Department of Public Administration and Policy Analysis. Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Edwardsville, Illinois In case of danger help is often hours away, even if their radio calls for backup are heard⦠A huge territory, never enough officers for backup, never enough budget for efficient communications, never what you needed to get the job done.
Public and nonprofit employees rarely are recognized for the extraordinary quality of the work contributions they make. This paper proposes that public administration courses consider the nature of exemplary role models in the practice of public and nonprofit work.
Leaders and entrepreneurs often are the subjects of research, casewriting, and classroom study occasionally leaders assume somewhat unlikely worker job assignments e.
Public and nonprofit workers, on the other hand, are those who are there to be motivated and acculturated, asked to be governed as the civil service, and sometimes acknowledged as the adversary in collective bargaining. York to Ron Kovic, town marshalls, sheriffs, and police officers from Wyatt Earp to Buford Pusser to Bo Dietl, public health officials from the theater of Ibsen to the film of JAWS, public sector doctors and nurses, the occasional public school teaching faculty, spies, social workers counseling drug addicts and parolees.
The nature of public and nonprofit sector work then has been the basis for fiction and nonfiction treatment of action adventure, ethical dilemmas, and sacrifice for the community. But much of this material has had little to offer instruction in the overall field of public administration. This paper will investigate the recorded work life of public and nonprofit employees as a source for the development of curriculum materials.
