ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Take my retirement in 2014. How much lead time will HR need to replace me, onboard the new hire, and then have the employee report to me for training, in unison with the unit supervisor or the division manager? Don’t get too excited by the title. No, I am not advocating for the mass retirement of men. To whom would they report?

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Indeed, if public leaders and managers find that a planning approach gets in the way of strategic thinking, acting, and learning, they should drop the approach and try a different one. Not surprisingly, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about strategic thinking, acting and learning. What might compass over map mean?

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

To many scholars in the field of public administration and public management, the study of nonprofit organizations is viewed as a narrow niche, a handful of people working at the margins of the field on topics that largely sit outside of mainstream concerns for public managers. Is this a desirable trend?

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ASPA National Weblog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In a 2014 paper in Perspectives on Politics , Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page stated America’s government is demonstrably responsive to the “economic elite and organized business interests.” It is only a matter of time until it will become billionaire versus billionaire in a head-to-head match.

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