The editorial calendar outlines The Public Manager’s current interests and priorities for prospective authors, readers, and other event sponsors or advertisers wishing to learn more about issues to be featured in the coming year. It describes what to expect in the next four issues and in our discussion events (forums, symposia, conferences, etc.) and related Web site exchanges (Web forums, blogs, etc.). It also provides our affiliates and other public service organizations a means of collaborating across feature areas on themes and topics of common interest—in the quarterly journal, on the Web site, and with respect to planned public discussion events. For more information, contact Warren Master, Editor-in-Chief.
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| Winter: January 15, 2008 |
November 1, 2007 |
Theme: New Waves on the Horizon |
| Spring: April 15, 2008 |
February 1, 2008 |
Theme: Collaborative Technology |
| Summer: July 15, 2008 |
May 1, 2008 |
Theme: Transformational Management |
| Fall: October 15, 2008 |
August 1, 2008 |
Theme: Collaborative Governance |
Each theme includes articles with content in the following areas: |
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Performance Management |
- Performance measurement at the state & and local levels
- Federal agency response to demand for results
- Linking agency decision making to results
- Getting strategic results through performance-based contracting
- Measuring performance
- Comparing performance using common standards
- Fostering an organization-wide performance culture
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Accountability |
- Best practices in alternative sourcing and improved oversight
- Strategic sourcing in the face of increased requirements
- Ethical challenges and solutions at different levels of government
- Stewardship, ethics, and new rules and realities
- Making transparency an organization-wide value
- Managing internal and external risk
- Outcome-oriented cost management, cost sharing, and performance budgeting
- Stewardship in an era of outsourcing, right-sizing, and performance measurement
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Strategic Human Capital |
- Human capital strategies at all levels of government
- New demographics and recruiting and retaining young professionals
- Developing professional leaders and managers
- Strategic human capital planning and the workforce of the future
- Leading and managing change in a multisector environment
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Technology Management |
- Keeping pace with expanding e-expectations
- Managing knowledge across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries
- Managing virtually in a technology-smart organization
- Continuity planning, telework, and the workplace of the future
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Collaborative Governance |
- Interagency collaboration in the face of disasters
- Global collaboration in the face of catastrophic disasters
- Best practices in intergovernmental collaboration and regional governance
- Transformation management in emerging democracies and developing countries
- Best practices in citizen participation
- Engaging citizens and formulating policy in a federal democracy
- Communicating across networks, not within stovepipes
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