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Witzig, Monica. "Reconciling Oregon's Smart Growth Goals with Local Policy Choice: An Empirical Study of Growth Management, Urban Form, and Development Outcomes in Eugene, Keizer, Salem, and Springfield." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/17921.
Full textWitzig, Monica C. "Reconciling Oregon's Smart Growth goals with local policy choice| An empirical study of growth management, urban form, and development outcomes in Eugene, Keizer, Salem, and Springfield." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1555773.
Full textOregon’s Statewide Planning Goals embody Smart Growth in their effort to revitalize urban areas, finance environmentally responsible transportation systems, provide housing options, and protect natural resources; yet the State defers to its municipalities to implement this planning framework. This research focuses on Goal 14 (Urbanization), linking most directly to Smart Growth Principle 7 (Strengthen and Direct Development toward Existing Communities). It assesses Eugene’s, Keizer’s, Salem’s, and Springfield’s growth management policies that specifically target infill development of single family homes against this Goal and Principle. Though these municipalities must demonstrate consistency with the same Goals (see Supplemental File 1 for this context), this research questions whether sufficiently different policy approaches to curtailing sprawl yield significantly different results. The primary analytical method is a logistic regression that uses parcel-level data to understand how administration affects development by isolating these policies’ direct effects on observed outcomes (see Supplemental File 2 for this theory).
Koty, Suzanne T. "Developing Teacher Leaders Through Professional Development Offered in a District Teacher Forum." ScholarWorks, 2020. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7879.
Full textSnoodgrass, Anthony Michael. "Overcoming communications barriers in local government: Establishing networks through the public management forum." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/618.
Full textHoflund, Amy Bryce. "Conducting a Dissonant Symphony: A Case Study of Network Leadership in the National Quality Forum." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37621.
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Feehan, Michael. "Community participation in the development of local policing policy and practice : the Community Policing Forum model of engagement." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546052.
Full textMäkinen, A. (Anna). "Development of internal communication policy in growth enterprise." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201809052711.
Full textDavey, Andrew Paul. "Development of and environmental policy for University of Surrey." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264250.
Full textFritzell, Tove. "Development of an Environmental Management System for Radical Sports Management." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-58637.
Full textUnger, Darian W. (Darian William) 1973. "Product development process design : improving development response to market, technical, and regulatory risks." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29215.
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Engineering companies frequently face product development challenges. Competitive pressures, industrial or societal innovations, and government regulations are some of the many factors that drive the need for new or better products. Companies respond to these drivers and changing needs by developing new products and employing product development processes (PDPs) to coherently manage the risks inherent in their development. Well-designed PDPs reduce development time, create better products, generate profit, and increase market share. In contrast, poorly-designed PDPs can severely harm both product lines and the companies that manufacture them. Many companies seek guidance in making important PDP design decisions. This thesis introduces PDPs as risk management frameworks. The research investigates the relationship between PDPs and risk management and seeks to help companies improve PDP design. It begins by discussing the drivers and risks of product development and then describes different PDPs. The traditional stage gate process is compared with the modified waterfall process, evolutionary prototyping, evolutionary delivery, design to schedule/budget process, the spiral process, and several other PDP variations. The research then proposes several iteration- and review-based metrics by which PDPs can be more effectively identified and compared. Ten company case studies exemplify a wide variety of actual PDPs, demonstrate the utility of iteration and review metrics in distinguishing PDPs, and illustrate how different processes manage different risks. Case study findings indicate that software development companies face rapidly-changing markets, generally perform quick integrations and tests, and are likely to employ flexible PDPs.
(cont.) In contrast, manufacturing companies that face greater integration difficulties and technical risks are likely to employ more rigid PDPs. Integration and risk are both instrumental in determining the applicability of different PDPs. The research employs case study lessons to propose a method for improved PDP design based on risk and integration. To demonstrate the method, it is applied to one company. The thesis concludes that PDPs vary more than previously documented; that the proposed metrics are useful in distinguishing PDPs, their different integrations, and their different risk management methods; and that companies facing different risks can more thoughtfully tailor their PDP designs to suit their own unique circumstances.
by Darian W. Unger.
Ph.D.
Shahjahan, Mosharefa. "Integrated management of water resources in Bangladesh /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envs525.pdf.
Full textWilcock, Christopher Norman. "The development of a supply chain management policy for Lukhanji Municipality." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50478.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Local authorities, being at the coalface of government service delivery, have a statutory duty to deliver a wide range of services to their communities. Having limited resources themselves, and due to the poverty in their communities, municipalities aim to maximise the efficiency of their operations in order to be able to deliver appropriate quality services at the lowest possible cost. Municipalities are subject to a variety oflaws, regulations and policies which regulate the way in which they go about their business. In the context of supply chain management, the recently promulgated Municipal Finance Management Act and its associated Regulations and Guidelines is the most important of these. Supply chain management, defined by the MFMA to include procurement, disposal of assets and contract management, is an important issue in Lukhanji Municipality due to the amounts of money allocated to capital projects as well as to operations. Municipalities, as organs of State, are also required to implement policies which are aligned with other provincial and national polices and, in the context of supply chain management, which do not prejudice national economic policy. Municipalities, in addition to their service delivery role, have a mandate, conferred by the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, to play a developmental role in their communities. They are required, in their procurement of goods and services, to apply preferential procurement processes in order to promote the use of: enterprises owned and managed by previously disadvantaged individuals; Small- Medium- and Micro-enterprises (SMMEs); local resources; and other marginalised individuals and groups. Municipalities are thus required to comply with statutory requirements and to strive for the achievement of social and economic objectives. The purpose of this study is to: describe all the current legislation, regulations and policies affecting municipal supply chain management; examine the conflicts arising from the different perspectives of the various statutory and policy requirements; describe the factors which constrain the municipality in its efforts to maximise the benefits arising from supply chain management activities; develop objectives for the supply chain management policy m terms of statutory compliance, social aspects and economic goals and which are not in conflict with each other; analyse the draft Supply Chain Management policy developed for Lukhanji Municipality to determine its efficacy in supporting the objectives developed; make recommendations regarding the final Supply Chain Management policy for Lukhanji; and propose further research arising out of the findings of this study. The main findings of the study are: some of the requirements of legislation and applicable policies are mutually exclusive and some compromises have to be made; the Supply Chain Management policy can be used as a tool to achieve socio-economic objectives while still complying with the statutory requirements; in particular, the Supply Chain Management policy can be used for the promotion of SMMEs, black economic empowerment, local economic development and job creation; a comprehensive set of socio-economic objectives and statutory requirements have been developed for Lukhanji Municipality's Supply Chain Management policy; the current high levels of provincial and national government spending on infrastructure development represent an opportunity for local economic development; the promotion of local SMMEs is an important element in increasing the multiplier effect, on the local economy, of the economic injection of the extensive infrastructure development currently in progress in the Lukhanji municipal area; the potential benefits are reduced by the capacity constraints and scarcity of resources within local government; and the draft policy prepared for Lukhanji will ensure compliance with the statutory requirements for supply chain management but needs to be amended to increase its efficacy in achieving Council's socio-economic objectives. The study highlighted several deficiencies in current knowledge especially in industries other than the construction industry. Research to test the hypothesis that the principles applicable to the construction industry can be applied to other industries is proposed. More research is also recommended to be done on establishing the link between spending on infrastructure and local economic benefits and how to maximise the benefits especially to increase local economic development, job creation and poverty.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Plaaslike owerhede staan op die voorpunt van die regenng se dienslewering aan die gemeenskap. Gekonfronteer deur hul eie gebrek aan hulpbronne, en die armoede van hul gemeenskappe word munisipaliteite genoodsaak om dienste van gepaste gehalte teen minimum koste te lewer deur om hul doeltreffendheid te maximiseer. Munisipaliteite is onderhewig aan 'n magdom wette, regulasies en beleide wat op hulle aktiwiteite van toepassing is. In die geval van voorsieningskettingbestuur is die Munisipale Finansiëlebestuurswet en gepaardgaande Regulasies en Riglyne die belangrikste wetstuk. Voorsieningsketting aktiwiteite, soos deur die Munisipale Finansiëlebestuurswet gedefineer om aankope, verkoop van bates en kontrakbestuur in te sluit, word as belangrik geag as gevolg van die hoeveelhede geld wat betrokke is. Die bedrae sluit in die allokasies aan kapitaalprojekte asook die lopende begroting. Munisipaliteite, in hul hoedanighede as Staatsinstansies, word verplig om alleenlik beleide wat provinsiale en nasionale beleid ondersteun toe te pas en, verder, om te verhoed dat hul beleide met nasionale ekonomiesebeleid teenstrydig is. Afgesien van hul diensleweringsrol word munisipaliteite, deur die Grondwet van die Republiek van Suid Afrika, ook belas met die plig om hul gemeenskappe te ontwikkel. Deur middel van hul aankope van goedere en dienste word munisipaliteite gelas om voorkeur aan die volgende te gee: Besighede wat deur voorheen benadeelde individieë besit en bestuur word; Klein- Middelmatige- en Micro-sakeondernemings; Plaaslike hulpbronne; en ander benadeelde individieë en groepe. Opsommend, moet munisipaliteite aan alle wetgewing voldoen terwyl hulle ook streef om sosiale en ekonomiese doelwitte te bereik. Die doel van hierdie studie is om: al die huidige wetgewing, regulasies en beleid wat van toepassing is te beskryf; die konflikte voortspruitend uit die verskillende oogpunte van die wetgewing en beleidstukke te ondersoek; die faktore wat die munisipaliteit strem in sy strewe om sy doelwitte te bereik; die formulering van die doelwitte van sy voorsieningskettingbestuursbeleid ten opsigte van die wetlike vereistes asook die sosiale en ekonomiese doele wat nie teenstrydig met mekaar mag wees nie; die ontleding van Lukhanji se voorgestelde voorsieningskettingbestuursbeleid om sy doeltreffendheid ten opsigte van die ondersteuning van sy doelwitte te bepaal; die formuleering van voorstelle rakende die finale beleid; en verdere navorsing aan te beveel. Die belangrikste bevindinge is: van die wetgewing en beleide wat van toepassing is het uiteenlopende vereistes wat sekere kompromieë noodsaak; die Raad se voorsieningskettingbestuursbeleid kan gebruik word om sy sosiale en ekonomiese doelwitte te bereik sonder om enige wetgewing te oortree; in besonder, kan die beleid die gebruik van Klein- Middelmatige- en Mikrosakeondernemings, swart bemagtiging, plaaslike ekonomiese ontwikkeling en werkskepping bevorder; 'n volledige stel doelwitte vir voorsienings ketting bestuur is geformuleer; die plaaslike ekonomie kan voordeel trek uit die omvattende infrastruktuur ontwikkeling wat huidiglik in Lukhanji deur provinsiale en sentrale regering befonds word; die betrokkenheid van Klein- Middelmatige- en Micro-sakeondernemings kan die positiewe effek, op die plaaslike ekonomie, van bogenoemde ekonomiese inspuiting vermenigvuldig; die omvang van die voordele word egter deur die gebreke aan menslike en finansiele hulpbronne beperk; en Lukhanji se voorgestelde beleid sal verseker dat die munisipaliteit aan die wetlike vereistes voldoen maar sal moet aangepas word om sy sosiale en ekonomiese doelwitte te bereik. Die studie het uitgewys dat sekere kennis van voorsieningskettingbestuur in gebreke bly, veral in nywerhede anders as die konstruksie bedryf. Navorsing om die hipotese, dat die beginsels van die konstruksie bedryf ook in ander nywerhede toegepas kan word, te toets word voorgestel. Verder navorsing om die verwantskap tussen besteding aan infrastruktuur en plaaslike ekonomiese ontwikkeling beter te verstaan word ook aanbeveel. Die gebruik van staatsbesteding om plaaslike ekonomiese ontwikkeling en werkskepping te bevorder om armoede te bekamp is van kardinale belang.
Mulder, Marthinus Wessel. "A political policy analysis of the integrated water resource management approach in South Africa's water policy (1998 - 2001)." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09122005-153357/.
Full textWong, Susan. "Regional development and telecommunications policy in Western Australia: accessing knowledge to inform policy through complexity and action research." Thesis, Wong, Susan (2006) Regional development and telecommunications policy in Western Australia: accessing knowledge to inform policy through complexity and action research. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/455/.
Full textWong, Susan. "Regional development and telecommunications policy in Western Australia : accessing knowledge to inform policy through complexity and action research /." Wong, Susan (2006) Regional development and telecommunications policy in Western Australia: accessing knowledge to inform policy through complexity and action research. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/455/.
Full textReinholtz, Amanda, and Amanda Reinholtz. "Reforestation, Water Yield, and Management of Micro-Watersheds in Central America." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12531.
Full textDen, Otter Michael A. "The development of policy and adaptive management in the Foothills Model Forest." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ47019.pdf.
Full textHasan, Md Ali. "Management development in Malaysia : within the context of the new economic policy /." Electronic version of summary, 1992. http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/gakui/gaiyo/1894.pdf.
Full textWilhelm, Martha. "An Analysis of the role of governance on effective programme management - A case of Namibia Mass Housing Development Programme Management - A case of Namibia Mass Housing Development Programme." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29847.
Full textBernstein, Joshua I. (Joshua Ian) 1974. "Multidisciplinary design problem solving on product development teams." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8659.
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This investigation, conducted under the auspices of the Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI), studied how engineers from different specialties interpret and communicate about technical design problems while working on product development teams. Data was collected on 98 cases via interviews with engineers at LAI member companies. For approximately one-third of the cases, two engineers with different backgrounds were interviewed, allowing comparisons to be made between their descriptions of the problems under study. For the remaining cases, one interview was conducted per case. The most important finding of this study was that engineers from different specialties do interpret the same problem differently. Specifically, two engineers were likely to evaluate the benefits or drawbacks of a potential solution using different sets of criteria. Thus, some design disputes were the result not of mutually exclusive needs but of a failure to recognize the different ways in which engineers were evaluating solutions to the problem. Furthermore, data collected during this study illustrated that in some cases these differences were the result of engineers addressing related, but unique problems. Therefore, a solution to one engineer's problem often created a new problem for another engineer on the team.
(cont.) A second conclusion of this study was that how design tools were used had a greater impact on a team's problem solving abilities than what tool was used. In this context, design tools included objects such as real or "virtual" prototypes as well as processes like simulations and tests. The results of this investigation suggested that such tools offered their greatest benefits when they were used in a participatory fashion in which a large fraction of a team shared in their use. Additionally, the more elements of a problem's context that were captured in a design tool, the greater its utility. Under such conditions, team members were able to create a shared evaluation system to judge potential solutions to the problem they were confronting, thereby facilitating problem resolution. Based on these results, the traditional model of engineering communication derived from the information processing framework requires modification. The information processing model assumes that individuals have a shared understanding of meaning when they communicate. This study, however, suggests that such shared understandings do not exist in advance, but are instead ...
by Joshua I. Bernstein.
Ph.D.
Sera, Galates. "Stakeholder Effects on Shaping Public Policy in Stormwater Management." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6740.
Full textRivett-Carnac, Kate. "Local economic development, industrial policy and sustainable development in South Africa : a critical reflection on three new policy frameworks." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/945.
Full textMtshali, Rosemary Makhosazane. "Evaluation of employee performance management development systems policy as implemented amongst social service professionals within department of Social Development." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1358.
Full textThe study investigates the implementation process of the Employee performance management development systems policy within the Department of Social Development, attitude of staff and policy makers towards whether or not it is achieving its goals, the strengths and constraints in its implementation as a way to improve it. This study is conducted with an aim of coming up with solution to the problem or to identify drawbacks and establish if the policy is implemented correctly with the required tools for the purpose of improving service delivery. Since the EPMDS aims at organizational development and efficiency, this study will investigate if social workers are delivering their services to their best and to find out it is the right tool in the grooming and career pathing of social workers. The study reveals that there has been some dissatisfaction the way in which retention strategy was implemented, thus roll out campaigns are highly recommended for the provision of clarity provision of information on how it was implemented by the implementers. It explores the processes involved in implementation of Employee Performance Management Systems (EPMDS) it also identify what tools are used in the identification of other support mechanism and implementation of EPMDS mechanism. It establishes challenges that exist in the implementation and gain from participants possible recommendations for successful implementation of EPMDS. The study also establishes if there is integration of EPMDS with Integrated Service Delivery model (ISDM) and Situational Leadership Supervision Model (SLS), and focuses in the investigation of how Retention Strategy was implemented. The researcher utilizes evaluative research because the study aims at evaluating how EPMDS policy has been implemented within the Department of Social Development .Evaluation research, frequently referred to as program evaluation or practice evaluation, involves searching for practical knowledge in considering the implementation and effects of social policies and the impact of programs.
Roberts, Simon. "The internationalisation of production, government policy and industrial development in South Africa." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341903.
Full textKundishora, Ashley R. "An exploratory study of the development of Adonis Musati Project as an organisation." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10708.
Full textBecause of the country's well-established socio-economic status, citizens from many neighbouring countries, such as Zimbabwe, have resorted to seeking refuge in South Africa. Different refugee organizations, such as Adonis Musati Project (AMP) emerged in order to meet refugee needs in Cape Town. AMP was formed in 2007 with the aim of providing humanitarian assistance to refugees and asylum seekers. Named after a Zimbabwean, Adonis Musati, who died of starvation in a queue at the Department of Home Affairs, trying to access legal documentation, AMP set out to ensure that this would never happen again. The aim of this research is to explore whether the organisation is meeting its intended goal; whether it abides by any policies; what impact it has on its stakeholders; which current life stage it is facing and challenges dealt with during this period; and what effectiveness approach it uses, if any, in order to achieve sustainable growth and remain relevant in its community.
Charoensawasd, Pornlapus. "Key forces determining the ICT policy development during restructurings of the telecommunications industry(1990-2001)." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3081/.
Full textPongthanapanich, Tipparat. "Coastal land use management in Thailand : policy development tools for a better environment /." Odense : Univ. Press of Southern Denmark, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/555502996.pdf.
Full textNhaitayi, Ropafadzo Malvin. "Exploring staff perceptions of why selected development NPOs are able to deliver effective services." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12849.
Full textNonprofit organisations (NPOs) play an important role in society as they help government in service delivery. In their quest to deliver services, these organisations face insurmountable challenges, including, but not exclusive to inadequate funding and staff shortages. Yet in spite of this, some of these organisations have overcome these challenges, and continued to provide services to communities. This study sought to explore the perceptions of the staff working in development NPOs regarding the reasons they thought their organisations were able to deliver effective services to their beneficiaries. A qualitative research design was adopted as it focuses on the subjective realities of the respondents. A purposive sample of nineteen respondents from four different organisations was drawn up. The criterion for selection was: organisations that had been in existence since 1994; had at least eight staff members; and a Director who had been in charge for at least five years.
Krairit, Donyaprueth. "Liberalizing development : effects of telecommunication liberalization in Thailand and the Philippines." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8658.
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This thesis hypothesized that extensive telecommunications liberalization would not increase the penetration rate of the fixed telephone service better than other, less competition-oriented, policy alternatives. The hypothesis was validated in the case of Thailand and the Philippines. However, for the cellular mobile telephone and Internet services, extensive telecommunications liberalization could increase the penetration rates better than other, less competition-oriented, policy alternatives. Thus, the thesis demonstrates that past research has not paid sufficient attention to this issue and has assumed that the more extensive reform could lead to the faster and the better telecommunications development of all telecommunication services. The thesis suggested that less-developed countries (LDCs) should realize that they do not have to fully implement liberalization reforms, but should instead specifically tailor their telecommunications reform policies to their own pace and needs. This study found that extensive liberalization reforms or extensive opening of the market does not necessarily increase penetration rates of services better than other less competition-oriented policy alternatives under the following conditions: Assuming that the services have not yet reached their saturation levels based on the S-curve,
(cont.) 1. Users perceive the service as a necessity; and 2. the government perceives the service as a basic necessity; and 3. the government strictly commits and implements purposeful policies with the intention of increasing penetration rates of the services through the distribution of service provision authority. Or, 4. If the liberalization is implemented after the saturation level of the service is reached. The thesis results have the policy implication that liberalization can be a useful and effective alternative to lead to higher penetration rates, when and only if, the country and its people understand its goals, effects and implications and, more importantly, when the government provides the policy framework for universal service for the benefits of its people so that the liberalization can lead to self-sustainable development.
by Donyaprueth Krairit.
Ph.D.
Fu, Sze-kap. "The development of housing services in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22359862.
Full textBergström, Anna, and Emily Berghäll. "Public certificate management : An analysis of policies and practices used by CAs." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177148.
Full textBrowning, Tyson R. "Modeling and analyzing cost, schedule, and performance in complex system product development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9764.
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In the future, it is unlikely that complex system products will compete solely on the basis of technical performance. What will differentiate such systems and their developers is the ability to balance all the dimensions of product performance, including product pricing and timing (which are functions inclusive of development cost and cycle time). Furthermore, this balance must be congruent with customers' perceptions of value. Once this value is ascertained or approximated, complex system developers will require the capability to adjust the design process to meet these expectations. The required amount and sophistication of project planning, control, information, and flexibility is unprecedented. The primary goal of this work is a method to help managers integrate process and design information in a way that supports making decisions that yield products congruent with customer desires and strategic business goals. This work consists of three parts. Part one contains two exploratory studies that further understanding of complex system product development processes. One study explores process iteration and seeks to explain why some aircraft development programs do not address iteration with existing project planning and control methods. The other study examines sources of risk, classifying these into six categories (cost, schedule, performance, technology, business, and market risks) and building causal frameworks to represent their relationships. Both studies point to avenues for improving existing process '·models and in some cases reveal process characteristics requiring new methods. These results, while derived from projects in the aerospace industry, are highly applicable across a variety of complex system development projects. Part two entails an effort to model some of the characteristics observed in part one. After a review of four types of dependency structure matrices (DSMs), notably the activity-based or schedule DSM, extensive data are collected from an uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV) design process. Part two thus describes how to build a DSM model and provides data for example applications of the detailed models developed in part three. Based on the foundational work of parts one and two, part three develops a new methodology and models for understanding product development process cost, schedule, and performance. The methodology complements activity-centric schedule models such as DSM in that activities provide direct contributions to process cost and schedule and design performance. This approach sets the stage for integrated cost, schedule, and performance analyses. A cost and schedule model is presented first, and it is extended to account for the effects of activities on product performance. The stochastic, simulation model generates distributions of possible cost, schedule, and performance outcomes. These distributions represent uncertainty and are analyzed in relation to impact functions and targets to determine levels of risk. The model outputs enable the exploration of the costs and benefits of several management options and yield interesting insights. The goal is to improve product development planning and control though the capability to balance cost, schedule, and performance appropriately.
by Tyson Rodgers Browning.
Ph.D.
Deck, Samantha. "Development of a Policy and Procedure to Decrease Alarm Fatigue." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2444.
Full textCraig, Alan Russell. "The development and implementation of a policy and procedures manual for Cornerstone Church." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHayward, Abbe C. D. "Development of a tool kit to explore risk perceptions for national food risk management." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297488.
Full textRueb, Carlton J. "Policy Analysis of Rural Development Strategy in Mexico: Creation and Management of Infrastructure Systems." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/100.
Full textWan-A-Kadir, W. "The development of a framework for sustainable waste management policy and strategy for Malaysia." Thesis, University of Salford, 1997. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14686/.
Full textAl-Ansari, N. A. "Management development in Saudi Arabia : Problems of policy and practice in a developing country." Thesis, University of Kent, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376776.
Full textRehse, Kerryn Lynn. "An exploratory study of branding techniques used by registered Western Cape, [sic] development and housing non-profit organisations." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11968.
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This purpose of this research study was to explore the marketing and branding techniques used by registered Western Cape, [sic] development and housing non-profit organisations. Utilising a qualitative research design, two forms of qualitative data collection methods were used. Data was collected through a self-administered electronic questionnaire and face-to-face interviews. The electronic questionnaire was designed using an online survey tool (ESurveyPro). The tools were used to exploretheperceptions of marketing and branding held by management in the development and housing non-profit sector in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. The population for this research study was registered non-profit organisations that operated in the development and housing sector in the Western Cape Province.
Ross, Jetara. "Exploring Early Childhood Development Practitioners’ Perceptions of the Implementation of Norms and Standards in Educare Centres in Blouberg." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30862.
Full textMorvaridi, Behrooz. "Rights and Development-Induced Displacement: Is it a case of risk management or social protection?" Bradford Centre for International Development, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3030.
Full textCheong, So-Min. "Korean fishing communities in transition : institutional change and coastal development /." Thesis, online access from ProQuest databases online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium access full-text, 2001. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/pqdiss.pl?3036456.
Full textVeloso, Francisco 1969. "Local content requirements and industrial development : economic analysis and cost modeling of the automotive supply chain." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29601.
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This dissertation addresses the issue of performance standards in developing nations, focusing on the role of local content requirements. It proposes a theoretical framework to understand the impact of this policy on the decisions of firms and the welfare of the domestic economy, and offers a methodology to apply the analysis to the context of the automotive supply chain. The central conclusion of the thesis relates to the existence of a gap between private and social opportunity returns and costs, an aspect that has been overlooked by previous literature. In a developing country, resources employed by foreign investors and their local suppliers often generate spillovers and learning effects that are not accounted for in the valuations of private economic agents. This creates an externality-from-entry, whereby positive economic effects of new domestic suppliers are overlooked in the sourcing decision of the foreign firm. This dissertation proposes a model to illustrate how this gap between social and private valuations justifies the enactment of domestic content requirements, which become welfare enhancing. The analysis also reveals that content requirements are a preferable policy to tariffs and subsidies as a means to increase domestic purchases and discusses the use of subsidies and requirements as incentive mechanisms to align firm decisions with government objectives. A case study of the automotive industry, where content restriction policies are extremely active, is used to demonstrate the applicability of the model. This entailed the development of a new methodology, called Systems Cost Modeling (SCM), which uses simple metrics and rules to build bottom-up cost structures where estimates for large number of components have to be considered. Detailed empirical data from a particular car is then used to build a sourcing cost structure.
(cont.) These costs are integrated with the domestic content model to show how, for existing market and policy conditions; there can be value to the enactment of modest levels of domestic content requirements in the auto industry. It also explains that the impact of the policy is very sensitive to project characteristics and that this should be factored into national decisions.
by Francisco Veloso.
Ph.D.
Söderström, Ulrika. "Contract Archaeology and Sustainable Development : Between Policy and Practice." Licentiate thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-77154.
Full textEkwem, Ijeoma. "Small and medium scale enterprises development in Nigeria : constraints and policy options." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21647.
Full textThis study was undertaken to find out how the SME sector in Nigeria has developed over time and to what extent it has performed its critical role of driving the country’s industrial transformation and development as it has done in other developed countries. This study has explained in detail, the development of SMEs in Nigeria and identified the economic potential of SMEs, their major problems, challenges and constraints, which have hindered them from playing the vital role in the Nigerian economic growth and development as well as made appropriate recommendations for redressing, reducing and/or eliminating them so that they could occupy their pride of place in the Nigerian economy. It also considered the various programmes implemented by various governments, to support and promote SMEs’ growth and development as well as the roles played by the government and the financial institutions towards promoting the development and growth of SMEs in Nigeria. The study employed primary date via questionnaires which were administered to the sampled financial institutions and SMEs’ operators, and the emanating data was analysed using simple percentages, charts and mean ranking. The Chi-square analytical technique was employed and the empirical analysis indicates that there has not been any significant contribution of government support towards developing SMEs, and also that there is a relationship between the sizes of SMEs and their modes of financing. The study determined, among others, that with the exclusion of lack of finance, the major constraints or challenges of SMEs ranked in descending order are inadequate managerial/board expertise, poor infrastructural facilities, inconsistencies in government policies, lack of financial records, multiple taxes and levies, etc. It also determined that lack of finance is a function of multiple problems and that the major sources of credit available for the financing SMEs in Nigeria are personal savings, family/friend support and commercial banks. The study recommended, among others, SME partnership and equity participation by financiers, loan guarantees, interest rate concession, fiscal incentives, and adequate training for SMEs as the factors that will drive the rapid transformations and development of the SME sector in Nigeria.
Hall, Ralph P. 1975. "Understanding and applying the concept of sustainable development to transportation planning and decision-making in the U.S." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34555.
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This research demonstrates that sustainable development is a multidimensional concept that should be approached in a transdisciplinary manner. Its objective has been to synthesize and integrate disparate and currently unconnected lines of thought that have not yet been applied in a systematic way to promote sustainable development and sustainable transportation. The primary contribution of this research is the theoretical development of a decision-support framework that identifies the tools and approaches that decision-makers could/should use to create policies and programs that transition society towards sustainability. These tools and approaches are either articulated or developed by the author throughout the dissertation. Specific ideas explored include a Rawlsian/utilitarian decision-making philosophy; a hybrid trade-off/positional analysis framework that is presented as an alternative to benefit-cost analysis; ecological vs. environmental economics; participatory backcasting; and ways to stimulate disrupting and/or radical technological innovation. To identify gaps that exist between theory and practice, the approach embodied in the proposed sustainable transportation decision-support framework is compared with current metropolitan transportation planning and decision-making processes in the U.S. The framework is then used to consider how the U.S. federal government might move the nation's transportation system towards sustainability.
by Ralph P. Hall.
Ph.D.
Mashale, Termica Rethabile. "Fit for life: an exploration of the approaches used by sport-for-development NGOs to monitor and evaluate programmes offered in schools." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11606.
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The study aimed at exploring the approaches used by sport-for-development organisations to monitor and evaluate their programmes offered to schools in the Cape Metropole. The study contributes to the growing fields of programme monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as well as sport-for-development in South Africa. The study’s sample comprised NGOs that used sport as an entry point to engage young people and engender behavioural change, thereby reducing youth vulnerability to sexual and reproductive health issues.
Anthonisz, Denis. "Policy development as a process of renewal in a school community: A thesis." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 1994. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/6500f3214d8f5485598ce0658c78e6b9eada26321a98642cc829723f989225ff/6274435/Anthonisz_1994_Policy_development_as_a_process_of.pdf.
Full textGroenewald, Johann P. "Counselling, coaching and mentoring : a missing tool in people development?" Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53337.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa has a huge challenge to improve its world competitiveness status in order to ensure a better economic life for all. One of the more practical strategic approaches is investment in human capital and more specific people development. A more specific strategy might be to ensure that each and every supervisor is an effective counsellor/coach/mentor. From the research done its seems that this is not the case - probably due to the fact that these tools are not utilised or not well integrated in the larger human resource development strategy. It is quite clear that counsellors, coaches and mentors can and should utilise the different motivational and learning theories coherently in accordance with the applicability of the situation and the specific preferences of the individual protégé. This will ensure maximum efficiency of education, training and development interventions. But human resource systems do not seem to be integrated to the extent that the proverbial golden thread can be followed from work design to the termination of an employee. From the literature it is clear that all the necessary functions in human resources can be included in an integrative system to allow optimum efficient employees. The vagueness however (supported by the absence of work design and management information systems in some models) just aggravates the current researcher's concern about clear, exact guidelines to ensure proper counselling, coaching and mentoring. The human resource system and the function human resource development as well as performance management definitely allow for counselling, coaching and mentoring, but the support and reinforcement is not obvious. From literature surveys it is clear that that counselling, coaching and mentoring can be utilised effectively in human resource development. Insufficient evidence is however available to show appropriate application of these tools. It is thus clear that counsellors/coaches/mentors and protégés in South Africa do not have a complete, practical and integrated human resource system and programme that can facilitate maximum growth of the protégés. This is proven by the quiet period since the middle eighties till the middle nineties; where - after affirmative action and later the skills development act and employment equity act forced employers to relook their development programmes as well as our poor performance in supplying the number of managers needed for global competitiveness. Due to the lack of empirical research, but from published material one can derive that: Counsellors/coaches/mentors and or protégés in South Africa are not aware what competencies each should possess; culturally diverse groups hamper growing relationships in particular with coaches and protégés and that principles and guidelines governing the coach/mentor/protégé relationship seems not to be researched and shared in South Africa. More - over, inadequate processes exist to link and integrate counselling/coaching/mentoring closely with competencies, people development and human resource processes. However there are sufficient guidelines in overseas publications to ensure that one can compile well integrated coaching/mentoring programmes that will ensure that counselling, coaching and mentoring gain its legitimate place in people development.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Suid-Afrika staan voor 'n geweldige uitdaging om sy mededingendheidsmag te versterk ten einde beter ekonomiese vooruitsigte aan sy burgers te skep. Een van die mees praktiese strategieë is belegging in menslike kapitaal, meer spesifiek deur die ontwikkeling van sy menslike hulpbronne. 'n Meer spesifieke strategie mag wees om sorg te dra dat elke toesighouer 'n effektiewe voorligter/afrigter/mentor is. Vanuit die skrywer se navorsing blyk dit nie die geval te wees nie, moontlik as gevolg van die feit dat hierdie toerusting nie deel is van die omvattende menslike hulpbron ontwikkelings strategieë nie. Dit is duidelik dat voorligters/afrigters/mentors die beskikbare motiverings- en leer teorieë geintegreerd, in samehang met die geskiktheid van die situasie en die spesifieke vooroordele van die individuele leerder moet aanwend ten einde maksimum effektiwiteit vanuit opvoedings-, opleidings- en ontwikkelings intervensies te verkry. Maar menslike hulpbron sisteme blyk minder geïntegreerd te wees. Die navorser kon nie die spreekwoordelike goue draad opspoor en volg vanaf werksontwerp tot en met diensverlating nie. Vanuit die literatuur is dit duidelik dat al die noodsaaklike funksies in menslike hulpbronbestuur in geïntegreerde sisteme ingesluit kan word ten einde meer effektiewe werknemers te hê. Die vaagheid van hierdie integrasie (soos gesien in die afwesigheid van byvoorbeeld werksontwerp en bestuurs-informasie in sommige modelle) vererger die huidige navorser se bekommernis rakende duidelike, definitiewe riglyne om kwaliteit voorligting, afrigting en mentorskap te voorsien. Voorligting, afrigting en mentorskap het definitief 'n plek in die menslike hulpbronsisteme en menslike hulpbronontwikkeling en veral prestasiebestuur, maar die ondersteuning en versterking is nie ooglopend nie. Dit is ook duidelik uit die literatuur dat voorligting, afrigting en mentorskap effektief aangewend kan word in menslike hulpbronontwikkeling, maar nie genoegsame bewyse is beskikbaar om die toepaslike gebruik van die hulpmiddele aan te dui nie. Dit is dus duidelik dat voorligters, afrigters, mentors en leerders in Suid Afrika nie volledige, praktiese geïntegreerde menslike hulpbronsisteme en programme het om maksimale ontwikkeling van die leerder te bewerkstellig nie. Dit word bewys deur die min gepubliseerde materiaal - vanaf die middel tagtigs tot die middel negentigs, waarna regstellende aksie, die vaardigheidsontwikkelings- en werknemergelykheids - wetgewing, werkgewers geforseer het om hernude ywer ten opsigte van ontwikkelingsprogramme te toon. Verder ook deur die land se swak vertonings ten opsigte van die voorsiening van genoegsame kwaliteit bestuurders nodig vir globale mededinging. Weens die gebrek van empiriese navorsing, maar uit gepubliseerde material, kan die navorser aflei dat: Voorligters, afrigters, mentors en leerders in Suid-Afrika nie besef oor watter vaardighede hul behoort te beskik nie; verskille in kulturele groepe die ontwikkeling belemmer van goeie verhoudinge spesifiek tussen afrigters en leerders en dat beginsels en riglyne wat die verhoudinge tussen voorligters, afrigters, mentors en leerders rig nie nagevors en versprei word in Suid-Afrika nie. Verder is daar onvoldoende prosesse om voorligting, afrigting en mentorskap duidelik met vaardighede, menslike hulpbronontwikkeling en menslikehulpbron prosesse te verbind en te integreer. Daar is egter genoegsame riglyne in oorsese publikasies om te verseker dat goed geïntegreerde voorligting-, afrigting- en mentorskapsprogramme opgestel kan word wat sal verseker dat voorligting, afrigting en mentorskap hul regmatige plek inneem in menslike hulpbronontwikkeling.
Cappellina, Bartolomeo. "Quand la gestion s'empare de la Justice : de la fabrique européenne aux tribunaux." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BORD0320/document.
Full textIn many European countries, justice has widely changed in the last twenty years under the influence of a managerial rationality, focusing on efficiency and costs, besides the interest over quality. The research analyses the different European institutions implied in the process of circulation of a managerial approach in national justice systems. It shows the dynamics of change through the circulation of actors, practices, and policy tools between the various levels of policy-making. The origins of the managerial tools applied to justice in the United States is related to its adaptation to the European context by an array of European and national actors involving justice professionals, policy officers, researchers and consultants. The analysis focuses on multiple committees of experts of the Council of Europe specialised on issues related to the organisation of courts. It shows how their work has been appropriated and used by the European Commission to pressure EU Member States over judicial reform pursuing higher efficiency and quality of service for the citizens and businesses. Two case studies on France and Italy depict the mechanisms behind policy change at the national and local level showing the conditions that favour or limit the circulation of managerial practices and tools. The analysis relies on data coming from semi-direct interviews and a prosopographic survey of the European experts, semi-direct interviews with local justice professionals and from an extensive use of documents from the European, national and local institutions involved in judicial policy-making