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Public administration must engage with diverse____and______.
Groups and Individuals
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Public administration operates within which two basic concepts?
- a rile-based and procedurally-bound personnel system
- a relatively short timehorizon driven by the political cycle
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What are the differences between decision making between public administration and businesses?
Public administration decisions are open to the piblic while businesses operate more priately.
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What are three major flaws between public administration and businesses?
- ambiguity can make objectives unclear
- power is often diffused in a political system
- there are many competing and conflicting values
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Give Croft's definition of public administration.
The managerial and political processes that occur in the executive, legislative, and judicial branchesfor the purposes of creating, implementing, and assessing public policy.
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Who has longer tenures? Appointed Public Administrators or bureaucratic elected officials?
Public Administrators
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What are "entitlement programs"? Why are they important?
Programs to which individuals are "entitled to by law (ex. Medicare). It is one of three programs that are still Federally-funded and have increased over time.
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Which level of government is charged with the direct delivery of services and why?
Local governments. Police, fire, healthcare and education are solely responsible to local government because
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Define ethics.
the process of using reason, guided by moral standardsor personal values, to make decisions regardingright and wrongdoingin one's professional and personal life, and taking responsibility for those decisions.
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What are the three major players of the Iron Triangle?
- Interest groups
- Bureaucrats
- Congressional Committees
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Define human capital.
the deelopment of a strategy to recruit and retain the workers the government needs and to ensure that they produce strong and effective government programs.
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What four issues are reolved around building human capital?
- Leadership
- Strategic human capital planning
- Acquiring, developing, and retaining talent
- Results-oriented culture
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What are the benefits of broadbanding?
- Flexibility
- career development
- lining to pay skills
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Define at-will employment.
employees have no civil service protection and can be fired without the benefit of the standard civil service procedures
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Define incrementalism.
Cautious style of decision making in which changes are implemented gradually or in small steps.
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