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PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND POLICY ADMINISTRATION SERIES Edited by Donald Kettl
How should a manager handle different accountability expectations? While a commonplace term in government lexicon, accountability has escaped precise definition, leaving managers at a disadvantage when trying to monitor the performance of their programs.
Including more than 300 programs, over 60,000 employees, and a budget of over $400 billion, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is an ideal canvas for starkly illustrating competing accountability demands. With a bird′s-eye view of the agency′s inner workings, Radin tackles big issues such as strategies of centralization and decentralization, coordination with states and localities, leadership, and program design, while using the apt analogy of a juggler to show how managers must keep in the air disparate demands and developments.
The book, The Accountable Juggler: The Art of Leadership in a Federal Agency (Public Affairs and Policy Administration Series) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781568026435 in Paperback by Beryl Radin may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
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