Recently added articles from Public Management:
Ethics inquiries: challenging career decisions.(ETHICS)
Sep 01, 2008; Perego, Martha ... Q. Following months of public discussion about the failure of the organization to deliver on key initiatives and criticism of the manager's leadership, the city council voted to terminate the manager. The assistant city manager understands that this is entirely council's call but is ...
A prospering inner-ring Suburb.(LETTERS)(University City, Missouri)
Sep 01, 2008; Henry, Charlie ... My letter briefly describes an inner-ring suburb whose approaches to community preservation have differed considerably from those discussed in the April 2008 issue of Public Management and the cover story "Rewriting the Story of Inner-Ring Suburbs." For at least the past 25 ...
Planning and saving for retirement in retirement.(ON RETIREMENT)(Guided Pathways)
Sep 01, 2008; McCallen, Joan ... Public employers often focus much of their investment education on making sure their employees save enough money for a secure retirement. But they should also make sure that employees nearing retirement have enough information to manage those savings wisely after they leave the workplace. ...
Icmastats.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Approximately 45 percent (695) of local governments indicated that they use techniques to systematically evaluate private service delivery. Of those 695 local governments, the following percentage reported on techniques they use: ...
Know thyself: judgment capability factors.(COVER STORY)
Sep 01, 2008; Limardi, David ... "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." --RALPH WALDO EMERSON, ESSAYS, "SELF RELIANCE," 1841 Leadership comes in many styles, and history is full of examples when a leader's judgment was a critical part in the success or failure of an initiative ....
Calendar of events.(ICMA)(Calendar)
Sep 01, 2008 ... September 11 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET Audioconference: Implementing Balanced Scorecard in Performance Management: Lessons from Miami-Dade.County September 21-24 ICMA 2008 Annual Conference, Richmond, VA September 21 Prevention ...
Preparing the soft stuff ... building commitment for change.
Sep 01, 2008; Switzer, Merlin ... "It's the soft stuff that is the hard stuff, but it's the soft stuff that makes the difference," says Chief Operating Officer Tom Malone of the Milliken Company, Spartanburg, South Carolina, which has been a recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. What's the ...
Talk from the trenches; Top 12 community branding blunders (and how to avoid them).
Sep 01, 2008; McEachern, Don ... In June 2006, I wrote an article for PM magazine that outlined the basics of community branding. At that time, momentum for the practice was just starting to build, and a lot of local government managers and leaders had questions about branding's who, what, when, where, how, and why. What ...
How to Motivate Employees: what research is telling us.
Sep 01, 2008; Lazenby, Scott ... In his classic Harvard Business Review article, "One More Time, How Do You Motivate Employees," author Frederick Herzberg (1968) asserted that the way to motivate employees was to enrich their jobs. He wrote that they would perform better and do more if they were challenged intellectually, ...
PM what local government marketing is.
Sep 01, 2008 ... Local governments' marketing initiatives characteristically suffer from a lack of management perspective. And they fail to benefit from the lessons that decades of marketing experience in the private sector have taught managers in business. That result is, however, ...
Exhibitors at ICMA's 94th annual conference; Here are the companies exhibiting at ICMA's September 21-24, 2008, conference in Richmond, Virginia, as of July 23, 2008.(List)
Sep 01, 2008 ... ActiveStrategy, Inc. Adjusters International All Traffic Solutions American AmbulanceAssociation American City & County Magazine/Penton Media American Legal Publishing Corporation American Library Association ...
When--not if--the next disaster happens.(PROFILE)(Reprint)
Sep 01, 2008; Chandler, Wayne ... This is a story that's not likely to be communicated in everyday news events, but Fort Bend County, Texas, may be the best prepared entity in the state to face the next major natural or man-made emergency scenario. Even before the 2005 wake-up calls of Hurricanes Katrina and ...
Buckeye restructures town departments.(FYI)(Buckeye, Arizona)
Sep 01, 2008; Guy, Jeanine ... The town of Buckeye, Arizona (population 40,000), is experiencing a housing construction downturn. Just last year, Forbes magazine named Buckeye, located 30 miles west of downtown Phoenix, the second-fastest-growing suburb in the country. So, the downturn prompted town management to ...
Cities, counties, and universities look for ways to prevent underage drinking.(FYI)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Local governments and colleges are adding social host ordinances to their list of tactics to prevent underage drinking. The ordinances, which focus on the locations where underage drinking takes place, hold property owners responsible for making sure people under the age of 21 don't ...
"Smart Community" honor for two communities.(FYI.)(Bristol, Virginia and Tucson, Arizona)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Earlier this year, the city of Bristol, Virginia, and its city-owned public utility Bristol Virginia Utilities (BVU) were awarded the national 2008 Smart Community Award for outstanding broadband and economic development initiatives. Tucson, Arizona, also received the award for a community ...
Good behavior by decree? How a simple contract can motivate employees to create a kinder, gentler (more prosperous) workplace.(FYI)
Sep 01, 2008; Studer, Quint ... If you are a local government manager, consider the things employees do that you wish they wouldn't. Allison, for instance, chews gum--loudly--when she answers the phone, no matter who's on the other end. Calvin consistently forgets to turn off his cell phone at critical times. (Last week ...
Livable communities are working for senior citizens.(FYI)(Conference news)
Sep 01, 2008; Kwon, Jennifer ... America's population is aging fast. What are communities across the country doing to become livable for all ages? On June 19, 2008, the Congressional Quarterly Forum on Livable Communities, held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., high lighted the results of the ...
Food for thought: guideposts for city managers.(PM's 90 Years)
Sep 01, 2008; Bressner, Kurt ... L. P. Cookingham, one of the deans in the local government management profession, set forth his philosophy of management for the guidance of younger administrators in a 1956 PM article. Mr. Cookingham served for three decades as a city manager and was president of ICMA in 1940. At last ...