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Rational Gridlock.

This book describes how rationality undermines bureaucracy's ability to solve problems or to gain the confidence of the general public. The author suggests ways to change the bureaucratic environment into one that appreciates the creative abilities of all its members, without the false premise...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edgar, Patrick B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : University Press of America, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Table of Figures; Preface; Chapter 1: Public Disconnectedness; The Challenge of Citizen Input-Disconnectedness; Excessive Rule-Making or Continuing Bureaucratization; Accountability and Performance; Corruption or Incompetence; Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity; Chapter 2: Overview of the Rational Model and Its Influence on Administrative Strategies; Models of Administrative Strategy/Design; Bureaucratic; Private enterprise; Public Cooperatives; Contracted Services; Relationship Between Administrative Strategy and Problem-Systems. 
505 8 |a The Rational Model as a Guiding ForceThe Case of the Montana Institute on disAbilities; Chapter 3: The Organizational Level; Elements of Public Organizations; The Task Environment; Value Selection as a Guide to Administrative Strategy; Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 4: Moving to Outcome-Based Strategies; A Thumbnail Sketch of the History of Public Administration in the U.S.; Phases of Public Administration; Observations of the Attempts at Reform in Human Service Systems; Chapter 5: Locus of Control, Procedures and Human Service Outcomes; Locus of Control. 
505 8 |a Observations/Analysis Related to Outcome-Based SystemsChapter 6: Outcome-Based Models and Public Administration; Institutionalism vs. Enactment; The Role of Power; Chapter 7: The Human Sacrifices to Rationalism: The Decay of Community, Responsibility, and Reason; A Very Brief History; The Emergence of the Disconnected; Anomie in the Local Community the Anomia Scale; Disconnectedness As a Result of Advocacy; Fiscal Limits and Local Government Responses; Chapter 8: Various Attempts at Reform within Rationalism; Public Entrepreneurship; Chapter 9: An Emerging Paradigm: Chaos Theory. 
505 8 |a Applying Chaos Theory to Human OrganizationsThere Are No Cause-Effect Relationships But Multidimensional Ones; Systems Seek Disequilibrium in Order to Transform Themselves; Systems Transform Themselves Through Chaos; Systems Made Up of Fractals; Conscious Shift in Paradigms; Implications; Chapter 10: Applying the New Paradigm; The Organizational Level; Staff; Management; Agency Staff; The Community Level; Summary and Conclusion; Index; Biography. 
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