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Two primary drivers critically impacting both budgetary considerations and public policy processes for the foreseeable future regardless of revenue and service selection are pension liabilities and infrastructure. One tends to…
Apologies to Pete Seeger, but the cycle described in his 1965 song, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” fits our present discussion of statesmanship quite handily. There have been several…
Indeed, if the managers of every “team” has such comparative data, many may already be competing, if only in their own minds. After all, some of them believe they are…
What happened to reinventing government in the last twenty-five years? Even if a reinventing government project succeeds, it is hard to sustain. And many reinventing government projects were initiated by…
If your last contact with higher education was as a student or a brush with the system as a guest lecturer, you may find the educational environment to be different…
While I cannot speak for every public servant around the world, my hopes and wishes for next year and years to come can be summed up as Pax Governo, or…
Recently, there has been some discussion in the public administration community about revitalizing the middle class in America. Personally, I’m more concerned with relieving the discomfort of the millions of people…
Today I would contend that the public administration employment sector at all levels is going through a major Transition of Age. This claim is defined and driven by basic observational…
If public administration programs continue to offer diversity courses as an elective, forget it, we are not ready to move the needle.…
If you listen for it, the topic of equity is inescapable in current political, policy and administrative debates. In many cases, for equity to be discussed more widely, someone…
Government’s Workforce Problems Make HR Increasingly Important
Public employers are entering an era when workforce shortages will make it increasingly difficult to deliver basic services. For job families where government competes with industry—engineering and information management stand…
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