This text explores the effects of the corporate downsizing of the 1970s and 1980s which still reverberate in American society in the 1990s. It focuses on the im
The federal government is running huge budget deficits, spending too much, and heading toward a financial crisis. Federal spending soared under President George
The main focus of downsizing has shifted from the private to the public sector. The cutbacks began in the Department of Defense. Now the goal is a federal civil
The world of public management is changing dramatically, fueled by technological innovations such as the Internet, globalism that permits us to outsource functi