John Nalbandian
Biographic Data
| ID | 2333694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Nalbandian |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Nalbandian |
| SIGNATURE | NALBANDIAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reflecting on 45 years of administrative theory from an original network member
Prof nalbandian provides reflections of his time as faculty member and city council member—joining theory and practice and politics and administration
Change, Complexity, and Leadership Challenges
Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy
Tina Nabatchi and Matt Leighninger have provided a variety of audiences with a very attractive book, skillfully combining a normative message with a conceptual framework as well as an extensive pra
Contemporary Challenges in Local Government
Editor's Note : The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2014. This article is the first of several that will appear during the next year about the council‐manager plan to commemorate ICMA's 100th anniversary. Three contemporary leadership challenges face local governments today. The first encourages department heads to more actively work the intersection between political and…
Professionals and the Conflicting Forces of Administrative Modernization and Civic Engagement
Local government professionals find themselves in the middle of two dynamic forces: administrative modernization and citizen engagement. Attention to one without recognition of the other renders governance ineffective. The key to effective professionalism in local governance is bridging the gaps in governance that these two trends create
Politics and Administration in Council‐Manager Government
This study examines the different attitudes of newly elected officials and senior incumbents on variables that are considered to be the building blocks of the relationship between local elected officials and professional civil service staff: council respect for the city's professional staff; a clear understanding of the roles of council and the staff; and the governing body's commitment towards working as a group and toward consensus. Governing b…
Politics, Administration, and Markets
Politics can be viewed as the search for consensus on underlying values to foster a sense of community. This search challenges contemporary political and administrative leadership because the policy process increasingly involves interactions among amorphous and unstable issue-oriented coalitions rather than a smaller number of actors with more stable and predictable roles. This article discusses politics, administration, and markets as separate w…
Facilitating Community, Enabling Democracy
administrator of the Unified Government of
Framework for Change
Renewspopular belief that top-down budgeting dominates the landscape.Indeed, his analysis suggests that old-fashioned bubble-up models of budget preparation and priority setting are alive and well even at the federal level.Chapter 4 provides more examples of techniques that shape budget behavior and outcomes.From this point on, the book's focus is increasingly on elements of governmental accounting.Chapters 5 through 7 contain a number of tactics…
Reflections of a "Pracademic" on the Logic of Politics and Administration
Concerned about the future of professionalism in local government, the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) recently commissioned a future horizons task force, a task force on the future of council-manager government, and initiated a dialogue on the profession. These discussions reveal uncertainty and doubt about the roles and responsibilities of professionals in environments of political diversity and value conflict. Increasin…
Tenets of Contemporary Professionalism in Local Government
Council-manager government grew out of a reform movement at the turn of the century with an explicit goal of cleansing municipal government of graft, corruption, and inefficiency. One important intellectual underpinning of the council-manager plan, taken from the short-ballot movement, was the proposition that political authority should be focused in one elected body, as in a parliamentary system, not divided as in a system which separates powers…
The Contemporary Role of City Managers
A growing body of recent literature documents the city manager's politically active role in today's communities. This role challenges the normative assumption upon which the council-manager plan of government is based; namely that the city manager is a politically neutral, administrative expert subordinate to a governing body. On the basis of in-depth interviews and the published work of today's city managers primarily, the way city managers expl…
The U. S. Supreme Court's "Consensus" on Affirmative Action
Nalbandian on the Court and Social Equity
Local Government Professionals under Stress
Individual Values and Professional Education
The espoused values of 681 students and alumni from four graduate programs at the University of Kansas were surveyed with the Rokeach Terminal Values Scale and the newly developed Galloway-Edwards Professional Values Scale. Program affiliation-public administration, social welfare, law, and business administration-consistently accountedfor differences in value preferences. Implications of the results forprofessional practice in the public service…
The Politics of Public Personnel Administration
public choice theorists, many of whose writings reflect a sensitivity to the concerns expressed here. 14. Vincent Ostrom, The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration (University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1973). 15. much more comprehensive discussion of methodological individualism appears in three issues of Dialogue: The Public Administration Theory Network Newsletter. See Ostrom, to Guy B. Adams' 'Comments of Golembiewski…
Performance Appraisal
While performance appraisal systems which emphasize work objectives and behavioral rating scales hold considerable promise for improving the evaluation process, an incomplete understanding of the human dynamics underlying the appraisal process blunts their attraction. For a technically sound appraisal system to work, four behavioral elements are necessary: trust, acceptance of the appraisal function by those who must do the evaluation, sensitivit…
Integrating Context and Decision Strategy
The authors have drawn from the literature in organization theory and behavior to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of public personnel administration. They recast the traditional discussion of public personnel administra tion in order to identify when "merit" would be reflected in "routine" decision-making strategies and when it would better resultfrom "bargaining" and the use of "judgment" decision-making strategies…
Personnel Management by Whose Objectives
Public personnel management, as a field of public administration, has undergone considerable development in the past 40 years. Personnel professionals now have available a wide range of techniques which they can apply toward the efficient acquisition, allocation, and development of human resources-human resource planning, job analysis, selection, appraisal, training, and labor-management relations. The rapid development of these techniques signif…
Additional Data
Contemporary Challenges in Local Government
Editor's Note : The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2014. This article is the first of several that will appear during the next year about the council‐manager plan to commemorate ICMA's 100th anniversary. Three contemporary leadership challenges face local governments today. The first encourages department heads to more actively work the intersection between political and…
Politics, Administration, and Markets
Politics can be viewed as the search for consensus on underlying values to foster a sense of community. This search challenges contemporary political and administrative leadership because the policy process increasingly involves interactions among amorphous and unstable issue-oriented coalitions rather than a smaller number of actors with more stable and predictable roles. This article discusses politics, administration, and markets as separate w…
Professionals and the Conflicting Forces of Administrative Modernization and Civic Engagement
Local government professionals find themselves in the middle of two dynamic forces: administrative modernization and citizen engagement. Attention to one without recognition of the other renders governance ineffective. The key to effective professionalism in local governance is bridging the gaps in governance that these two trends create
The Contemporary Role of City Managers
A growing body of recent literature documents the city manager's politically active role in today's communities. This role challenges the normative assumption upon which the council-manager plan of government is based; namely that the city manager is a politically neutral, administrative expert subordinate to a governing body. On the basis of in-depth interviews and the published work of today's city managers primarily, the way city managers expl…
Individual Values and Professional Education
The espoused values of 681 students and alumni from four graduate programs at the University of Kansas were surveyed with the Rokeach Terminal Values Scale and the newly developed Galloway-Edwards Professional Values Scale. Program affiliation-public administration, social welfare, law, and business administration-consistently accountedfor differences in value preferences. Implications of the results forprofessional practice in the public service…
Change, Complexity, and Leadership Challenges
The Politics of Public Personnel Administration
public choice theorists, many of whose writings reflect a sensitivity to the concerns expressed here. 14. Vincent Ostrom, The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration (University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1973). 15. much more comprehensive discussion of methodological individualism appears in three issues of Dialogue: The Public Administration Theory Network Newsletter. See Ostrom, to Guy B. Adams' 'Comments of Golembiewski…
Integrating Context and Decision Strategy
The authors have drawn from the literature in organization theory and behavior to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of public personnel administration. They recast the traditional discussion of public personnel administra tion in order to identify when "merit" would be reflected in "routine" decision-making strategies and when it would better resultfrom "bargaining" and the use of "judgment" decision-making strategies…
Additional Data
Personnel Management by Whose Objectives
Public personnel management, as a field of public administration, has undergone considerable development in the past 40 years. Personnel professionals now have available a wide range of techniques which they can apply toward the efficient acquisition, allocation, and development of human resources-human resource planning, job analysis, selection, appraisal, training, and labor-management relations. The rapid development of these techniques signif…
Integrating Context and Decision Strategy
The authors have drawn from the literature in organization theory and behavior to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of public personnel administration. They recast the traditional discussion of public personnel administra tion in order to identify when "merit" would be reflected in "routine" decision-making strategies and when it would better resultfrom "bargaining" and the use of "judgment" decision-making strategies…
Individual Values and Professional Education
The espoused values of 681 students and alumni from four graduate programs at the University of Kansas were surveyed with the Rokeach Terminal Values Scale and the newly developed Galloway-Edwards Professional Values Scale. Program affiliation-public administration, social welfare, law, and business administration-consistently accountedfor differences in value preferences. Implications of the results forprofessional practice in the public service…
The Politics of Public Personnel Administration
public choice theorists, many of whose writings reflect a sensitivity to the concerns expressed here. 14. Vincent Ostrom, The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration (University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1973). 15. much more comprehensive discussion of methodological individualism appears in three issues of Dialogue: The Public Administration Theory Network Newsletter. See Ostrom, to Guy B. Adams' 'Comments of Golembiewski…
Performance Appraisal
While performance appraisal systems which emphasize work objectives and behavioral rating scales hold considerable promise for improving the evaluation process, an incomplete understanding of the human dynamics underlying the appraisal process blunts their attraction. For a technically sound appraisal system to work, four behavioral elements are necessary: trust, acceptance of the appraisal function by those who must do the evaluation, sensitivit…
Local Government Professionals under Stress
The Contemporary Role of City Managers
A growing body of recent literature documents the city manager's politically active role in today's communities. This role challenges the normative assumption upon which the council-manager plan of government is based; namely that the city manager is a politically neutral, administrative expert subordinate to a governing body. On the basis of in-depth interviews and the published work of today's city managers primarily, the way city managers expl…
The U. S. Supreme Court's "Consensus" on Affirmative Action
Nalbandian on the Court and Social Equity
Tenets of Contemporary Professionalism in Local Government
Council-manager government grew out of a reform movement at the turn of the century with an explicit goal of cleansing municipal government of graft, corruption, and inefficiency. One important intellectual underpinning of the council-manager plan, taken from the short-ballot movement, was the proposition that political authority should be focused in one elected body, as in a parliamentary system, not divided as in a system which separates powers…
Reflections of a "Pracademic" on the Logic of Politics and Administration
Concerned about the future of professionalism in local government, the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) recently commissioned a future horizons task force, a task force on the future of council-manager government, and initiated a dialogue on the profession. These discussions reveal uncertainty and doubt about the roles and responsibilities of professionals in environments of political diversity and value conflict. Increasin…
Framework for Change
Renewspopular belief that top-down budgeting dominates the landscape.Indeed, his analysis suggests that old-fashioned bubble-up models of budget preparation and priority setting are alive and well even at the federal level.Chapter 4 provides more examples of techniques that shape budget behavior and outcomes.From this point on, the book's focus is increasingly on elements of governmental accounting.Chapters 5 through 7 contain a number of tactics…
Facilitating Community, Enabling Democracy
administrator of the Unified Government of
Politics, Administration, and Markets
Politics can be viewed as the search for consensus on underlying values to foster a sense of community. This search challenges contemporary political and administrative leadership because the policy process increasingly involves interactions among amorphous and unstable issue-oriented coalitions rather than a smaller number of actors with more stable and predictable roles. This article discusses politics, administration, and markets as separate w…
Politics and Administration in Council‐Manager Government
This study examines the different attitudes of newly elected officials and senior incumbents on variables that are considered to be the building blocks of the relationship between local elected officials and professional civil service staff: council respect for the city's professional staff; a clear understanding of the roles of council and the staff; and the governing body's commitment towards working as a group and toward consensus. Governing b…
Professionals and the Conflicting Forces of Administrative Modernization and Civic Engagement
Local government professionals find themselves in the middle of two dynamic forces: administrative modernization and citizen engagement. Attention to one without recognition of the other renders governance ineffective. The key to effective professionalism in local governance is bridging the gaps in governance that these two trends create
Contemporary Challenges in Local Government
Editor's Note : The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2014. This article is the first of several that will appear during the next year about the council‐manager plan to commemorate ICMA's 100th anniversary. Three contemporary leadership challenges face local governments today. The first encourages department heads to more actively work the intersection between political and…
Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy
Tina Nabatchi and Matt Leighninger have provided a variety of audiences with a very attractive book, skillfully combining a normative message with a conceptual framework as well as an extensive pra
Change, Complexity, and Leadership Challenges
Reflecting on 45 years of administrative theory from an original network member
Prof nalbandian provides reflections of his time as faculty member and city council member—joining theory and practice and politics and administration
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