Dan Honig

Mission Driven Bureaucrats (eBook, PDF)

Empowering People To Help Government Do Better

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the performance of our governments can be transformed by managing bureaucrats for their empowerment rather than compliance. Aimed at public sector workers, leaders, academics, and citizens alike, it contends that public sectors too often rely on a managerial approach which seeks to tightly monitor and control employees, and thus demotivates and repels the mission motivated. Mission Driven Bureaucrats suggests that better performance can in many cases come from a more empowerment-oriented managerial approach, which allows autonomy, cultivates feelings of competence, and creates connection to peers and purpose. This enables the mission motivated to thrive. Arguing against conventional wisdom, Honig asserts that compliance often thwarts public value and that we can often get less corruption and malfeasance with less monitoring. He provides a handbook of strategies for managers to introduce empowerment-oriented strategies into their agency and describes what everyday citizens can do to support the empowerment of bureaucrats in their governments. Interspersed throughout this book are featured profiles of real-life mission driven bureaucrats, who exemplify the dedication and motivation which is typical of many civil servants. Drawing on original empirical data from several countries and the prior work of other scholars from around the globe, Mission Driven Bureaucrats argues that empowerment-oriented management will cultivate, support, attract, and retain mission driven bureaucrats and should have a larger place in our thinking and practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197641217
• Artikelnr.: 72240683

Autorenporträt

Dan Honig is an associate professor at Georgetown University McCourt School & University College London School of Public Policy, where his work focuses on the organizational bits of government's role in enhancing citizens' welfare--particularly management practice, organizational structure, and relations between citizens and the state. Amongst other affiliations he's a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development; a fellow of Harvard's Building State Capability Program; and an affiliate of Johns Hopkins' SNF Agora Institute. He has been included in lists of the 100 most influential academics in government and 50 most influential researchers shaping 21st century politicians.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Part I: When Should We Expect a Focus on Mission Driven Bureaucrats
and Empowerment-Oriented Management to Improve Performance?
* Chapter 1 The Missions of Bureaucrats, and of This Book
* Profile: Casey Joseph Roberts: Mission Driven Bureaucrats in US State
Department Operations Medicine (Guardian)
* Chapter 2 Empowerment-oriented Management, Mission Motivation, and
Performance
* Profile: Florence N. Kuteesa - Mission Oriented Leadership in the
Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
(Budget Director)
* Part II: Diagnosis: Evidence on How and When Empowerment-Oriented
Management Works
* Chapter 3 How You're Managed Changes What You Want to Do: The Impact
of Managing for Empowerment on Current Bureaucrats
* Profile: Uma Mahadevan- Managing for Empowerment in the Indian
Administrative Service (Additional Chief Secretary)
* Chapter 4 Attracting (and Keeping) the Mission Motivated
* Profile: Tathiana Chaves de Souza - Mission Alignment and Connection
to Citizens in the Brazilian Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity
Conservation (Forest Ranger)
* Chapter 5 Systems All the Way Down: Peers, Norms, and the Default
Ways of Getting Things Done
* Profile: Judy Parfitt - Shifting Mission Points and Cultivating
Mission Motivation in the South African Revenue Service (HR Director)
* Chapter 6 Pathways from Managing for Empowerment and Managing for
Compliance to Results
* Profile: Labanya Margaret, Allowing Autonomy with Management that
Empowers at the South Sudanese National Bureau of Statistics
(Director General)
* Part 3: Prescription: Why Empowerment-Oriented Management is
Underused and How to Change That
* Chapter 7 Rethinking Accountability for Mission Driven Bureaucrats\
* Profile: Preetam Ponnappa, Mission Motivated Accountability in
Karnataka, India (Social Auditor)
* Chapter 8 Strategies to Improve Performance -Diagnosing an
Organization and Prescribing Route E Reforms
* Profile: Batool Asadi, Modeling Mission Motivation in Balochistan,
Pakistan (Assistant Commissioner)
* Chapter 9 If You Build It, They Will Come: Why Management Practice
Needs to Lead, Not Follow
* Bibliography
* Appendix I: Technical Appendix