2015-01-05

World Of Private And Public Sector Differs Greatly

Private sector and government sector managers differ?

Really?

Who knew?

"In most outstanding private sector organizations there are clear, well-understood, job-by-job, top-to-bottom goals and objectives. In government, goals and objectives have been ill-formed, fuzzy and soft. The Government Performance Reform Act and individual departments are striving to change this. Goals in the government are often divergent which may lead to confusion."

That has success written all over it.

"The main goal of most political appointees is to promote the policies of the Administration and/or change the policies of the previous Administration. Few political appointees focus on organizational management issues because they have no experience; will not be in government long; and desire to focus on policy issues, not management issues. Political appointees receive little encouragement to focus on management issues."

Unless the GPRA somehow magically rectifies this...

Plus ca change...

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