ABSTRACT
The ideal member of the self-evaluating organization is best conceived as a person committed to certain modes of problem solving. He believes in clarifying goals, relating them to different mechanisms of achievement, creating models of the relationships between inputs and outputs, seeking the best available combination. Evaluation speaks to the relationship between action and objectives while organization relates its activities to programs and clientele. The policy-administration dichotomy originated with Frank Goodnow and others in their effort to legitimate the rise of the civil service and with it the norm of neutral-competence in government. The self-evaluating organization can split itself off into "evaluating" and "administering" parts, thus making lower levels pay the costs of change, or it can seek to impose them on other organizations in its environment. The self-evaluating organization is one that uses its own analysis of its own programs in order to alter or abolish them.
