve our federal buildings? In March of this year, the General Accounting Office (GAO) issued its report, "Federal Buildings--Billions are Needed for Repairs and Alterations" (GAO-GGD-00-98). Sounds...

Moving Past the Information Age: Getting Started with Knowledge Management.
June 22, 2000... Having linked computers and data, is it now time to connect people and ideas? America OnLine. Cisco. Amazon. Where our national wealth was built on the manufacturing of goods, today's competitive edge and the new economy itself is driven...

The Washington Monument Syndrome.(Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush and John Corzine political campaigns, Elian Gonzalez)(Column)
June 22, 2000... Give `em the Hook Every several years enough stuff accumulates in the public sector that one just has to stand up and shout "GIVE 'EM THE HOOK!!!!" We all know the events that fit the profile. They are the ones that are so outlandish, so...

Knowledge Management: The Next Big Thing.
June 22, 2000... Knowledge and innovation determine the success of any organization. What does it take to create a knowledge-enabled organizational environment? What is your organization's knowledge strategy? How does an organization develop a knowledge...

If there must be one, let it be Bill Gates.(Progressive Policy Institute reports on e-government)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Views recently downloaded the Progressive Policy Institute's March 2000 re-port on Digital Government, with the intriguing subtitle, "The Next Step to Reengineering the Federal Government." E-government, e-strategies for government services,...

The official's guide?("Public Integrity" by J. Patrick Dobel)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Dobel, J. Patrick, Public Integrity, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1999. This book is written as variations on the theme of how people exercise integrity in public office. In Professor Dobel's own words, "Public...

Challenge of collaboration.(Getting Agencies to Work Together by Eugene Bardach)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Bardach, Eugene, Getting Agencies to Work Together, The Brookings Institution, Press 1999 (348 pp) Bardach's premise is that substantial public value (better organizational performance or lower costs) is lost to insufficient agency...