Public Management as going back some centuries

Public Management as going back some centuries

Hood (2006) situated Public Management as going back some centuries, but as having acquired more specific concerns in the late 20th century. What might be the relevance of one of these concerns for the process of decision making in the public sector?

Hood (2006) situated Public Management as going back some centuries

Firstly, The research assignment aims to respond to one of the following five questions.

Secondly, The assignment consists of a paper of between 1,500 in the format common to the social sciences.

Thirdly, This means providing a clear answer to the specified question, a substantive discussion of some of the underlying issues, and a synthesis of all the points raised.

Each question entails focusing on a limited set of issues from a wider range of possibilities.

1)      Hood (2006) situated Public Management as going back some centuries, but as having acquired more specific concerns in the late 20th century. What might be the relevance of one of these concerns for the process of decision making in the public sector?

2)      Weber (1947) sees in bureaucracy the organizational form that corresponds to political modernity. How does Weber’s assessment of bureaucracy correspond to the Public Service of Canada, past or present?

3)      Gow (2004) assessed the Public Service of Canada as having long maintained a spirit of pragmatism. What might be one of the justification’s for Gow’s assessment?

4)      Resource management in Canada has gone through upheavals since the 1960s and 1970s. What might be one of these transformations and why is it significant for management in the Public Service of Canada?

5)      The concern around program results has been haunting public managers since at least the 1980s. Can it or not be said that this concern has been rising in the past forty years in the Public Service of Canada?

Firstly, Papers should rely on a minimum of four peer-reviewed texts to expand the scope of the question. No more than two texts from the list of required course readings may count towards this minimum. Papers should conform to either the APA or MLA citation formats (please visit the OWL at Purdue for guidance), be presented in double-space, include a bibliography of all sources used, and contain a cover page announcing the name of the student, the title of the paper, the class coordinates and the date.