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Respect in the workplace

Best practices that drive organizational performance

by HART R
Published in October 2012 - Page 5

“Do more with less.”

When demand for more and better services at the local level coincides with calls for lower taxes and expenditures, municipal government workforces can make easy targets for well-worn strategies of broad-based cost-cutting. Politicians seeking to capitalize on the public’s hunger for easy answers to complex fiscal, social, and political challenges will typically resort to vilifying their municipal public service as bloated, inefficient, and unproductive.

Missing in the public debate over cost-cutting

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