How Management Matters Street-Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform

Name: How Management Matters Street-Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform
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ISBN: 9781589010413

ISBN-10: 1589010418

ISBN-13: 9781589010413

Edition: 2005

Authors: Norma M. Riccucci

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"How Management Matters examines not only how but where public management matters in government organizations. Looking at the 1996 welfare reform law (the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, or PRWORA), Riccucci examines the law's effectiveness in changing the work functions and behaviors of street-level welfare workers from the role of simply determining eligibility of clients to actually helping their clients find work. She investigates the significant role of these workers in the implementation of welfare reform, the role of public management in changing the system of welfare under the reform law, and management's impact on results--in this case ensuring the…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Publication date: 3/2/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Tables and Figures


Acknowledgments


Preface



How Can management Not Matter?



Ending Welfare as We Knew It



The Important Role of Public Management in Welfare Reform



Public Management and Street-Level Bureaucrats



The Art and Science of Managing Street-Level Bureaucrats



What Are Welfare Workers Doing at the Front Lines?



How Public Management Matters



The Survey



Data and Data Collection



Critical Events Leading to Passage of Welfare Reform



Chronology of Major Welfare Policy and Legislation Enacted in the United States



Codes for Encounters


Notes


Index