New PDF release: The Effective Public Manager: Achieving Success in a

By Steven Cohen

ISBN-10: 0787959383

ISBN-13: 9780787959388

ISBN-10: 0787968021

ISBN-13: 9780787968021

Because it used to be first released greater than a decade in the past, The potent Public supervisor has develop into the traditional handbook for public directors and scholars. This functional offers center thoughts to aid real-world managers and mangers-to-be meet the calls for in their jobs head on instead of paintings round the constraints of presidency and provides them the instruments to form occasions instead of be formed via them. This completely revised 3rd variation provides an up to date and unique exam of administration innovation Examines the centrality of presidency in an period of worldwide communique and transportation, fiscal interdependence, and the specter of worldwide terrorism includes details at the possibilities and demanding situations of coping with public coverage from and with inner most and nonprofit companies

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Cohen 7/16/02 3:15 PM Page 32 32 THE EFFECTIVE PUBLIC MANAGER more of us manage information, provide services, or work in professions. In order to survive, this giant interconnected economic machinery must be constantly mediated, adjusted, and lubricated. If the economy falters, government must intervene. If a disease races through the population, government must develop a cure. If terrorists use airplanes as weapons, not only must the security issues of terrorism be confronted, but the economic impact of reduced air travel, due to fear of flying, must also be addressed by government.

This idea is so significant that we want to reiterate it: it is impossible to be an effective public manager if you do not take risks. Why Risk Taking Is Possible American public administration is at a critical juncture in its development. The activist federal government that began under Franklin D. Roosevelt is over seventy years old. John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier is now more than four decades old. Today, a great deal of the creative force in American government is at the state and local levels (Osborne and Gaebler, 1992).

Hold agency chiefs responsible for fair procurement and hiring rules. One element of performance is adherence to standards of merit hiring and competitively bid contracts. Again, if a bid is rigged or a manager is hiring his or her incompetent cousins, fire that manager. 3. Strengthen inspector generals and enforcement and empower whistle blowers so that corrupt officials are fired and jailed. But do not mistake a manager seeking to cut corners to deliver a service for someone who is stealing from the public’s treasure.

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