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Focusing on Employee Engagement—Talk or Action?
As I reported last month, one poll question was, “Looking ahead, which workforce issues are important to your organization.” About 79 percent of the respondents listed “employee engagement,” while 81…
Ethics in Public Service: The Case of Migrant Children
On our televisions, on our Twitter feeds and even in our everyday conversations, we hear the stories of migrant children who have been separated from their parents after crossing the…
Old School or New Tech: What’s the Better Way to Survey?
As time crunches and budgets shrivel, the cheap, fast, Web surveys become hard to resist, especially if the results they deliver were pretty much the same as those that come…
Promoting Leadership Roles to Both Men and Women
Research shows perceived effectiveness in leadership is found among both sexes. The traits of “good leaders” are interchangeable and advantageous to both sexes, rather than gender specific. So why are…
Making the Best Employee Using a Temporary Worker
Economic turmoil can happen at any moment. And, when it happens, more temporary workers are likely to be hired due to abrupt retirement, termination, expansion of workload or downsizing of…
What about Libertarianism?
Most of us in public administration believe government programs provide important services to the public. We do not believe in extremely small or limited government. We believe the opposite of…
Unveiling Ethics In Ferguson
The shooting of Michael Brown took place on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a northern suburb of St. Louis. Brown, an 18-year-old African-American male, was fatally shot by police…
Addressing the Absence of Gender Responsive Budgeting in American Public Administration
As practitioners and scholars of public administration, we have in the recent past acknowledged that “gender parity” is indispensable in determining how public goods and services are delivered to and…
Women Working “Nine to Five” and Intimate Partner Violence
Why do women have less economic power? Because society views pay and wealth issues as egalitarian issues with “sticky” economic periods. idiosyncrasies. This “stickiness” is not egalitarian but elitist. Traditional econometric…
Why Policy Fails
In my last column I argued that political ideologies are by their nature too broad to be instructive, and hence they are not efficacious. In this column, I want to…
Meet Cynthia, Deborah and Betty
Have you ever heard of Melinda Gates, Angelina Jolie, Oprah Winfrey? Of course you have. Have you ever heard of Cynthia Breyfogle, Deborah Stone or Betty Bagtas? Probably not. But…
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