Public Service: Callings, Commitments And Contributions

by Holzer,Marc

• ISBN13: 9780813368269
• ISBN10: 081336826X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780429977589
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-12-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume includes perspectives on public service selected from six decades of major public administration journals. Recurring themes include: motivations to enter the public service, positive and negative images of public servants and of government, conflicts between loyalty to the organization and loyalty to the public, morale, burnout, and turnover. The volume also includes cross-national analyses of the public service in other systems, proposals for rethinking public service systems, and questions as to the future of the public service. It recaptures a long, continuing debate as to the health of the public service, and in so doing suggests agendas for university research and administrative action.

Author Biography

Marc Holzer, Ph.D. (University of Michigan) is executive director of the National Center for Public Productivity, as well as a Professor of Public Administration and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Public Administration at Rutgers University Campus at Newark.

Table of Contents

Aspa Classics	p. ii
Introduction	p. xv
Role Models and Roles	p. 1
Images of the Common Good	p. 5
References	p. 18
Note	p. 18
Harold D. Smith -- Publc Administrator	p. 20
William A, Jump	p. 27
The Mind of the Career Man	p. 33
Note	p. 41
Advice to the Eager Neophyte	p. 42
Branch Rickey as a Public Manager: Fulfilling the Eight Responsibilities of Public Management	p. 46
Notes	p. 74
References	p. 77
Are We Educating for Public Service?	p. 81
Universities and the Future of the Public Service	p. 83
Notes	p. 101
References	p. 102
The Legitimacy Crisis and the New Progressivism	p. 104
Note	p. 111
References	p. 111
Student Attitudes Toward Government Employees and Employment	p. 112
Notes	p. 122
Bibliographical Note	p. 122
People to Enter the Public Service?	p. 123
Antecedents of Public Service Motivation	p. 125
References	p. 136
The Public Service Ethic and the Professions in State Government	p. 139
Notes	p. 149
References	p. 149
The Public Service and the Patriotism of Benevolence	p. 151
Notes	p. 161
Government in the Twilight Zone: Motivations of Volunteers to Small City Boards and Commissions	p. 165
Notes	p. 177
References	p. 178
Are Public Servants Satisfied in Their Jobs?	p. 181
Job Satisfaction Among Early Labor Force Participants: Unexpected Outcomes in Public and Private Sector Comparisons	p. 183
Notes	p. 199
References	p. 200
What Municipal Employees Want from Their Jobs Versus What They Are Getting	p. 203
Note	p. 212
References	p. 212
The Effects of Public Service Recognition, Job Security, and Staff Reductions on Organizational Involvement	p. 215
Notes	p. 229
References	p. 233
An Updated Look at the Values and Expectations of Federal Government Executives	p. 235
References	p. 245
Whistle Blowers in the Federal Civil Service: New Evidence of the Public Service Ethic	p. 247
Notes	p. 270
References	p. 271
Are Public Servants Staying or Fleeing?	p. 275
The Crisis of Morale and Federal Senior Executives	p. 277
References	p. 294
Note	p. 294
Turnover and the Quiet Crisis in the Federal Civil Service	p. 297
References	p. 316
Notes	p. 316
Are the Best and the Rightest Leeing Public Sector Employment?: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth	p. 319
References	p. 328
What Do We Need to Know? to Do?	p. 331
Some Aspects of Loyalty	p. 335
Next Steps in Public Administration	p. 342
Note	p. 348
Public Service: Attractions and Recommended Changes	p. 349
Research Needs on the Public Service	p. 356
References	p. 369
Notes	p. 369
Public Service and the Public Interest	p. 371
Political Foundatons of the American Federal Service: Rebuilding a Crumbling Base	p. 381
Notes	p. 397
Index	p. 402
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