Download or read book The Higher Civil Service in the United States written by Mark W. Huddleston and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every time control of the U.S. presidency is passed from one party to another, the entire top layer of the executive branch changes. Thousands of men and women take down their pictures, pack up their desks, and move back into private life, just as others dust off their pictures and move in. The U.S. stands alone in this respect. Nearly every other advanced democracy is managed-save for elected officials and a few top aides-by an elite cadre of top civil servants selected by highly competitive examinations. Hudleston and Boyer tell the story of U.S. efforts to develop higher civil service, beginning with the Eisenhower administration and culminating in the passage of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. Arguing that the highly-politicized U.S. system simply hasn't worked, they examine why and how reform efforts have failed and offer a series of recommendations for the future.
Download or read book The Beauties of Civil Service Reform written by John Ford House and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Present Status of Civil Service Reform written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Civil Service Reform written by David Andrew Schultz and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political scientists explore the development and politics of such reform in the US from Washington's administration to Clinton's. They nestle them into the context of competing political struggles between Congress, the president, and the federal courts to control the federal bureaucracy and define its organization and values. Of interest to students and scholars in public administration and US politics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Future of Merit written by James P. Pfiffner and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Passage of the Civil Service Reform Act was controversial, and there is still controversy over its effectiveness. A book of this sort will be well received and anxiously read by specialists in public administration, public policy, and public personnel administration."-H. George Frederickson, University of Kansas The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 was the most far reaching reform of the federal government personnel system since the merit system was created in 1883. The Future of Merit reviews the aims and rates the accomplishments of the 1978 law and assesses the status of the civil service. How has it held up in the light of the National Performance Review? What will become of it in a globalizing international system or in a government that regards people as customers rather than citizens? Contributors examine the Senior Executive Service, whose members serve between presidential appointees and the rest of the civil service. These crucial executives must transform legislative and administrative goals into administrative reality, but are often caught between opposing pressures for change and continuity. In the concluding chapter Hugh Heclo, many of whose ideas informed the 1978 reform act, argues that the system today is often more responsive to the ambitions of political appointees and the presidents they serve than to the longer term needs of the polity. On the other hand, the ambition of creating a government-wide cadre of career general managers with highly developed leadership skills has not been fulfilled. Other contributors helped to frame the 1978 act, helped to implement it, or study it as scholars of public administration: Dwight Ink, Carolyn Ban, Joel D. Aberbach, Bert A. Rockman, Patricia W. Ingraham, Donald P. Moynihan, Hal G. Rainey, Ed Kellough, Barbara S. Romzek, Mark W. Huddleston, Chester A. Newland, and Hugh Heclo. Six former directors of the Office of Personnel Management commented on early versions of these chapters at a 1998 conference.
Download or read book Civil Service Reform and Structural Adjustment written by S. K. Das and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According To This Book, The Task Of Civil Service Reform Is Not Merely One Of Trimming The Service Or Building Capacity, But Also Of Holding The Civil Service Accountable For Its Actions.
Download or read book Debate on Civil Service Reform Before the Seventh Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church written by Civil Service Reform Association (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unfinished Business of Civil Service Reform written by William Seal Carpenter and published by Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Necessity and Progress of Civil Service Reform written by Carl Schurz and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil Service Reform I written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book Outlawing the Spoils written by Ari Arthur Hoogenboom and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1982-10-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Civil service Reform Movement written by William Eaton Foster and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil Service Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil Service Reform written by William Dudley Foulke and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beauties of Civil Service Reform written by John Ford House and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil Service Reform written by Donald F. Kettl and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this book contend that the civil service system, which was devised to create a uniform process for recruiting high-quality workers to government, is no longer uniform or a system. Nor does it help government find and retain the workers it needs to build a government that works. The current civil service system was designed for a government in which federal agencies directly delivered most public services. But over the last generation, privatization and devolution have increased the number and importance of government's partnerships with private companies, nonprofit organizations, and state and local governments. Government workers today spend much of their time managing these partnerships, not delivering services, and this trend will only accelerate in the future. The authors contend that the current system poorly develops government workers who can effectively manage these partnerships, resulting too often in a gap between promise and performance. This short, lively, and bipartisan volume, authored by the nation's leading experts on government management, describes what the government of the future will look like, what it will need to work well, and how in particular the nation can build the next generation of workers required to lead it.
Download or read book Civil Service Reform in the National Service 1889 1891 written by National Civil Service Reform League (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
