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Emergency Managers As Change Agents, Christine G. Springer
Emergency Managers As Change Agents, Christine G. Springer
Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications
Since 2001, FEMA and others have been defining and refining competencies for emergency management professionals. In so doing, they have addressed directly and indirectly the qualities of leaders. We know that leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex relationship between people, based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good. We also know that transformational or change-based leadership has become an organizational necessity given the fact that emergency management as a profession is just now coming into its own and emergency management jobs are not traditional in terms of the how, …
P.A. In The Era Of Competitive Sourcing: Quality, Qualitatively, M. Ernita Joaquin
P.A. In The Era Of Competitive Sourcing: Quality, Qualitatively, M. Ernita Joaquin
Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications
Among President George W. Bush's management initiatives, competitive sourcing was the most complex, most challenging, and most politicized, admitted Angela Styles, chief of procurement policy at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in 2002.
Styles had left OMB when I started my research but behind her the battle raged on how to subject thousands of federal commercial jobs for public private competition under the rules of Circular A-76 and according to performance criteria set by the OMB Scorecard.
In competitive sourcing, if contractors can perform the job more efficiently than the govemment team, the work is outsourced and the …
Taking The Time To Rebuild Trust In Government, Christine G. Springer
Taking The Time To Rebuild Trust In Government, Christine G. Springer
Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications
The author reflects on the importance of trust. She stated that trust is more significant than ever to public managers as trust in the government ebbs. It is important to public managers because it directly impacts the speed and cost of getting things done. Moreover, she considers command and control management and downsizing and reengineering as threats to any trust infrastructure.