Change Management

Whether balancing budgets, reorganizing an agency, or implementing social programs, public sector leaders frequently encounter the complexity of change. The teaching cases in this section allow students to discuss outcomes and engage in problem solving in situations where protagonists wish to enact change or must guide their colleagues or constituents through change that is already occurring.

  • Teaching Case - Mikhukhu People of South Africa: A Question of Survival

    Mikhukhu People of South Africa: A Question of Survival

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1995

    This case focuses on an organization established to fight for the housing rights of people living in "informal settlements" in apartheid-era South Africa. In the wake of democratization, the group finds itself under increasing pressure from...

  • Classic Case - Implementing Income Tax Reform in Democratic Spain (B)

    Implementing Income Tax Reform in Democratic Spain (B)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1993

    This case examines the challenge of implementing a major change in public policy in Spain in the post-Franco period, namely the shift from a tax system in which tax liabilities were inferred from objective, non-monetary indicators to one that...

  • Teaching Case - Hungary: Forging New Channels of Communication

    Hungary: Forging New Channels of Communication

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1992

    The collapse of communism in Hungary, as in other Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union itself, has not led smoothly to a democratic government in its place. The transition from a government which is, in most ways, an extension...

  • Teaching Case - Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz

    Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1992

    A reform mayor of Bolivia's capital city is taken aback by a consultant's report showing a shocking level of corruption on the part of municipal police-a force whose many duties involve regulation of the city's sprawling open-air markets...

  • Classic Case - St. Louis County Police Department

    St. Louis County Police Department

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1990

    This case examines a specific technological innovation and tracks its effect on the procedures of an organization. The Computer Assisted Report Entry (CARE) system adopted by the St. Louis County Police Department is designed to replace what is...