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Corporation for National and Community Service, Review of Organization, Management, and Human Resources

Client/Funder:
Corporation for National and Community Service (posted: 8/10/2004)

Purpose and Scope:

The study will have four components: (1) the leadership and overall management of the Corporation, including the role of the board of Directors, lines of authority, and effect of the dichotomy in funding, (2) the organization and program structure of the Corporation, including the field structure, grant program structure and operations, CNCS actions in response to earlier Academy recommendations, and financial management, (3) Human resources management, including process changes made as part of the strategic human capital management plan, and a follow up on recommendations made in the earlier study on the Alternative Personnel System, and (4) CNCS interactions with State and local entities and other stakeholders. The study is expected to last for up to one year.

Center:

Academy Studies

Project Director:

Al Kliman

Project Status:

Ongoing

Panel:

The Academy has appointed the following individuals to a Panel to oversee and direct the study. The public may send comments on the composition of the panel for a period of seven (7) days after the posted date to mditmeyer@napawash.org.

William G. Hamm(Chair) - Managing Director, LECG (formerly Law & Economics Consulting Group). Former Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco; Vice President, World Savings and Loan Association; Legislative Analyst, State of California; Deputy Associate Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

Alan L. Dean - Former Vice President for Administration, U.S. Railway Association; Deputy Assistant Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget; Assistant Secretary for Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation; Associate Administrator for Administration, Federal Aviation Agency.

Peter Goldberg - President and Chief Executive Officer, Families International, Inc., and Alliance for Children and Families (formerly Family Service America, Inc.); Chief Executive Officer, Family Foundation of North America, and Ways to Work. Former President, Prudential Foundation, The Prudential Life Insurance Co. Former positions with Primerica Foundation, Primerica Corporation (formerly American Can Co.): Vice President, Public Responsibility; Director. Former Project Director, New York State Heroin and Alcohol Abuse Study; Special Assistant to the Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Consultant to the President, Joint Center for Political Studies.

Statement of Disclosure of Peter Goldberg - I want to call to your attention to past/current points of contact I have had with CNCS; I do not think that either instance rises to the level of a potential source of bias, but for the sake of complete transparency, I wanted to share them with you nonetheless.

First, I have meet CNCS President and CEO, David Eisner, several times in the past, most often at the meetings of the Board of Directors of Independent Sector, on whose Board we both served for an overlapping period of time (about one year or so, as I recall).

Second, I chair the advisory committee of the Listening Post, a project at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies, which has been in some recent discussions with CNCS about some project funding. The advisory committee I chair has no governing functions and I have not been directly involved in any conversations between this project and CNCS.

Edie Goldenberg - Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. Former Dean, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Director, Institute of Public Policy Studies, University of Michigan. Former Chief, Civil Service Reform Evaluation Management Division, U.S. Office of Personnel Management; Lecturer, Political Science, Stanford University.

David Reingold* - Associate Professor, Indiana University, School of Public Affairs; Managing Editor and Co-Editor, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; Former positions include: Director, Office of Research and Policy Development, The Corporation for National and Community Service, Washington D.C.; Member, White House Task Force for Disadvantaged Youth, and Chairman of the Research, Accountability, and Performance Committee; Housing Commissioner, Bloomington, Indiana Housing Authority Board of Commissioners; Field Associate, Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government; Advisor, Parliamentary Development Project for the Supreme Rada of Ukraine.

* Not an Academy Fellow


Meetings:

Meeting 1: November 1, 2004(closed in afternoon executive session) (posted 9/15/04)
Meeting 2: February 10, 2005 (posted 12/11/04)
Meeting 3: May 2, 2005 (closed 10:15 onwards) (posted 3/15/05)
Meeting 4: July 19, 2005 (posted 4/20/05)(postponed)
Meeting 4: August 16, 2005 (closed 9:15 onwards)(posted 6/7/05)


For further information, contact Marty Ditmeyer at (202) 347-3190, or at MDitmeyer@napawash.org.

 

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the Ethics of Dissent

Guerrillas in government are all around us, writes Academy Fellow Rosemary O’Leary in her new book, “The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerrilla Government.” The term “guerrilla government” describes career public servants who work against the wishes of their superiors which, O’Leary states, happens more than we may realize in government’s bureaucracy.

O’Leary says guerrillas often choose to remain “in the closet,” moving clandestinely behind the scenes, such as “Deep Throat” or the DMV clerk who deliberately slows the processing of a driver’s license application. Guerrilla dissent is carried out by those who are dissatisfied with the actions of public organizations, programs—or by people who choose not to go public with their concerns.

Ultimately, O’Leary found in her research that public servants and managers could benefit from addressing guerrilla activity. She says they should carefully listen to the creative ideas of these dissenters, even encourage debate, so that constructive changes in the system can be made.

Buy “The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerrilla Government”.


 

 

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