Concept information
Preferred term
impossible job
Definition
- A leader of a public organization holds an impossible job when external stakeholders expect that organization to accomplish goals that simply cannot be fully accomplished given the available means, technologies, and constraints. Most public organizations face a persistent discrepancy between formal goals and actual performance, but societal and political stakeholders understand and expect this. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Impossible Job]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/impossible_job
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