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作者:White, Joseph
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
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作者:Clerkin, Richard M.; Gronbjerg, Kirsten A.
作者单位:North Carolina State University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要:This essay addresses four questions by comparing the management capacities and challenges of congregations, faith-based organizations, and secular organizations that provide human services: (1) What role, if any, do congregations and faith-based organizations currently play in the social service delivery system? (2) Are congregations interested in changing their role in the social service delivery system? (3) Compared to faith-based and secular organizations, do congregations have the capacity...
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作者:Pfiffner, James P.
作者单位:George Mason University
摘要:President Bush was praised early in his first term as a tough-minded decision maker who knows how to get things done. This essay argues that President Bush possesses formidable political skills that have helped him achieve many of his policy goals, focusing on his most important national security policies: the war in Iraq, the war on terrorism and the treatment of detainees, the use of intelligence leading up to the war and the reorganization of the executive branch. In the end, however, Presi...
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作者:Raffel, Jeffrey A.
作者单位:University of Delaware
摘要:Although education accounts for one-quarter of the United States' state and local government spending, employs one-third of all govern mental employees, and consistently ranks as a high priority of citizens, public administration has neglected public education. This article considers the neglect of public education by public administration scholars, researchers, and practitioners and documents the sparse coverage of public education in textbooks, journals, books, professional association activ...
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作者:Sanchez, Thomas W.; Wolf, James
作者单位:Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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作者:Van Wart, Montgomery
作者单位:California State University System; California State University San Bernardino
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作者:Wright, Bradley E.
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要:This study advances our understanding of employee work motivation and performance in the public sector by reinterpreting the literature on public service motivation within the psychological framework of goal theory. An empirical test of this new framework suggests that goal theory provides a strong theoretical foundation for understanding the independent contributions of task, mission, and public service to employee work motivation and performance. The importance of an organization's mission i...
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作者:Koontz, Tomas M.
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要:Herbert Kaufinan 1960 investigation of federal forest rangers provided important insights into administrative discretion, agency culture, and natural resource policy making. Subsequent studies of Forest Service administration have documented that agency change over time, mirroring broad Changes in federal public administration. But little is known about stateforest administration. This article describes results from a survey of line officers in 48 stateforest agencies, as well as stateforest s...
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作者:White, Joseph; Neumann, Peter J.
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
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作者:Haque, M. Shamsul
作者单位:National University of Singapore