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PROFESSOR KENNETH L. NICHOLS
Kenneth L. Nichols, D.P.A. is Associate Professor of Public
Administration, University of Maine.
His research and teaching interests are:
- strategic management, including
- futures research techniques
- business process reengineering
- quality and change management
- performance measurement and evaluation
- information technology implementation strategy
- analytic methods for organizations
- policy development, analysis, and implementation
- public and nonprofit management
- ethics in administration
- literature and administration
- tax policy and administration
- leadership in public service environments
Ken coedited
Enterprise Government: Franchising and Cross-Servicing for
Administrative Support, and his articles have appeared in
popular as
well as professional publications, including the Journal of Public
Affairs Education, Public Manager, Maine Policy
Review,
and the
International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration.
He
recently coauthored the new edition of
Organization Theory: A Public
and Nonprofit Perspective.
Ken is former director of graduate programs for the University of
Maine's Department
of Public Administration and former chair of the Orono Public Library
Board of Trustees. He has headed UMaine's Undergraduate Programs
Curriculum Committee and its University Club. He is involved with the
American Society for Public Administration, Police Futurists
International, and the World Future Society.
Formerly with the Internal Revenue Service, his professional work as a
career civil servant centered on emerging and innovative aspects of
organizational activity. His responsibilities at the IRS included budget
planning and program analysis, trend assessment, and strategic planning,
quality management, legislation development, and implementation,
information systems design, and large-scale organization reengineering.
Ken earned his D.P.A. from George Mason University in 1993 with the
thesis
Why public organizations adopt Total Quality Management —factors
influencing decisions to invest in TQM. He earned
his
M.P.A. from George Mason in 1983 and his B.A. cum laude in English
Language and Literature from Weber State University in
1968.
Read
Tax Policy and the Principles Underlying a "Good
Tax".
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