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Morton, David, and Brad Cook. "Evaluators and the enhanced Commonwealth performance framework." Evaluation Journal of Australasia 18, no. 3 (September 2018): 141–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1035719x18795539.
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The enhanced Commonwealth performance framework was introduced on 1 July 2015 under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013. It should allow the Australian Parliament and public to understand the proper use of public resources, whether the accountable authorities of Commonwealth entities and companies are achieving their purposes and who is benefitting from Commonwealth activity. Demonstrating the achievement of purposes amounts to demonstrating outcomes and impacts. It requires Commonwealth entities and companies to move past an over-reliance on input- and output-focused performance measures. There is a clear role for evaluators in helping entities make this important adjustment. The opportunities lie in helping a larger cross-section of the Commonwealth public service understand and use the evaluators’ toolbox – for example, program theory and qualitative analysis – to improve the quality of published performance information available to the Commonwealth’s stakeholders. The evaluation community has the opportunity to become a centre of key expertise, and to make a critical contribution to building the capability of ‘performance professionals’ across the public sector.
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Uhr, John. "Public Service Renewal: Clues from the Commonwealth." Australian Journal of Public Administration 56, no. 1 (March 1997): 133–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.1997.tb01251.x.
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CAIDEN, G. E. "The Commonwealth Public Service Associations as a Pressure Group." Australian Journal of Politics & History 10, no. 2 (April 7, 2008): 296–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1964.tb00763.x.
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Beale, R. D. "STRATEGIES FOR MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT IN THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE." Australian Journal of Public Administration 44, no. 4 (December 1985): 376–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.1985.tb01029.x.
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KAUL, MOHAN. "Civil Service Reforms: learning from Commonwealth experiences." Public Administration and Development 16, no. 2 (May 1996): 131–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-162x(199605)16:2<131::aid-pad862>3.0.co;2-b.
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Mulgan, Richard. "Outsourcing and public service values: the Australian experience." International Review of Administrative Sciences 71, no. 1 (March 2005): 55–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852305051683.
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With the increasing use of private organizations to provide public services and the corresponding blurring of boundaries between the public and private sectors, can public servants be held to a distinct code of ethics or should public sector ethical standards be applied to private providers? This question is explored in the context of the Australian Commonwealth which has recently codified a set of public service values in legislation and where agencies are being asked to report on the extent to which they require contractors to comply with public service values. Practice is evolving, with most emphasis on values relating to direct service to the public. Public service values dealing with internal organization and employment conditions, including the merit principle, are less likely to be extended to private contractors.
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Parker, Gordon. "Public Mental Health Service Delivery: A Modified Model." Australasian Psychiatry 5, no. 4 (August 1997): 167–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10398569709108564.
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In the last few years, the Commonwealth and many of the states have worked at developing principles of service delivery for the public mental health sector. Whiteford [1] has described one key initiative, the National Mental Health Policy, with the initial five-year Strategy due to end in mid-1998. The Strategy was developed collaboratively, involving and respecting the views of many of the key groups, and a number of impressive documents and policy decisions have been developed. Many of its central components represent important advances, are non-controversial and are generally accepted, and are presumabl immutable planks that will underpin the next phase of the Strategy – subject to its funding. As for any strategy, there are issues that may benefit from review and revision, and I would like to focus on service models and funding.
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Wipulanusat, Warit, Kriengsak Panuwatwanich, and Rodney Anthony Stewart. "Pathways to workplace innovation and career satisfaction in the public service." International Journal of Organizational Analysis 26, no. 5 (November 5, 2018): 890–914. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoa-03-2018-1376.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of two climates for innovation constructs, namely, leadership and organisational culture, on workplace innovation and career satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach This study used structural equation modelling to test the data from 3,125 engineering professionals in the Australian Public Service (APS). Findings The structural model indicated that leadership for innovation and ambidextrous culture for innovation influenced workplace innovation which, in turn, improved career satisfaction. Moreover, modelling revealed a significant relationship between ambidextrous culture for innovation and career satisfaction. This study also investigated mediation effects and revealed both simple and sequential mediation paths in the model. It was found that improving workplace innovation and career satisfaction through recognition of an engineer’s contribution to their agency would assist in retaining and advancing in-house engineering expertise. Practical implications The structural model could be used to address current shortages of engineering professionals in the Commonwealth of Australia departments. The findings emphasise the importance of Commonwealth departments providing opportunities for their engineers to engage in creative and innovative projects which enhance their professional career. Originality/value This study fills the gap in the innovation literature by exploring the relationships through which socio-psychological factors affect workplace innovation and career satisfaction on the innovation process for engineering professionals in the APS.
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ROBINSON, TREVOR J. "CURRENT GOOD PRACTICES AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PUBLIC SERVICE MANAGEMENT: THE COMMONWEALTH PORTFOLIONick Manning Commonwealth Secretariat, London, 1996." Public Administration and Development 17, no. 2 (May 1997): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-162x(199705)17:2<291::aid-pad930>3.0.co;2-4.
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Brennan, David S., A. John Spencer, and Gary D. Slade. "Service provision among adult public dental service patients: baseline data from the Commonwealth Dental Health Program." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 21, no. 1 (February 1997): 40–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842x.1997.tb01652.x.
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Podger, Andrew. "Best practice in the health sector." Australian Health Review 19, no. 4 (1996): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah960073.
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The Commonwealth Government is increasing its emphasis on public health andquality of care, which will require a capacity to measure health outcomes and developstrategies for continuous improvement. The reforms being considered by the Councilof Australian Governments (COAG) are designed to improve the quality of healthservices by allowing the Commonwealth to concentrate on broader strategic analysisand performance measures. The health industry will need to take a pivotal role inimproving service delivery through collaboration with industry leaders and aimingfor best practice.
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Stewart, Jenny, and Megan Kimber. "The Transformation of Bureaucracy? Structural Change in the Commonwealth Public Service 1983-93." Australian Journal of Public Administration 55, no. 3 (September 1996): 37–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01221.x.
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Bartlett, Ben, and John Boffa. "The impact of Aboriginal community controlled health service advocacy on Aboriginal health policy." Australian Journal of Primary Health 11, no. 2 (2005): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py05022.
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This paper reviews the advocacy role of Aboriginal community controlled health services (ACCHSs) in the development of Aboriginal health policy over the past 30 years, with a specific focus on the recent changes in Commonwealth funding and administrative responsibility - the transfer of Aboriginal health service funding from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) to the Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Services (OATSIHS) within the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA), and the development of policies aimed at Aboriginal health services accessing mainstream (Medical Benefits Scheme [MBS]) funds. The outcomes of this policy change include a significant increase in funding to Aboriginal primary health care (PHC), the inclusion of ACCHSs in collaborative strategic relationships, and the development of new arrangements involving regional planning and access to per capita funds based on MBS equivalents. However, the community sector remains significantly disadvantaged in participating in this collaborative effort, and imposed bureaucratic processes have resulted in serious delays in releasing funds for actual services in communities. Government agencies need to take greater heed of community advocacy, and provide appropriate resourcing to enable community organisations to better direct government effort, especially at the implementation phase. These remain major concerns and should be considered by non-health sectors in the development of new funding and program development mechanisms in the wake of the abolition of ATSIC.
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Latham, Ian. "Case in Re Moore and Others; Ex Parte New South Wales Public Service Professional Officers' Association and Another." Federal Law Review 15, no. 4 (December 1985): 344–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0067205x8501500404.
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Industrial Law (Cth) — Restraint of State industrial commission jurisdiction — Validity of restraining order - Necessity to specify what matter is removed from State jurisdiction — Requirement of interstate industrial dispute for valid restraining order — Relationship between matter and parties — Validity of empowering Commonwealth provision — Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 (Cth) s 66
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Hoodless, Mary, and Frank Evans. "The Multipurpose Service Program: The Best Health Service Option for Rural Australia." Australian Journal of Primary Health 7, no. 1 (2001): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py01015.
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Small relatively isolated rural communities in Australia have been provided with the opportunity to address the difficulties surrounding the provision of health services. The Multi Purpose Services (MPS) program was initiated in 1991 when it was identified that small rural communities have been disadvantaged by separated Commonwealth and state funding arrangements and the criteria for these arrangements where services were often unable to be sustained separately. The MPS program provided the opportunity for sustainability through flexibility and pooling of resources. The application of a primary health care framework would enable more community consultation and participation in reorientating rural health services. Upper Murray Health and Community Services (UMH&CS), a small rural health service in North East Victoria, embraced the concept and undertook a rigorous Evidence Based Needs Assessment to reorientate its health service. The needs assessment combined a sociodemographic, epidemiological and community consultative approach. Evidence of best practice was identified and the recommendations were used for ongoing service development. UMH&CS represents a highly integrated health service and as such a number of strategies are used to enable the continuum of care. These include point of contact advocacy, continuum and coordination of care and the use of a standardised multidisciplinary assessment and outcome based care plan. This paper expands on these processes and the opportunities the MPS has provided to address the health needs of small rural communities.
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Anderson, Ian, Harriet Young, Milica Markovic, and Lenore Manderson. "Koori Primary Health Care in Victoria: Developments in Service Planning." Australian Journal of Primary Health 6, no. 4 (2000): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py00031.
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The Alma Ata 1978 Declaration on primary health care has conventionally been applied in developing countries, where medically trained personnel and other highly skilled health professionals and medical infrastructure are limited. Although such concepts have salience in relatively resource rich countries such as Australia, it is in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy that they have become pivotal. A growing national focus on the development of Aboriginal primary health care capacity followed the release of the National Aboriginal Health Strategy (NAHS) in 1989 (Anderson, 1997). This focus consolidated further, following the evaluation of the National Aboriginal Health Strategy implementation in 1994 which preceded the transfer of administrative responsibility for the Commonwealth Aboriginal health program from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) to the Commonwealth Health portfolio (DHFS, 1994). Within the strategic framework provided by federal state agreements, the development of primary health care services is a priority. In the current national policy framework domains of policy and strategy development have been identified as key developmental themes.
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Niaconachie, Glenda. "From Bureaucrat to Professional: Skill and Work in the Commonwealth Employment Service." Journal of Industrial Relations 35, no. 2 (June 1993): 221–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218569303500202.
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Most research on skill and the labour process (most notably the deskilling debates) has concentrated on private sector organizations. Very few empirical studies have considered skill and the organization of work in relation to public servants. Employ ment officers, the primary operational level in the Commonwealth Employment Service, are the focus of this paper. Between the early 1970s and 1990 their roles and skills were transformed as a consequence of the combination of policy, organizational and technological changes. The changing roles of the Commonwealth Employment Service were reflected in the skill shifts of its employment officers. Clusters of appropriate skills were required at specific points. Individual elements within these clusters were deskilled, reskilled or upgraded, sometimes simultaneously. The most significant aspect is the shift from traditional bureaucrat to professional service deliverer, with a subsequent recognition of 'personality skills'. These personality skills have become incorporated as requirements of the job, and are no longer individual capabilities.
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van de Ven, Hans. "Recent Studies of Modern Chinese History." Modern Asian Studies 30, no. 2 (May 1996): 225–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00016462.
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Some time ago the Commonwealth and Overseas History Society of Cambridge University asked me to provide an overview of recent scholarship on modern Chinese history. What follows is a written version of this ‘public service’ lecture aimed at non-specialist historians. It discusses Western scholarship on China from the eighteenth until the twentieth century.
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Brewer, Brian. "The Impact of Differentiation and Differential on Hong Kong's Career Public Service." International Review of Administrative Sciences 69, no. 2 (June 2003): 219–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852303069002007.
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The public administration principles characteristic of many Commonwealth countries served as the foundations for building the Hong Kong civil service. These have continued to operate in line with the `one country two systems' concept under which Hong Kong has been administered, since 1997, as a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China. Career employment, hierarchy and public service values combined to provide an overarching unity to a system that nevertheless has developed considerable differentiation over time. This article examines the developments that are currently modifying Hong Kong's public sector. The discussion draws on documentary sources and a recently completed qualitative study on the experiences and perspectives of senior Hong Kong managers working in a dozen government departments and agencies. The discussion addresses questions about whether greater differentiation across government departments, in combination with increasing differential within these organizations, will ultimately bring about the demise of the traditional civil service system.
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Alshaer, Atef, and Andrew Hill. "BBC Arabic TV: Participation and the Question of Public Diplomacy." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 3, no. 2 (2010): 152–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187398610x509995.
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AbstractThis article analyzes the launch in 2008 of the BBC's Arabic television channel. Drawing upon the work of Lacan, and in particular his conceptions of the discourses of the master and the hysteric, it examines how the channel has sought to position itself as providing a forum for audience participation and debate, and asks why the channel has sought to configure itself in these terms. Underpinning these questions stands the relationship of the BBC World Service (within which BBC Arabic is located), with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The article takes as its focus the channel's 'flagship' discussion program Point of Debate. This program is contrasted with both traditional news broadcasting and Al-Jazeera's pioneering discussion program 'The Opposite Direction.' The paper examines how 'Point of Debate' has sought to encourage a form of questioning and debate that accords with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's public diplomacy objectives. It moves on to analyze the relationship between the intended appeal of the channel and the position it has sought to occupy in the crowded Arab news mediascape. The article concludes by assessing the challenges facing the channel as it attempts to achieve its aims.
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SCOTT, JONATHAN. "WHAT WERE COMMONWEALTH PRINCIPLES?" Historical Journal 47, no. 3 (September 2004): 591–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x04003875.
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The historiography of English republicanism is dominated by the concept of classical republicanism. Its greatest shortcoming has been neglect of that subject's religious dimension. The consequent need is not simply to recover the radical protestant republican religious agenda. It is to explain why, when classical republicanism came to England, it did so in the moral service of a religious revolution. One context for the answer lay in Christian humanism. Another was the reformation, both magisterial and radical. Both informed the practical identity of the republican experiment as an attempted reformation of manners. So did the rational Greek moral philosophy, as indebted to Plato as to Aristotle, common to certain humanist and Christian political languages. In addition many of the themes of republican writing reflect the struggle by a traditional society to respond to unsettling forces, not only of political and religious, but also social and economic, change. Drawing upon all of these contexts, republican writers attempted to oppose not only private interest politics, embodied by monarchy or tyranny, on behalf of the public interested virtues of a self-governing civic community. This was part of a more general critique of private interest society; a republican attempt, from pride, greed, poverty, and inequality, to go beyond the word ‘commonwealth’ and reconstitute what Milton called ‘the solid thing’.
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Paxton, Georgia A., Pete C. G. Spink, Margaret H. Danchin, Lauren Tyrrell, Chelsea L. Taylor, Susan Casey, and Hamish R. Graham. "Catching up with catch-up: a policy analysis of immunisation for refugees and asylum seekers in Victoria." Australian Journal of Primary Health 24, no. 6 (2018): 480. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py17049.
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This study examines catch-up immunisation for people of refugee-like background in Victoria, exploring effective models of service delivery to complete catch-up vaccinations. The analysis is based on: (i) review of the medical literature, Commonwealth and Victorian government immunisation policy and immunisation patient information; (ii) review of vaccination coverage and service delivery data; and (iii) stakeholder interviews completed in 2014 with 45 people from 34 agencies, including 9 local government areas in Victoria. Although refugees and asylum seekers all need catch-up vaccinations on arrival, they face significant barriers to completing immunisation in Australia. Analysis suggests missed opportunities by service providers and perceptions that catch-up vaccination is time-consuming, difficult and resource-intensive. Service delivery is fragmented across primary care and local government, and pathways depend on age, location and healthcare access. There are strengths, but also limitations in all current service delivery models. Gaps in vaccine funding for refugee-like populations have now been addressed through Commonwealth initiatives, however migration is still not well considered in immunisation policy, and existing systems for notification payments do not capture catch-up vaccination for these groups. Providers identify areas for improvement in professional development and support, patient information, patient-held records and immunisation surveillance data.
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Villagomez, JT. "AIDS in the Pacific." Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 2, no. 4 (October 1988): 221–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/101053958800200403.
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This article summarises current AIDS and HIV infection epidemiology, population risk behaviour factors, local public health and governmental responses to AIDS and cooperative strategic plans for a Pacific “War on AIDS” among the United States Public Health Service and the Pacific jurisdiction public health agencies. The Pacific Island Health Officers Association is comprised of the Republic of Palau, the Government of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, American Samoa and the State of Hawaii.
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Knox, Colin. "Kazakhstan: modernizing government in the context of political inertia." International Review of Administrative Sciences 74, no. 3 (September 2008): 477–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852308095314.
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Kazakhstan declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and joined the Commonwealth of Independent States. Since then it has witnessed a remarkable economic transformation under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Pursuing a policy of `economy first and then politics', Kazakhstan is under growing pressure to engage in political reforms which include a modernization agenda to improve public service provision. Recent constitutional reforms have received a lukewarm reaction from the international community that Kazakhstan is keen to become part of. At the same time a progressive agenda of public services reform is well under way rooted in new public management and a desire to become much more customer focussed in their orientation. This article examines the parallel themes of political reforms and public services modernization in Kazakhstan. Points for practitioners This article offers two key points for practitioners. First, it describes the detail of public sector reforms taking place in a developing country which secured its independence approximately 16 years ago, and the significant progress since then. Second, it poses questions about the political context in which administrative reform can take place. Has the existence of a highly centralized and autocratic form of presidential leadership resulted in a top-down imperative which has helped the pace of public services modernization in Kazakhstan?
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Rohulskyi, Oleh Ivanovich. "PREPARING PUBLIC SERVANTS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: ARCHETYPAL APPROACH." UKRAINIAN ASSEMBLY OF DOCTORS OF SCIENCES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 1, no. 14 (June 16, 2018): 255–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.31618/vadnd.v1i14.117.
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The article describes the main components of the institutional framework of an archetypical approach to public administration. It is determined that the system of preparation of public servants is based on a chain of universal foundations of archetype, in particular, it is influenced by the principle of formation of personnel in the public service, formed on the basis of public opinion. Based on two basic principles relating to admission to public service, three basic models of training civil servants in the European country are defined: German. French and Anglo-Saxon. We analyze each of the models and define the archetypes that influenced their formation and development. The advantages of each model are determined, in particular, the benefits are: the German model of training managers is the balancing between the theoretical knowledge and practical skills that a public servant receives during training, but as a disadvantage one can distinguish the orientation of preparation for legal orientation, which limits the ability to hold managerial positions for many employees The French model of professional training of public servants should include a well-balanced understanding of tasks, namely: decentralization and territorial organization of public services, communication, support of territorial communities, in-depth knowledge and understanding of the need for cooperation with institutions of the European Commonwealth, high-quality human resource management and orientation towards environmentally friendly innovations, such a model of training of public servants is holistic, costly and effective; The Anglo-Saxon model of training of public servants is its orientation towards the implementation of the concept of public administration and the individual approach to employee training, taking into account all the specifics of its activities, providing for the formation of personnel capable of solving specific problems. It is concluded that today in most European countries dominated by mixed models that include elements of different models.
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Gillespie, Marie, Hugh Mackay, and Matilda Andersson. "Mapping Digital Diasporas @ BBC World Service: Users and Uses of the Persian and Arabic Websites." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 3, no. 2 (2010): 256–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187398610x510047.
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AbstractThis article presents research on two key BBC World Service websites, BBC Persian Online and BBC Arabic Online. It draws on in-house BBC data, supplemented by our own semi-structured interviews with online editors and other key World Service staff. It examines where users of the two sites are located, their demographic characteristics and their views on and uses of the sites. The data is analyzed in the context of debates about the politics of diasporic media and communication networks and changing collective identities, the UK government's Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) strategy of 'digital diplomacy' and the World Service's stated public purpose of fostering a 'global conversation.' Our research has shown how the majority of users of both BBC Arabic and Persian Online services reside outside the geographical areas that the BBC World Service targets and may be defined as diasporic. And these two websites are not exceptional. Diasporic groups make increasing use of the BBC's online foreign language news sites but these transnational communication networks are an unintended consequence of the BBC's activities. We highlight how the internet is changing configurations of audiences and users at the BBC World Service as geographically dispersed language groups can log on to the news services from anywhere in the world. We argue that the BBC World Service can no longer be seen as an international broadcaster pursuing the BBC's motto 'nation shall speak peace unto nation.' Rather, as one of the world's largest news providers, it is implicated in the formation of new kinds of transnational communities and communications which has as yet unforeseen consequences for national identifications and for strategies of public diplomacy.
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Petreski, Marjan. "Public provision of employment support services to youth jobseekers." International Journal of Manpower 39, no. 6 (September 3, 2018): 820–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijm-04-2017-0078.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate if public provision of employment support services to youth leads to reduced informality and increased wages in transition economies. Design/methodology/approach The author uses the school-to-work transition data sets of the International Labor Organization for seven transition economies of Southeast Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The author focuses on two econometric issues: the selectivity into informal employment and the endogeneity of the public employment support service provision with respect to informal employment and wages. The authors achieves identification by employing internal regressors which are uncorrelated with the product of heteroskedastic errors, a-la Lewbel (2012), as the author could not prove the external validity of the commonly used external instruments in similar contexts. Findings Results suggest that the public provision of employment support services matters for relegating informal employment, but not for wages, in general. Placement in education or training programs is most powerful in reducing informal employment among the four different employment support services, while only advice for job search works positively for wages probably through enabling better match. Social implications Increasing budget allocations, varying the array of public employment support measures, enhanced targeting, and advancement of the profiling system may significantly contribute to strengthening the public employment support service effect on youth employment in transition economies. Originality/value The paper brings a couple of novelties to the current literature. First, it is among the early papers dealing with the issue of informality, public employment support service and labor market prospects of youth in general in a rigorous manner. Second, it fills an important gap for transition economies which were less researched due to the long-lasting transition process as well due to data scarcity. Third, it utilizes the recently collected School-to-Work Transition Surveys (SWTS). Finally, and likely most importantly, it thoroughly addresses the issues of selectivity bias and endogeneity of PESS by utilizing a recent approach of Lewbel (2012) whereby internally generated variables are used as instruments. Hence, the paper accounts for the endogeneity stemming from unobservables in a novel manner, contrary to the common approaches in the literature based either on propensity score matching addressing selectivity on observables only, or relying on commonly used instruments in the labor market literature – mainly regional employment variables – whose external validity is easily disputed.
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De Ridder, John, and Robin Eckermann. "SafetyNet - A New Approach to Rural and Remote Communications." Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 5, no. 3 (September 6, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/ajtde.v5n3.112.
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Rural and remote areas will continue to struggle to keep up with urban telecommunications despite the progress that has been made with initiatives such as the Mobile Black Spot Program (MBSP) and the NBN fixed wireless and satellite. But, now a more radical approach is needed as we consider updating the Universal Service Obligation, public safety network options and mobile roaming. Instead of more expensive small gains at the margin, or a counterproductive roaming arrangements, we should take a large step forward by having the Commonwealth, States and MNOs work together.
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De Ridder, John, and Robin Eckermann. "SafetyNet - A New Approach to Rural and Remote Communications." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 5, no. 3 (September 6, 2017): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v5n3.112.
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Rural and remote areas will continue to struggle to keep up with urban telecommunications despite the progress that has been made with initiatives such as the Mobile Black Spot Program (MBSP) and the NBN fixed wireless and satellite. But, now a more radical approach is needed as we consider updating the Universal Service Obligation, public safety network options and mobile roaming. Instead of more expensive small gains at the margin, or a counterproductive roaming arrangements, we should take a large step forward by having the Commonwealth, States and MNOs work together.
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Struyk, Raymond J. "Nonprofit organizations as contracted local social service providers in eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States." Public Administration and Development 22, no. 5 (2002): 429–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pad.243.
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Krieger, Kurt L. "Gathering and Transporting Marcellus and Utica Shale Natural Gas to the Market and the Regulation of Midstream Pipeline Companies - The Case for a Uniform Federal and State Definition of "Gathering" in the Context of Economic and Siting Regulation." Texas Wesleyan Law Review 19, no. 1 (October 2012): 49–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/twlr.v19.i1.4.
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Much has been written about the major natural gas reserves in the Marcellus and even Utica Shale formations located in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. But much of the focus has been on the law and regulation around producing the gas-drilling and getting it out of the ground. Related, but serving a very different function, is the role of pipeline companies in their various business models to transport that gas to market. This is a different and equally robust and growing segment of the natural gas industry where large amounts of shale exploration take place. In fact, without pipelines and regulatory certainty for those constructing pipelines, natural gas has no value as it cannot be transported to the market place in any practical manner without pipelines. When planning to construct or acquire natural gas pipelines, a major question to consider is, "Will the pipelines be regulated?" For purposes of this Article, "regulated" refers to regulation of the siting and construction of pipeline facilities as well as economic regulation of the prices (or rates) charged and the terms and conditions (or tariffs) for services offered to customers (or shippers) transporting on those pipelines. Depending upon the physical configuration of the pipelines, the manner in which they are used to transport natural gas, and the type of customer transporting the gas on the pipeline, the correct answer could be (1) no regulation, (2) regulation by a state or commonwealth public service or utility commission, or (3) possible regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC"). Moreo- ver, with respect to state or commonwealth regulation, as one might imagine, the extent of that regulation varies by state or commonwealth.
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y, PW Harve, PD Mill s, G. Misa n, and K. Warre n. "Small-scale rural pilot programs in chronic illness management - what next?" Australian Journal of Primary Health 9, no. 3 (2003): 114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py03034.
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In recent years, rural SA has been the recipient of significant funding to support a range of new primary health care initiatives. Much of this funding, additional to normal recurrent budgets in our health system, has facilitated effective change and development through demonstration and research projects across the state. The resultant work involves programs such as: ? coordinated care trials (COAG) ? more allied health services (MAHS) ? Commonwealth regional health service initiatives (CRHS) ? quality use of medicines (QUM) ? community packages for aged care services ? Indigenous chronic disease self-management pilot programs (CDSM) ? chronic disease self-management (CDSM) programs - Sharing Health Care SA ? chronic disease self-management (CDSM) programs in Indigenous communities. In addition to the resources listed above, funding was also provided by the Commonwealth to establish the South Australian Centre for Rural and Remote Health (SACRRH) and develop the University Department of Rural Health in Whyalla. While this new funding has led to substantial developmental work in chronic illness management in particular, one needs to ask whether the time might not be right now for these hitherto small-scale change initiatives to be transformed into ongoing mainstream programs, informed and guided by research outcomes to date. Is it time to move beyond tentative chronic illness programs and into mainstream reform? We have shown that there is much to be gained, both for patients and for the system, from improved coordination of primary care services and initiatives such as self-management programs for patients with chronic conditions. Better management leads to improved patient health outcomes and can reduce demand for unplanned hospital and emergency services. Many admissions to rural hospitals requiring expensive services, in terms of infrastructure and staffing, could be either prevented, or patients could be managed more effectively in the community as part of a wider primary health care program.
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Ntwaagae, Charles. "Commentary: An African Perspective Services Negotiations." Global Economy Journal 5, no. 4 (December 7, 2005): 1850062. http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1524-5861.1149.
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A commentary on J. Robert Vastine's article "Services Negotiations in the Doha Round: Promise and Reality." Charles T. Ntwaagae is Ambassador-Permanent Representative to the UN and WTO in Geneva. He has served in the Botswana Public Service over the past 28 years, during which he held several senior policy level positions. These include Executive Director of the National Environment Secretariat, Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government, Housing and Environment, and Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. As Ambassador-Permanent Representative, he has served in various capacities, including Chairman of the Africa Group, Co-ordinator of ACP Ambassadors in the WTO and Chairman of Commonwealth Developing countries in the WTO. As of January 2006, he will be serving as Permanent Secretary of Botswana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
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Stewart, Victoria, Maddy Slattery, Helena Roennfeldt, and Amanda J. Wheeler. "Partners in Recovery: paving the way for the National Disability Insurance Scheme." Australian Journal of Primary Health 24, no. 3 (2018): 208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py17136.
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Australians experiencing severe and persistent mental illness and who require services from multiple agencies, experience a fragmented service delivery system. In 2014, the Commonwealth Government introduced the Partners in Recovery (PIR) service, which provides service coordination and flexible funding to improve outcomes for this group of people. This study presents qualitative findings from a research project that aimed to understand the experiences of PIR participants, including aspects of the planning process and the effectiveness of the PIR program in meeting their needs from the perspective of the participant, their carer or family member and other support people within their lives. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 31 stakeholders involved in the PIR program, of which 14 were participants, 17 were members of the participant’s support network and three were members of a consumer and carer advisory group. Overall participation in the PIR program had a positive effect on the participant’s lives. Relationships with the support facilitators were seen as an important element of the process, along with a focus on recovery-oriented goals and advocacy and linking to other agencies. These findings are important for informing the roll-out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in Australia, which will replace PIR.
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Rychel-Mantur, Dominika. "Członkowie Rządu Centralnego Tymczasowego Wojskowego Galicji – przyczynek do biografii zbiorowej." UR Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 16, no. 3 (2020): 23–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.15584/johass.2020.3.2.
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In 1809, in the territories of the Austrian Partition, which had been taken away from Austrians by Polish soldiers, the Central Provisional Military Government of Galicia was formed. The duties of the Governement was the reorganization of administration in Galicia and organization of military troops. The President of the Government was Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski, the most popular and richest magnate in Galicia. Representatives of the local nobility were appointed to other positions in the Government and in the poviat administration bodies. Archive materials allowed the tracing of 53 members. They were born between 1740 and 1780, most often from rich landed gentry and nobility. They owned estates in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Their career path was typical of the social state they represented. Educated, most often in the spirit of the Enlightenment, they took their first steps in public service as administrative officials or military personnel. Some of these careers seemed to have been above average, but the fall of the country in 1795 led to their their interruption. Withdrawing from public life, they returned in 1809. This article, an attempt to form a characteristic of this group, is part of the research on the elite of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the turn of the 19th century.
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Cucchiara, Maia, Eva Gold, and Elaine Simon. "Contracts, Choice, and Customer Service: Marketization and Public Engagement in Education." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 113, no. 11 (November 2011): 2460–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811111301104.
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Background/Context Market models of school reform are having a major impact on school districts across the country. While scholars have examined many aspects of this process, we know far less about the general effects of marketization on public participation in education and local education politics. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study This article uses an examination of marketization in Philadelphia over a six-year period (2001-7) to explore its implications for public engagement—or the ability of individuals and groups to work with and influence the school district and hold officials accountable. Setting The research was conducted in Philadelphia, the sixth largest city in the country. In 2001, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania took over the School District of Philadelphia, citing on-going fiscal crises and poor student achievement. The resulting reforms included new leadership, new governance structures, and significant privatization. Research Design This is a qualitative case study of school district change in Philadelphia, focusing on the implications for public engagement. Data Collection and Analysis Data included over 50 interviews with education administrators, civic and political elites, and representatives of grassroots and community groups. Data also included six years of participant observation at public meetings and in reform coalitions. Analysis followed a grounded theory approach designed to identify district policies and practices related to public participation and to document how these practices shaped the ability of individuals and groups to engage productively with the district. Findings/Results We find that the marketization of education in Philadelphia had a major impact on the district's institutional structure and practices for interacting with local stakeholders. Our data point to several changes that were particularly consequential in shaping the opportunities for engagement and the direction such engagement took. These are: a corporate governance structure, an emphasis on communication, widespread contracting out for services, an increase in school choice, and a focus on customer service. Conclusions/Recommendations These changes have resulted in channeling of public participation along individual lines at the expense of collective forms of action and, more broadly, undercutting of the understanding of education as a public good. Given the continued influence of market models of education reform at the local and national levels, it will be important for policymakers to pay close attention to the ways by which marketization can limit engagement and to develop strategies, such as increased transparency and new vehicles for public input, to address this tendency.
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Walker, Judi, Ros Hill, and Lorraine Green. "Tassie's Tele-rrific Telehealth Network: Linking Primary Health Care Services for Better Rural Health Outcomes." Australian Journal of Primary Health 6, no. 4 (2000): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py00043.
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The Telehealth Tasmania Network is a statewide network covering a range of primary care services including Wound Management, Diabetes Education and Support, Specialist Clinics, Mental Health, Palliative Care, and health professional support and education. The Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services instigated the Telehealth Network in conjunction with the Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. The Network is built on a community development and primary care model. It is unique in that consultation with service providers and clients has determined the sites and services. Integration with other agencies is a key feature, with shared infrastructure ensuring viability and sustainability. Evaluation is an integral part of the design, development and implementation of the Network. It is a forward-looking process to guide program and policy development. Although the take-up rate has been relatively slow and uneven, the evaluation findings demonstrate how Information Technology and Advanced Telecommunications are being used effectively to link primary care services with each other and with acute care and institutional services. Key external factors for success and failure have been identified, showing that what works well in one place may well fail in another.
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Weeramanthri, Tarun S., Andrew G. Robertson, Gary K. Dowse, Paul V. Effler, Muriel G. Leclercq, Jeremy D. Burtenshaw, Susan J. Oldham, David W. Smith, Kathryn J. Gatti, and Helen M. Gladstones. "Response to pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in Australia - lessons from a State health department perspective." Australian Health Review 34, no. 4 (2010): 477. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah10901.
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This article reviews the lessons that can be learned by the health sector, in particular, and the public sector, more generally, from the governmental response to pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza A (pH1N1) in Australia during 2009. It covers the period from the emergence of the epidemic to the release of the vaccine, and describes a range of impacts on the Western Australian health system, the government sector and the community. There are three main themes considered from a State government agency perspective: how decisions were influenced by prior planning; how the decision making and communication processes were intimately linked; and the interdependent roles of States and the Commonwealth Government in national programs. We conclude that: (a) communications were generally effective, but need to be improved and better coordinated between the Australian Government, States and general practice; (b) decision making was appropriately flexible, but there needs to be better alignment with expert advice, and consideration of the need for a national disease control agency in Australia; and (c) national funding arrangements need to fit with the model of state-based service delivery and to support critical workforce needs for surge capacity, as well as stockpile and infrastructure requirements. What is known about the topic? There have been a number of articles on pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in Australia that have provided an overview of the response from a Commonwealth Government perspective, as well as specific aspects of the State response (e.g. virology, impact on intensive care units across Australia, infection control). Victoria, Queensland and NSW have published papers more focussed on epidemiology and an overview of public health actions. What does this paper add? This would be the first in-depth account of the response that both details a broader range of impacts and costs across health and other State government agencies, and also provides a critical reflection on governance, communication and decision making arrangements from the beginning of the pandemic to the start of the vaccination program. What are the implications for practitioners? Practitioners (clinical, public health, and laboratory) would recognise the importance of the workforce and surge capacity issues highlighted in the paper, and the extent to which they were stretched. Addressing these issues is vital to meeting practitioner needs in future pandemic seasons. Policy makers would see the relevance of the observations and analysis to governance arrangements within a Federal system, where the majority of funding is provided from the Commonwealth level, whereas service delivery responsibilities remain with the States and Territories. In particular, the argument to consider a national disease control agency along the lines of the US and UK will be of interest to public health and communicable disease practitioners in all States and Territories, as it would affect how and where policy and expert advice is created and used.
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De Hollanda, Pedro Paulo Teófilo Magalhães, Cláudia Henriqueta Conde Rosa, Samantha Albano Amorim Cardoso, and Ciro Campos Christo Fernandes. "Schools of Government: a comparative study." Revista do Serviço Público 70 (December 6, 2019): 15–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.21874/rsp.v70i0.1514.
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The Schools of Government perform a central role to the public service of many countries. Despite being a disseminated and well-established phenomenon, the functions and even the concept of Schools of Government vary. Aiming to portray the functions and characteristics of Schools of Government around the world and offer a better understanding of them, this paper presents a comparative study of Schools of Government located across five continents. Based on purposive sampling, eight Schools of Government were selected to be part of this in depth study: École Nationale d'Administration, ENA – France; Canada School of Public Service, CSPS – Canada; Instituto Nacional de la Administración Pública, INAP – Argentina; Australia and New Zealand School of Government, ANZSOG – Australia and New Zealand; Civil Service College, CSC – Singapore; National School of Government, NSG – South Africa; Direcção Geral da Qualificação dos Trabalhadores em Funções Públicas, INA – Portugal; and Escuela Superior de Administración Pública, ESAP – Colombia. Data collection procedures included interviews and document analysis. Data was analyzed using content and comparative analysis. This study highlights some important dimensions of Schools of Government including the position within the government, funding, main activities, organizational structure and personnel. Other similarities (e.g. among members of Commonwealth) and possible common trends and innovation challenges are also discussed. Finally, we discuss the results comparing them to previous studies findings.
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Cutler, J., and P. Farrar. "EASTERN GAS PIPELINE PROJECT: BREAKING NEW GROUND IN COORDINATED APPROVALS." APPEA Journal 36, no. 2 (1996): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj95071.
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The opening of 'free and fair trade' in natural gas from 1 July 1996 provides the opportunity to service Sydney and regional NSW energy markets with competitively priced Bass Strait gas.The Eastern Gas Pipeline Project (EGPP), proposed by BHP Petroleum Pty Ltd and a Canadian company, Westcoast Energy Inc, will link Victorian reserves to NSW transmission and distribution systems.The proponents have taken on a major coordination exercise to ensure that project planning, market development, communications, environmental assessment and regulatory approvals are integrated and managed against a demanding project schedule.Exposure to three regulatory jurisdictions has complicated this task.The project requires many approvals including approval under the Commonwealth government's foreign investment policy, pipeline permits and licences under Victorian and NSW Pipelines Acts and requires environmental impact assessment under Commonwealth, Victorian and NSW legislation.Early in the project's life the proponents recognised the need for a strongly coordinated approvals process and have since worked with government assessment and facilitation agencies to achieve a coordinated process. This ground-breaking project is now the subject of one Environmental Impact Assessment process, one process for public review and one coordinated decision-making process to meet the requirements of all three jurisdictions.This paper explores the challenges of coordination and suggests ways of improving future joint assessment and approval processes.
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Wipulanusat, Warit, Kriengsak Panuwatwanich, and Rodney A. Stewart. "Exploring leadership styles for innovation: an exploratory factor analysis." Engineering Management in Production and Services 9, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/emj-2017-0001.
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AbstractLeadership plays a vital role in building the process, structures, and climate for an organisation to become innovative and to motivate team expectations toward innovations. This study explores the leadership styles that engineers regard as significant for innovation in the public sector. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted to identify the principal leadership styles influencing innovation in the Australian Public Service (APS), using survey data extracted from the 2014 APS employee census comprising 3 125 engineering professionals in Commonwealth of Australia departments. EFA returned a two-factor structure explaining 77.6% of the variance of the leadership for innovation construct. In this study, the results from the EFA provided a clear estimation of the factor structure of the measures for leadership for innovation. From the results, the two factors extracted were transformational leadership and consideration leadership. In transformational leadership, a leader values organisational objectives, inspires subordinates to perform, and motivates followers beyond expected levels of work standards. Consideration leadership refers to the degree to which a leader shows concern and expressions of support for subordinates, takes care of their welfare, treats members as equals, and displays warmth and approachability. These findings highlight the role of leadership as the most critical predictor when considering the degree to which subordinates strive for creativity and innovation. Both transformational and consideration leadership styles are recommended to be incorporated into management training and development programs. This study also recommends that Commonwealth departments recruit supervisors who have both of these leadership styles before implementing innovative projects.
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Boyd-Barrett, Oliver. "Intercultural integration and informational infrastructure." International Communication Gazette 74, no. 6 (September 24, 2012): 525–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048512454818.
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Peaceful development of large and fractious interethnic nations and regions is facilitated by and may require a shared informational infrastructure that meets the following conditions: public service orientation; independence of major state and corporate centers of power; contributing to the functioning of nationwide institutions of economic, political and cultural importance; and commanding benign public perception. With specific reference to the Russian news agency Interfax, this article explores the ‘black box’ of the often touted but seldom explicated relationship between news agencies and national or regional ‘development.’ It finds that Interfax has played an important role in the establishment of a political and economic, horizontal informational infrastructure that meets the above conditions. The article concludes that Interfax contributed to a new informational paradigm, synchronizing with macro processes of political and economic reform, and enveloping a heteroegenous swathe of Russia, the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The agency thus helped create conditions conducive to regional, interethnic stability.
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P. Kofron, Christopher, and Angela Chapman. "Causes of mortality to the endangered Southern Cassowary Casuarius casuarius johnsonii in Queensland, Australia." Pacific Conservation Biology 12, no. 3 (2006): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc060175.
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The Southern Cassowary Casuarius casuarius johnsonii is endemic to north-east Queensland, Australia, where it inhabits tropical rainforest. Of the total former cassowary habitat, only 20-25% remains, with much of this under pressure for development. The species is listed as endangered by both the Australian Commonwealth Government and the Queensland State Government. The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (2002) estimated 1 500?2500 adult Southern Cassowaries remain. The primary cause of the species' decline is habitat loss and fragmentation, with motor vehicle strikes and dog attacks considered major threats for local populations. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to quantify the causes of mortality to Southern Cassowaries, including motor vehicle strikes and dog attacks, which have not previously been quantified. We obtained data for 140 cassowary deaths from the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, local government councils and persons having experiences with cassowaries. The leading cause of death for 110 cassowaries from 1986?2004 was motor vehicle strikes (55%), and the second leading cause of death was dog attacks (18%). Together, motor vehicles and dogs caused 74% of the cassowary mortalities for which the causes of death could be determined. Seventy-nine of the recorded cassowary deaths (63%) were in the Mission Beach area, suggesting this loca! population is under tremendous pressure. We expect cassowary numbers to continue to decline, especially in the Mission Beach area. We encourage the Commonwealth, State and relevant local governments to fully implement recovery actions. We believe the goal of conserving the Southern Cassowary and its habitat in perpetuity is attainable, but it will require public commitment and political will.
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Gilroy, JH. "New South Wales Kangaroo Management Program: 2002 and beyond.." Australian Mammalogy 26, no. 1 (2004): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/am04003.
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Immediately following the review of the New South Wales (NSW) Kangaroo Management Program (KMP) in 1997, the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service initiated a strategic planning process involving the NSW Kangaroo Management Advisory Committee. In April 2000 the strategic planning process progressed into a full review of the KMP 1998-2002 and various reports were commissioned. The draft KMP 2002-2006 was released for public comment on 14 July 2001. Key issues considered when preparing the new program were the legislative framework, the inclusion of goals and objectives that can be audited, the merits of damage mitigation as a rationale for commercial kangaroo use and the format and writing style of the KMP 1998-2002. Following analysis of submissions on the draft KMP 2002-2006, the program was finalised and submitted to the Australian Commonwealth Government for approval. The KMP 2002-2006 was approved by the Commonwealth and is valid from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2006. The KMP 2002-2006 has a single overarching goal to maintain viable populations of kangaroos throughout their ranges in accordance with the principles of ecologically sustainable development. This goal is serviced by six new management-based objectives, each of which is covered by a specific section in the new management program. The new management program no longer relies on identification of damage as justification for commercial kangaroo use, and facility for an adaptive management approach has been added for the first time. Specific arrangements for ongoing program audits, periodic full program reviews and community awareness and participation are further additions to the new management program.
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Giles, Lynne C., Julie A. Halbert, Maria Crotty, Ian D. Cameron, and Len C. Gray. "The distribution of health services for older people in Australia: where does transition care fit?" Australian Health Review 33, no. 4 (2009): 572. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah090572.
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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to describe the distribution of hospital and aged care services for older people, with a particular focus on transition care places, across Australia and to determine the relationships between the provision of these services. Methods: Aggregation of health and aged care service indicators by Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) region including: public and private acute and subacute (rehabilitation and geriatric evaluation and management) hospital beds, flexible and mainstream aged care places as at 30 June 2006. Results: There was marked variation in the distribution of acute and subacute hospital beds among the 79 ACAT regions. Aged care places were more evenly distributed. However, the distribution of transition care places was uneven. Rural areas had poorer provision of all beds. There was no evidence of coordination in the allocation of hospital and aged care services between the Commonwealth and state/territory governments. There was a weak relationship between the allocation of transition care places and the distribution of health and aged care services. Discussion: Overall, the distribution of services available to older persons is uneven across Australia. While the Transition Care Program is flexible and is providing rural communities with access to rehabilitation, it will not be adequate to address the increasing needs associated with the ageing of the Australian population. An integrated national plan for aged care and rehabilitation services should be considered.
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Mobbs, Robyn, Hung The Nguyen, and Andrew Bell. "The chronic disease self-management project at Katherine West Health Board Aboriginal Corporation in the Northern Territory: A report of the first year." Australian Journal of Primary Health 9, no. 3 (2003): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py03042.
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Katherine West Health Board Aboriginal Corporation (KWHB) at Katherine in the Northern Territory is an Aboriginal health service delivery organization directed by the Indigenous Board. The Chronic Disease Self-Management Demonstration Project (CDSM) commenced in April, 2002 at KWHB with funding from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing Sharing Health Care initiative, as one of eight demonstration projects across the country. The project is under the direction of the KWHB Board, which is made up of 18 members elected by their own communities that lie within the KWHB service sector. The full Board or the Board Executive meet routinely throughout each year and members are actively involved with the project at both community and Board levels. The project governance structure also includes a Steering Committee and the Project Management Group that meets monthly. The project is well supported by the various management and administrative sections of KWHB. In the communities, the project reports to the local health committees that have been established by KWHB with community support, and to the local CDSM committees made up of members of the target group.
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Gomez, Raja. "From empire to commonwealth: Reflections on a career in britain's overseas service. John O'Regan. The Radcliffe Press, London/New York, 1994, 196 pp." Public Administration and Development 15, no. 2 (1995): 187–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pad.4230150213.
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Onah, Roseline C., and Gabriel Igwebuike Ayogu. "Diversity, Inclusive Governance and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: The Federal Character Principle in Focus." International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 5, no. 7 (July 17, 2018): 4873–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsshi/v5i7.07.
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The need for inclusive governance has become more urgent in the face of the ethno-politically propelled violence prevalent in the world especially in Africa. The Federal Character Principle though introduced to redress geopolitical imbalance and bring about national integration, has become the Achilles heel of Nigerian politics. Thus, the thrust of this paper is an in-depth analysis of the Federal Character Principle as an instrument of retooling Nigeria diversity for inclusive governance and sustainable development. Through a documentary search, the paper examined the application of the principle and its effect on key principles that promote effective public service delivery and sustainable development. Our findings show that the principle has gone a long way to reduce various factors of mutual distrust and rivalries among states and geopolitical zones for sharing of the Nigerian commonwealth. However, the implementation of the principle has impinged on the application of the merit principle in public service recruitment and selection which is key to effective service delivery and sustainable development. In its varied application, the principle tries to prop the weak but downplays excellence thereby brewing injustice and inefficiency. Based on the thesis that Nigeria can only continue to seek unity and development upon the continuing basis of ethno-political diversity, the paper makes some recommendations towards a more effective application of the Federal Character Principle. These include applying the principle only at the entry level into the service while climbing up the ladder should depend on solely on merit, recruitment for post requiring specialist training should not be based on Federal Character Principle but strictly on merit among others.
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Pister, Aleksandra. "Printed Music as a Medium of International Representation for the Magnates of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: A Case Study of Music Prints Dedicated to Jan Karol Chodkiewicz and Aleksander Chodkiewicz." Lietuvos istorijos studijos 49 (July 4, 2022): 8–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/lis.2022.49.1.
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The article deals with the collections of printed music dedicated to the distinguished nobles, statesmen and military commanders of the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania, brothers Jan Karol and Aleksander Chodkiewicz. These collections were printed in Venice in the beginning of the 17th century and dedicated to the Lithuanian magnates by Italian composers Giovanni Valentini and Giulio Osculati. However, it was not in their home country where composers became acquainted with the above-mentioned noblemen who had studied and travelled extensively in Italy but in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In fact, both composers had served for certain periods of time as musicians in the Polish court chapel under Sigismund III Vasa. The said collections of motets are being examined here with an emphasis on publicity and international representation. The author notes that besides the reasonable expectations of both Italian composers to raise their public profiles, to publish and disseminate their work in Europe, these personal aspirations also resonated with the interests of other public figures. They both represent Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, as a generous patron and a leading social figure. The dedications were intended to glorify the Chodkiewicz and raise their profile within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and beyond. They account for the magnates’ victories in major military campaigns of the time, such as those achieved during the Polish–Swedish war of 1600–1611, as well as Chodkiewicz’s merits in defence of the state. Within the context of shifting confessional identities at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries (i.e. the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation movements) these notated sources should be considered as a reflection of the magnates’ confessional identity. The very genre of printed works – motets for Catholic church service – reflects Chodkiewicz’s firm self-determination as Roman Catholics.
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de Crespigny, Charlotte, Inge Kowanko, Helen Murray, Carolyn Emden, and Scott Wilson. "Improving Indigenous health through better medication management: an overview." Australian Journal of Primary Health 11, no. 1 (2005): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py05003.
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This paper provides an overview of a major South Australian research project with implications for the health of all Indigenous Australians. The researchers set out to explore the medication needs of Aboriginal people with mental health problems and found that most Aboriginal people have to deal with profound challenges to social and emotional wellbeing with significant medication implications. No previous research had investigated the problem of medication use by Aboriginal people in metropolitan, rural and remote locations to the depth and extent of this project. The research therefore is of widespread relevance and holds interest for many Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals and groups, consumers, service providers and policy-makers. As a research team comprising Indigenous and non-Indigenous members, we were committed to implementing strategies in the course of the project with immediate benefit to project participants as well as longer-term impact on improved use of medications. The design of the project enabled these strategic interventions and we are pleased to promote this model to other researchers. Recommendations from the project concern services, coordination of care, carers and family members, workforce education, and community development. Readers are advised where the project report and other published papers can be accessed. The project was funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.