PMAP 3801 Midterm

Groups and Individuals

• a rile-based and procedurally-bound personnel system
• a relatively short timehorizon driven by the political cycle

Public administration decisions are open to the piblic while businesses operate more priately.

• ambiguity can make objectives unclear
• power is often diffused in a political system
• there are many competing and conflicting values

The managerial and political processes that occur in the executive, legislative, and judicial branchesfor the purposes of creating, implementing, and assessing public policy.

Public Administrators

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.

Local governments.  Police, fire, healthcare and education are solely responsible to local government because

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.

• Interest groups
• Bureaucrats
• Congressional Committees

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.

• Leadership
• Strategic human capital planning
• Acquiring, developing, and retaining talent
• Results-oriented culture

• Flexibility
• career development
• lining to pay skills

employees have no civil service protection and can be fired without the benefit of the standard civil service procedures

Cautious style of decision making in which changes are implemented gradually or in small steps.