Mar. 19 Constraints; Compliance

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Mar. 19 Constraints Compliance

• Focus upon
• --The nature and effects of contextual goals and
  political constraints
• --Pay particular attention to the first
  paragraph on p. 174. Does this square with your
  ideas about management? Later, we will study
  organization networks What might be implications
  for managing networks?
• Note The first set of questions below pertains
  Wilson pp. 129-136 the second to Chapter 9
• What (according to Wilson) is the key difference
  between public and private organizations?
• Does that (the difference) make agency theory
  more or less useful as a way to understand how
  public organizations work? (there could be
  various lines of logic here.)
• Do constraints on public organizations encourage
  or discourage the adoption of innovations (like
  computer information systems) in public
  organizations? What other factors are pertinent
  here?
• If you watch CNN much, What can Lou Dobbs learn
  (from Wilson) about the Immigration and
  Naturalization Service (which he criticizes) ?
• How does Wilsons discussions in the first few
  pages of Chapter 9 relate to the topics of
  accountability, enactment, and (organizations as)
  institutions
• (Re first paragraph 174), FEMA advocates an
  all-hazards approach to disaster management
  (all types of disasters managed by the same
  procedures). What would Wilson likely say about
  this??
• (for future reference in Fountain), classify the
  following according to Wilsons types of agencies
• U.S. Army
• U.S. Customs Service (with regard to
  international commerce)
• U.S. Department of Transportation (with regard to
  international commerce)