Doing less with less: The decline of american governments

Autor:	Raymond W. Cox, Tricia M. Ostertag
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Public Administration Joke Corporate governance World War II Public policy Globe Public administration Professional competence medicine.anatomical_structure Political science Slogan medicine Competence (human resources) Applied Psychology
Zdroj:	International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior. 17:437-458
ISSN:	1093-4537
DOI:	10.1108/ijotb-17-04-2014-b003
Popis:	Public administration has become the victim of its own success. Public policy making and problem solving during the first three decades after WWII began from an assumption that public managers had the competence to overcome policy barriers. The ʼdo more with less” slogan was a statement of professional competence. It was adopted because many believed it was an affirmation of that competence. Now it represents a fiscal demand as a scold to those who will otherwise waste the money. What the public hears is a perverse joke. The goal must be more effective governance, by approaching fiscal stability as a strategic enterprise. The potential tools for more effective services exist and are applied by governments across the globe. Yet the public clings to failed practices (NPM) that are best when dealing with short-term issues
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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