Thomas E. Heinzen

Everyday Frustration and Creativity in Government

A Personnel Challenge to Public Administration

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although George Pataki campaigned for change, most of the human infrastructure he inherited is unlikely to change. The psychological consequences to the people of New York State's government will continue to develop even under new leadership. Frustrations caused by downsizing, reduced budgets, institutional constraints, and stalled careers have led to a variety of very human responses: self-denigrating humor, clinical depression, career compromises, organizational sabotage-and several forms of creativity. This book treats the New York State bureaucracy as a living laboratory, documenting the ways in which people at work for New York State respond to the unavoidable frustrations of government service. This living laboratory was examined using case studies, interviews, and large-scale surveys. The studies included members of every state agency, the Public Employees Federation, the Civil Service Employees Association, the Governor's Office of Employee Relations and a variety of privatized services. The portrait that emerges is a governmental bureaucracy whose facade is distressingly grey, values are frequently compromised, and experience is often clinically depressing. But beneath it all is an additional layer of lively plotting, creative coping, and proactive circumvention. This book identifies both levels of the psychological experience, anticipates future crises within New York State, and offers a humanistic philosophy capable of transforming these developing conflicts into enduring creativity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9781567500912
• ISBN-10: 1567500919
• Artikelnr.: 25604579

Autorenporträt

Thomas E. Heinzen

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: A Shy Phenomenon The Need for Everyday Creativity in
Government Institutionalized Frustrations of Government An Empirical
Assessment of Everyday Creativity in Government NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE
RESPONSES TO FRUSTRATION: RESEARCH AND CASE STUDIES Academic Issues:
Construct Validity and Theoretical Parsimony or "What the Heck Are We
Talking About?" Negative Responses to Frustration: Research and Case
Studies Regarding Aggression, Exit, and Learned Helplessness Positive
Responses to Frustration: Research and Case Studies Regarding Intrinsic
Motivation, Bureaucratic Skills, and Creativity Skills CONCEPTUAL MODELS OF
CREATIVITY The Frustration-Response Network: A Pragmatic Framework for
Understanding Everyday Creativity in Government Proactive and Reactive
Creativity. The Principle of Dissimilarity: A Conflict-Creativity Model
Everyday Frustration and Creativity in Government: An Unfinished Portrait
References Author Index Subject Index