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Field Study Interview Report
Order Instructions:
This is the questions and instructions in Chapter One given by the Professor for those that do not have the book or using old version.
Name of the interviewee is Mr Charlie Fitzgerald,Program Directior from Umass .just every other thing in the way field Study Interview should be.
Here is Chapter One
Conduct an interview of at least one public administrator and prepare a report based on the results of the interview. Use the Denhardt textbook, Chapter 1: Exercise No. 1, as your guide for this field study assignment.
Please provide responses to all the questions found in Chapter One, Number 1 for this exercise. In case you are using another edition, here are the instructions from Chapter One, Number 1 for Field Study Interview:
Interview a public administrator. Locate one persons who works as a manager or anslyst in a public or nonprofit organization and interview him or her. The Interviewee might work in a public university, a local government, a state or federal agency, or department director (public works, parks and recreation, etc.), a county official (such as a county clerk), a manager of a state government, a federal government manager (in a local office), or someone such as an association executive. They might be a program manager, staff manager, or a policy analyst.
Ask the people you interview to describe their jobs, including the range of responsibilities they have and the knowledge, values, and skills that are important to them or their work. The following are examples of questions you might want to ask.
• Describe the work you do and how you came to this position. What is your educational and work background?
• What impact does the work you do have on the community/state/national and so on?
• What do you find different or unusaul about working in a public organization?
• How do you think your job compares to work at a comparable level in the business or private sector?
• What knowledge, values, and skills are important to your work? For instance, if you were hiring someone to take your place, what would you look for?
NOTE: In preparing your report – please make certain to follow the instructions found BELOW and section entitled “Submiting Your Assignment” in your syllabus. The parameters of your report are:
• No more than 8 pages in length, excluding title and reference pages;
• Double-spaced;
• 12 Point font;
• New Times Roman Typeface;
• All other guidelines according to APA format.
