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Book Synopsis Bureaucratic Thought of the Day by : Shane Henry Derby
Download or read book Bureaucratic Thought of the Day written by Shane Henry Derby and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bureaucratic thought of the day began just before Thanksgiving 2008. I attended early morning meetings in a San Diego shipyard while my ship was undergoing maintenance and repairs. A fellow officer and I would exchange friendly morning jokes and gestures in preparation to endure the unknown in which anyone stationed onboard a U.S. Navy Warship would understand. Anyone familiar with bureaucracy and irrational decisions that can result from the big wheel of government or any large company for that matter can relate to the perspective of each daily quote. The structure of each daily quote is intended to be the thoughts of a supervisor or subordinate. The quote is designed to assign words to a supervisor or executive’s demeanor. From the subordinate perspective the quote may be what he or she wish could be said for what comes to mind when poor leadership or example is observed. The quote may be designed to put words in the boss’ mouth as well – all in good humor. Anyone on the receiving end of orders and responsible for carrying them out will be able to relate to this type of humor. Although you may find some of the quotes poignant and cynical; the goal is only to capture the humor or redundancy in our American behavior when interacting in the work place or participating in a larger group hierarchy. The bureaucracy onboard a U.S. Navy Warship is probably small in comparison to the larger Navy, Department of Defense or Civilian Corporation. From my fellow officers and me we hope you enjoy our subtle humor and pretentious jokes we communicate through the Bureaucratic Thought of the Day. I hope it makes you smile before you begin your day at the office or worksite......don’t worry there are many serious thoughts of the day embedded as well, to include weekend inspirational thoughts, so don’t forget to read the weekends thought before you leave the office or worksite on Friday.
Book Synopsis The Innovative Bureaucracy by : Alexander Styhre
Download or read book The Innovative Bureaucracy written by Alexander Styhre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly original and based on unique empirical research in the fields of organization theory and organization behaviour, this work makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on bureaucracy and innovation. Focusing on a study of two major companies working with innovation and new product development Styhre's critical analysis pushes the bound
Book Synopsis General and Industrial Management by : Henri Fayol
Download or read book General and Industrial Management written by Henri Fayol and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Management plays a very important part in the government of undertakings: of all undertakings, large or small, industrial, commercial, political, religious or any other. I intend to set forth my ideas here on the way in which that part should be played.” Part I. Necessity and Possibility of Teaching Management Chapter I. Definition of Management Chapter II. Relative Importance of the Various Abilities Which Constitute the Value of Personnel of Concerns Chapter III. Need for and Possibility of Management Teaching Part II. Principles and Elements of Management Chapter IV. General Principles of Management Chapter V. Elements of Management
Book Synopsis The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy by : Mark Schwartz
Download or read book The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy written by Mark Schwartz and published by It Revolution Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playbook for mastering the art of bureaucracy from thought-leader Mark Schwartz.
Download or read book Moral Mazes written by Robert Jackall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of a classic study of ethics in business presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Robert Jackall takes the reader inside a topsy-turvy world where hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might. This edition includes a new foreword linking the themes of Moral Mazes to the financial tsunami that engulfed the world economy in 2008.
Book Synopsis The Utopia of Rules by : David Graeber
Download or read book The Utopia of Rules written by David Graeber and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of our most important and provocative thinkers—traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice…though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing—even romantic—about bureaucracy. Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules is at once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible. An essential book for our times, The Utopia of Rules is sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule over us—and the better, freer world we should, perhaps, begin to imagine for ourselves.
Book Synopsis The Bureaucracy by : R. Siverene Hendrickson
Download or read book The Bureaucracy written by R. Siverene Hendrickson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bureaucracy By: R. Siverene Hendrickson George Eppleworth had dreams. George was just like all of us, wanting to live and not be forgotten. In George’s world, though, he became mired in the reality of being a cog in the giant machine of industry. That is until a woman entered his life and reawakened him to life and what life could be if he would only take the step. Only, this woman, Anna, had her own secrets that could tear them apart. Love might save them, and desire might destroy them.
Book Synopsis Bureaucracy Run Amok by : Roy D Perkins
Download or read book Bureaucracy Run Amok written by Roy D Perkins and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bureaucracy Run Amok by Roy D Perkins __________________________________
Book Synopsis The absurdity of bureaucracy by : Nina Holm Vohnsen
Download or read book The absurdity of bureaucracy written by Nina Holm Vohnsen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The absurdity of bureaucracy offers a humorous ethnographic account of policy implementation set in contemporary Danish bureaucracy. Taking the reader deep into the hallways of governmental administration and municipal caseworkers’ offices, the book sets out to explore what characterizes policy implementation as a mode of human agency. Using the notions of absurdity and sense-making as lenses through which to explore the dynamic relationship between a policy and its effects, the book reclaims ‘implementation studies’ for the qualitative sciences and emphasizes the existential dilemma that any policymaker and implementer must confront. Following step-by-step the planning and implementation of the randomized controlled trial, Active – Back Sooner, the book sets out to show that ‘going wrong’ is not a question of implementation failure but is in fact the only way in which implementation may happen.
Book Synopsis When the State Meets the Street by : Bernardo Zacka
Download or read book When the State Meets the Street written by Bernardo Zacka and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street level discretion -- Three pathologies: the indifferent, the enforcer, and the caregiver -- A gymnastics of the self: coping with the everyday pressures of street-level work -- When the rules run out: informal taxonomies and peer-level accountability -- Impossible situations: on the breakdown of moral integrity at the frontlines of public service
Book Synopsis Franchised States and the Bureaucracy of Peace by : Niels Nagelhus Schia
Download or read book Franchised States and the Bureaucracy of Peace written by Niels Nagelhus Schia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a new type of state formation evoked by the rise of transnational rule, what Schia calls franchised states. Drawing on anthropological studying-through fieldwork within the UN organization, he demonstrates how peacebuilding activities turned Liberia into an object of governing, whereby the UN, in seeking to build the state, also became the state. The sovereign state of Liberia here emerges as a franchise rather than a self-contained entity. Two implications follow: First, that international peacebuilding turns post-conflict countries into clients of the international community. Second, that “sovereignty” is no longer exclusively associated with the state: it is organized in and through specific practices of governing where a state actor is only one among a range of actors. With these findings, the book moves beyond previous work on peacebuilding by focusing on the unbundling of sovereignty. It contributes to the literature on the changing forms of sovereignty by showing the specific ways in which sovereignty is organized, packaged and enacted, often by actors working under international auspices. This book will be of interest to practitioners and students interested in international organizations, international relations, the study of international practices, UN, and peacebuilding.
Book Synopsis Democracy, Bureaucracy, And The Study Of Administration by : Camilla Stivers
Download or read book Democracy, Bureaucracy, And The Study Of Administration written by Camilla Stivers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology addresses several of the most central ideas in the field of public administration. These ideas are as relevant to public budgeting as they are to performance measurement or human resource management. Collectively and individually the essays explore what Dwight Waldo referred to as the ?political theories? of public administration: issues that are ultimately unresolvable yet crucial to understanding the nature of public administrative practice. How can democracy and efficiency be balanced? Can there be a science of administration? How should we think about administrative accountability? What is the nature of the relationship between citizen and state? Is professionalism an adequate mechanism for ensuring accountability? How efficient can or should bureaucracy be? What is proper leadership by administrators hoping to address political democracy and managerial efficiency? This ASPA Classics Volumes serves to connect the practice of public policy and administration with the normative theory base that has accrued and the models for practice that may be deduced from this theory.
Book Synopsis Patchwork Leviathan by : Erin Metz McDonnell
Download or read book Patchwork Leviathan written by Erin Metz McDonnell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the rest. Why? Patchwork Leviathan explains how a few spectacularly effective state organizations manage to thrive amid general institutional weakness and succeed against impressive odds. Drawing on the Hobbesian image of the state as Leviathan, Erin Metz McDonnell argues that many seemingly weak states actually have a wide range of administrative capacities. Such states are in fact patchworks sewn loosely together from scarce resources into the semblance of unity. McDonnell demonstrates that when the human, cognitive, and material resources of bureaucracy are rare, it is critically important how they are distributed. Too often, scarce bureaucratic resources are scattered throughout the state, yielding little effect. McDonnell reveals how a sufficient concentration of resources clustered within particular pockets of a state can be transformative, enabling distinctively effective organizations to emerge from a sea of ineffectiveness. Patchwork Leviathan offers a comprehensive analysis of successful statecraft in institutionally challenging environments, drawing on cases from contemporary Ghana and Nigeria, mid-twentieth-century Kenya and Brazil, and China in the early twentieth century. Based on nearly two years of pioneering fieldwork in West Africa, this incisive book explains how these highly effective pockets differ from the Western bureaucracies on which so much state and organizational theory is based, providing a fresh answer to why well-funded global capacity-building reforms fail—and how they can do better.
Book Synopsis The Bureaucratic Experience: The Post-Modern Challenge by : Ralph P. Hummel
Download or read book The Bureaucratic Experience: The Post-Modern Challenge written by Ralph P. Hummel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has trouble with bureaucracy. Citizens and politicians have trouble controlling the runaway bureaucratic machine. Managers have trouble managing it. Employees dislike working in it. Clients can't get the goods from it. Teachers have difficulty getting a grip on it. Optimists argue that soon all of this will be fixed. The new Fifth Edition of Ralph P. Hummel's classic text maintains just the opposite - that despite all the current rhetoric from proponents of total quality management, corporate reengineering, and the new public management, it's still "business as usual" for bureaucracies. The persistent reality of organizational structure remains resilient in the face of feel-good trends and values. For this edition the book has been thoroughly revised and updated, with two key changes: each of the six core chapters has been trimmed and edited to consolidate and streamline the important organizational theory developments since the book's initial publication; and, each chapter contains newly added critiques of the postmodern theory of modern organizations, pursuing the theme that postmodernism covers up the persistent reality of organizational structure.
Download or read book Vital Speeches of the Day written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Legacy to Bureaucracy by : Vp Sawhney
Download or read book Legacy to Bureaucracy written by Vp Sawhney and published by Lancer Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than personal memoirs, this book is an excellent commentary on the inflections of pre-independence and post-independence India. The author has a parental legacy that could be an envy of many. It is refreshing to run through the snippets of his father's writings that cover an amazing range of the contemporary environment, his sensitivity to the political developments of the day, and the personal values which he sought to imbibe. Partition again was a watershed for millions in the sub-continent. Many families were made or marred. The author's description of his journey from childhood in Lyallpur (now in Pakistan) to his struggle later as an adolescent is a vivid run of the tragic events that had then unveiled; and his resurgence by and by as a young man of promise in the Brave New World. Much has been said about the unique character of the Indian Administrative Service. The author fills many details about the preparation for the competition; the selection process and the in-house training. The many-sided natures of the assignments handled by him provide rare and absorbing insights into several events and personalities that were involved in the evolving contours of our nation. The author's concern that all was not well with the system is well taken. He cites some disturbing instances of the rapidly shrinking space between the politician and the bureaucracy. Altogether, the book is a very good read. It offers a sumptuous fare for empathy and introspection. Not to miss also the delectable dessert that he offers with the wit quill through the piebald! The author VP Sawhney, more commonly known as Gullu Sawhney, was born in Lyallpur in the Punjab province of undivided India.After Partition, his family migrated from Pakistan to India. He studied at St Stephens College and University of Delhi. After completing his post graduation in Physics, he worked briefly as a Research Assistant with Professor DS Kothari. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1958. In a span of over 35 years, he had a variety of postings under the State and the Central government, and also served for some years in the UN system. The diarist in him and his father has ended in this kaleidoscopic compendium of advice, observation and experience. The content is holistic and the relevance is universal. It may have a special appeal for students of contemporary history in politics, and in domestic governance. There is also a broad and sumptuous treat for those who take good wit and humour at its face value.
Download or read book Valuing Life written by Cass R. Sunstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin's algebra -- Inside government -- Human consequences, or the real world of cost-benefit analysis -- Dignity, financial meltdown, and other nonquantifiable things -- Valuing life, 1: problems -- Valuing life, 2: solutions -- The morality of risk -- What scares us -- Epilogue: four ways to humanize the regulatory state -- Appendix A: Executive Order 13563 of January 18, 2011 -- Appendix B: the social cost of carbon -- Appendix C: estimates of benefits and costs of selected federal regulations -- Appendix D: selected examples of breakeven analysis -- Appendix E: values for mortality and morbidity.
