公共管理国外名著选读考点

1、名词解释：5*4Glass ceilingexists over women and minorities that allows them to think they can advance into management levels where in reality they are discriminated against. Thus only a disproportionate, small percentage of woman and minorities make it into management roles.Affirmative action was created

2、 to give certain grouping of people preference over others to compensate for past discrimination opponents of affirmative action.Principal agent theory: When individual are not always informed adequately, they have not the technical skills to make decisions that will serve their best interests. Othe

3、rs have the competence and information to make decision on behalf of the principal in the principles interests.Strategic management: is an approach to managing an organization that emphasizes long-term thinking and, as the term states, managing strategically instead of reactively or intuitively.Publ

4、ic personnel management is the management of a system whereby public agencies recruit, compensate, and discipline their employees. The system is normally characterized by a watchdog differentiation between the structures that perform personnel tasks and structures that protect employees rights and i

5、nsulate the process from politics.The compliance audit is the simplest and most common form of scrutiny of p public agencies. An auditor checks whether financial transactions undertaken by a public agency comply with relevant financial laws and regulations.A balance budget would be one in which reve

6、nues and expenditures for the coming year are equal, without the need to borrow to make up for a deficit or funds shortfall.EEO: Equal employment opportunity was intend to create a level playing field by giving everyone and equal chance at education and employment.Strategic planning is the all impor

7、tant first step in strategic management. It identify the effects of current decision on future operation.Leadership: The action of who, whether elected, appointed, or emerging by group consensus, directs, coordinates, and supervises the work of others for the purpose of accomplishing a given task.简答

8、题5*6The four central issues in organization behavior:Social pressure cause individual group member to conform.Educative work teams do not just happen, they must be built and nurtured.Making major changes in a government agency requires broad scope strategies that are similar to military tactics and

9、strategies than to organization theory.If an organization is to be become and remain effective, its members must engage in generative learning, learning that enhance our capacity to create.The tenets of classical organization theory:Organization exist to accomplish production-related and economic go

10、als(2 ) there is one best way to organize for production, and that way can be found through systematic, scientific inquiry.(3 ) Production is maximized through specialization and division for labor.(4 ) People and organization act in accordance with rational economic principles.Four conditions for s

11、uccessful team building:Interdependence(2 ) Leadership(3 ) Joint decision(4 ) Equal influenceThe key purpose of the budgetary process:Control over public money and accountability to public authority.(2 ) Predictability and planning(3 ) Relating expenditure to revenue(4 ) Varying spending to suit the

12、 economy(5 ) using the budget as a lever for efficiency.Four over-arching principles define the IGR:(1) Constitutional government(2 ) Formal federalism(3 ) the diversity of government(4) Pervasive democracyMeasurement for evaluating the productivity agency:(1) a comprehensive set of scrutiny mechani

13、sms designed to examine performance and productivity(2 ) Detect and expose fraud or lack of compliance with financial mandates.(3 ) Assesses and evaluate broader issues to do with program effectiveness.Main purposes of codes of ethics:Codes of ethics aid in the formation of a professional consensus.

14、Codes of ethics provide a point of reference when a public administrator is faced with a dilemma.Codes of ethics provide a basis for educating members.Four models of government that underlie current public sector reform proposal:(1) Market government(2 ) Participative government(3 ) Flexible governm

15、ent(4 ) Deregulated governmentThe new public management:(1) Privatization of many government activities(2 ) Downsizing of public bureaucracies(3 ) and emphasis on government making policy rather than delivering services(4 ) Greater use of nonprofits in service delivery(5 ) Deregulation(6 ) Reduced b

16、ureaucratic complexity(7 ) the decline of the politically neutral career public service(8 ) and emphasis on measuring reporting and rewarding performanceHierarchy of ethics:Personal moralityProfessional ethicsOrganizational ethicsSocial ethics翻译：3*10Chapter1Public administration refers to two distin

17、guishable but closely related activities:(1)a professional practice (vocation, occupation, field of activity) and (2) an academic field which seeks to understand, develop, criticize, and improve that professional practice as well as to train individuals for that practice. The simple meaning of the t

18、erm is quite direct: it refers on the one hand to the administration or management of matters which have principally to do with the society, polity and its subparts which are not essentially private, familial, commercial, or individualistic, and on the other hand to the disciplined study of such mat

19、ters. In this simplest meaning public administration has to do withmanaging the realm ofgovernmented and other public activities. This simple definition conveys the essence of public administration and probably covers the vast majority of activities and concerns of contemporary public administration

20、.公共管理涉与两种明显不同但又紧密联系的活动：职业领域(职业、工作、活动领域)致力于了解，发展、批评和提高这种职业培训的学术领域。这个术语的 简单含义是非常直接的：一方面，它指主要与社会、政治组织、以与其 分支有关的事务，而这些分支基本上不是私人家庭、商业和个人的。另 一方面，它指对这些事物的严谨研究。就其最简单的意义来说，公共管 理涉与政府和其他公共活动的管理。这个简单的定义表达了公共管理的 本质，也可能包含了当代公共管理的大部分问题和活动。Chapter?The term administration state” is intend to convey several realities

21、 of contemporary government: that a great deal of the societys resources are spent on the salaries and functions of public administration; that public administration are crucial to the operation of contemporary government; that, as a whole, they are politically powerful and that the nation has decid

22、ed on a course of attempting to solve its problem and achieve its aims through the use of administrative action.“行政型国家”这一术语是表达当代政府的若干现实。大量的社会资源被浪 费在了公共行政部门所开销的薪酬和行政活动中。公共部门的管理者对当代 政府的运作是至关重要的；作为一个整体，公共部门的管理者同时拥有行政权力；国家通常采用行政的方法试图来解决他们遇到的问题，以与实现相应 的目标。ChaptersThe system of federalism was established

23、by the constitution, James Bryce explains:it has long been agreed that the only possible form of government for American is a federal one. The chief deter native to a federal system of government is a unitary system, as in France or Japan, where there are no state government and all significant powe

24、r lies with the national government. Such system may be good for getting things done and for focusing accountability. They avoid overlap and duplication levels of government or complex system of federal state financial relations. But non-unitary federal system offer great strengths in terms of enhan

25、cing diversity of recognizing the variances among aspiration, values and resources that people hold in different communities and corners across this nation, Our system of federalism places significant democratic governments in every city and crossroads and, by so doing, the potential government is r

26、educed.联邦制度是在宪法的基础上建立的。詹姆斯布莱斯解释说：一直以来，一 致认为，对美国来说唯一可能政府的形式是联邦政府。联邦政府系统主要采 用的是一个单一的系统，如法国和日本，没有州政府，所有重要的权力是在 国家政府手中。这种系统可能的好处就是做实事和重点问责制。他们避免重 叠和复杂联邦国家财政制度的关系。但非单一的联邦系统可以加强多样性方 面的优势，承认全国各个不同地区人民所拥有的愿望，价值和资源以与民族 的差异性。我们联邦制度让伟大的XX政府渗透到每一个城市和国家的每一 个角落，并通过这样做，使出现一个偏远和反应迟钝的独裁政府的潜在风险 降低。ChaptersPerformance

27、 Management consists of six phases.The organization specifies clear and measurable objectives.Management selects and uses performance indicators to measure the organizations progress in attaining its objectives.The performance of each employees （or team） is evaluated regularly.Performance incentives

28、 are used to help motivate employees to meet the organizations objectives.Financial and human resources are coordinated and budgeted in a manner that focuses resources on organizational objectives.The organizations progress is assessed at the end of each budget cycle, and goals are re-set to continuously improve performance over successive budget cycles.绩效管理包括六个阶段（1）该组织确定明确和可衡量的目标（2）管理者选择和使用绩效指标来衡量该组织在实现其目标的进展情况（3）每个员工或团队的表现定期评估（4）绩效奖励