The Public Administrator Often Is Placed in the Role of Deciding

question 19

Essay

The public administrator often is placed in the role of deciding among conflicting priorities and is drawn into the center of the conflict. Why is this so? What can an administrator do in these situations?

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Definitions:

Means-End Analysis

A problem-solving strategy that involves identifying the goal, determining the obstacles in the way, and taking steps to overcome them.

Overextension

In language acquisition, overextension is when a child applies a word too broadly, beyond its typical use, reflecting the developmental stage of understanding categories.

Overregularization

A linguistic phenomenon observed in language learning children where they apply grammatical rules too widely, leading to errors.

Lexical Analysis

The process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens, typically in the context of programming languages.