Catherine Burke

  • Associate Professor of Public Administration, USC Price School of Public Policy
Office: (626) 573-0867

Expertise Summary

Expert in management, organization systems and innovative public transportation

Expertise

  • history of public administration
  • performance management - review, recognition, evaluation, reward
  • organizational design
  • reducing layers of management
  • planning for management succession
  • restructuring for greater productivity
  • work of the manager
  • public management issues
  • leadership in public management
  • human resources systems
  • stratified systems
  • public transportation and alternatives to mass transit systems
  • personal rapid transit
  • innovation in public transportation
  • public transportation bureaucracy

Additional Information

  • Co-author of Systems Leadership: Creating Positive Organizations (2006)
  • Author of Innovation and Public Policy: The Case of Personal Rapid Transit (1979)