Change agents will need to make value judgments about the propriety of initiating actions that influence the balance between the survival and well-being of the government employee (public servant), the organization, and the private citizen. It is only by examining the power force-field of public sector officials and agencies that we can understand the basic difficulties and contradictions in the task of social power diffusion.
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