NPR and Reinvention: Should It 'Reinvent' Federal Labor-Management Relations?

Abstract

No politician has ever lost an election for bashing the federal bureaucracy. To many Americans, the last two decades have been a period of uncontrolled government spending resulting in persistent budget deficits and a perception that the government is out of control and unresponsive to the public. So it is not surprising that over this same time period, three 'outsider' Presidents, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton, were elected saying they were going to change the way the government 'works'. This paper will review the round of reform introduced by the Clinton administration, known as 'reinvention' or the National Performance Review (NPR) and its impact on the Federal labor-management relationship. It will be argued that legislation governing our federal labor relationship should not be amended based on proposals introduced under NPR.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA318811

Entities

People

  • Richard K. Johnson

Organizations

  • Georgetown University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Employment
  • Federal Budgets
  • Government Employees
  • Governments
  • Human Resources
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • National Governments
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Procurement
  • Public Administration
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.