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Title: Mission Driven Bureaucrats
Condition: New
Subtitle: Empowering People To Help Government Do Better
ISBN-10: 0197641202
Format: Paperback
Author: Dan Honig
EAN: 9780197641200
ISBN: 9780197641200
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Release Date: 09/23/2024
Description: This book argues that the performance of our governments can be transformed by managing bureaucrats for their empowerment rather than compliance. Aimed at public sector workers, leaders, academics, and citizens alike, it contends that public sectors too often rely on a managerial approach which seeks to tightly monitor and control employees, and thus demotivates and repels the mission motivated. Mission Driven Bureaucrats suggests that better performance can in many cases come from a more empowerment-oriented managerial approach, which allows autonomy, cultivates feelings of competence, and creates connection to peers and purpose. This enables the mission motivated to thrive. Arguing against conventional wisdom, Honig asserts that compliance often thwarts public value and that we can often get less corruption and malfeasance with less monitoring. He provides a handbook of strategies for managers to introduce empowerment-oriented strategies into their agency and describes what everyday citizens can do to support the empowerment of bureaucrats in their governments. Interspersed throughout this book are featured profiles of real-life mission driven bureaucrats, who exemplify the dedication and motivation which is typical of many civil servants. Drawing on original empirical data from several countries and the prior work of other scholars from around the globe, Mission Driven Bureaucrats argues that empowerment-oriented management will cultivate, support, attract, and retain mission driven bureaucrats and should have a larger place in our thinking and practice.
Genre: Business & Finance
Topic: Law & Politics
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 226mm
Item Length: 150mm
Item Width: 25mm
Item Weight: 386g
Release Year: 2024

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