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\"Over the last decade, there has been a growing demand for effective organizational change management strategy in the US business sector, with millions of professionals seeking guidance, especially when considering the significant investments aimed at improving and optimizing organizational systems and processes. This book provides a comprehensive guide to successfully lead organizational change by implementing strategies focused on five foundational change management pillars-Purpose, Planning, Process, Performance, and People. This book is intended to equip executives, business leaders, technology managers, and organizational change practitioners with practical insights to make positive and lasting change in the organizations they lead. This book distills 25+ years of IT program, project, and change management expertise into an essential guide, while demystifying the complexities of organizational transformation within commercial, government, and non-profit organizations. Crafted from the authors' hands-on experience implementing major IT development projects within Federal, State, and commercial sectors, this book offers actionable steps to engage, inspire, and lead people along the organizational change continuum\"-- Provided by publisher.

Student affairs organizations are at a crossroads. They face expanding enrollments; a concomitant increase need for often more complex services; changing demographics; a growing cohort of non-traditional and first-generation students; shifting and more demanding responsibilities; and increased expectations from the greater campus community, parents, and external constituents. These challenges are intensified by the accelerating speed of advancements in technology, globalization, innovation, and student consumerism; and by the long-term reality of shrinking resources, and limitations on the ability to increase tuition and fees. This book shares alternative ideas about organizational design, and about ways to restructure roles and responsibilities to enable student affairs organizations to respond to these challenges and demands more effectively at a time of reduced resources. It also addresses the many emerging roles that student affairs organizations are increasingly being expected to address – such as IT, fund raising and development, external communications, human resources management and professional development, as well as research and assessment – and describes approaches developed by a variety of institutions. The contributors also pay attention to the solutions appropriate for smaller institutions, and for community colleges. They explore the various dimensions of change and offer frameworks to help student affairs leaders and practitioners to more effectively understand and manage the changes they are confronting; and describe ideas and solutions adopted by others within the profession.

Political conservatives have long believed that the best government is a small government. But if this were true, noted economist Jeff Madrick argues, the nation would not be experiencing stagnant wages, rising health care costs, increasing unemployment, and concentrations of wealth for a narrow elite. In this perceptive and eye-opening book, Madrick proves that an engaged government--a big government of high taxes and wise regulations--is necessary for the social and economic answers that Americans desperately need in changing times. He shows that the big governments of past eras fostered greatness and prosperity, while weak, laissez-faire governments marked periods of corruption and exploitation. The Case for Big Government considers whether the government can adjust its current policies and set the country right.

Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBAS effectiveness at achieving performance goals. This study examines nine PBASs that are drawn from five sectors: child care, education, health care, public health emergency preparedness, and transportation.

How can government leaders build, sustain, and leverage the cross-organizational collaborative networks needed to tackle the complex interagency and intergovernmental challenges they increasingly face? Tackling Wicked Government Problems: A Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders draws on the experiences of high-level government leaders to describe and comprehensively articulate the complicated, ill-structured difficulties they face—often referred to as \"\"wicked problems\"\"—in leading across organizational boundaries and offers the best strategies for addressing them. Tackling Wicked Government Problems explores how enterprise leaders use networks of trusted, collaborative relationships to respond and lead solutions to problems that span agencies. It also offers several approaches for translating social network theory into practical approaches for these leaders to build and leverage boundary-spanning collaborative networks and achieve real mission results. Finally, past and present government executives offer strategies for systematically developing enterprise leaders. Taken together, these essays provide a way forward for a new cadre of officials better equipped to tackle government's twenty-first-century wicked challenges.

Calls for performance measures and metrics sound good, but public sector organizations often lack the tools required to assess the organization as a whole and create true change.In order to implement an integrated cycle of assessment, planning, and improvement, government agencies at all levels need a usable framework for organizational assessment that speaks to their unique needs. Organizational Assessment and Improvement in the Public Sector provides that framework, an understanding of assessment itself, and a methodology for assessment focused on the public sector. The book introduces the concept of organizational assessment, its importance, and its significance in public sector organizations. It addresses the organizational theory that underlies assessment, including change management, organizational and individual learning, and organizational development. Building on this, the author focuses on the processes and demonstrates how the communication that results from an assessment process can create a widely accepted case for change. She presents a model grounded in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program criteria but adapted for the culture of government organizations. She also addresses the criteria that form the basis for assessment and implementation and provides examples and best practices. Facing decreasing budgets and an increasing demand for services, government agencies must increase their capabilities, maximize their available fiscal and human resources, and increase their effectiveness and efficiency. They often operate in an atmosphere that prizes effectiveness but measures it in silos assigned to individual programs and a structure that encourages people to do more with less while systematically discouraging efficiency. Stressing the significant and important differences between a business and a government, this book supplies the knowledge and tools necessary to create a culture of assessment in government organizations at all levels. Organizational Assessment and the Public Sector The Demand for Effectiveness and Efficiency Organizational Assessment Assessment and Organizational Development Challenges in Public Sector Assessment and Improvement Opportunities in Public Sector Assessment Summary Notes Assessment as a Communication Process Communication Processes in Self-Assessment Summary Notes Applying Assessment Practices in the Public Sector Current State of Assessment in Government and How It Has Developed over Time Structured Self-Assessment Models Adapting Existing Assessment Processes for the Public Sector Assessment Summary Notes The Public Sector Assessment and Improvement Model Structure The Human Factor Group: Interpersonal and Communication Competence The Operational Factors: Enabling the Work of the Organization Dashboards Assessment: Applying the Information Learned Notes Implementing a Self-Assessment Program Step 1: Preparing for an Assessment Step 2: Conducting the Assessment Process Step 3: Following Through on Outcomes Summary Notes Assessment, Improvement, and the Process of Organizational Change Change Efforts in the Public Sector Identifying Barriers to Change The Process of Organizational Change Understanding the Scope of Change Organizational Learning and Personal Learning: Creating an Internal Case for Change Creating an External Case for Change: Constituent Involvement Summary Notes Case Studies and Best Practices in Assessing Public Sector Organizations Case Studies Summary Notes The Future of Assessment The Need to Identify and Disseminate Best Practices in Government Assessment The Need for Continued Adaptation of Assessment Models Identifying Tools that Facilitate Assessment Processes Finding New Ways to Encourage Governments to Participate and to Engage Their Staff Increased Recognition of the Role of Constituents in Assessment Linking Assessment Processes to Strategic Planning and Budgeting Finding Ways to Sustain a Culture of Assessment that Do Not Rely on a Single Champion Conclusion Bibliography Glossary Appendix A: The Public Sector Assessment and Improvement Model Appendix B: The Public Sector Assessment and Improvement Model—Short Form Appendix C: Exercises Appendix D: Tools for Organizational Change Efforts Stressing the significant and important differences between business and government, this book supplies the needed knowledge and tools to create a culture of assessment in government organizations at all levels. — Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment , September 2010 The author uses the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award framework as the underpinning for her public sector assessment and improvement (PSAI) model. The model is designed specifically to accommodate the culture, language and needs of government agencies. … This is a step-by-step manual for improving government agencies, and it provides a clear and practical approach to organizational assessment and improvement in government. If you are serious about improving your organization, you should read this book. —Jim Kotterman, Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center, in QP Reviews , October 2010