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- Book Title
- Impossible Jobs in Public Management
- Publication Name
- Impossible Jobs in Public Management
- Title
- Impossible Jobs in Public Management
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780700604289
- ISBN
- 9780700604289
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Genre
- Psychology, Political Science
- Topic
- Public Affairs & Administration, General, American Government / General
- Release Date
- 31/10/1990
- Release Year
- 1990
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Series
- Studies in Government and Public Policy
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publication Year
- 1990
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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If you think your job is hopelessly difficult, you may be right. Particularly if your job is public administration. Those who study or practice public management know full well the difficulties faced by administrators of complex bureaucratic systems. What they don't know is why some jobs in the public sector are harder than others and how good managers cope with those jobs. Drawing on leadership theory and social psychology, Erwin Hargrove and John Glidewell provide the first systematic analysis of the factors that determine the inherent difficulty of public management jobs and of the coping strategies employed by successful managers. To test their argument, Hargrove and Glidewell focus on those jobs fraught with extreme difficulties--"impossible" jobs. What differentiates impossible from possible jobs are (1) the publicly perceived legitimacy of the commissioner's clientele; (2) the intensity of the conflict among the agency's constituencies; (3) the public's confidence in the authority of the commissioner's profession; and (4) the strength of the agency's "myth," or long-term, idealistic goal. Hargrove and Glidewell flesh out their analysis with six case studies that focus on the roles played by leaders of specific agencies. Each essay summarizes the institutional strengths and weaknesses, specifies what makes the job impossible, and then compares the skills and strategies that incumbents have employed in coping with such jobs. Readers will come away with a thorough understanding of the conflicting social, psychological, and political forces that act on commissioners in impossible jobs.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700604286
ISBN-13
9780700604289
eBay Product ID (ePID)
581193
Product Key Features
Book Title
Impossible Jobs in Public Management
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Public Affairs & Administration, General, American Government / General
Publication Year
1990
Genre
Psychology, Political Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Jf1655.I46 1990
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" Impossible Jobs in Public Management is a useful and thought-provoking book. Its examination of specific policy areas offers compelling accounts of the conflicts and frustrations associated with many of the tasks public agencies undertake."American Political Science Review "Hargrove and Glidewells book is a fascinating contribution to a scholarly literature which is decidedly lacking on this topic. A must read for student of public management."Midsouth Political Science Journal, "A significant contribution to the literature on public management. The "impossible work" argument will become a major reference point. The authors' introduction is extraordinarily useful, and the combination of political/organizational analysis with social psychology is stimulating and original. This book should inspire a lively debate. . . . I highly recommend it."- Richard F. Elmore , author of Reform and Retrenchment and president of the Association for Public Policy and Management, "A significant contribution to the literature on public management. The impossible workargument will become a major reference point. The authorsintroduction is extraordinarily useful, and the combination of political/organizational analysis with social psychology is stimulating and original. This book should inspire a lively debate. . . . I highly recommend it."Richard F. Elmore , author of Reform and Retrenchment and president of the Association for Public Policy and Management, "A significant contribution to the literature on public management. The "impossible work" argument will become a major reference point. The authors' introduction is extraordinarily useful, and the combination of political/organizational analysis with social psychology is stimulating and original. This book should inspire a lively debate. . . . I highly recommend it."-- Richard F. Elmore , author of Reform and Retrenchment and president of the Association for Public Policy and Management, " Impossible Jobs in Public Management is a useful and thought-provoking book. Its examination of specific policy areas offers compelling accounts of the conflicts and frustrations associated with many of the tasks public agencies undertake."-- American Political Science Review "Hargrove and Glidewell's book is a fascinating contribution to a scholarly literature which is decidedly lacking on this topic. A must read for student of public management."-- Midsouth Political Science Journal
Table of Content
List of Tables Preface Part I: Impossible Jobs in General, John C. Glidewell and Erwin C. Hargrove 1. Dimensions of Impossibility 2. An Analysis of Impossible Jobs 3. Coping with Impossible Jobs Part II: Impossible Jobs in Particular 4. Managing a Barbed-Wire Bureaucracy: The Impossible Job of Corrections Commissioner, John J. DiIulio, Jr. 5. Police Leadership: The Impossible Dream?, Mark H. Moore 6. A State Mental Health Commissioner and the Politics of Mental Illness, Gary E. Miller and Ira Iscoe 7. Managing the Social Safety Net: The Job of Social Welfare Executive, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. 8. When a Possible Job Becomes Impossible: Politics, Public Health, and the Management of the AIDS Epidemic, Edward F. Lawlor 9. Consensus Prison Reform: A Possible Dream, Fritz Byers The Contributors Index
Copyright Date
1990
Lccn
90-036069
Dewey Decimal
350.007/4
Dewey Edition
20
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