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Social Equity Requires Smart Practice
Social equity is not only difficult to define but difficult to implement. For public managers it means fixing the lack of justice that many marginalized groups have experienced and alleviating…
Judicial Decisions and the Impact on Public Administration
The judicial branch of the government has played a huge role in the formation of public policy. In the last few years, the most significant rulings by the Supreme Court…
Speak Out, Do the Right Thing and You’re Fired!
Public employees have one major advantage over those who work in the private sector—the protection of state and federal constitutional rights. However, these rights are not absolute. Public employees, especially…
Strengthening Social Equity
The social equity gap in our country and across the globe continues to grow every day, resulting in the increase of disparity among the richest, middle and the poorest classes.…
Rookie Review: An Introduction
Working as a corporate journalist, I found myself standing in steel-toed boots and neon safety gear in a rail yard last winter. A conversation with a railroad police officer about…
Three Concepts Governments Can Learn From Lean Startups
Eric Ries describes lean startup as using “validated learning” to iteratively arrive at a viable business model. Lean startup has led to a number of other concepts, such as lean…
Paradigm Shifts in Public Administration — Looking Into the Future
The paradigm shift from the modern to the postmodern age should not be envisioned as a linear progression from the industrial economy to the high-tech economy. There have been cyclical…
Public Corruption: An Ethical Challenge
There have been numerous, highly publicized episodes of corruption at all levels of government that raise serious questions about public service ethics. The number of cases involving corruption has many…
Ethics in Public Management Education
The 2009 Illinois Governmental Ethics Act and State Officials and Employees Ethics Act requires state employees to take an ethics test every fall. This is one way to draw attention…
How Open and Connected Is Government?
A recent survey of U.S. chief administrative officers reported satisfaction with implementing open government. These results also reinforce efforts by other jurisdictions. The president of the Treasury Board of Canada…
Why Management Would Be Good for Politicians
I have argued in previous columns that institutions of government lack, but desperately need, strong and capable management. I have also pointed out that the obstacles to meeting this need…