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A 4 page paper discussing the hybrid situation of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the detrimental effects that lack of focus and sound management have brought to the authority. Logue and MacAvoy (2003) relay many of the financial and operational problems that TVA has faced over the past several years, but it appears that the agency’s greatest single problem is that it does not operate with the accountability of the private sector nor the guarantee of continuation that typically supports purely public agencies in terms of budget. All other gross polluters in the country literally have had to clean up their operations, and TVA should be held at minimum to the same standards. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSmgmtTVA.rtf
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Authority (TVA) has been criticized in nearly every respect in which a government-managed operation can be criticized. Instituted in the early 1930s, TVA is credited with bringing electricity to
an entire region of the country but gains little credit for those things it appears to do right. In recent years, all government
entities have been called on to operate more as businesses rather than governmental departments. TVA has struggled in the past, and it continues to struggle now. Much of
the struggle could have been averted with the implementation of sound management and strategy. TVAs History One of the characteristics of the valleys
and foothills West and South of what later would come to be known as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was that the rich surrounding farmland was certain to flood
each spring. The Great Depression put so many people out of work for such a long time that the federal government looked internally to find ways to benefit the
country in real terms while also benefiting individual ones in economic ones. One of FDRs New Deal components was the construction of a series of thirteen dams along the
French Broad and Tennessee Rivers in East Tennessee and Northern Alabama (From the New Deal to a New Century). The dams controlled the annual flooding in the area and
harnessed the power of water to bring electricity to a region in which it had been only sparsely available. TVAs Problems There has
been an outcry in recent years for government to be managed more like a business. For more than a decade, the federal government has been seeking managers from the
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