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Civil Service Reform: Building a Government That Works

Civil Service Reform: Building a Government That Works

Kettl, Donald F.
Ingraham, Patricia W.
Sanders, Ronald P.

Paperback

General Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0815749031
ISBN13: 9780815749035
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: Jul 1 1996
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

The authors of this book contend that the civil service system, which was devised to create a uniform process for recruiting high-quality workers to government, is no longer uniform or a system. Nor does it help government find and retain the workers it needs to build a government that works.
The current civil service system was designed for a government in which federal agencies directly delivered most public services. But over the last generation, privatization and devolution have increased the number and importance of government's partnerships with private companies, nonprofit organizations, and state and local governments. Government workers today spend much of their time managing these partnerships, not delivering services, and this trend will only accelerate in the future. The authors contend that the current system poorly develops government workers who can effectively manage these partnerships, resulting too often in a gap between promise and performance.

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