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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…
A Softer, Gentler Future for City Managers and the Data that Support Them
By Thomas I. Miller Let’s turn back the clock to 1994. That’s only 20 years, or as biologists refer to it, a generation. I want to challenge you to remember…
Promoting Community Employment Options: The Media Engagement Strategy
By Horace Blake In any local community, the key to citizen engagement is the ability to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders through available information whether it is internet technology…
The Makings of Disaster: Collaboration – Realizing Separation is Only Two Degrees
By Stacey Mann On the afternoon of April 27, 2011, an EF-4 tornado with estimated maximum wind speed of 190 mph traveled through Greene, Tuscaloosa and Jefferson Counties in Alabama. In…
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).…
Public Workplace Conflict Resolution: Challenges for the HR Professional
By Joseph G. Jarret America’s judicial system most commonly defines the term “conflict” to mean a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. Whenever people work together and are…
Engaging the Community in a Networked World
By Christine Springer Nurturing continuous engagement of the community served by public agencies is not only important but also critical to successful public management in an environment of change. Networking…
Increasing Adoption and Reducing the Number of Children in Foster Care in the U.S. and Abroad
By Lorenda A. Naylor Introduction November is National Adoption Month. It is a time Americans celebrate adoptive families across the country. According to Barack Obama in his Presidential Proclamation of National…
I Trust You…Sort Of
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. Following Douglas McGregor’s work,…
Broadband, E-Government and Development
By William Hatcher To succeed in the nation’s new economic realities, where creative class jobs are being pulled to localities with technology and talent, communities need to improve their broadband…