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Can Operating Managers Really Manage Budgets?
By Scott Lazenby In previous columns, we considered ways to adapt governmental budget systems to modern management principles of delegation, empowerment and alignment of organizational goals. One of the key…
Attracting and Retaining Public School Teachers: Challenges for Today’s HR Manager
By Joseph G. Jarret When pondering public budgeting from the public administrator’s perspective, it is interesting to note that education of our nation’s children is an expensive, people-intensive process that…
Arts-Based Development
By William Hatcher It is often said that the soul of a community is its art— music, festivals, paintings, literature and other forms of creative expression. These activities and artisans…
The Constitution and Corporations: Do Businesses Have a Right to Free Exercise of Religion?
By David Schultz Are corporations religious? Do they believe in God? Can they pray? Silly questions perhaps, but they lie at the heart of Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius (Hobby Lobby).…
Improving the Nexus Between U.S.-based Foreign Aid and Public Administration in the Caribbean
By Vaughn Graham What Constitutes the Nexus? Development challenges have traditionally constituted the core link between public administration in the Caribbean, and its dependence on U.S.-based foreign aid. The last…
Building Governmental Cooperation for Development
By William Hatcher and Matthew Howell Last month, the column discussed the importance of social bonds in communities, and how communities that fail to work together also fail to develop.…
Payback for Efficiency Systems – Time Is Money
By: Robert L. Morrison Like successful CEO’s, senior level appointed or elected officials (state government, local government, county government, school districts, authorities, etc.) must recognize in order to be successful…
Civility, Civic Literacy and Public Service
There is a robust debate underway about what it will take to attract the best and brightest of our young people to public service. As someone who has taught public…