Hindy Lauer Schachter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1104844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hindy Lauer Schachter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hindy Lauer |
| FAMILY NAME | Schachter |
| SIGNATURE | SCHACHTER H L |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5671-3470 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Opening the Door to Labor: Changing Our View of the Field’s Past to Help Create a More Class Inclusive Public Administration for the Future
This article argues that the future of Public Administration (PA) requires developing a more class inclusive field. Despite labor leaders helping to shape the administrative state in the Progressive Era (ca. 1895–1917) the PA canon continues to emphasize the work of people from the middle and upper classes. The article urges revitalizing the field’s history for the future by including Progressive era labor leaders as one way of adding a labor pre…
Working-Class Women and the Progressive Era Development of Public Administration: The Case of Margaret Bondfield
Using a case study of British trade union organizer Margaret Bondfield, this article begins the task of adding a working class perspective to accounts of women’s participation in Progressive era urban reform and expansion of public policy while also showing how international networks of support among trade union women undergirded American reform efforts. The narrative expands the consideration of intersectionality and positionality in analyzing w…
E‐participation Opportunities and the Ambiguous Role of Corruption: A Model of Municipal Responsiveness to Sociopolitical Factors
Municipalities ostensibly scale the ladder of e‐participation improvement to gain legitimacy. However, research has not yet addressed how e‐participation initiatives are affected by serious legitimacy concerns such as corruption. One municipal response to corruption is to use e‐participation offerings as a remedial effort to gain citizen trust, but window‐dressing strategies might also be used. In this article, the authors attempt to make sense o…
Civil Service, Academic Tenure, and Management History: How Changes in Management Theory on Professional Knowledge and Hierarchy Affected Merit Reform
This article relates shifts in American university tenure policies to historical changes in management debates on the relative importance of expertise and hierarchical standing in organizational decision making. The analysis contrasts the importance of expertise in Progressive Era (ca. 1895–1917) scientific management theories with the emergence of a more hierarchically grounded managerialist perspective in the second half of the twentieth centur…
Women in Public Administration: Giving Gender a Place in Education for Leadership
This article explores some aspects of the place of gender in educating public administrators for leadership, an important component of re-orienting women’s public sector role. While previous research has examined the place of gender in the Master of Public Administration (MPA) diversity and core courses, this study adds to our knowledge by analyzing gender in popular introductory MPA textbooks and in leadership courses. The aim is not only to see…
Elinor Ostrom: The Power and Peril of Multidisciplinary Research
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Mary Parker Follett in Her Intellectual Environment
The Two Faces of Progressive-Era Professions: Using an Early Twentieth-Century Case to Understand the Place of Power in Constructing Professions, and Why This Matters for Public Administration
This article argues for an understanding of the social impact of professionalization that takes account of the way a profession is embedded in a given social system. This approach assumes that the impact of professionalization varies depending on a given society's power relations. The essay uses Progressive-era conflicts in the growth of social work to delineate how power linked to funding helped create one professional persona. Such analysis is …
The impact of government form on e-participation: A study of New Jersey municipalities
Exploring Followership in a Public Setting: Is It a Missing Link Between Participative Leadership and Organizational Performance
Based on data drawn from the Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Human Capital Survey, as well as from data provided in written interviews, this study offers empirical evidence that followership mediates the relationship that exists between participative leadership and public organization performance
The New York School of Philanthropy, the Bureau of Municipal Research, and the Trail of the Missing Women: A Public Administration History Detective Story
This article uses archival research to analyze the role of the New York School of Philanthropy as a precursor to the Bureau of Municipal Research (BMR) Training School, which is generally considered the first professional public administration program in America. The article argues that the two organizations had similar curricula and aspirations in the early Progressive period, particularly from 1907 to 1912, but that subsequently their paths div…
A Gendered Legacy?
Agency Autonomization in Korea: Some Issues in Cross-polity Transfer of Agency Autonomization
This paper describes some of the issues surrounding South Korea's introduction of autonomous executive agencies as one component of its new public management (NPM) reform. Particular emphasis is given to some problems and critiques surrounding implementation. The research defines the concept of autonomous public agencies, explains why South Korea's government embraced the concept, and analyzes some critiques of its deployment. Finally, this study…
Objective and Subjective Performance Measures: A Note on Terminology
At least since the late 1970s, the performance measurement literature has used different terminologies to describe agency- and citizen-generated performance measures. The first type of measures are placed into objective and the second type into subjective categories. This article argues that this terminology is outdated owing to evidence on the contextual subjectivity of all performance measures. The analysis also examines the potential impact of…
Lillian Borrone: Weaving a Web to Revitalize Port Commerce in New York and New Jersey
In 1988, when Lillian Borrone became the director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Port Commerce Department, she was the first woman in the world to head a major port. During her 12‐year tenure, she revitalized the port’s cargo trade. She spearheaded the recovery of a faltering entity through vision, astute marketing, and an inclusive, participatory management style. Her achievements contain valuable lessons for all managers who…
When Political Science Championed Public Service Training: The American Political Science Association Campaign for Professional Public Administration
This article examines how Progressive-Era political scientists worked to promote public service training. It gives evidence that the Progressive-Era political science community had a broad view of its mission that included preparing civil servants. Since World War II, tension has permeated relations between mainstream political science and professional public administration programs. Participants in current debates on relations between the two fi…
Does Frederick Taylor’s Ghost Still Haunt the Halls of Government? A Look at the Concept of Governmental Efficiency in Our Time
Since the Progressive Era, efficiency has been a cherished administrative value and a key concept in the study of public administration. Despite contemporary attention to other criteria, such as responsiveness and equity, efficiency remains a guiding governmental value and a focus of scholarly writing. Although efficiency is often considered an apolitical value, this article argues that public sector efficiency receives meaning through a politica…
Mobility Information Needs of Immigrants with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) in New Jersey
The mobility information needs of American immigrants with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) are of interest to state governments because these individuals constitute a growing share of public transit users. This article relates a project sponsored by New Jersey's Department of Transportation to learn the specific needs of the state's LEP transit users in order to serve them better. Using survey and focus group methodologies the research uncovere…
Policy Development and New Immigrant Communities: A Case Study of Citizen Input in Defining Transit Problems
This case study explores an attempt to get input from people with limited English proficiency in a state department of transportation project to improve their transit access. Adding community voices to expert discourse can increase an agency's ability to respond effectively in a technical field. The article yields insights into the benefits of using deliberative groups rather than questionnaires as a technique for involving citizens in problem de…
The Citizen Deliberator
Books reviewed in this article:Bruce Ackerman and James S. Fishkin, Deliberation DayEthan Leib, Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a Popular Branch of Government
Symposium: The Importance of the Progressive Era in Public Administration Today
Philadelphia's Progressive-Era Bureau of Municipal Research
This article examines the early work of the Philadelphia Bureau of Municipal Research (PBMR), the second organization incorporated to use scientific management insights to improve urban government. Comparisons are made between some of PBMR's initiatives and those of its more famous counterpart, the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. While the two organizations shared an agenda to spearhead increases in city health-care programs for the poor, …
Administrative Culture and Metaphor Change
Women, Progressive-Era Reform, and Scientific Management
Questions have been raised about the relation of Progressive-Era women reformers to scientific management and the efficiency concept associated with it. This article brings evidence from organizations such as the National Consumers League and the Taylor Society to argue that in the Progressive Era female reformers belonged to a community of discourse close to scientific management. Understanding this relationship helps delineate the intellectual …
Creating Stakeholders for Transportation Research: Some Factors Affecting Internal Customer Use of Transportation Research Bureau Projects
This article explores factors that relate to how internal customers use the work completed for them by state department of transportation research bureaus. The influence of researcher-customer relations, top management values, actions of the federal government and industry, and credibility and time dimensions of the research process itself are examined
The impact of government form on e-participation: A study of New Jersey municipalities
Objective and Subjective Performance Measures: A Note on Terminology
At least since the late 1970s, the performance measurement literature has used different terminologies to describe agency- and citizen-generated performance measures. The first type of measures are placed into objective and the second type into subjective categories. This article argues that this terminology is outdated owing to evidence on the contextual subjectivity of all performance measures. The analysis also examines the potential impact of…
The New York School of Philanthropy, the Bureau of Municipal Research, and the Trail of the Missing Women: A Public Administration History Detective Story
This article uses archival research to analyze the role of the New York School of Philanthropy as a precursor to the Bureau of Municipal Research (BMR) Training School, which is generally considered the first professional public administration program in America. The article argues that the two organizations had similar curricula and aspirations in the early Progressive period, particularly from 1907 to 1912, but that subsequently their paths div…
Policy Development and New Immigrant Communities: A Case Study of Citizen Input in Defining Transit Problems
This case study explores an attempt to get input from people with limited English proficiency in a state department of transportation project to improve their transit access. Adding community voices to expert discourse can increase an agency's ability to respond effectively in a technical field. The article yields insights into the benefits of using deliberative groups rather than questionnaires as a technique for involving citizens in problem de…
Women, Progressive-Era Reform, and Scientific Management
Questions have been raised about the relation of Progressive-Era women reformers to scientific management and the efficiency concept associated with it. This article brings evidence from organizations such as the National Consumers League and the Taylor Society to argue that in the Progressive Era female reformers belonged to a community of discourse close to scientific management. Understanding this relationship helps delineate the intellectual …
When Political Science Championed Public Service Training: The American Political Science Association Campaign for Professional Public Administration
This article examines how Progressive-Era political scientists worked to promote public service training. It gives evidence that the Progressive-Era political science community had a broad view of its mission that included preparing civil servants. Since World War II, tension has permeated relations between mainstream political science and professional public administration programs. Participants in current debates on relations between the two fi…
Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation
Journal Article Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation. By Hindy Lauer Schachter. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. x + 175 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95.) Get access Guy Alchon Guy Alchon University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1086–1087, https://doi.org/10.2307/207912…
The Two Faces of Progressive-Era Professions: Using an Early Twentieth-Century Case to Understand the Place of Power in Constructing Professions, and Why This Matters for Public Administration
This article argues for an understanding of the social impact of professionalization that takes account of the way a profession is embedded in a given social system. This approach assumes that the impact of professionalization varies depending on a given society's power relations. The essay uses Progressive-era conflicts in the growth of social work to delineate how power linked to funding helped create one professional persona. Such analysis is …
Women in Public Administration: Giving Gender a Place in Education for Leadership
This article explores some aspects of the place of gender in educating public administrators for leadership, an important component of re-orienting women’s public sector role. While previous research has examined the place of gender in the Master of Public Administration (MPA) diversity and core courses, this study adds to our knowledge by analyzing gender in popular introductory MPA textbooks and in leadership courses. The aim is not only to see…
Exploring Followership in a Public Setting: Is It a Missing Link Between Participative Leadership and Organizational Performance
Based on data drawn from the Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Human Capital Survey, as well as from data provided in written interviews, this study offers empirical evidence that followership mediates the relationship that exists between participative leadership and public organization performance
Agency Autonomization in Korea: Some Issues in Cross-polity Transfer of Agency Autonomization
This paper describes some of the issues surrounding South Korea's introduction of autonomous executive agencies as one component of its new public management (NPM) reform. Particular emphasis is given to some problems and critiques surrounding implementation. The research defines the concept of autonomous public agencies, explains why South Korea's government embraced the concept, and analyzes some critiques of its deployment. Finally, this study…
Mobility Information Needs of Immigrants with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) in New Jersey
The mobility information needs of American immigrants with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) are of interest to state governments because these individuals constitute a growing share of public transit users. This article relates a project sponsored by New Jersey's Department of Transportation to learn the specific needs of the state's LEP transit users in order to serve them better. Using survey and focus group methodologies the research uncovere…
Civic Education: Three Early American Political Science Association Committees and Their Relevance for Our Times
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Symposium: The Importance of the Progressive Era in Public Administration Today
Philadelphia's Progressive-Era Bureau of Municipal Research
This article examines the early work of the Philadelphia Bureau of Municipal Research (PBMR), the second organization incorporated to use scientific management insights to improve urban government. Comparisons are made between some of PBMR's initiatives and those of its more famous counterpart, the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. While the two organizations shared an agenda to spearhead increases in city health-care programs for the poor, …
Administrative Culture and Metaphor Change
Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Idea of Worker Participation: A Brief Against Easy Administrative Dichotomies
The public administration literature tends to depict Frederick Taylor as promulgating a "men-as-machines" approach to motivation. The literature contrasts Taylor and Mayo/Maslow, leading to analysis that dichotomizes engineering and psychological theories of motivation. This dichotomization seriously distorts the thrust of Taylor's work, which actually prefigures many human relations insights currently attributed to Elton Mayo or Abraham Maslow. …
Collective bargaining and school policy
(1980). Collective bargaining and school policy. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 39-44
Retroactive Seniority and Agency Retrenchment
Public Agency Communication: Theory and Practice
Public-Employee Unions, the Judicial System and Local Agency Interpretation of Federal Statutes: The Case of Affirmative Action
Performance and teacher lay-offs
The pornography debate in the United States: Politics, law and justification
Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Idea of Worker Participation: A Brief Against Easy Administrative Dichotomies
The public administration literature tends to depict Frederick Taylor as promulgating a "men-as-machines" approach to motivation. The literature contrasts Taylor and Mayo/Maslow, leading to analysis that dichotomizes engineering and psychological theories of motivation. This dichotomization seriously distorts the thrust of Taylor's work, which actually prefigures many human relations insights currently attributed to Elton Mayo or Abraham Maslow. …
Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation
Journal Article Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation. By Hindy Lauer Schachter. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. x + 175 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $12.95.) Get access Guy Alchon Guy Alchon University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1086–1087, https://doi.org/10.2307/207912…
Taylor's Scientific Management
Reinventing Government or Reinventing Ourselves: Two Models for Improving Government Performance
In this article, I analyze the Bureau of Municipal Research's concept of efficient citizenship as an alternative paradigm to customer-centered public administration. Reinventing government is powerful buzz phrase these days both in the world of practical politics and academe. (The term emanates from Osborne and Gaebler [1992] and appears in the much discussed National Performance Review report, From Red Tape to Results [Executive Office of the Pr…
How State Departments of Transportation Develop Research Work Programs: A Comparison of Three State Agencies
This article explores some issues connected with how state departments of transportation develop research programs. The focus is on alternative processes for soliciting and prioritizing problem statements. Issues examined include how to increase the strategic direction of the solicitation and prioritization process and how to facilitate diverse participation in problem-statement development. Processes used in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia ar…
Settlement Women and Bureau Men: Did They Share a Usable Past
In Settlement Women and Bureau Men: Constructing a Usable Past for Public Administration Stivers (1995) highlights important role that substantive as opposed to procedural concerns played in emergence of public administration as a field of inquiry. To increase contemporary knowledge about field's origins she advocates including work of turn-of-the-century settlement women in public administration history because they strove to expand government p…
Civic Education: Three Early American Political Science Association Committees and Their Relevance for Our Times
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Translating out of Time: Public Administration and Its History
Creating Stakeholders for Transportation Research: Some Factors Affecting Internal Customer Use of Transportation Research Bureau Projects
This article explores factors that relate to how internal customers use the work completed for them by state department of transportation research bureaus. The influence of researcher-customer relations, top management values, actions of the federal government and industry, and credibility and time dimensions of the research process itself are examined
Symposium: The Importance of the Progressive Era in Public Administration Today
Philadelphia's Progressive-Era Bureau of Municipal Research
This article examines the early work of the Philadelphia Bureau of Municipal Research (PBMR), the second organization incorporated to use scientific management insights to improve urban government. Comparisons are made between some of PBMR's initiatives and those of its more famous counterpart, the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. While the two organizations shared an agenda to spearhead increases in city health-care programs for the poor, …
Administrative Culture and Metaphor Change
Women, Progressive-Era Reform, and Scientific Management
Questions have been raised about the relation of Progressive-Era women reformers to scientific management and the efficiency concept associated with it. This article brings evidence from organizations such as the National Consumers League and the Taylor Society to argue that in the Progressive Era female reformers belonged to a community of discourse close to scientific management. Understanding this relationship helps delineate the intellectual …
Policy Development and New Immigrant Communities: A Case Study of Citizen Input in Defining Transit Problems
This case study explores an attempt to get input from people with limited English proficiency in a state department of transportation project to improve their transit access. Adding community voices to expert discourse can increase an agency's ability to respond effectively in a technical field. The article yields insights into the benefits of using deliberative groups rather than questionnaires as a technique for involving citizens in problem de…
The Citizen Deliberator
Books reviewed in this article:Bruce Ackerman and James S. Fishkin, Deliberation DayEthan Leib, Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a Popular Branch of Government
When Political Science Championed Public Service Training: The American Political Science Association Campaign for Professional Public Administration
This article examines how Progressive-Era political scientists worked to promote public service training. It gives evidence that the Progressive-Era political science community had a broad view of its mission that included preparing civil servants. Since World War II, tension has permeated relations between mainstream political science and professional public administration programs. Participants in current debates on relations between the two fi…
Does Frederick Taylor’s Ghost Still Haunt the Halls of Government? A Look at the Concept of Governmental Efficiency in Our Time
Since the Progressive Era, efficiency has been a cherished administrative value and a key concept in the study of public administration. Despite contemporary attention to other criteria, such as responsiveness and equity, efficiency remains a guiding governmental value and a focus of scholarly writing. Although efficiency is often considered an apolitical value, this article argues that public sector efficiency receives meaning through a politica…
Mobility Information Needs of Immigrants with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) in New Jersey
The mobility information needs of American immigrants with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) are of interest to state governments because these individuals constitute a growing share of public transit users. This article relates a project sponsored by New Jersey's Department of Transportation to learn the specific needs of the state's LEP transit users in order to serve them better. Using survey and focus group methodologies the research uncovere…
Lillian Borrone: Weaving a Web to Revitalize Port Commerce in New York and New Jersey
In 1988, when Lillian Borrone became the director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Port Commerce Department, she was the first woman in the world to head a major port. During her 12‐year tenure, she revitalized the port’s cargo trade. She spearheaded the recovery of a faltering entity through vision, astute marketing, and an inclusive, participatory management style. Her achievements contain valuable lessons for all managers who…
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