Branch Rickey as a Public Manager
Fulfilling the Eight Responsibilities of Public Management
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6295430 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert D Behn (Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-33 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1053-1858 • E-ISSN: 1477-9803 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a024334 |
| OpenAlex | W1971264885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
What is the job of the public manager? How does it differ from the work of the private-sector manager? The author argues that public managers have eight different responsibilities, the first of which is to seek to achieve an important public purpose. This responsibility not only distinguishes the kind of objectives that public and private managers pursue—having an important public purpose also affects why and how the manager approaches the other seven responsibilities. But a public manager need not, suggests the author, work for a public agency. Rather, it is the nature of the manager's responsibilities, not the individual's position or title, that determines if he or she is engaged in public management. Thus, the author continues, Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers who devised the strategy for integrating major-league baseball, was a public manager. Rickey was seeking to achieve a most important public purpose; thus, to be successful, he had to fulfill all eight responsibilities of public management
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| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 1999 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |