This new work offers an in-depth look at the roles played by
professional local government managers within the changing
circumstances of American community life. It analyzes the societal
and political influences that have shaped the professionalization
of local government managers, and projects how the roles of these
officers will develop, now that the professional movement has been
accepted. In preparing the work, the author has accessed, for the
first time, the International City Management Association's decade
of national survey information on cities and countries with
recognized professional administrative officers. Data from this
study is merged with two author-conducted surveys of communities
with recognized professional, full-time managers, allowing the
author to analyze the local government profession as seen over a
13-year period.
The book opens with a discussion of the trends in professional
roles and presents profiles of city managers and their career paths
(the link between professional education and experience). Next it
covers the occupational values and associated activities (the
symbolic and practical roles of professional public managers) and
the impact of the professional movement on practitioners, their
jobs, and their cities. The book also presents a typology of
professional services, status, and standards and gives a general
evaluation of the profession of local government management and its
place in the community. An extensive research bibliography is
included. This book will have equal appeal for academics in public
administration and practitioners in local government (state, city,
county, and so on).
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