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National Institutes of Health Administrative Restructuring

Client/Funder:
National Institutes of Health (posted: 02/11/2004)

Purpose and Scope:

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), by agreement between the NIH Director and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is restructuring eight of its administrative functions and has engaged the Academy to assist. Together with the NIH Office of Management Assessment, the Academy will support the work of the eight groups assembled by NIH to restructure the following administrative areas: acquisition, budget, equal employment opportunity, facilities, finance, grants, human resources, and information technology.

This report was prepared for the NIH Deputy Director for Management to document recent developments. NIH will use it to help administrative officers adjust to new situations. (Last updated 10/17/05).

Project Director:

Bruce McDowell

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.

Ralph C. Bledsoe, Chair - Former Assistant Archivist for Policy and IRM and former Assistant Archivist for Management and Administration, National Archives and Records Administration; Director, Ronald Reagan Library; Director, Washington Public Affairs Center, University of Southern California; Special Assistant to the President of the United States, Cabinet Council on Management and Administration; Associate Director, Office of Planning and Evaluation, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Professor and Senior Faculty Member, Federal Executive Institute.

Gail Christopher - Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution. Former Executive Director, Institute for Government Innovation, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Also former Co-Chair, Advisory Board, Alliance for Redesigning Government, National Academy of Public Administration; Director and Creator, Americans All K-12 National Multicultural Educators Training Program; Associate for Development and Program Design, Howard University School of Divinity Information and Services Clearinghouse; Director and Principal Architect of the National Reclaim Our Youth Violence Prevention Program; Executive Director, Family Resource Coalition of America.

C. William Fischer - Former Senior Vice President for Business and Finance, Northwestern University; Executive Vice President, Brandeis University; Vice President for Budget and Finance, University of Colorado; Assistant Secretary for Planning and Budget, U.S. Department of Education; Deputy Administrator, Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy; Deputy Associate Director for Human Resources, and Deputy Assistant Director for Legislative Reference, U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

Thomas Glynn, III - Chief Operating Officer, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor; Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration, Brown University; General Manager, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority; General Manager, World Trade Center (Boston); Deputy Commissioner, Department of Public Welfare and Assistant Director, Governor's Office of Program and Policy Development, State of Massachusetts.

Peter Barton Hutt - Partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling, specializing in food and drug law. Member of the Institute of Medicine; co-author of the casebook used to teach food and drug law throughout the country; Adjunct professor at Harvard Law School. Serves on academic and venture capital advisory boards, and the boards of startup biotechnology companies. Former Chief Counsel for the Food and Drug Administration.

Joseph S. Wholey - Professor of Public Administration, University of Southern California. Former Senior Advisor for Performance and Accountability, U.S. General Accounting Office. Former Senior Advisor to the Deputy Director for Management, U.S. Office of Management and Budget; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Director, Program Evaluation Studies, The Urban Institute.


Meetings:

Meeting 1: March 15, 2004 (closed) (posted 2/18/04)
Meeting 2: May 12, 2004 (closed) (posted 2/18/04)
Meeting 3: July 23, 2004 (closed) (posted 4/28/04)
Meeting 4: September 24, 2004 (closed) (posted 4/28/04)
Meeting 5: November 5, 2004 (closed) (posted 4/28/04)
Meeting: 6: January 26, 2005 (closed) (posted 4/28/04)
Meeting 9: August 17, 2005 (closed) (posted 7/19/05)

For Further Information:

Marty Ditmeyer
Project Associate
MDitmeyer@napawash.org
202-347-3190 x 3047

 

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Academy Fellow Tackles
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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