PAPA 548 PUBLIC SUPERVISORY PRACTICES

                              DRAFT SYLLABUS

How Public Organizations Differ

• Different Types of Organization (Wilson on Bureaucracy)

Coping Organizations: 

  Supervisory Relationships : SERPICO

• Erwin C. Hargrove and John C. Glidewell, (editors) IMPOSSIBLE JOBS IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT (Lawrence, Kansas:  University Press of Kansas, 1990):  72-102.

• Performance - Outputs and Outcomes

• SECRETARIES OF EDUCATION  

• STAND AND DELIVER

• Procedural and Craft Organizatioons (e.g. Transformation of the Peacetime Military)

Leadership in Supervision

• Philosophies 

• Dilemmas  

In-Class Exercise:  Dilemmas  and  Job Descriptions

              Readings:

• Frank Anechiarico and James Jacoobs, "Visions of Corruption Control and the Evolution of American Public Administration," PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW (September/October 1994):  465-473. 

• James Lardner, "The Whistlee-Blower," Parts I and II, THE NEW YORKER (July 12, 19, 1993).

• Knapp Commission Report on Policce Corruption, December 1972, pp. 1-17, 196-204, 219-244.  

• Joseph Badaracco and Richard Elllsworth, LEADERSHIP AND THE QUEST FOR INTEGRITY (Boston:  Harvard Business School Press, 1989).

Also Read:  Massachusetts Department of Corrrection, Parts I, II, and III - for Midterm Exercise

  Supervisory Leadership in Crises

  Discussion of Exercise - Massachusetts Correction Department

Video - "Paul Ohlrogge and the Bataan Refugee Camp"

  Attica Exercise:  A TIME TO DIE

            Readings:

• &nnbsp; Tom Wicker, A TIME TO DIE (New York:  Quadrangle, 1975): 13-18, 22-30, 38-56, 68-69, 127-129, 133-134, 150-154, 168-177, 192-251, 255-265, 269-298, 301-322.

• Hargrove and Glidewell, 49-71, 1177-201.

• &nnbsp; John J. DiIulio, Jr., GOVERNING PRISONS (New York:  The Free Press, 1987):  165-179, 195-263.

• &nnbsp; Daniel Gordon, "Undermanned and Vulnerable," BOSTON GLOBE (1988).

• Craig Horowitz, “Inside Rikers,”” NEW YORK, October 10, 1994:  29-37.

• Crown Heights Exercise:  FACES IN THE MIRROR

           Readings:

• State of New York Report to the Governor on the Disturbances in Crown   Heights, AN ASSESSMENT OF THE CITY'S PREPAREDNESS AND  RESPONSE TO CIVIL DISORDER (1993):  55-107, 315-335.

Impossible Jobs 

- Individual Presentations of Four Other Jobs

           Reading:

• Hargrove and Glidewell:  3-46, 103-175.

• New Paradigm Challenges to Supervising Public Organizations

            Readings:

James Pinkerton, "The New PParadigm," Remarks to the Reason Foundation, Los Angeles, April 23, 1990.

Bill Clinton, Keynote Address too Democratic Leadership Council, National Convention, Cleveland, May 6, 1991.

Osborne and Gaebler, REINVENTINGG GOVERNMENT: 1-24, 311-331.  

James Pinkerton, "George Buush and the 4th American Revolution," Remarks at the Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 21, 1992.

&nnbsp; REPORT OF THE NATIONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW (Vice-President Gore):  1-9, 60-64.

Jon Meacham, "What Al Gore Might Learn the Hard Way," WASHINGTON MONTHLY, September 1993.                          

            Watch:  HEARTS OF DARKNESS

Final Exercise:  

Applying New Paradigm Concepts to an Impossible Job

Grades: 50% - each of two exercises