Dan Honig – ChangeMaker Chat – Mission-driven bureacrats
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Too often, when we think of public servants we think of paper shufflers and number crunches. But nurses, teachers and care workers as well as officers working in government departments – aren’t doing it for the money! These public servants – bureaucrats – are driven by a sense of service, commitment and care that is so vital to support all of our lives.
Dan Honig, from UCL (UK) and Georgetown (US) is one of the world’s leading researchers on public service practice and he talks with us about what it takes for public servants to be supported to deliver a big mission of care and community support. Building on the research published in his recent book Mission-Driven Bureaucrats he talks about the difference between managing for compliance and support for mission driven work – and how important those systems are for shaping whether public servants can thrive in their work.
Dan spoke to us from Washington DC and we also talked about how the current US context is affecting public servants and public service.
You can find out more about Dan at this website: https://danhonig.info/, and find out about his latest book – Mission driven bureaucrats – https://danhonig.info/missiondrivenbureaucrats.
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