Clerks Career Cluster

My career clusters was performing arts and I chose the career named, Music Director/Composer. Directors lead orchestras, choirs, groups, and bands while composers make music or arrange other piece in a variety of music styles. Directors ensure that the musicians play with one concert sound, balancing the melody, tuning, rhythm, and dynamic. They give feedback to the musicians or section leaders so that they can achieve the sound and style they want in the music. The work environment for directors work in religious organizations, and schools with music programs. They also spend a lot of time traveling around to and places. Composers work in offices, recording studios, or their own home. Similar occupations of this career are actors, dancer and choreographers, high, middle, and elementary school teachers, musicians and singers, producers and directors, and writers and authors. The job outlook is growing by 3% which is

“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” This quote by Woodrow Wilson fits perfectly with the topics that will be discussed. The major theme of this paper is bureaucracy. Bureaucracy refers to an administrative system in which agencies staffed largely by non elected officials perform specific tasks in accordance with standard procedures. The work of the bureaucracy involves implementing laws and procedures. Does this sound familiar? That is because most bureaucrats work for the executive branch of the government. The executive branch is the one that enforces the laws. Some of these law enforcing jobs include mail clerk, police officer, fireman, and first responder. These jobs are essential to our lives as Americans and are greatly appreciated. This paper will expound on the history, usage, and the Cabinet

My career cluster is Eligibility Interviewers and Government. What they all have in common is about law, math, and science. They deal with customer service, administrative service, algebra, and law and government. They have to communicate by speaking. They also have to listen to people’s problems and try to solve them.

The society is moving towards a large-scale economy and there is an exceptional increase of free trade and exchange all around the world. This fact has brought vast opportunities to build up newer policies, wide-range political programs and methodologies in the field of public administration. I would like to contribute to this challenging environment after completing the necessary education. My intention is to supply well-rounded ideas which would possibly contribute to public administration in my home country. I am determined to provide meaningful and finest solutions to diverse problems of public administration. Consequently, my goal is to successfully complete master of public administration and serve society as a high quality public official.

All of us like miners in Centralia No. 5, rely throughout our lives on the immovable juggernaut of impersonal administrative systems” (Stillman 30). It seems that most people as a whole have absent mindedly become too dependent on something as abstract and complicated as public administration. It seems to be public administration and its official’s responsibility to handle any concern in the community as well as make everything flow smoothly.

The purpose of this paper is to tell about the career that was recommended to me after I took the Career Cluster Survey. I'm also going to tell what the career is and the steps I would have to pursue in order to have this career someday. My goal is to someday have a career that I make enough money to live a comfortable life. This means I want to focus on getting a job where a make a lot of money.

I'm not too familiar with this field of public administration. However, I'm curious to read any research that you might currently have and perhaps even your class project if it relates to this subject.

Street-level bureaucrats has some sort of degree of discretion and interact with the public because they work in a public sector environment. These public service workers impact citizen’s lives because they are responsible for maneuvering most of the activities of public agencies, from determining program eligibility to dividing benefits and managing the service citizens acquired. Since citizens expect the government to provide them with security and public safety, the scope of responsibility of public workers have increased and this creates conflict over the scope and substance of public services. Since street-level bureaucrats decisions and actions symbolize the policies of the public agencies they work for, they will encounter some sort of confrontation with citizens. For example, clients of street-level bureaucrats might be frustrated that they cannot receive services with a specific public agency or view certain agencies as an injustice placed that does not care about its people. The role of a street-level bureaucrats can be challenging because they are operators of social

Michael Lipsky delivers an enthralling sneak peek into the unofficial politics of public servants in his book, Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service. Street-level bureaucrats are, “public service workers who interact directly with citizens in the course of their jobs, and who have substantial discretion in the execution of their work (Lipsky, 1980, p. 3). Teachers, social workers, public defenders, police officers—these are a few of the subjects Lipsky examines and deems street-level bureaucrats. These agents are not what comes to mind when one might think of a bureaucrat, but the deeper Lipsky’s book explores public servant’s impact on day-to-day implementation and enforcement of public policy, the more the reader begins to understand the influence these agents have on “the dispensation of benefits [and] the allocation of public sanctions” (Lipsky, preface). How do these public servants balance their responsibility to policy objectives with crushing caseloads that demand individualized responses? What techniques are employed by public servants to better fulfill their duties despite the adverse conditions of their job? To better explore these questions and more, Lipsky’s book is divided into four main parts: street-level bureaucrat’s as the middle-man, conditions of the job, the implication of practices developed by street-level bureaucrats to deal with the issues discussed in parts one and two, and what the future holds for street-level

Government is responsible for making sure society is functioning well and goals are being achieved. As a Director of Government & Community Affairs, it would be my duty to make sure my community’s

The United States government is a hugely complex and growing entity. In fact, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia believes, “that the largest enterprise in the world is the federal government of the United States of America” (Madsen, 2014). From Congress to the military, millions of citizens, at home and abroad, are employed through the United States Federal government. The largest employer by far is the Executive Branch, within which are the Executive agencies, or bureaucracies. Encompassing huge departments such as Defense, Agriculture, and Homeland Security, the United States Bureaucracy is truly enormous and extremely influential. From its implementation in the early days of the nation to current day, the bureaucracy has caused a shift in the

In my short but fast career - since my hiring to Federal service as an intern a decade ago. I 've managed impactful projects, programs, and policy around Engineering, Science, Infrastructure, Climate Change, Permitting and Review, Sustainability. Energy and Environmental Policy, Regulations, Project Management. Most recently, managing interagency efforts in the space of Open Government, Open Source, Open Data, Open Innovation, Enterprise and Inter-Departmental Shared Services, and Security around IT in support of the earlier.

My impression from these courses was that Public Administration integrated policy, management, and economics. This was the perfect counterpart to my undergraduate focus as well as an adequate description of my responsibility as an Office Manager at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business in the Marketing and Communications department. Additionally, I examined my involvement in the Staff Representative Group for Terry College and Terry's Business and Professional Staff group. Both groups serve as representation for the employees of the college. I was able to use my education while participating in these groups as well. Public administration was functional in both my job and as a member of the aforementioned groups. It functioned differently, in part, because each situation had a completely different sense of urgency. I delved further into how it was applied in and evaluated the decision making process in each setting. In both, the rational choice theory was used in an effort to maximize benefits and minimize costs. In other words, decisions were made using a cost-benefit analysis of the different actions with the objective being the greatest benefit at the lowest cost. The emphasis is usually placed on lowest cost which does not always guarantee the greatest reward.

Governmental policies and politics play a critical role in the realization of change in a public agency since the policies are developed and implemented at various levels (Dukeshire & Thurlow, 2002). Since these policies may range from formal regulations and legislation to informal guidelines in an agency, understanding them is important in the achievement of change in a public agency. A Public agency basically functions based on the established policies and politics in the government. Therefore, the accomplishment of the change in a public agency requires an increased understanding of the politics and policies of government.

What is the role of public administration in the Government? (At the back of your mind you know exactly who is the Government)