Journal of Civil Service(Abstract)

A New Initiative for Executives Exchange Program between Public and Private Sectors and Its Agenda-Setting Management

• Post Date：5/31/2011
• Unit Name：Editing and Compilation Office

A New Initiative for Executives Exchange Program between Public and Private Sectors and Its Agenda-Setting Management

Jay N. Shih*

Abstract

Executives and managers at the leading positions in the government play a very important role in leading the administrative team in the right direction and making sure that policies are implemented effectively. It’s increasingly necessary for these senior-ranking civil servants to have strategic and creative thinking as well as enthusiasm which may not be offered sufficiently from the internal promotion and succession planning programs. Many OECD nations try to deal with this critical task through secondment or exchange programs by establishing a fixed-term mobility among government officials, private and non-profit organizations’ executives. This paper first presents the idea and designs the alternative, taking care not to radically affect the basic personnel system that has been institutionalized in Taiwan for decades. By adopting the theory of organizational change, this paper then offers suggestions regarding how to make this new idea prevail the difficult process of agenda-setting.

Keywords:public executives, personnel exchanges among organizational sectors, agenda-setting management

* Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Public Administration, National Cheng-Chi University.