Getting Agencies to Work Together
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Getting Agencies to Work Together

The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship

  1. 348 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Getting Agencies to Work Together

The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship

About this book

Collaboration between government agencies, an old joke goes, is an unnatural act committed by nonconsenting adults. Eugene Bardach argues that today's opinion climate favoring more results-oriented government makes collaboration a lot more natural--though it is still far from easy. In this book, Bardach diagnoses the difficulties, explains how they are sometimes overcome, and offers practical ideas for public managers, advocates, and others interested in developing interagency collaborative networks.
Bardach provides examples from diverse policy areas, including children, youth, and family services; welfare-to-work; antipollution enforcement; fire prevention; and ecosystem management.

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18
CREATING
VALUE
THROUGH
COLLABORATION
the
case.
The
process
of
trying
to
exploitĀ 
suchĀ 
opportunities
involves,
at
a
minimum,
leveragingĀ 
personnel
and
financial
resources
for
collabo-
rative
purposes,Ā 
designing
and
managing
an
effective
operatingĀ 
sys-
tem,Ā 
reaching
and
maintainingĀ 
consensus
on
basicĀ 
goals
andĀ 
on
trade-
offs
amongĀ 
relevantĀ 
subgoals,Ā 
creating
an
effective
culture
or
ethos
of
interpersonalĀ 
workingĀ 
relationships,
and
securing
the
implicit
or
explicit
consent
of
elected
officials.
ItĀ 
isĀ 
a
complexĀ 
developmental
processĀ 
thatĀ 
unfoldsĀ 
over
a
longĀ 
timeĀ 
period.
ThisĀ 
bookĀ 
aims
to
explain
how
thisĀ 
processĀ 
works
andĀ 
to
makeĀ 
avail-
ableĀ 
ideas
to
activists
and
practitioners
of
publicĀ 
managementĀ 
inter-
ested
in
furthering
interagencyĀ 
collaboration.
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do
this
I
have
hadĀ 
to
develop
a
conceptual
framework
thatĀ 
permitsĀ 
socialĀ 
scientists
to
achieve
a
moreĀ 
realistic
and
methodologicallyĀ 
defensibleĀ 
conceptual-
ization
ofĀ 
the
creativeĀ 
process
in
publicĀ 
managementĀ 
than
we
haveĀ 
had.
I
baseĀ 
thisĀ 
conceptualization
on
ideasĀ 
aboutĀ 
craftsmanship,Ā 
particularly
ideasĀ 
about
the
variedĀ 
purposes
of
those
whoĀ 
are
engaged
inĀ 
the
process
and
about
the
medium
in
whichĀ 
theyĀ 
work.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. 1 Creating Value through Collaboration
  4. 2 Craftsmanship Theory
  5. 3 Methods and Cases
  6. 4 The Operating System
  7. 5 How an Interagency Collaborative Acquires Resources
  8. 6 How an Interagency Collaborative Steers a Course
  9. 7 The Culture of Joint Problem Solving
  10. 8 Developmental Dynamics
  11. 9 Craftsmanship Theory Applied and Appreciated
  12. References
  13. Index