Leadership
To lead and manage in the public governance
Managing Public Organizations:
Examining Former HUD Sec. Ben Carson’s 2020
Budget Priorities Through an Organizational Theory Lens
The budgeting process serves as a tool that identifies an agency's resources and expenditures and as a declaration of a public administrator's programmatic and political goals. These financial goals often drive a leader's management goals as well. In this academic product, I illustrate how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Fiscal Year 2020 budget-in-brief provides the public insight into the agency's former Secretary Dr. Benjamin S. Carson’s style of management. I explain how the Secretary’s administrative approach is steeped in classical management theory and illustrates priorities influenced by behavioral and social construction concepts of organizational theory.
- A photograph of another piece from artist Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez's Tenement Series
while displayed on my desk at HUD's Newark Field Office
while displayed on my desk at HUD's Newark Field Office