Public and Private Work Culture, Compared Honestly
Chapter 20 · Work Culture · Part 3 The comparison examiners keep setting, and the trap inside it. The differences are real, and most of them follow from purpose rather than from the quality...
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Strengths and Pathologies of Public Sector Culture
Chapter 20 · Work Culture · Part 2 What Indian public sector culture actually contains, including the strengths that answers routinely omit and the pathologies that are usually misdiagnosed. Chapter 20 · Work CulturePart...
Work Culture: What Happens When Nobody Is Enforcing Anything
Chapter 20 · Work Culture · Part 1 The set of unwritten rules that decides what actually happens in an office, regardless of what the rules say. It is the variable that explains why...
Making Charters Real: Statutory Teeth and a Failing Hospital
Chapter 19 · Citizen Charter · Part 4 What converts a declaratory document into an operating commitment, worked through a hospital charter that is failing. Chapter 19 · Citizen CharterPart 1 · The Idea...
Why Citizen Charters Fail in India
Chapter 19 · Citizen Charter · Part 3 Thousands of charters exist and few operate. The reasons are specific and mostly structural, which means they are addressable. Chapter 19 · Citizen CharterPart 1 ·...
What an Effective Charter Actually Contains
Chapter 19 · Citizen Charter · Part 2 Eight components, and the one discipline that decides whether a charter functions: writing standards that can actually be missed. Chapter 19 · Citizen CharterPart 1 ·...
The Citizen Charter: A Promise You Can Check
Chapter 19 · Citizen Charter · Part 1 An instrument that converts a vague expectation of decent service into a stated, checkable promise. Its power lies entirely in being specific, which is also why...
Relief Under Political Pressure, and From Paper to Practice
Chapter 18 · Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics · Part 4 A worked case of political pressure on relief distribution, and what separates a code that governs behaviour from one that sits...
Conflict of Interest: Recognising It Before Someone Else Does
Chapter 18 · Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics · Part 3 The commonest ethical failure in administration is not corruption. It is an officer deciding a matter he should not have been...
The Conduct Rules an Officer Actually Lives Under
Chapter 18 · Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics · Part 2 What the Indian conduct rules actually require, why each requirement exists, and the situations in which officers most often get them...
