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Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- The need for change in the public sector
- Procurement reform in the U.S. in the 1990’s
- U.S. Government purchase card (sales $M)
- Do people in general resist change?
- Changes in politics
- Stages of a change process
- Initiation
- Business card of a procurement official
- Change vanguard
- Initial support for procurement reform by job level
- Attitude toward “reinventing government”
- Initiation - summary (1)
- Initiation - summary (2)
- Consolidation
- Social influence
- Performance-promoting personality traits
- Foot in the door
- Lesson for leaders
- Conclusion
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Topics Covered
- Procurement reform in the US in the 1990s
- Do people in general resist change?
- Stages of a change process
- Initiation
- Initial support for procurement reform
- Change vanguard
- Consolidation
Talk Citation
Kelman, S. (2020, February 27). Unleashing change in public services [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved October 14, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/ODGI9443.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
Unleashing change in public services
Transcript
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0:00
My name is Steve Kelman.
I'm a professor of public management at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts
in the United States at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
The Kennedy School is our program
for training people who will be working in public service.
My talk for you today is on the topic of unleashing change in public services.
0:26
The theme of this talk is change.
I think all of us who have worked in
the public sector can agree that we need change in the public sector.
I think it's fair to say that the performance of the public sector is probably
better both in the UK and in the US than its reputation among the public.
Both of our countries,
the media do a fantastic job highlighting
the problems and people seldom hear about the successes.
Nonetheless, I think frankly,
those of us who are either practitioners in
the public sector or who study the public sector
from academia can agree that the public sector should be performing better than it does.
Whenever there is a gap between the performance that we hope for and expect,
and believe in on the one hand,
and the performance we actually observe in the public sector on the other hand,
almost by definition,
the only way to bridge that gap and to improve performance
is through some change in how we do business in the public sector.
Now that clearly does not mean that anytime
any person comes up with some idea for,
"Here's how we should change."
Those changes are automatically justified.
Many changes make no sense,
some seem like good ideas when they're adopted and turn out to make no sense.
So, I'm not saying that any change in the public sector is good.
I'm only saying that if there's a gap
between where we'd like to be in terms of performance and where we are,
then some changes are necessary in the public sector;
and we need to worry about change management in the public sector.
The issue or the problem is that many say that achieving change,
even justified change in the public sector is impossible and the mantra that is
often presented is the idea that "people resist change."
Perhaps the biggest message that I want to give in this talk is that
the idea that change is difficult because "people resist change," is too simple.