The New Public Service
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (885 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0815752431 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has brought to our attention a fundamentally important issue with respect to our federal government--in this case the health and future of our public service. "Light has shown in this book why he is among the leading scholars in public policy and administration today. Hats off to a very thoughtful analysis." —Senator Carl Levin, United States Senate"Light breaks new ground in this important book. Dutil, Toronto, A Canadian Journal (?)"Paul Light has done it again. This book goes beyond the description of the challenges to offer clear and compelling recommendations t
A great book regarding the state of public service today A Customer In this book, Brookings Institute scholar Paul Light reviewed Americans' attitute toward public service in late 1990s. He surveyed recent graduates of leading US public administration schools and found that while these graduates still have positive attitute toward public service in general, they no longer believe that the best way to perform it is through the public (government) sector. Most of them believe that. "Addressing Changes in the Public Sector" according to Matthew P. Arsenault. Light argues that personnel, organizational structures and administrative devices used in the implementation of federal policy and programs have changed greatly in the past few decades. Light mainly deals with the changes in personnel in the public sector and its move from governmental control to a sharing between the public, private and nonprofit sectors - a phenomenon he terms "the new public service".In the c. M. Ray said Interesting, but limited application. This book talks about the new attitude trend in public service. It is heavy on the statistical trends in public service as far as employment numbers and demographics over the past few decades.
The government-centered public service is mostly a thing of the past, replaced by a multisectored public service in which employees switch jobs and sectors with ease.Light concludes his book by offering the federal government a simple choice: It can either ignore the new public service and troll further and further down the class lists for new recruits, while hoping that a tiny pay increase will help, or it can start building the kind of careers that talented Americans want.. Talented Americans are not saying "show me the money" but "show me the job." And federal jobs just do not show well.All job offers being equal, Light argues that the pay increase would matter. First, its hiring system for recruiting talent, top to bottom, underwhelms at almost every task it undertakes. According to Paul C. Light's controversial new book, The New Public Service, this January's 4.8 percent federal pay increase will do little to compensate for what potential employees think is currently missing from federal careers. Third and most importantly, the federal government is so clogged with needless layers and convoluted career paths tha
Light is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University. Light is the author of numerous books on public service and management, among them Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence (2002), Government's Greatest Achievements (2002), Making Nonprofits Work (2000), and The New Public Service (1999).. H