The Excellence in Government Service Project consists of twenty-four audio cassette recordings of interviews that were conducted by senior federal public servant M. A. Cranswick in 1986. This project was undertaken in an attempt to expand on the research accomplished by Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman in their work "In Search of Excellence" and move beyond the private sector. This resulted in the interviewing of a number of senior managers in the civil and military services of the UK and US administrations. Interviewees were asked to talk about the notion of "excellence in government service" based on their own experiences. Although a journal or book was planned, this did not eventuate and so the interviews have never been published in any form. The audio recordings were donated to UNSW Archives by his son, Guy Cranswick.
A list of the interviewees appears below. The interviews are available for researchers to access in audio format only, as the interviews have not been transcribed. As other access conditions do apply, please contact the Archives for further information.
Interviewee Name |
Interviewee's Position At Time of Interview |
Date of Interview |
Archives Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
Mark A. Abramson |
Director, the Centre for Excellence in Government (US) |
21 July 1986 |
08/243/7B |
William J. Anderson |
Director, General Government Division US General Accounting Office |
10 July 1986 |
08/243/2A |
Hon Richard L. Armitage |
Assistant Secretary, International Security Affairs, Department of Defence (US) |
25 July 1986 |
08/243/12A |
Nicholas Baring |
Chairman, City Capital Markets Committee (UK) |
10 October 1986 |
08/243/22B |
Rear Admiral D. B. Bathurst |
Director-General, Naval Manpower & Training (UK) |
2 October 1986 |
08/243/18A |
M. C. Blair |
Under-Secretary, Head of the Courts & Legal Services Group, Lord Chancellor's Department (UK) |
2 October 1986 |
08/243/18B |
Norman A. Carlson |
Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons (US) |
15 July 1986 |
08/243/4A |
Diane E. Clark |
Executive Director, Treasury Executive Institute (US) |
14 July 1986 |
08/243/1B |
Susan M. Collins |
Staff Director, Senate Sub-Committee on Governmental Affairs (US) |
10 July 1986 |
08/243/2B |
Dr James Colvard |
Deputy Director-Designate, US Office of Personnel Management |
11 July 1986 |
08/243/3A |
D. A. Dawkins |
Associate Director, Operations & Services, Bank of England (UK) |
7 October 1986 |
08/243/22A |
Carol Dineen |
Associate Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget (US) |
23 July 1986 |
08/243/10B |
J. M. Goose |
Assistant Secretary, Criminal Division, Home Office (UK) |
8 October 1986 |
08/243/23A |
N. B. J. Gurney |
Civil Service Commissioner (UK) |
3 October 1986 |
08/243/19B |
R. M. Hastie-Smith CB |
Deputy Under Secretary of State (Civilian Management), Ministry of Defence (UK) |
1 October 1986 |
08/243/13B |
G. A. Hosker |
Deputy Treasury Solicitor, Treasury Solicitor's Office (UK) |
7 October 1986 |
08/243/21B |
J. Hutton |
Senior Course Tutor, Henley - The Management College (UK) |
24 September 1986 |
08/243/14B |
Kate Jenkins |
Under-Secretary, Head of the Efficiency Unit, The Cabinet Office (UK) |
30 September 1986 |
08/243/16B |
Professor Robert A. Leone |
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (US) |
13 August 1986 |
08/243/12B |
Professor A. Leo Levin |
Director, Federal Judicial Centre (US) |
21 July 1986 |
08/243/8A |
Peter G. McCabe |
Assistant Director Programs, Administrative Office of the US Courts |
16 July 1986 |
08/243/5A |
Tony McCann |
Assistant Secretary for Management & Budget, Department of Health & Human Services (US) |
9 July 1986 |
08/243/1A |
Robert S. McNamara |
Secretary of Defence (US) |
24 July 1986 |
08/243/11A |
S. C. T. Matheson |
Director of Information Technology, Board of Inland Revenue (UK) |
6 October 1986 |
08/243/20B |
James H. Mills, Jr |
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Surface Warfare, The Pentagon (US) |
22 July 1986 |
08/243/9A |
Stanley E. Morris |
Director, US Marshals Service |
17 July 1986 |
08/243/6A |
Anne Mueller CB |
Second Permanent Secretary, Management and Personnel Office, The Cabinet Office (UK) |
1 October 1986 |
08/243/14A |
Isabel M. Nisbet |
Deputy Director, Top Management Programme and Policy Planning Manager, Civil Service College (UK) |
8 October 1986 |
08/243/24A |
S. M. Orchard |
Administrator, Royal Courts of Justice (UK) |
29 September 1986 |
08/243/15A |
David Owen |
Public Relations and Investor Relations Manager, Royal Ordinance Factories (UK) |
6 October 1986 |
08/243/20A |
Dr Rudolph G. Penner |
Director, Congressional Budget Office (US) |
23 July 1986 |
08/243/10A |
Air Vice Marshal M. J. Pilkington CBE, RAF |
Director of Training, Royal Air Force (UK) |
30 September 1986 |
08/243/17A |
C. Ramsden |
Principal, Training Division, Management & Personnel Office (UK) |
8 October 1986 |
08/243/23B |
Oliver B. Revell |
Executive Assistant Director Investigations, Federal Bureau of Investigations (US) |
22 July 1986 |
08/243/8B |
Sue Richards |
Research Fellow, Institute of Public Sector Management, London Business School (UK) |
29 September 1986 |
08/243/15B |
Elliot L. Richardson |
Lawyer (formerly Attorney-General, Secretary Health Education Welfare, Secretary of Defence, Secretary of Commerce (US)) |
24 July 1986 |
08/243/11B |
Vice Admiral James A Sagerholm (ret) |
Chairman, Chief of Naval Operations Commission on Personal Excellence and National Security (US) |
17 July 1986 |
08/243/6B |
W. L. St Clair |
Assistant Secretary, Joint Management Unit, Management & Personnel Office (UK) |
6 October 1986 |
08/243/21A |
D. P. Savill |
Deputy Secretary, British Telecom (UK) |
9 October 1986 |
08/243/24B |
Major General K. Spacie OBE |
Director of Army Training (UK) |
30 September 1986 |
08/243/17B |
Roger L. Sperry |
Senior GAO Consultant, Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (US) |
18 July 1986 |
08/243/7A |
Ronald I Spiers |
Under-Secretary for Management, Department of State (US) |
15 July 1986 |
08/243/4B |
Robert A. Stone |
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations), The Pentagon (US) |
14 July 1986 |
08/243/3B |
T. C. L. Taylor |
Joint Deputy Principal, Henley - The Management College (UK) |
24 September 1986 |
08/243/13A |
D. J. Trevelyan CB |
First Civil Service Commissioner, Civil Service Commission (UK) |
3 October 1986 |
08/243/19A |
Lieutenant General D. A. Vesser |
Director (Plans & Policy), The Pentagon (US) |
24 July 1986 |
08/243/9B |
W. Lawrence Wallace |
Assistant Attorney-General for Administration, Department of Justice (US) |
16 July 1986 |
08/243/5B |
John Wybrew |
Policy Unit, The Prime Minister's Office (UK) |
30 September 1986 |
08/243/16A |
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