Supplemental Security Income(SSI),100,206
Supply Priorities and Allocations Board,271
Sweden:deference to authority in,303-4;enforcement system in,295-96,298;rule-based governance and,335
Tactics,see Strategy;Technology
Task:versus goal,32-34;of judge versus bureaucrat,290-92
Task definition:by agencies,246-47;attitudes and,54-55,67-68;bias toward maintaining,222;bureaucratic personality and,69-70;congressional dominance and,244-48;executives and,371-72;external interests and,79-83;goals in,34-36;human factors and,62-63;military procurement and,320-21;peer expectations in,45-48;political ideology and,65-68;postgovernment employment prospects and,86-88;prior experience and,55-59,73-74;professional standards and,59-65;rules and,336-39;sense of mission and,95-96;situational imperatives in,36-44;at Social Security Administration,100;technology in,42-44
Task performance:attitudes and,50-55,67-68;control of shirking and,155-57;earnings and,117-18;evaluation of,117-18;merit-pay system and,143-45;see also Evaluation;Incentives;Outcomes
TAT,see Thematic Apperception Test
Teachers:bureaucratization versus professionalization of,150-53;competency tests for,152;legislative domination and,244-45;situational imperatives in task of,39-40;see also Schools
Technology:government agencies and,223-24;task determination and,42-44
Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA),12;“grass-roots democracy” and,184;interest groups in task definition at,72-74;organizational culture at,95;professionalism at,87;regulation of,194;selective attention to tasks at,103;surplus revenues and,116
Tenure of commissioners,as limit on congressional control,238,239,240
Texas prison system:authority in,25;“control model” in,19-21;court reform of,293-94;rules and,328-29;superiority of,6-8
Thematic Apperception Test(TAT),69-70
Top-down versus bottom-up perspective,11-13
Tower Commission,273
Transaction costs,358-59
Trash collection,350
Trench warfare,14-15,43
Turf maintenance,28;for executive versus organization,197,217;in public versus private sector,196-97;see also Autonomy
TVA,see Tennessee Valley Authority
Twain,Mark,Junior High School(Brooklyn),292
UMTA,see Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Uncertainty,as power,330
United Kingdom:civil service in,257-58;deferential culture in,304-5;Official Secrets Act,301;politics in,297-98;power of parliament in,237-38;regulation in,296-97
United States Postal Service(USPS):constraints on function of,122-29;efficient outcomes at,160;employee performance evaluation in,155-56;Origin and Destination Information System(ODIS)at,156,162;as production agency,201
Urban Mass Transportation Administration(UMTA),214-15,285
U.S.Air Force(USAF):aircraft procurement and,186-87;culture of,105-6;effect of creation of,267;ICBMs and,12,105-6;interservice coordination and,58-59
U.S.Army:acquisition of helicopters,187;Active Defense,219;Air-Land Battle,219;changes in warfighting doctrine and,218-20,222-23;guerrilla forces in,225;helicopter fleet,187;pentomic form and,218;Reorganization Objectives Army Division(ROAD),219;standard operating procedures(SOPs)in,164;unification of armed services and,185-86
U.S.Constitution,and administration,376
U.S.Department of Agriculture:Food and Nutrition Service(FNS),180;food stamp program,108-9,180,182,355;national forests and,184
U.S.Department of Defense(DoD):budget cutting in,214;creation of,186,188,204;Defense Logistics Agency(DLA),126-28;Rocky Mountain Arsenal,194;under Weinberger,209-10
U.S.Department of Health,Education,and Welfare(HEW):advocate role of executive at,210-11;budget-cutting in,214;Bureau of Drug Abuse Control and,180;effect of reorganization and,267-68;Food and Nutrition Service(FNS)and,180;performance evaluation in,117;see also Welfare offices
U.S.Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD):congressional control and,275,276;voucher program and,356-57,see also Housing inspectors
U.S.Department of Justice,Antitrust Division,84
U.S.Department of Labor,165-66,215-16;Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs,193
U.S.Department of State:Agency for International Development,180;change at,225;under Kissinger,262;management of embassy construction and security,183-84;Moscow Embassy staff and,12;organizational culture of,90-91,93-95;privatization and,358;situational imperatives in task definition at,40-42;United States Information Agency and,180
U.S.Department of Treasury,275-76
U.S.Department of Veterans’Affairs,248
U.S.Marine Corps,220-21,245
U.S.Navy,186;carrier task force in,226;China Lake Demonstration Project,138,146-48,372;coalition-building by,251-52;control over nuclear power and,184-85;interservice coordination and,58-59;Naval Ocean Systems Center(NOSC),137-38;organizational cultures of,106
U.S.Post Office,36;see also United States Postal Service
U.S.Supreme Court,see Courts
USAF,see U.S.Air Force
Used Car Rule,83
USPS,see United States Postal Service
Values,69
Variance procedure,287-88
Vietnam War,43-44,164,187
VISTA,see Volunteers in Service to America
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