Downsizing the Federal Government: The Management of Public Sector Workforce Reductions (Bureaucracies, Public Administration, and Public Policy)

570 Pages·1998·1.9 MB·English

by  Vernon Dale Jones

Downsizing the Federal Government

Downsizing the Federal Government : The
Management of Public Sector Workforce
title:
Reductions Bureaucracies, Public
Administration, and Public Policy
author: Jones, Vernon Dale.
publisher: ME Sharpe, Inc.
isbn10 | asin: 0765601184
print isbn13: 9780765601186
ebook isbn13: 9780585019826
language: English
Layoff systems--United States, Downsizing
subject of organizations--United States, United
States--Officials and employees--Dismissal
of.
publication date: 1998
lcc: JK744.J66 1998eb
ddc: 352.3/67
Layoff systems--United States, Downsizing
of organizations--United States, United
subject:
States--Officials and employees--Dismissal
of.
Bureaucracies, Public Administration, and Public Policy
Kenneth J. Meier
Series Editor
THE STATE OF PUBLIC BUREAUCRACY
Larry B. Hill, Editor
THE POLITICS OF DISSATISFACTION
Citizens, Services, and Urban Institutions
W. E. Lyons, David Lowery, and Ruth Hoogland DeHoog
THE DYNAMICS OF CONFLICT
BETWEEN BUREAUCRATS AND LEGISLATORS
Cathy Marie Johnson
THE POLITICS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION
The States and the Divestiture of AT&T
Jeffrey E. Cohen
WOMEN AND MEN OF THE STATES
Public Administrators at the State Level
Mary E. Guy, Editor
ETHICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
H. George Frederickson, Editor
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AT THE STATE LEVEL
Politics and Progress in Controlling Pollution
Evan J. Ringquist
THE POLITICS OF SIN
Drugs, Alcohol, and Public Policy
Kenneth J. Meier
ELECTORAL STRUCTURE AND URBAN POLICY
The Impact on Mexican American Communities
J. L. Polinard, Robert D. Wrinkle, Tomas Longoria, and Norman E.
Binder
CONTROLLING THE BUREAUCRACY
Institutional Constraints in Theory and Practice
William F. West
ENFORCING THE LAW
The Case of the Clean Water Acts
Susan Hunter and Richard W. Waterman
EXECUTIVE GOVERNANCE
Presidential Administrations and Policy Change
in the Federal Bureaucracy
Cornell G. Hooton
THE PROMISE OF REPRESENTATIVE BUREAUCRACY
Diversity and Responsiveness in a Government Agency
Sally Coleman Selden
Downsizing the Federal Government
The Management of Public Sector Workforce Reductions
Vernon Dale Jones
M.E. Sharpe
Armonk, NewYork
London, England
Copyright © 1998 by M. E. Sharpe, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jones, Vernon Dale.
Downsizing the federal government: the management of public sector
workforce reductions / by Vernon Dale Jones.
p. cm. (Bureaucracies, public administration, and public policy)
Includes bibliography references and index.
ISBN 0-7656-0118-4 (c: alk. paper)
ISBN 0-7656-0119-2 (p: alk. paper)
1. Layoff systemsUnited States.
2. Downsizing of organizationsUnited States.
3. United StatesOfficial and employeesDismissal of.
I. Title.
II. Series.
JK744.J66 1998
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About the Author
Vernon Dale Jones received his B.S. degree (1979) in aeronautical
engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, his M.B.A.
degree (1982) with a concentration in management from the College
of Business and Administration of Wright State University, his M.A.
degree (1990) in science, technology, and public policy from the
Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington
University, and his Ph.D. degree (1995) in public administration from
the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse
University. Additionally, he graduated from the Defense Systems
Management College, where he completed the Program Manager's
Course.
He is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force. He serves
as an Associate Professor and Chief of the American and Policy
Studies Division in the Department of Political Science on the faculty
at the United States Air Force Academy. Additionally, he served as
adjunct faculty member at Syracuse University for the Maxwell
School's Department of Public Administration. During his career, he
worked at the field level, headquarters level, and the Pentagon. He
held positions as a flight test engineer, advanced technology aircraft
development engineer, special assistant to the director of engineering,
program staff officer, and manager of defense systems acquisition
policies. Additionally, he was a White House aide to President Ronald
Reagan and an intern at the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at
the Pentagon, where he was a strategic analyst.
Jones is a 1997-1998 Fellow in the Council for Excellence in
Government Fellows Program.
The views expressed in this book are those of the author and are not
necessarily the official views or policy of, or endorsed by, the United
States government or the Department of Defense.
To all the dedicated public employees
at all levels of government who
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