Identify your community (town, city, or county), and reflect on a local public issue that needs improvement and/or has been revised or updated (e.g., improved roadways, improved processing at the Department of Motor Vehicles [DMV], new traffic construction, improved public parking, safer public parks, implementation of recreation projects, addition of bike paths). Determine what types of information that the public organization manager needed to properly solve the issue. As your guide, ensure to frame your response using Simon’s four decision-making strategies listed in the Unit IV Lesson.
Identifying the opportunity (or problem):
Retrieving facts
Finalizing the decision
Evaluating the outcome: (200 words)
Select a public figure you are able to research or one whom you know personally. The person should work for a public institution at the local, state, or federal level or at a nonprofit organization.
Reference Article 48: “From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government that Works Better and Costs Less” on page 514 of the textbook. In a two- to three-page paper, elaborate on how your selected public administrator uses any one (or more) of the four key principles to successfully analyze and solve a public problem. Include a short narrative describing your representative’s management style and why this is important when developing problem-solving strategies.
The four key principles, which are listed on page 518 of the textbook, include the components shown below.
1.Cutting the red tape.
2.Putting customers first.
3.Empowering employees to get results.
4.Cutting back-to-back to basics: Producing better government for less.
2pgs in your own words
