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Why Cuts to Health Care Lack Efficiency

Why Cuts to Health Care Lack Efficiency

Why was the ACA more efficient than the American Health Care Act? For starters, the individual mandate. The mandate stopped the “death spiral” trying to obtain fairly priced insurance by…

The Disappearance of the Public Sector? – Another Viewpoint

The Disappearance of the Public Sector? – Another Viewpoint

The May/June 2017 issue of PAR has a Perspective article titled, The Disappearance of the Public Sector? The main points are: Public sector values emphasize social justice, fairness, equity and quality of…

Enriching the College Classroom Experience

Enriching the College Classroom Experience

Now that campuses have settled into a post-commencement lull, it is a perfect opportunity for professors to rethink the way they facilitate and structure their seminars and small lectures. This…

Finding Leaders to be the Next Greatest

Finding Leaders to be the Next Greatest

One of the toughest challenges for those operating in public/private nonprofit sectors will be to find, recruit and enlist young adults as volunteer board/council/committee member-leaders. With today’s aging workforce and…

State Revenues and the Aging Population

State Revenues and the Aging Population

A few months ago, The State, a South Carolina newspaper, ran an article titled, “SC Bracing for Cost of Aging Population.” It would be reasonably easy to find similar commentary…

Leadership — What Is It and How Do we Improve It?

Leadership — What Is It and How Do we Improve It?

As I’ve written in previous columns, research conducted by my organization, the Institute for Public Sector Employee Engagement, has revealed leadership and managing change is the number one driver of…

Measuring Performance Quantitatively

Measuring Performance Quantitatively

The Nevada legislature recently debated teacher evaluation. Currently 80 percent of a teacher’s rating is based on observation; the remaining 20 percent is split between state testing data and locally-set…

Performance Management in These Divided Times: The Responsibilities of Public Administrators

Performance Management in These Divided Times: The Responsibilities of Public Administrators

Most pundits would say we are living in a time when the nation is as politically divided as it could be. Our political parties also have divided factions. It appears…

Public Education and Demographic Shifts: Beneficial or Detrimental?

Public Education and Demographic Shifts: Beneficial or Detrimental?

Education has been a part of the United States history since its inception. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Rush were all in favor of public education. They felt poor…

Do Human Capital Comparisons of Private and Public Sector Compensation Levels Have Value?

Do Human Capital Comparisons of Private and Public Sector Compensation Levels Have Value?

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released a study comparing federal and private sector compensation. It is one if many research studies extending back to the early 1970s based on…

Borrowed Theories for a Stronger PA

Borrowed Theories for a Stronger PA

The study of public administration (PA) is, traditionally, a collection of various academic disciplines including economics, political science and business management. In fact, many of the foundational theories in public…

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