Download or read book Contracting Out of Government Work written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Manpower and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government by Contract written by Jody Freeman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic growth of government over the course of the twentieth century since the New Deal prompts concern among libertarians and conservatives and also among those who worry about government’s costs, efficiency, and quality of service. These concerns, combined with rising confidence in private markets, motivate the widespread shift of federal and state government work to private organizations. This shift typically alters only who performs the work, not who pays or is ultimately responsible for it. “Government by contract” now includes military intelligence, environmental monitoring, prison management, and interrogation of terrorism suspects. Outsourcing government work raises questions of accountability. What role should costs, quality, and democratic oversight play in contracting out government work? What tools do citizens and consumers need to evaluate the effectiveness of government contracts? How can the work be structured for optimal performance as well as compliance with public values? Government by Contract explains the phenomenon and scope of government outsourcing and sets an agenda for future research attentive to workforce capacities as well as legal, economic, and political concerns.
Download or read book Privatization and Public Employees written by Dudek & Company and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contracting Out of Government Work Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Manpower and Civil Service 93 1 May 31 1973 written by United States. Congress. House. Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contracting Out in Government written by John Rehfuss and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1989-01-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contracting Out of Jobs and Services written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Employee Ethics and Utilization and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contracting Out for Federal Support Services written by R. Mark Musell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contracting Out of Jobs and Services written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Employee Ethics and Utilization and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contracting in Government written by Dara V. O'Neil and published by VDM Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extent of work and type of work being contracted out in government is growing in magnitude. Government agencies wrestle with the effect this has on government operations as the daily work of many government employees is changing from that of actually conducting government work to overseeing government contractors who are now providing goods and services for government. However, most studies of government contracting sidestep or ignore the role of individual employees in ensuring the success of contractual relationships with the private sector. Scholars in public policy are calling attention to the need to look at theories from organizational change research and apply them to the context of changing government organizations. Furthermore, organizational change theorists stress the importance of studying individuals within organizations that are undergoing transformations. Heeding this advice, this study uses the theory of readiness for organizational change to develop a readiness for contracting theory to study how individual government employees respond to increasing contracting out in government. This book is addressed to researchers and practitioners of public administration.
Download or read book Contracting Out in Government written by John A. Rehfuss and published by . This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contracting Out written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Contractors written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO discussed federal contracting-out policies and programs. GAO noted that: (1) federal agencies spend about $108 billion annually on service contracts; (2) the Office of Management and Budget's Circular A-76 policy, which governs contracting-out decisions, is time-consuming, difficult to implement, and disruptive, and adversely affects federal employees' morale and productivity; (3) managers and operational workers, rather than trained management analysts, usually conduct the required A-76 cost studies, without adequate workload data and cost accounting systems; (4) displaced federal employees may not be able to obtain other federal employment under the current downsizing environment; (5) an inventory of both in-house and contracted activities, with good cost data, could provide a basis for establishing cost and performance benchmarks to evaluate the effectiveness of contracting-out decisions and could help to streamline the A-76 process; (6) congressionally imposed restrictions on the A-76 process and limited management flexibility hinder agencies from performing work in the most cost-effective manner; and (7) any revisions to the A-76 process should seek to preserve the benefits of fair competition while addressing the impediments to its effective implementation.
Download or read book Contracting Out and Its Impact on Federal Personnel and Operations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Predicting Public Managers Readiness for Contracting of Professional Services in a Changing State Government Agency written by Dara Veronica O'Neil and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extent of work being contracted out in government and the type of work being contracted out is growing in magnitude. Government agencies wrestle with the effect this has on government operations as the daily work of many government employees is changing from that of actually conducting government work to overseeing government contractors who are now providing goods and services for government. In effect, many government employees are becoming contract managers. However, most studies of government contracting sidestep or ignore the role of individual employees in ensuring the success of contractual relationships with the private sector. Scholars in public policy are calling attention to the need to look at theories from organizational change research and apply them to the context of changing government organizations. Furthermore, organizational change theorists stress the importance of studying individuals within organizations that are undergoing transformations. Heeding this advice, this dissertation research uses the theory of readiness for organizational change from organizational change literature to develop a readiness for contracting construct to study how individual government employees respond to increasing contracting out in government. The readiness for contracting construct builds on current debates about government contracting by encompassing perceptions on the extent to which government contracting is needed and the concept of management capacity as two dimensions of the readiness for contracting construct. This study explores the relationship between readiness for contracting in the context of contracting out in government and 11 career path, involvement, and competence factors identified in the literature that may influence an individual's readiness. The results of multiple regression analysis show that an individual's readiness for contracting is positively predicted by an individual's perceptions of personal impact, information about contracting out, and management support. Results of this research support the need for more attention to be given to individual government employees in the context of government contracting from both a theoretical and pragmatic perspective.
Download or read book Contracting Out written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contracting out of Government work Hearing Ninety third Congress first session May 31 1973 written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contracting Out Government Services written by Graeme Arthur Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
