Chapter 7 Conclusion
Awareness of rapid changes in the social environment has become common knowledge. Social, political, and economic changes are rife. Likewise, the perpetual flux that represents day-to-day operations in a social system organization has frustrated, puzzled, and challenged public managers. In the 6th century bc, the philosopher Heraclitus introduced the perspective that all reality is in flux and always in the process of becoming (Osborne, 2004).
Amid this perpetuity of flux, one thing is agreed: Bureaucracy alone is inadequate to meet and address the change that is now constant in the environment. The universal recognition of change and the cumbersome, slow speed of large organizations reified ...
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