Suitable for those who consider a career in federal, state, or local government, this book conveys what life is really like in a public service job. It provides advice on the daily challenges that public servants can expect to face: working with politicians, bureaucracy, and the press; dealing with unpleasant and difficult people; and, more.
The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the comprehensive portrait of rules in public organizations and seeks to find the balance between rules that create red tape and more.
Provides the portrait of rules in public organizations and seeks to find the balance between rules that create red tape and rules that help public organizations function effectively, what the author calls "green tape."
Crowdsourcing is a term that was coined in 2006 to describe how the commercial sector was beginning to outsource problems or tasks to the public through an open call for solutions over the internet or social media. This book includes interviews with public and private sector managers who have used crowdsourcing.
Explains that bureaucratic dysfunction reflects a breach of contract between the government - as a provider of services, and also as a catalyst for improved social outcomes - and a public comprised of clients, professionals, managers, and policymakers.
With the benefit of a historical perspective on the development of American public service from the days of the progressives to the present, the contributors to this book argue that deregulating the public service is a necessary but insufficient condition for much of the needed improvement in governmental administration.
The Development of the Public Employment Relationship
Looks at the constitutional rights of federal employees from the nation's founding to the present. This book concludes that the current status of constitutional rights may reflect a shift to a model based on private sector practices.
The Development of the Public Employment Relationship
Conceived during the turbulent period of the late 1960s when 'rights talk' was ubiquitous, this book helps you strove to understand how the rights of federal civil servants had become so differentiated from those of ordinary citizens.
Collaboration between government agencies, an old joke goes, is an unnatural act committed by nonconsenting adults. Eugene Bardach argues that today's opinion climate favoring more results-oriented government makes collaboration a lot more natural--though it is still far from easy.