Frank K Gibson

Biographic Data

ID1233766
NAMEFrank K Gibson
GIVEN NAMESFrank K
FAMILY NAMEGibson
SIGNATUREGIBSON F K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Georgia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
H-INDEX1

  • The Culture of University Public Service: A National Survey of the Perspectives of Users and Providers

    Joseph W Whorton, Frank K Gibson et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1986References: 2

    From the early days of the study of public administration, an effort has been made to bring knowledge of the field to the arena of practice. The initial stirrings of scholars were closely related to the reform movements which gained strength in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wilson's article, which continues to receive much attention, was designed largely as a defense of merit system reform of the civil service.' This reform era spawned …

  • University Commitment to Public Service for State and Local Governments

    Delmer D Dunn, Frank K Gibson et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1985

    The view of public administration as both an academic field and a profession inevitably leads to a basic tension stemming from divergent, and often competing, value structures, processes, goals, and objectives. Practitioners view the university as a source of highly trained personnel and problem-solving research on difficult public sector management and policy problems. Public administration academicians focus on defining and understanding admini…

  • Public Administration: Vitality and Perplexity

    Laurence J O' Toole, John Charles Buechner et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1978

  • The Failure of Social Programs

    James Prather, James E Prather et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1977Cited by: 1References: 3

    Social programs have proliferated with seeming abandon, but of late efficacy of such programs has been widely debated. It is purpose of this article to explore concept of program efficacy and technical-scientific rationale used in assessing that efficacy. We do not intend to investigate norms or values that provide impetus for creation of social programs; we analyze programs in terms of their performance, given values they represent. It is first …

  • Bridging the Gap: Innovations to Strengthening Academic/Practitioner Relationships

    Frank K Gibson, Frank Gibson et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1977Cited by: 1

    Many words are devoted to the concept of building bridges over the gulf' that exists between the of the practitioner and that of the academic in public administration. One hears from both managers of public organizations and theoreticians that if only they-meaning each other-understood what it was all about then jobs could be performed more effectively. To address this issue, a project was undertaken by the Georgia City-County Management Associat…

  • The Humanistic Model of Organizational Motivation: A Review of Research Support

    Frank K Gibson, Clyde E TeasleyARTICLEPublic Administration Review1973

  • Student Attitudes toward Government Employees and Employment

    Frank K Gibson, George Alfred JamesARTICLEPublic Administration Review1967Cited by: 1

  • The Meaning Of Low Failure Rates On Parole

    Open AccessFrank K Gibson, Frank Gibson et al.ARTICLECriminology1965