The Public Manager articles from March 2001

The Public Manager archives from March 2001

What ever happened to civility?(dealing with clients)(Brief Article)(Column)
March 22, 2001... THIS ISSUE'S MUSINGS WERE TRIGGERED by a disturbingly familiar exchange between two senior contract auditors whose federal agency clients had been making it difficult for them to maintain good worker morale and retain their younger audit staff....

A new era in government procurement.
March 22, 2001... To accentuate a collegial and professionally encouraging trend in public management, Wally Keene has orchestrated a forum to help readers understand the sweeping changes taking place in the federal government's acquisition community. In...

Fad of the year.
March 22, 2001... It wouldn't be real of us not to devote significant space and animus to the continuing impact of e-commerce in public management circles. It is with this in mind that The Public Manager (TPM) kicks off its first "Fad of the Year" feature with...

Other unplugged offerings.
March 22, 2001... Beyond the provocative mainstays of acquisition and technology, the Spring issue also offers readers a variety of articles on relevant topics both far and wide. James Ortiz discusses the environmental responsibilities--and liabilities--of...

Government Procurement Enters a New Era.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... How the business, technology, and human resources requirements of acquisition are now being linked to overall mission performance. The purpose of this forum, which actually began with an article in the Fall 2000 issue of The Public Manager...

Help for Front-Line Managers from the Procurement Executive Council.
March 22, 2001... What must acquisition professionals do to meet customer demands, and what can the PEC do to help them achieve strategic procurement goals? In the management book Winnie-the-Pooh on Problem Solving, Roger E. Allen and Stephen D. Allen...

Contract Incentives.
March 22, 2001... How contract structure is key to contract incentives that achieve a win-win for government and business. Incentives are sometimes used in contracts to affect behavior, but currently the type and amount of incentive used is not always...

A Common E-Commerce Architecture for the Federal Procurement System.(electronic commerce)
March 22, 2001... How the government can optimize federal contracting by sharing information among all contracting offices and allowing industry rapid access to federal contract opportunities. We wouldn't think of building a house without a plan and...

Army Reverse Auctions: An E-Commerce Acquisition Tool.(electronic commerce)
March 22, 2001... How the USA Army is using electronic auction tools and techniques to allow users to save time and money and to get goods and services into the hands of front-line soldiers faster than ever. The Army contracting community's number one...

Balancing Procurement Reform and Small Business Advocacy.
March 22, 2001... How the Small Business Administration is using new tools and techniques to balance procurement reform with small business advocacy. Procurement reform embodies the legislative, regulatory, and policy changes designed to reduce the costs,...

Acquisition Intern Programs: Finding the People and Filling the Pipeline.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... What the federal acquisition community is doing to address the looming problem of the graying of its contract specialist workforce. Between November 1998 and February 1999, the Logistics Management Institute (LMI) hosted federal agency...

Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Government Acquisition.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... How the Department of Energy is preparing its acquisition workforce for leadership responsibilities by providing educational and experiential opportunities. Born with or developed? Taught or learned? Traditional government classes or new...

Management Fad of the Year 2000: "E-Gov".
March 22, 2001... What was the most dominant change effort in public management circles in the year 2000 (and are there any challengers on the horizon)? With this first issue of The Public Manager in a new century, we hope to launch a new annual...

E-Government 2001, Part I: Understanding the Challenge and Evolving Strategies.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... The outgoing co-chair of the federal CIO Council's e-government committee provides a backdrop for considering a near-term digital government action agenda. The Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council recently completed an inventory of...

The Promise of E-commerce to Defense: The Road Ahead (to Savings!).(Department of Defense)
March 22, 2001... How e-commerce has helped the Department of Defense devote more resources to acquiring new weapons systems. As the Department of Defense (DOD) struggles to keep up with e-business, e-tailing, in a word, e-everything, it does so not to be in...

Environmental Responsibilities of Senior Federal Managers: Doing What Is Right.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... The whys and hows of initiating successful environmental management and minimizing one's environmental liability. Environmental requirements are a complex system of statutes, regulations, executive orders, and guidelines. They usually begin...

Leaders and Stories: Growing the Next Generation, Conveying Values, and Shaping Character.
March 22, 2001... How senior government practitioners can use their experience and leadership stories as mentors, coaches, teachers, and exemplars to help grow other leaders. A leadership generation in the public service will shortly pass the baton, but few...

Unwanted Change: Legislation's Impact on Adult Corrections Management.
March 22, 2001... How well-intentioned and well-implemented policy can create counterproductive outcomes, and what can be done to prevent these unintended effects. Accepting at face value that our legislators and government executive leaders sincerely...

What's New?(inventions)
March 22, 2001... An irreverent consideration of how everything old is becoming new again. We are still in the neonatal stage of the new millennium. So it is altogether fitting and proper (as some pompous writer once unnecessarily asserted [Publisher's...

The Death and Life of the Labor-Management Partnership.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... A series of reviews, notes, comments, ideas, and references for public sector professionals trying to keep pace with the accelerating rate of change in the information-technological-management environment. On February 17, President Bush...

IT Pragmatics: Some Perspectives on Outsourcing.(information technology)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... A few years ago, the hot management topic in information technology (IT) circles as outsourcing. Organizations were falling all over themselves to give millions from their organizational budget to someone else to manage their information...

Defining Better Performance--Comparatively.(comparative performance measurement)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... The advent of the Government Performance and Results Act and numerous performance results budgeting systems in state governments has inevitably led to a new standard for ensuring that government agencies produce results. Increasingly, it is not...

Popular Management Books: How They Are Made and What They Mean for Organisations.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Furusten, Steffan Popular Management Books: How They Are Made and What They Mean for Organisations, Routledge, 1999. This is the third book I have read recently which challenges the fundamental foundations of management theory, practice,...

Openbook Technology.(key to digital literature)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... The medium called openbook technology, from the National Academy Press, is just an introductory foray into digital literature which many see creating a vast network of e-books, e-journals, and e-reference materials for use over the Internet....