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The Gamut: a Journal of Ideas and Information, No. 02, Winter 1981 Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU The aG mut Archives Publications Winter 1981 The aG mut: A Journal of Ideas and Information, No. 02, Winter 1981 Cleveland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/gamut_archives Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, Business Commons, Medicine and Health Sciences Commons, and the Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons How does access to this work benefit oy u? Let us know! Recommended Citation Cleveland State University, "The aG mut: A Journal of Ideas and Information, No. 02, Winter 1981" (1981). The Gamut Archives. 2. https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/gamut_archives/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Gamut Archives by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This digital edition was prepared by MSL Academic Endeavors, the imprint of the Michael Schwartz Library at Cleveland State University. I GIIIUllllWUllrlJ A JOURNAL OF IDEAS AND INFORMATION Number 2 Winter 1981 Published by Cleveland State University Editor: Leonard M. Trawick Advisory Editor: Louis T. Milic Circulation Manager: Kate B. Newland Advisory Board John A. Flower George A. Coulman Sanford E. Markey Bernard Hamermesh William R. Martin David L. Hopcraft Samuel A. Richmond Herbert Kamm James G. Taaffe Volunteer Staff: Rhonda Kieffer and Fred E. Ekfelt The Gamut: a Journal of Ideas and Information is published in the fall , winter, and spring of each year by Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. Subscription rate: one year (three issues), $12.00 . Foreign subscriptions $3 .00 per year additional. Single copies, $4.50. Claims for missing issues honored within six months of publication. The Gamut invites submissions of articles and creative works especially by writers and artists of Northern Ohio, and especially about topics of interest to readers of this region. Preliminary inquiries are welcome. Submitted material will be returned if accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Address all correspondence to: The Gamut, Room 1201 University Tower, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115. Copyright © 1981 by Cleveland State University. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. ISSN 0275-0589. CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO.2, WINTER, 1981 Stuart M. Klein: The Business of City Management 3 Anthony Addison: The Un-Person Without Whom Opera Would Not Exist 13 Walter T. Olson: Visiting the Planets 22 Cyril A. Dostal: Two Poems 36 Mother and the White Slavers Starting the Model T Patrick de Winter: Art, Devotion and Satire - the Book of Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre 42 Helen A. Weinberg: The Novel in America Today 60 Abe Frajndlich: Homage to Yukio Mishima - A Portfolio of Photographs 67 Grace Butcher: Remembering Stella Walsh 76 Earl R. Anderson: Athletic Mysticism in the Olympics 83 W.B. Clapham, Jr.: Acid Rain and Ohio Coal 93 Back Matter 106 3 Stuart M. Klein THE BUSINESS OF CITY MANAGEMENT: CLEVELAND, 1981 A "check-list" mentality and failure to provide incentives may vitiate the noble effort of Cleveland's Operations Improvement Task Force In December of 1978 the City of Cleveland demand continued intense effort and above defaulted on loan obligations of about 10.5 all an intelligent union of managerial exper­ million dollars. On Tuesday afternoon, No­ tise with political savvy. vember 18, 1980, the City formally came out While the original lenders to whom of default when a consortium of local banks Cleveland defaulted no longer have a claim agreed to lend it more than 36 million dollars, on its assets, the City's new debt remains to be deposited in the Union Commerce substantial and draws higher interest rates Bank. Out of this sum the defaulted notes than before. Cleveland owes at least 30 mil­ have been paid. The remainder will be used lion dollars on capital construction bond for other City obligations. Yet little has really funds used by previous administrations for changed. current operating expenses and other obliga­ In the following pages I take stock, from a tions. The capital infrastructure continues to management view, of Cleveland's present deteriorate and at some estimates will take situation, and of what has been done to re­ between 700 million and one billion dollars to verse its position. My conclusions are based bring up to standard. The tax base also con­ on both published and unpublished sources tinues to erode although inflation may bring and personal interviews with 43 people in­ more money to the City. The City credit rat­ cluding members of the Operations Improve­ ing is zero according to Standard and Poor's, ment Task Force, city directors, commis­ and Caa, three steps below an acceptable sioners, lower management and credit level, according to Moody's Investor nonmanagement people, two ex-mayors, a Rating Service. Some insurance and invest­ former county commissioner, and several ment companies will not be able to invest in former city executives. The situation doe~ not Cleveland for many years because of the de­ yet warrant despair; indeed, there is more fault. Add to this the projected increases in than a glimmer of hope. But it does urgently interest payments of more than 70 million Stuart M. Klein is a native of Cleveland and, in his own words, "one of its biggest boosters." He received his under­ graduate degree from Kent State University and his Ph.D . from Cornell University. He worked for IBM for more than seven years, where he was a Senior Research Associate and subsequently Manager of Basic Personnel Research - Cor­ porate Headquarters. He is the author of one book, Workers Under Stress (University of Kentucky Press, 1972), and co-author of another, Understanding Organizational Be­ havior (Wadsworth, 1980). In addition, he has written nu­ merous articles for professional journals . Currently his ma­ jor research interests are in organizational control systems and productivity. He has been a member of the Cleveland State University faculty in the Department of Management and Labor since 1972 . Photo: Louis T. Milic 4 STUART M. KLEIN dollars over the next two decades and you trative purposes. have a city still in deep financial trouble. The third development was the so-called The proposed income tax increase on the Operations Improvement Task Force, which November 1980 ballot was the best hope of is largely the subject of this article. It is that moving the City toward sound financial foot­ effort which provides the greatest hope for ing. The incredibly inept campaign in sup­ an articulate and coherent city management port of the tax suggested something less than system that not only will enable Cleveland to a full commitment on the part of the climb from the current morass but also could Voinovich administration. ! But everyone is provide a means for sustaining good city breathing easier and feeling more optimistic management well beyond the Voinovich ad­ about City finances since the passage of the ministration. !/2% tax increase on a special ballot February 17. The Operations Improvement Task Force A new administration must act quickly, In the Fall of 1979, shortly after George and there is evidence that the current admin­ Voinovich was elected mayor of Cleveland, istration has understood this. But there is still the Operations Improvement Task Force reason for uneasiness. There was the income (OIT) was created. Its mission was to exam­ tax fiasco in November. And there is the par­ ine every aspect of City operations and to adox that the management of the City is now make recommendations for improvement. largely in the hands of professional managers The organization of orr included a twelve­ who lack a sense of political urgency and in­ member executive committee of business stead seem to enjoy a complacency born of and community leaders whose primary task the rational business executive's "can do it" was to legitimize the effort for the business attitude. This should not surprise. The cor­ community and hence to facilitate the recruit­ porate model takes a rational approach to ment of technically competent professional decision-making, based on the best available and management personnel to do the actual information and evaluated by clear criteria. work. A second committee, called the Ways But Cleveland is hardly the same kind of or­ and Means Committee, assisted the Execu­ ganization as a successful corporation. Espe­ tive Committee in soliciting the human and cially where radical change is required, such financial resources from business and from an approach may be beside the point - even local foundations. counterproductive. It is politics that prevails Evidently, the two committees were suc­ and that must be dealt with. The business ap­ cessful. More than $850,000 was donated to proach tends to ignore the compromise, the fund the project. More than eighty people old loyalties and rivalries inevitable in an es­ were recruited from business for the Task sentially political enterprise. Force. The final group of recruits was se­ Still there is hope that during Voinovich's lected by an operating committee after exten­ tenure as mayor the City may be able to put sive interviewing. The final assemblage ap­ its management house in order. Three devel­ peared both competent and committed: opments encourage this optimism. The first ready to provide a service - and, perhaps, to is that Voinovich was able to initiate a process get their corporate ticket punched. All told, of executive recruitment for his directorships thousands of person-hours were donated to which minimized political considerations the OIT effort. Clearly, there was great inter­ and emphasized competence. Certainly, est on the part of the business community in some of his staff were selected according to helping provide better city management.
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