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100			_aResh, William G.
245			_aNo solution, only trade offs - evidence about goal conflict in street - level bureaucracies
260			_c2013
300			_ap.132-142.
362			_aJan-Feb
520			_aTheories of goal conflict suggest that public organizations confront two possibilities when they face multiple policy goals: (1) organizations attain synergy among lower-order, instrumental goals in order to achieve higher-order objectives, or (2) organizations face a zero-sum trade-off among goals. Implicit in this debate is the proposition that trade-off is more likely when performance toward the attainment of multiple goals is measured with substantively exclusive metrics and under varying environments of task difficulty. This research examines which of these theories appears to explain the implementation and interaction of multiple policy goals in the context of Georgia public high schools. The findings demonstrate the highly contingent nature of goal synergy and trade-off. While goal synergy is possible in the interaction of multiple lower-order goal attainment, more robust gains can be made toward a higher-order objective by focusing on one particular lower-order goal rather than an all-inclusive approach to goal attainment. - Reproduced.
650			_aOrganizations
700			_aPits, David W.
773			_aPublic Administration Review
908			_aN
909			_a98869
999			_c98868 _d98868