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Mission driven bureaucrats : empowering people to help governments do better /

"In March 2020 I had the good fortune to be on sabbatical in Dakar, Senegal, doing research for this book. As COVID-19 spread Senegal reacted quickly, closing its borders and canceling all commercial flights. It set up public quarantine and contact tracing, established a curfew, and implemented...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Honig, Dan, 1981- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Civil service > Personnel management > Cross-cultural studies.
Civil service > Recruiting > Cross-cultural studies.
Employee motivation > Cross-cultural studies.
Personnel > Motivation > Études transculturelles.
Fonction publique > Personnel > Direction > Études transculturelles.
Fonction publique > Recrutement > Études transculturelles.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Intergovernmental Organizations.
Civil service > Personnel management
Civil service > Recruiting
Employee motivation
Public administration.
Politics and Government.
Electronic books.
Cross-cultural studies
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The missions of bureaucrats, and of this book
  • Profile: Casey Joseph Roberts : mission driven bureaucrats in US State Department Operations Medicine (Guardian)
  • Empowerment-oriented management, mission motivation, and performance
  • Profile: Florence N. Kuteesa : mission oriented leadership in the Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Budget Director)
  • How you're managed changes what you want to do : the impact of managing for empowerment on current bureaucrats
  • Profile: Uma Mahadevan : managing for empowerment in the Indian Administrative Service (Additional Chief Secretary)
  • Attracting (& keeping) the mission motivated
  • Profile: Tathiana Chaves de Souza : mission alignment and connection to citizens in the Brazilian Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (Forest Ranger)
  • Systems all the way down : peers, norms, and the default ways of getting things done
  • Profile: Judy Parfitt : shifting mission points and cultivating mission motivation in the South African Revenue Service (HR Director)
  • Pathways from managing for empowerment & managing for compliance to results
  • Profile: Labanya Margaret, allowing autonomy with management that empowers at the South Sudanese National Bureau of Statistics (Director General)
  • Rethinking accountability for mission driven bureaucrats
  • Profile: Preetam Ponnappa, mission motivated accountability in Karnataka, India (Social Auditor)
  • Strategies to improve performance : diagnosing an organization and prescribing Route E reforms
  • Profile: Batool Asadi, modeling mission motivation in Balochistan, Pakistan (Assistant Commissioner)
  • If you build it, they will come : why management practice needs to lead, not follow