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A city council creates ends policies
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
board leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1542-7862
pISSN - 1061-4249
DOI - 10.1002/bl.38619973304
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , corporate governance , public administration , focus (optics) , local government , political science , business , management , finance , economics , philosophy , linguistics , physics , optics
Nowhere is governance reform more needed than in government. In this article, I continue with the third of my four‐part series on creating ends policies—those policies established by the board that describe the results to be achieved by the organization, who is to receive the results, and the costs of these results. This time we will focus on the ends of municipal government. Let us examine the case of a city council with a mayor who operates chiefly as the chairperson and a city manager who is the CEO.