The text highlights the inherent issues in partnerships with nongovernmental actors for public service delivery stressing the choices available and the complementary prospects and challenge that arise. The book provides specific instances and a framework for public managers to make strategic decisions about how to engage nonprofit and private sectors in delivering services and public goods while ensuring public interest. The author provides efficient methods of designing governing and evaluating networks with in-depth deliberations encompassing: fostering democratic accountability in public interest and analysis of cross-sector organizations. The text addresses the reality of today's interconnected society; it provides the valuable foundation on which creative cross-sector problem solving can occur (Forrer et al., 2014).
In chapter 8, the text focuses on the need for a new model of public administration. In addition, the book exhumes intricate facts on the origins of the bureaucratic model of the US public administration. The author asserts that although the word administration is not in the United States constitution, it appears on numerous times in the Federalist papers. The author notes that the founders of the nation were interested in the role of public administration (Forrer et al., 2014). In the same chapter, the author discusses the critiques of the bureaucratic form. Forrer asserts that the bureaucratic form of organization fosters dissatisfaction and stifles creativity (2014). The chapter also highlights the reforming the bureaucratic state and the alternative approaches to reframing public administration. The author asserts that although reforms differ in various levels of government and from Nation to Nation. It is prudent to encourage privatization and decentralizing authority to local levels of government (Forrer et al., 2014).
The Significance Regarding the Practice of Public Governance and Cross Sector Collaboration
It is salient to note that good leadership skills are critical to any organization. Cross-sector collaboration is a conventional method of governance today, and thus requires guidelines. Alliances between the government and other non-governmental organizations foster better services to the public. The public needs numerous services such as healthcare, safe drinking water, shelter, wildlife, and construction of infrastructure. The government alone cannot be able to deliver the services without collaborating with the private sector. However, the government faces budget crunches. At the same time, the public expects a certain function to be carried out, and that is where the collaboration chips in. Many of the public needs today are complex and require the responses from different interconnected sectors with varying perspectives. A collaborative organization enables the government to offer the public with goods and services that are constantly changing to keep up with the ever-evolving technology. In addition, there is a growth of the cross-sector collaborations in the past decade.
References
Forrer, J. J., Kee, J. E., & Boyer, E. (2014). Governing cross-sector collaboration. John Wiley & Sons.
