01044pab a2200157 454500008004000000100002000040245004200060260000900102300001300111362001200124520065500136650002000791650001600811650002600827773003300853180718b1995   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBehn, Robert D.  aThe big question of public management  c1995  ap.313-24  aJul-Aug  aWhat are the big questions that scholars of public management should be attempting - through their research-to answer? The author suggests three consciously prescriptive questions: (1) The micromanagement question asks how public managers can break the micromanagement cycle of procedural rules, which prevent public agencies from producing results... (2) The motivation question asks how public managers can motivate people to work energetically and intelligently towards achieving public purposes. (3) The measurement question asks how public managers can measure the achievements of their agencies in ways that help to increase those achievements.  aDecision making  aBureaucracy  aPublic administration  aPublic Administration Review