Public Affairs, Administrative Faculty and the Winter Commission Report

Dunn, Delmer D.

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“…In fact, one textbook labeled it the most familiar organization theory approach based on a psychological perspective (Nigro and Nigro 1989). Such inclusion acknowledged the status of OD in the field as textbooks are a primary method for conveying key concepts to acolytes (Dunn 1988).…”

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Organization Development and Management History: A Tale of Changing Seasons

Schachter

2017

Public Administration Quarterly

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This article situates organization development (OD) in public administration history as a case study in understanding how the popularity of interventions to enhance agency performance rise and decline in academic literature. Using Barley and Kunda's (1992) tripartite historical analysis of management paradigms it discusses OD's surge, its rhetoric, and the challenges it confronted, especially from the alternative intervention of total quality management. The article shows how the rise and relative decline of OD within the PA literature coincided with important public administration theory developments in the mid and late twentieth century.

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Organization Development and Management History: A Tale of Changing Seasons

Schachter

2017

Public Administration Quarterly

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“…Aligning with learning objective 3, which emphasizes the application of theory to practice in utilizing foundational and intermediate knowledge of diversity and other cultures as part of learning about global awareness, dialogues apply comparative analysis to illustrate cross-national differences and learn from alternative methods of behavior. Public affairs education has emphasized the need to promote diverse classroom settings, which require that students interact with learners from different backgrounds and cultures (Dunn, 1994;Lauth, 2001;Pitts and Wise, 2004). In recent times, language barriers have been eased using two-way voice translators such as Two-Way Google Translate, which provide free translation services for words and phrases, along with web pages between English and more than 100 other languages.…”

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Teaching diversity, cultural competency, and globalization to American public affairs students: Integrating comparative approaches to public administration and policy

Baracskay

2020

Teaching Public Administration

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Diversity, cultural competency, and global awareness are three broad and mutually reinforcing conceptual themes in the literature of American public affairs education that are rarely implicitly interconnected. A primary challenge has concerned how to teach these themes, either separately or in unison, when designing courses and curricula to satisfy professional standards. This article first explores how broad conceptual themes can be practically transformed into course learning objectives on which assignments may be based. Second, this article explores how comparative public administration and policy may be utilized as a venue for drawing analytical connections across the three themes to promote higher levels of critical thinking. Although comparative approaches have historically been grounded in research-focused studies, pedagogical development of the field holds significant promise in training public administrators to better understand the intricacies of different cultures, nations, governments, and policies as a facet of learning and job performance. This article illustrates several assignment examples of how comparative analysis may be integrated as a pedagogical strategy in teaching American public affairs students the complexities of public service in the diverse and multicultural world of the 21st century.

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