The Reformer's Spirit: How Public Administrators Fuel Training in the Skills of Good Governance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Witesman, Eva M.; Wise, Charles R.
• 署名单位: Brigham Young University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02586.x
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 710-720
• 关键词: performance-measurement systems; civil-service reform; eastern-europe; management; GOVERNMENT; revolution; sector; decentralization; ACCOUNTABILITY; responsiveness

摘要

The public administration literature has long identified public administrators as key players in achieving government reform. Public managers may be motivated to provide employee access to training in governance skills by several factors, including the need to fulfill the current functions of government, to expand employee responsibilities, or to reform administrative processes and/or programs. The authors examine the impact of public managers on the availability of governance skills training by observing how the desire to achieve reform influences their training decisions in light of other motivating factors. They find that training in citizen input, client relations, and performance indicators are significantly and substantively more prevalent in organizations when public managers believe that such training is necessary for reform, and that the more democratic a skill, the more likely a reform motivation will outweigh other factors.