All Posts Tagged With: "professional bureaucracy"
A couple of different organizational bureaucracies…
My lack of posting much recently owes to my having had the opportunity to do some work with a couple of different organizations, each with very different cultures, though the leadership of each would describe them in terms very similar to each other. Both are service organizations, and both profess a style of operation that [...]
17Jun2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
From SNAFU-ed …. Situation Normal: Medical Marijuana User Dies After Being Denied Transplant
Here’s one for your daily dose of bitter gall: SNAFU-ed …. Situation Normal: Medical Marijuana User Dies After Being Denied Transplant Timothy Garon, 56, died Thursday at Bailey-Boushay House, an intensive care nursing center. He was denied a spot on the transplant list primarily because he used medical marijuana to ease the symptoms of hepatitis-C. [...]
5May2008 | Deborah Alicen | 1 comment | Continued
Australia’s New PM Puts Major Focus on Bureaucratic Reform
I would suggest, however, that while we prefer our bureaucracies not be ideologically driven in the way the Bush administration departments have been politicized, advancing the idea of policies and processes that are responsive to their constituencies, as Rudd seems to have done, is expressive of an ideal, and in that way is putting forth a non-partisan ideology. Lacking a clear partisan ideology doesn’t mean that he’s “lacking ideology” altogether.
4May2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
The academics of bureaucracies
Every now and then in these posts I have mentioned, or quoted others who mentioned, the importance of developing a professional bureaucracy. What I’ve not yet touched on are the academics of bureaucracies—formal studies and theories and research about the different types of bureaucracies, their characteristics, and the work they are suited for. And not [...]
24Apr2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
James Kilpatrick on Bureaucrats, and more…
It was certainly a more craven example of an insurance company’s trying to pad its stockholders’ dividends by cheating poor and injured workers.
28Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Open records requests, sunshine laws in Missouri’s headlines, too…
STLtoday – Blunt turns over 3,000 pages of records ASSOCIATED PRESSJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Matt Blunt’s office has provided attorney general’s investigators with almost 3,000 pages of documents detailing open-records requests made by the media, his political opponents and citizens. But that information covers only a small part of what investigators appointed by Attorney [...]
25Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Sunshine and other updates…
Sunshine, sunshine everywhere? Ah, were it only true—even the sort that one of these days will melt the snow in my yard and draw toward it the sharp green shoots of daffodils and tulips. As for political sunshine: I’ve refrained thus far from joining the fray about former Gov. Spitzer, which all came about shortly [...]
18Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
From The Rising Nepal: Promoting Ethics in Civil Service
There’s a very thoughtful editorial today on The Rising Nepal, Promoting Ethics in Civil Service. It’s far more than just a cheer leading piece for ethics. It presents an analysis that has both depth and breadth in its considerations of the issues in different types of organizations—ranging from social and academic associations to professional bureaucracy—and [...]
15Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
I couldn’t have said it better…
I couldn’t have said it better, and actually I have been thinking about a post along these lines lately, so I’ll let the Philippines’ former Civil Service Commission chair say it for me: ABS-CBN Interactive A professional bureaucracy is the best defense against graft and corruption in government, former Civil Service Commission chair Karina David [...]
3Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
