" Not long ago," Golembiewski (1996) observes," public administration was the
acknowledged queen of the managerial disciplines but is now troubled"(p. 139). How this …

Little did we know when Sara Rynes first asked us to organize a special research forum on
public policy and management research that it would appear at a time of such great need …

The study of public organizations has withered over time in mainstream organization studies
research, as scholars in the field have migrated to business schools. This is so even though …

The attack on professional social workers began toward the end of the first Nixon
Administration and has continued, more or less unabated, since then (Randall, 1979). The …

Who should manage a social agency? This is a question with deep roots and a long lineage.
My first exposure to the question came almost four decades ago, when, as a first year social …

Social scientists are not noted for the accuracy of their predictions of future trends. One has
only to sample the social science literature of ten, or even five years ago, to come up with …

The circumferences of an academic discipline as artificial constructions must be treated as
tentative and provisional. A survey of relevant literature suggests that management in the …

Of the many debates within organization theory, one guaranteed to generate considerable
fervor concerns the importance of managers, particularly upper-echelon executives, in …

" Bureaucracy" is perhaps the most maligned word in modem human service dialogue. It is
blamed for nearly all the ills of human service administration. It is credited with …

Not only does the order depend upon the general but so does the direction, and the goal as
well—the man at the top makes all the difference. Granted that this is so, especially for social …