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The Potential Cost of Demonstrating Ethical Competence
By Richard Jacobs After just six months on the job, the newly hired business manager of Elizabeth Township, N.J., Aaron Sukenik, was fired early in 2013. The trouble is that…
Social Media and the Public Employer: The HR Challenge
By Joe G. Jarret Introduction As the savvy government HR manager is aware, public employers are increasingly expanding their recruitment efforts by looking beyond the printed résumés submitted by prospective…
Choosing a Career in Public Administration: The Lessons of History
By Frank Woodward For the past three years, I have enjoyed the opportunity to study and reflect on the work of public administration as I complete my DPA degree. It…
Why This Work and Why Now? Choosing a Career in the Public Sector
By Laree Kiely Ted Gaebler retired this year from a 10-year position as city manager of Rancho Cordova in California. Many readers here will recognize that name. A few may…
Public Administration: From Career to Calling
By Kelly Larson I did not set out seeking a career in public administration. I set out to be a public interest attorney. Actually, I set out to be a…
Paradigm Shifts in Public Administration – Towards New Benchmarks and Best Practices
Column 1: Towards New Merit System Standards By Siegrun Fox Freyss Public administration theories and practices are experiencing a substantial transformation from the modern to the postmodern epoch. High-tech developments…
Double Whammy
Confronting social inequality is harder when a city is struggling. By Frank Shafroth New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio described social inequality in his inaugural address as a “quiet…
‘Clumsy But Temporarily Effective’: American Public Policy And Government
By Mary Hamilton New York Times columnist David Brooks called it “a mind-altering essay” when he gave it one of his end of year 2013 ‘highly prestigious’ Sidney Awards for…
Economic Development is the Answer to Income Inequality
By David J. Robinson In his State of the Union address, President Obama said what many of us know to be the truth. America’s income inequality is growing. In fact,…
Broker, Facilitator, Catalyst, Educator Model of Service Delivery: Leverage the Power, Resources, and Passion of Your Entire Community
By Troy Holt In a down economy and an era of dwindling government resources, how can a public agency leverage the power, passion and resources of the private sector, the…
Budget Tricks (Part 1)
By Scott Lazenby Previously, we discussed two ways of managing public budgets. The first way, which we’ll call Theory X, is the way most governments do it. The other way,…