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- Title
How structural conflicts stymie reinvention.
- Authors
Coe, Barbara A.
- Abstract
The article analyzes the structural impact of attempts to reinvent the U.S. government, showing how efforts are likely to be stymied until appropriate structures are created. Managers proceed through results-based strategic planning, vision processes and other such means to identify innovative ways to provide services. The concept of structural conflict explains much of what occurs when organizations move forward in a determined and vigorous manner, then move away from the target, oscillating and often ultimately giving up on their goal. The federal government's effort to reinvent government is driven principally by the Government Performance and Results Act and the National Performance Review. The act introduced a number of measures to improve government's way of doing business, including mandatory strategic planning and performance measurement tied to outcomes. Nonessential staff and unnecessary layers of management would be eliminated including supervisors, headquarters staff, personnel specialists, procurement specialists, budget analysts, accountants and auditors. The notion of structure refers to the interrelationship among the parts of the whole. It consists of cognitive and behavioral elements, as well as the organizational form.
- Subjects
PUBLIC administration; PUBLIC officers; STRATEGIC planning; SUPERVISORS (Local government); BUDGET analysts; ACCOUNTANTS; AUDITORS
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1997, Vol 57, Issue 2, p168
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/977065