If its third meeting is any indication, the city-appointed Memorial Health System commission won't get around to answering questions about the future of the two-hospital network any time soon. Members of the 11-member board, which gathered on Tuesday, became mired in detail, bureaucracy and technical language -- struggling to define the "problem" and questioning why they were even convened by the city council.
Doomsday plans" developed by the Department of Homeland Security have made for catchy newspaper headlines in recent weeks. However, rather than debating the merits of notional scenarios where, for example, terrorists attack a storage tank of chlorine gas, killing thousands and costing millions of dollars, the discussion should instead turn to how the department can best carry out its overall preparedness mission. This mission is most effectively accomplished by creating a new preparedness directorate at the department that consolidates existing preparedness capabilities from the department and beyond. Secretary Michael Chertoff cited the preparedness mission as a top priority during his vision speech at The George Washington University last month. His desire for a "risk-based approach"...
The great relevance of Max Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy for understanding modern public administration is insufficiently acknowledged. Critical examination of the claims made to support "new conventional wisdoms" in the study of public administration reveals a remarkable similarity in the arguments made against Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy. The currently fashionable public-values approaches replicate neoliberal arguments that downplay bureaucracy to conquer a place in the field. Such dogmatism leads to neglect of the ways in which modern Herrschaft (domination) affects individual freedom. This article clarifies how the relationship between Herrschaft and individual freedom is central to Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy and how this perspective is still useful to understand mo...
... social forces or 'rules' that tend to define the kinds of actions, choices, roles, and norms av...
... the 1960s and the controversy over how to define and implement the idea of participation by social ..., hierarchical, and impersonal bureaucracy (Callahan, 2004). Managers themselves need the tra...
Here are a few current topics in no particular order: What's the link between free speech and art? Actually, that should be "free speech" and "art," because both are dubious concepts in this context, but I'm fascinated by the claims being made (in federal court, no less) by the defenders of the Labor Department mural about its status as an icon of constitutional liberties.
... and instead works for the good of the bureaucracy. For far too long we have seen the state define th...
..., and it grows worse by the day, is not to define religion but to find it." . Clifford Geertz (1) . ...There was no bureaucracy or administration in the seminaries. One could fre...
... and efficient mission statement must define an organization's target market customer group(s),... quality and competence; a minimum of bureaucracy; fast decisions and implementation; putting the te...
... of the "ethicist" who arrogantly wants to define our "quality of life" and limit our health care ac...Now the bureaucracy will rule. . The "progressive" elites no longer "t...
In passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Democrats glided over sticky issues in almost all of the hundreds of provisions, leaving the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury to define murky terms and indistinct authority grants during rulemakings, which will now start streaming out of the bureaucracy like trains from New York's Grand Central Station at evening rush hour. Many of the earliest rulemakings will affect employer health insurance plans, specifically for the next calendar year, and there will be big corporate bucks hanging in the balance. Other concerns have taken the place of the retiree prescription benefit issue, particularly two really major ones that kick in for plan years starting after September 23, 2010.
...: it's my personal view that any large bureaucracy -- any large bureaucracy -- will redefine reality ... my comments about a bureaucracy that will define reality in its school, competes with some other sc...
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