lesson 3: bureaucracy 2 contemp theories and practice

Question 1

What is Marx’s enduring influence?

Answer 1

Dominant elite
Wealthy educated white males, same clubs, send their kids to the same schools

Question 2

What is Weber and Taylor’s enduring influence?

Answer 2

Rational organization, division of labour, unity of direction

Question 3

Unity of direction

Answer 3

grouping similar activities together, not taking orders from more than one person

Question 4

What is the Humanist School enduring influence?

Answer 4

Decentralization, participatory management, skills and leadership development

Question 5

Participatory Management

Answer 5

School of thought and extends human relation assumptions
Implement meaningful work participation in the workplace

Question 6

Management by Objectives

Answer 6

internal strategic coordination

Question 7

Peter Drucker critiqued..

Answer 7

Weber subdividing into units may interfere with goals of another unit

Question 8

Organizational Development and change management 3 steps

Answer 8

unfreeze, change, refreeze

Question 9

unfreeze

Answer 9

identify rigid

Question 10

change

Answer 10

implementing improvements

Question 11

refreeze

Answer 11

locking in new behavior

Question 12

What are the main ideas of Feminist PA Theories?

Answer 12

Gender lens, Concerned w/ tasks and process,
Reject notions of superior domination

Question 13

what is New Public Management

Answer 13

To reduce costs and improve performance
shift away from traditional PA, to more attention to achievement of results and personal responsibilities of managers

Question 14

critiques of NPM

Answer 14

Savoie, Trebilcock and Thomas

Question 15

Savoie

Answer 15

governments are fundamentally different from private firms

Question 16

Trebilcock and Thomas

Answer 16

emphasize the importance of administrative culture

Question 17

governance

Answer 17

Address pressing societal problems, move away from hierarchical and to more networking kinds of gov
One type of gov cannot solve all problems

Question 17

New Public Governance (NPG)

Answer 17

See potential for improving policy making by adapting more collaboration

Question 18

New Public Service (NPS)

Answer 18

To advance the dignity and worth of public services
Emphasizes the values of democracy, citizenships, and the public interest as the preeminent values of PA

Question 19

what is Public Service Motivation

Answer 19

individual’s predisposition to respond to motives grounded in public institutions and organizations

Question 20

motives of PSM