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The Administrative Behavior of Federal Bureau Chiefs (Paperback)
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The Administrative Behavior of Federal Bureau Chiefs (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 700
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Most of the people who keep tabs on the workings of the federal
government, no matter what the reasons for their interest, seem to
take for granted the power and autonomy of the chiefs of the
bureaus that make up the executive branch. Because so much is taken
for granted, there have not been many studies of what the chiefs
actually do day by day. Of all the participants in the governmental
process who wield--or are thought to wield--great influence, bureau
chiefs are among the least examined. Believing that he could narrow
this gap in the materials on the federal government somewhat,
Herbert Kaufman set out to report his observations of six bureau
chiefs at their jobs in the course of a year. The group consisted
of the commissioners of the Internal Revenue Service, the Customs
Service, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Social Security
Administration; the chief of the Forest Service; and the
administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service--a
set diversified enough to include a wide variety of organizational
situations and experiences, yet with enough in common to allow
comparison and generalization. The objective of his research was to
describe the chief's activities so as to explain how they exercise
their power. And he hoped to find out whether they are as powerful
as they are said to be. From his efforts emerges a detailed picture
of the work of the bureau leaders and of their role in their
agencies and in the government generally. The picture reveals that
some of the common beliefs about these officials, and perhaps about
the system as a whole, are not altogether accurate. Kaufman traces
the implications of his findings for organizing the executive
branch, for training administrators, and for organization theory.
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