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

Author: Vernon Dale Jone
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: public, reductions, bureaucracies, administration, policy, workforce, sector, federal, government, management, downsizing
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1998-05-01
List price: $106.95
ISBN-10: 0765601184
ISBN-13: 9780765601186

Book Description:



This text explores the effects of the corporate downsizing of the 1970s and 1980s which still reverberate in American society in the 1990s. It focuses on the implementation of the Clinton administration’s "reinventing government" initiative across three federal agencies.