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The Unsettled Future for the Future of Work
With data that suggests that productivity declined during the pandemic and the remote-work revolution, matching citizen and consumer post-pandemic service expectations may be the canary in the coal mine in…
Public Health – Do Too Many Docs Spoil the Soup?
Undergraduates are not clinicians. It is not unreasonable to expect that they may see public health as an administrative practice untethered to clinical practice. And that will be a good…
Digitalization and War: How Civil Service Can Avoid “Digital” Collapse
Today, everyone in Ukraine understands that smartphones act as access points to new opportunities and a new quality of life. …
India Assumes G20 Presidency : “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth One Family One Future”
Even though the Ukraine conflict, coupled with heightening geopolitical tensions due to the rise of an assertive China, will test India’s robust leadership and its ability to revive the G20’s…
The Road Safely Traveled
Although traditional policing of the street may require alterations, there is certainly a role for street-level bureaucrats to enforce norms that promote public safety. What is lacking at the moment is…
Open Government and Data Science
How countries benefit from AI and data science will depend, in large part, on the existence of a comprehensive national action plan that can be implemented by the different levels…
The Humanities as a Resource in Delivering Public Administration Courses
Public administration (PA) educators face the challenge of selecting and organizing adequate and appropriate OER resources for course content and in planning and executing learning activities. In this article, I…
Zooming into the Cultural Considerations of Remote Work
The employee may be seeking a new opportunity to zoom right out of the organization into a more progressive and evolved organization, if the answer is “no, remote work is…
Compassionate and Vulnerable Leadership: Focusing on the Those Being Led
Vulnerability means understanding one’s abilities and reaching past our considered norms while taking calculated risks. Incorporating vulnerability into a leadership style strengthens the administrator’s authenticity in the organization. …
Changing Times
Built in 1805, this building is the original site of the Canterbury Female Boarding School. Now it houses a different classroom where anyone is openly admitted. People come to learn…
Should a City Manager Push the Envelope— Caretaker or Leader?
Of course, councils can say they want an activist manager yet not fully understand what that means and be unhappy when they get it. Indeed, no one said a city…
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