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Management Research Falls Short

September 1, 1997 ead any good public management research lately? If not, perhaps it's because the academic and practicing sides of the public administration profession are worlds apart. Sure, the research is typically sound. But is it relevant? Does it help federal managers find solutions to the real-world problems they face? Pick up ...

Report Card on Downsizing

February 1, 1997 t's been four years since the Clinton administration promised to reduce the size of the federal workforce. It should come as no surprise that the federal workforce has downsized to its lowest level in more than 30 years. If federal downsizing was only about numbers, the data would show that ...

Rethinking Career Resilience

October 1, 1996 or the last several years, management consultants have been telling us job security is dead. To be competitive, organizations must be lean and agile, and capable of responding to changing market conditions by re-deploying workers when possible and releasing them when necessary. In an era of downsizing, delayering, layoffs, restructuring ...

Rethinking Career Resilience

October 1, 1996 or the last several years, management consultants have been telling us job security is dead. To be competitive, organizations must be lean and agile, and capable of responding to changing market conditions by re-deploying workers when possible and releasing them when necessary. In an era of downsizing, delayering, layoffs, restructuring ...

Re-Entering the Job Market

September 1, 1994 t's been called streamlining, rightsizing, downsizing and dumbsizing. But if the law mandating cuts of nearly 273,000 people from the federal workforce is implemented as planned, you might be calling it unemployment. While buyouts will help ease the pain of these job cuts, people who leave federal service intending to ...