Managerial reform and professional empowerment in the public service:
Well over two million very qualified individuals mediate between high-level managers and other members of public agencies. These grossly under-utilized "intermediary professionals" must become truly empowered to reduce waste, malfeasance and other costly errors. Balk proposes an applied th...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Well over two million very qualified individuals mediate between high-level managers and other members of public agencies. These grossly under-utilized "intermediary professionals" must become truly empowered to reduce waste, malfeasance and other costly errors. Balk proposes an applied theory of public agency democracy designed to liberate the potential of its highly trained experts. The book begins by discussing professionals as power intermediaries and their necessary tensions with authority around matters of reform. Recognized dilemmas in the field of public administration are reviewed to demonstrate the need to resolve issues concerning public agency democracy. A model is then developed to incorporate democratic action with responses ranging from routine to whistle-blowing activities The second part of the book shows why existing management orientations are not receptive to the need for agency democracy. Conventional orientations reject the paradoxical realities of government environments. Therefore highly ingrained beliefs about effectiveness and management authority are at times inappropriate; management approaches to public service motivation lack sophistication. Four final chapters are devoted to techniques and approaches on the part of professionals to initiate change. Ways are proposed for professionals and others to institutionalize public agency democracy in government environments |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 203 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 1567200117 |
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Tables and Figures vii
Foreword by Frank J. Thompson ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. Theory and Action 1
2. The Silent Intermediaries 15
3. Dilemmas of Democratic Administration 35
4. A Model of Agency Democracy 51
5. Interpreting Effectiveness 69
6. Organizational Authority 89
7. Liberating Individual Potential 107
8. Borderline Role Performance 123
9. Out of Role Performance 145
10. Professional Transitions 161
11. Stakeholders in the Future 175
Selected Bibliography 193
vi
Contents
Subject Index
197
Name Index
201
Tables and Figures
TABLES
2 1 Civilian Government Employees 20
2 2 Higher Education Degrees Conferred Nationally by Selected
Specialization 21
3 1 Gross National Product and Government Purchases in 1982 Dollars 37
4 1 A Model of Agency Democracy 57
6 1 Differences Between Corporation and Public Agency Management
Assumptions 99
8 1 Some Common Intervention Techniques 135
8 2 SCG Action Scan 137
11 1 A Summary of the Impacts of Proactive Behavior 183
FIGURES
2 1 Professionals as Agency Mediators 24
5 1 The Production Process and Its Controls 72
5 2 The Business Productivity Process 73
viii Tables and Figures
5 3 The Government Productivity Process 75
6 1 Major Categories of Organization Theory 92
6 2 Organizational Structure and Divergent Needs 93
7 1 Information Gathering and Evaluation Predispositions 112
7 2 Cycles of Telic Paratelic Activities 114
8 1 A Predicament Scan 130
8 2 An Organizational Construct 133
9 1 Categories of Ethical Issues 149
11 1 Some Stakeholder Interaction 179
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