Memos to the President: Management Advice from the Nation's Top Public AdministratorsMark A. Abramson Rowman & Littlefield, 2001 - 176 pages Memos to the President: Management Advice from the Nation's Top Public Administrators provides eighteen memos to President George W. Bush about the management challenges facing his administration. Experts in public administration and public management give the President advice on four major management challenges: creating an electronic government, reforming regulations, revitalizing public service, and implementing performance management. The volume grows out of the work of the Government Performance Coalition, an ad hoc group of fourteen academic and nonprofit organizations united by their concern for improving the quality of government management. |
Contents
The Challenge of Managing in Government | 3 |
Memorandum to PresidentElect Bush | 13 |
The Challenge of Creating an Electronic Government | 19 |
Governing as a Reformer with Results Achieving Your Vision of Creating an Accountable PerformanceBased Government | 21 |
A Blueprint for Implementing EGovernment | 29 |
The Challenge of Reforming Regulations | 37 |
Government Regulation A Responsible Approach in the Information Age | 39 |
The Challenge of Revitalizing Public Service | 47 |
The Next Phase of Performance Management in Washington What You Can Do | 91 |
Moving to Managing for Results | 101 |
Leadership for Successful PerformanceBased Management in Government | 109 |
Beyond the Government Performance and Results Act Moving Toward Managing for Results | 117 |
Putting Performance Management to Work in the Federal Government | 125 |
Accountability and ResultsBased Management | 135 |
Linking Program Evaluation and the Government Performance and Results Act | 141 |
Five Management Challenges Facing Your Administration | 149 |
Creating a More Effective Federal Workforce | 49 |
Reforming Civil Service and Establishing a PerformanceBased Federal Management System | 55 |
Principles of Reforming the Federal Civil Service | 63 |
Federal Management in the PostReinvention Era Lessons from the National Performance Review | 71 |
Leadership for Successful PerformanceBased Management in Government | 81 |
The Challenge of Implementing Performance Management | 89 |
Why You Should Care about the Presidents Management Council | 157 |
Key Contact Information | 166 |
Websites of Participating Organizations | 169 |
About The PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for The Business of Government | 171 |
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