Imagine that you are heading up the DARD program’s strategic plan initiatives and that the strategic objectives and key actions remain constant. How would you better define each of the strategic objectives and key actions in order to make the selection and definition of appropriate performance measures easier? Explain how each of your definitions relate to the existing, ambiguous description.
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The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) of Northern Ireland case study provides an opportunity for you to be creative and to imagine that you are developing appropriate evaluation devices and performance measures. As a public manager, you may be asked to develop these criteria as part of the strategic change process.
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What political beliefs make you angry? How are they at odds with your own values and point of view? What is your impression of people who hold these beliefs? Where do you think these ideas come from? Who are the leading figures on the other side? What leaders on the other side seem most thoughtful and trustworthy? What do they have to say? What is the history of this idea?
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To what extent is authority based on how well a person can convince his/her subordinates that she/he, and not anyone else, deserves to be heeded and obeyed? Can one cultivate one’s authority through given strategically convincing performances?
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Read Chapter 9 of Abernathy’s textbook:
1. In your opinion, discuss how the 2016 election was particularly unconventional as compared to previous elections. Focus your discussion on what we know about the traditional American two-party system of politics.
Howard S. Becker (1966) notes, “It is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant.” For this essay, analyze how deviance and crimes are portrayed in society. The idea of deviance can change throughout time as well as culture.
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