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Gains, Francesca. "Understanding department : next steps agency relationships." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6028/.
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This thesis examines the establishment of 'Next Steps' agencies in government and how they were intended to allow the delivery of government goals at arm's length. The research is concerned with how changes in relationships at the heart of Government can be understood. It seeks to address the impact of these changes on the policy process. It does so by examining the nature of the relationship between departments and agencies and asking why some relationships appeared to have worked well and others have not. These questions are not adequately addressed in the existing literature on agencies. The thesis takes a multiple case study approach and draws on the concepts of historical institutionalism, power dependency and policy networks to approach these questions. It is argued that the introduction and development of agencies changed the formal and informal institutional 'rules of the game', affecting the roles actors expected to play and radically altered the distribution of resources in central government. The changed distribution of resources led to the development of new power dependent networks between departments and agencies. Path dependency in the development of the Next Steps concept led to a tension between the idea of agencies operating at 'arm's length' with the continuation of traditional accountability arrangements. The key argument presented is that, where department-agency networks are based on shared values, goals and institutional support, they will be able to manage the tension created by the new institutional arrangements and are able to successfully deliver government goals. In concluding, it is suggested that understanding department-agency relationships as power dependent networks presents three implications. Firstly, for the applicability of this analytical framework to other 'institutional arrangements', secondly for policy making in the core executive and, finally, for insights on normative issues of accountability and autonomy in contemporary governance.
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Pimiento, Echeverri Julián Andrés. "Regulation commissions in Colombian law. Anatomy of a government agency." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116515.
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Economic regulation as an administrative activity has become one of the quintessential subjects in modern Colombian administrative law. Despite the fact that Colombian law uses a fairly restrictive, organic, approach to economic regulation, few studies have analysed that connection between economic regulation and Government agencies. Without taking sides with that restrictive approach, this article tries to show the inconsistencies and difficulties to regulate properly in Colombian law, because of that connection between that administrative activity and those special agencies: the regulation commissions.La regulación en el derecho colombiano es un tema de capital importancia que ha venido ganándose un lugar primordial en el moderno derecho administrativo. Sin embargo, a pesar de que en ese sistema jurídico parece haberse acogido un concepto restringido, orgánico, de regulación económica, no muchos académicos se han ocupado de analizar las estructuras que se han encargado tradicionalmente de ejecutar esas actividades. Sin tomar partido por un concepto restrictivo de regulación, este estudio pretende demostrar las incoherencias y dificultades de la función de regular en el derecho colombiano, por su vinculación artificial a determinadas estructuras administrativas: las comisiones de regulación.
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Lishomwa, Japhet Mwanamwalye. "Employee Absenteeism and Service Delivery at a Zambian Government Agency." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7161.
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Employee absenteeism is a global management problem that affects organizational productivity, profits, justice, and employee motivation. A Zambian government agency has little knowledge about absenteeism and the lived experiences of clients regarding staff absenteeism and service delivery. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore employee absenteeism and service delivery through the lens of McGregor's theory x. The research question was about the lived experiences of the agency's clients regarding absenteeism and service delivery. The data were collected through semistructured interviews of 22 purposefully selected clients of the Zambian government agency and were analyzed using the van Kaam method. Findings indicated that health issues of staff and relatives, funerals, alcoholism, demotivation, lack of staff transport, chronic fatigue, staff shortages, poor working conditions and salaries, poor supervision, school runs, laziness and indiscipline, and the transfer of staff affected absenteeism. Absenteeism caused organizational financial losses, inefficiency, reduced productivity, delayed service delivery, damaged the organization's reputation, and created client stress, frustration, and hopelessness. Absenteeism can be significantly reduced by close collaboration between the managers and their subordinates through increased employee engagement, improved incentive rewards programs, and a better understanding of the effects of work-related stress. Positive social change through the reduction of absenteeism in government agencies can enhance the quality of public services in critical public sectors such as education, health, social welfare, labor, and agriculture.
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Haynes-Michaels, Sandra Genevieve. "Employee Conduct When Administering Government Contracts in the Defense Logistics Agency." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1345.
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The Office of the Inspector General in the Department of Justice reported cases of government contracting employees accepting bribes totaling over $540 million within a 6-year period. The purpose of this case study was to explore the perceptions of government contracting managers regarding the knowledge needed to mitigate employees' unethical behaviors when administering government contracts. Previous studies on government contracting employees' unethical behaviors focused on employees' behaviors, but lacked data concerning managers' roles in mitigating employees' unethical behaviors. The study's conceptual framework was stakeholder theory. The data were gathered through semistructured interviews conducted with 21 government contracting managers in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States and from company documents. Data from the semistructured interviews and company documents were analyzed, coded, and then grouped into categories using a modified content analysis technique. Key themes suggested that to mitigate government contracting employees' unethical behaviors, these government contracting managers required continued training. These managers also found trust to be vital to dissiminating ethical requirements to employees, and they also reported benefits to conducting ethical government contracting. Member checking of participants' responses strengthened credibility and trustworthiness of these interpretations. Findings and recommendations from this study may contribute to positive social change by improving training and ethical standards in government contracting, which could lead to enhancing societal trust in government contracting organizations.
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Hyde, Patrick L. "Strategies to Improve Employee Engagement in a U.S. Federal Government Agency." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4378.
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Nearly half of all frontline leaders in U.S. federal agencies during 2015 were unprepared to improve employee engagement. The lack of successful strategies to improve employee engagement in federal government agencies has led to decreased operational performance. Guided by the employee engagement theory as the conceptual framework, the single case study design was selected to explore the successful strategies that frontline leaders use to improve employee engagement at a federal agency in central Maryland. Data collection involved face-to-face, semistructured interviews with 4 frontline leaders and federal agency documents indicating employee engagement. The data analysis process included Yin's 5-step method and revealed 2 major themes: effective organizational communication, and enhancing employee development. Employee engagement improves if frontline leaders use strategies that involve effective organizational communication and enhancing employee development to promote open, transparent communication, teamwork, collaboration, skills development, incentives, rewards, and improved work-life balance. The implications for social change include the potential to implement successful engagement strategies in the federal agency, because employees who are more engaged generate better performance and productivity, build valuable work relationships, enhance career, and increase wages to improve the well-being and prosperity of themselves and their families. Improved performance and productivity could help to lower operating cost at the federal agency; thus, creating opportunities to reinvest savings into local community outreach programs that contribute to healthy living, well-being, and economic prosperity.
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James, Oliver. "The 'Next Steps' agency model in UK central government 1988-1998 with special reference to the Benefits Agency." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1579/.
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The research explores three related questions about the 'Next Steps' agency model and agencification processes in the UK central state between 1988 and 1998. First, how did the creation of agencies, or agencification, work in the period and was the reform a substantial change. Second, why was the reform adopted and did agencies bring about benefits in the delivery of services. Third, what is the likely course of future developments in the use of agencies. The first question is explored in Part One. The agency model is identified as a set of institutions, or structures, for delivering public services proposed by government actors who developed the 'Next Steps' reform. The UK central state made extensive use of the agency model in the period 1988 to 1998. Over the period, 155 agencies were created. By 1998, 65 per cent of civil servants worked in 138 agencies. The 'Next Steps' reform was predominately mitigated agencification, where there was already some separation of activities prior to the reform. This type of agencification accounted for 69 per cent of cases. There was pure agencification in 14 per cent of cases, in which the reform was an even more significant reorganisation; the case of the Benefits Agency was an example of this form of agency creation. However, in 14 per cent of cases, there was nominal change and the reform was largely a relabelling exercise. New function agencification was found in only 2 per cent of cases. The second question is explored in Part Two. The official justifications for the reform were fragmented and, at some points, inconsistent. The public interest model, based on official accounts, suggests that senior officials and politicians had the goals of delivering public services in an efficient and effective manner with maximum economy, expressed through minimising transaction costs associated with delivering services. Agencies promoted this goal in handling routine, executive activities rather than non-routine, policy activities. However, the public interest model does not seem to be consistent with disputes between parts of the central state, the bracketing of nominal changes with more significant ones under the overall 'Next Steps' reform banner, and use of the agency model for non-routine policy work were inconsistent with the model. The performance of agencies did not match all the expectations of the public interest model. The institutional rational choice approach, through Patrick Dunleavy's bureau-shaping model, makes a substantial contribution to understanding why the reform occurred. But the original model is inadequate for explaining the 'Next Steps' reform. The mark II bureau-shaping model overcomes the inadequacies of the original model and is an important theoretical advance. The model is supported by evidence about developments during the period. Senior officials in the departments saw their role primarily as policy work rather than the direct, hands on, management of executive activities. Entrepreneurial officials in the Cabinet Office Efficiency Unit had career incentives to come up with innovative organisational solutions to problems of public service delivery that were successfully implemented. They provided senior officials in departments with the agency model as a piece of bureau-shaping technology, enabling them to respond to politicians by passing on executive work to agencies. In departments with agencies, 70 per cent of senior officials ended up working in the parent department after the creation of agencies. The third question is explored in Part Three. The mark II bureau-shaping model suggests that bureau-shaping strategies will continue to be an important influence on reform in the future as will entrepreneurial officials in central units who have incentives to come up with new mechanisms for improving public services. The most likely future for most agencies appears to be continued use of the agency model with closure of implementation gaps. These developments are likely to be supplemented by additional mechanisms in agencies with moderate performance problems. In a few cases of very poor performance more radical changes are more likely. Partial dismantling of the agency model may occur in the Benefits Agency.
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Yang, ChunLei. "Understanding paradoxes contradictions and agency in financial management change : a case study of a chinese local government agency." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620750.
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The Public Finance Framework (PFF) has been one of China's most important reforms since 2000. Its main purpose, by policy design, is to replace the old state finance regime with one that stresses public accountability and transparency. This thesis explores the background, the content and the implementation of the PFF reform in relation to the broader context of China as an emerging and dynamic society. Special attention is given to the tensions and paradoxes that accompanied the reform process. This thesis argues that social transformation in China has been accompanied by consequences that present both the policy makers and leaders of the operational units with practical dilemmas. Starting from an analysis of central government policy, this thesis goes on to uncover the everyday life of local government departmental management through an in-depth case study of the practical implementation of PFF reform. This thesis constructs a theory of praxis, which builds on a critical analysis of traditional institutional perspectives in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the paradoxes, contradictions and agency associated with process of organisational and financial management change. The case study, in particular, provides a valuable illustration of how top management can benefit from properly identifying and actively exploiting tensions that are both internal and external to the organisation and thereby generate creative solutions to managerial issues at the local level. Overall, the thesis raises a range of important methodological, practical and theoretical issues relevant to the future study of management accounting change in a variety of national and international contexts.
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Pouretedal, Mohsen. "Total quality management implementation and leadership perspectives in a state agency /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1997.
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Parkins, Stacie-Jo N. Bowling Cynthia Jones. "Budgeting in times of fiscal stress explaining strategies for reducing agency expenditures /." Auburn, Ala., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1495.
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Whitman, Wendy Noel. "After the Moon: A Study of Governmental Agency Decline and NASA." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2081.
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The concept of decline has variously been applied to businesses, organizations, groups, and government (Levine 1978; Lorange and Nelson 1987; Whetten 1980). The term decline has also been used to describe various government agencies such as NASA. It is the theory put forth presently that decline in its traditional form in the literature does not apply to government agencies. Decline has been previously characterized as a time of decreasing or restricted resources, conflict, a decrease in innovativeness, a decrease in organizational size, a decrease in income or profits, and an organization's inability to adapt (Cameron, Whetten, and Kim; Weitzel and Jonsson). These characteristics, however, are not applicable to individual government agencies; an agency's tasks, form, and functions are usually set and defined through legislation, its budget is tied to the budget of the rest of the US government, and policy is usually generated at the top. Because of these pitfalls, I propose a new model of operations at the government level: the government agency decline model. This model posits that an agency's operations are in constant flux depending on the nature of the US economy at any given time and a number of other variables. Pursuant to this, I propose that there is a strong relationship between budget, agency performance, and power; more money in an agency's accounts contributes to bettering their performance, better performance leads to more power, which can lead to an increased budget. Therefore this cycle can begin and be interrupted at the money stage depending on the state of the American economy. Findings show that there are relationships between economy, budgets, performance, and power leading to an enhanced explanation of NASA's yearly budget. Recommendations for further research include examining a wider array of government agencies and developing better ways to measure power.M.A.
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Hosea, Marilyn A. "Worlds Connected and Worlds Apart: Postures and Dependencies Influencing Government-Agency Relations." Case Western Reserve University Doctor of Management / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casedm1568628518748704.
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Boyle, Jon. "Working "Faster, Better, Cheaper": A Federal Research Agency in Transition." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28231.
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This research study explored the theoretical underpinnings of implementing government reform in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), specifically focusing on a management philosophy called Faster, Better, Cheaper (FBC). It is situated within the broader context of Government reform efforts that attempt to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of government organizations in their delivery of products and services to the public.
This study employed the Grounded Theory qualitative research methodology that concentrates on a central phenomenon and generates a theory from a category or construct-oriented approach. The objective is to generate a substantive-level theory that describes the practice of FBC within NASA and is grounded in the data collected from the organization. The following research questions guided this study:
1.What is the meaning of Faster, Better, Cheaper for Public Professionals in the NASA organizational environment?
2.What are the interrelationships between concepts of faster, better, and cheaper?
3.How does the technical and cultural structure of NASA influence the implementation of Faster, Better, Cheaper?
4.What are the required workforce capabilities to perform Faster, Better, Cheaper in NASA?
The theoretical sample for this study consisted of interviews scheduled with NASA personnel involved in Faster, Better, Cheaper projects. NASA documents and reports were analyzed to saturate the initial 29 provisional categories. A representation of the phenomenon of FBC was developed following the data analysis, including causal conditions, strategies, environmental conditions and context, and consequences. Several findings addressed the meaning of FBC, the interrelationships between the concepts, the impact of organizational infrastructure, and required workforce capabilities. Topics for future research are the nature of risk in public organizations, tools for aligning and measuring public policy alignment and implementation, leadership of public sector teams, and generalizing the findings to other organizations.Ph. D.
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Leung, Pak Chuen. "State ownership and firms' growth performance : the perspective of institutionally shaped agency." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2018. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/581.
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Integrating the perspective of agency theory with that of institutional theory, we study how state ownership influences firms' growth performance in a large macro economy such as China's socialist market economy. Focusing on the effects of both internal and external institutional settings on firms' top managers or key agents, we propose a theoretical perspective of institutionally shaped agency. This perspective identifies several factors that shape the behaviours of firm managers or agents, which in turn should affect firms' growth performance. Hence, important predictions are developed based on this theoretical perspective. We propose the relationship between state ownership and firms' growth performance (hereafter the ownership-growth relationship) shall be positive while under certain conditions.. Analysing a set of panel data (N = 37,856) from 124 insurance firms in China during the period from 2005 to 2014, we find results different from prior research. While research in the West has shown that private ownership is generally preferred to state ownership when incentives to innovate and to contain costs are strong (e.g., Shleifer, 1998), we demonstrate that this ownership-growth relationship can be positive, which is contingent upon firm strategy and local institutional settings. Moreover, while research in emerging markets has shown that the effects of state ownership marketization can weaken one dimension of firm performance (e.g., Zhou, Gao, & Zhao, 2017), our findings suggest that both marketization and diversification can enhance the positive effects of state ownership on another dimension of firm performance. Finally, we also find the CEO tenure shall have positive three-way interaction effect of both marketization and diversification on the ownership-growth relationship.
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Jones, R. Martin. "The strategic decision processes and information needs of nuclear government-oversight-agency managers." Diss., This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-172115/.
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Latham, Alexander George. "Visions of self-government : constitutional symbolism and the question of judicial review." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31012.
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This thesis investigates the question of whether judicial review of legislation is a hindrance to democracy. My main claim is that the existing literature on this topic fails to pay adequate regard to the symbolic significance of political institutions, that is, the role that legislatures and courts play in the popular imagination. I argue that we should not view constitutional systems merely as decision-making mechanisms, since a society’s institutional structure will colour its sense of political agency and shape the way in which citizens view their relationships with political officials and with one another. Different constitutional structures accordingly project different visions of constitutionalism and democracy. In particular, I argue, representative government should be viewed not merely as a compromise between equality of input and quality of output, but as a distinctively valuable form of government in its own right. The representative assembly serves as the focal point for public political debate and symbolises a commitment to government through an inclusive process of deliberation. Legislative supremacy – the practice of accepting the enactments of a representative assembly as the decisions of the people as a whole – can therefore allow the law to be seen as the output of the political power of a self-governing people. Judicial review, on the other hand, will tend to signify a set of boundaries around the democratic political process, thus truncating the people’s shared sense of self-government.
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Velasquez, Raul. "Agency, institutional constraints and law in the creation of Bogota's new local governments, and in the evolution of local government policies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365606.
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MacDonald, J. Lee. "Effecting change and improving practice in a government agency using an action research model." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0021/MQ53614.pdf.
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Nason, Alan Barry. "Motivation of managers assigned to a Federal agency towards participation in government-sponsored training." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30573.
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This study examined the motivations of managers in a Federal government agency to participate or not participate in voluntary government-sponsored training. The researcher distributed a questionnaire, via agency electronic mail, to managers and supervisors in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The questionnaire comprised items selected from three instruments used and validated in previous adult education participation studies and provided the data for this study. Section 1 of the questionnaire addressed demographics, Section 2 addressed non-participation, and Section 3 addressed participation. Respondents rated the degree of influence or importance each item had on their decision to participate or not to participate in government-sponsored training.The data revealed the relative importance of the reasons for participation and non-participation and their relationship to the demographic variables. Cognitive interest and professional advancement were the primary motivations for participation in training. Lack of course relevance and time constraints were the primary motivations for not participating in training. There was no significant difference in motivation between men and women managers for either participation or non-participation. Other demographic variables had low to mid-range correlations with specific reasons for participation and non-participation, none of which were concentrated on a single cluster or factor.Ed. D.
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Knazko, Jana. "Understanding government Web communication strategy as applied within the Public Health Agency of Canada." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27698.
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The research examines the components that make up the Web communication strategy of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The thesis focuses on the extent to which PHAC's Web site reflects its mandate and implements the Government of Canada's public policies that regulate its Web presence. The Web communication strategy is analyzed from the perspective of Johnson's conceptualization model which separates a discourse into the stages of production, text, and context. The methodology employs content analysis and interviews to illustrate to which extent the democratic rights of the public were taken into account when the Web strategy was elaborated and how the public and PHAC stakeholders benefit from the implementation of this strategy. The research finds that although the general public is considered to be an important audience segment of the PHAC Web site, the emphasis of Web policy is to reinforce health care, education, and government sector stakeholder relationships.
Keywords. public health agency, health Web site, Web analytics, communications policy, e-communications, accessibility, stakeholders, government Web.
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Masekoameng, Ramadimetja Catherine. "Evaluating the effectiveness of financial management in state owned enterprises:a case of Limpopo Economic Development Agency." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1964.
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Wagner, Sascha Benjamin. "Corporate Governance in Switzerland and Singapore A comparative Case Study of two Government-linked companies /." St. Gallen, 2007. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/02606176002/$FILE/02606176002.pdf.
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Stones, R. A. "The myth of betrayal : Structure and agency in the Labour Government's policy of non-devaluation 1964-67." Thesis, University of Essex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381246.
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Fairbanks, Jenille. "Transparency in the Government Communication Process: The Perspective of Government Communicators." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1139.pdf.
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O'Neil, Dara Veronica. "Predicting public managers' readiness for contracting of professional services in a changing State Government Agency." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007, 2007. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-06282007-154406/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.Dr. Hans Klein, Committee Member ; Dr. Diana Hicks, Committee Member ; Dr. Barry Bozeman, Committee Member ; Dr. Gordon Kingsley, Committee Chair ; Dr. Michael Meyer, Committee Member.
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Kramer, Anne M. "GLOBE Water Quality Data in Context: A Comparative Study of Volunteer and Government Agency Databases." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1998. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu_etd_hy0224_sip1_w.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Mucciarone, Maria Anna. "Accountability and performance measurement in Australian and Malaysian government departments." Curtin University of Technology, School of Accounting, 2008. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=116043.
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During the late 1980s, government agencies in many countries commenced the implementation of public sector management reforms in an effort to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Many of these reforms arose as a result of demands placed on governments for improved use of public funds. These reforms, which have been wide ranging, have involved important improvements in the methods in which public sector agencies collect and report information related to accountability, particularly in the area of performance measurement. This study seeks to add to the literature on public sector accountability and performance measurement by undertaking a comparative cross-country study involving Australia and Malaysia, a developed and a developing country. Each of these countries have adopted, in varying degrees, reforms to their public sector reporting mechanisms as a result of major demands for changes to public sector funding, accountability and reporting methods. Within the study, a multiple theory approach is undertaken which uses aspects of both agency theory and institutional theory to provide a more informed understanding of the impact specific influential parties have on the level of disclosure and dissemination of accountability related information. This study examines the impact of agency and institutional related variables on the extent and frequency of the disclosure and dissemination of performance measurement information by Australian and Malaysian government departments.The major sources of data for this study comprise firstly, an analysis of the 2003/2004 annual reports of Australian and Malaysian government departments, secondly semi-structured interviews with senior finance officers of selected government departments and thirdly, a questionnaire survey forwarded to senior finance officers of all government departments in Australia and Malaysia. The findings of the content analysis and interviews concerning performance indicator disclosure by Australian Federal government departments show that cost and effectiveness performance indicators are the most disclosed indicator. For Malaysian Federal government departments, results and quantity performance indicators are the most disclosed indicators. For Australia, performance dissemination happens most often on a monthly basis whilst for Malaysia this occurs more regularly on an annual basis. In relation to performance indicator dissemination, Australian government departments are making increased use of the web to disseminate performance indicators whilst the main method of dissemination for Malaysia is their availability upon request. The major questionnaire was prepared using the annual report content analysis and interviews as a base and it was sent to the senior financer officers of all Australian and Malaysian Government Departments. The questionnaire resulted in a 37.1% response rate for Australia and a 21.7% response rate for Malaysian departments. The questionnaire was used as the base to test the influence of agency theory-related variables and institutional theory-related variables and culture on performance indicator disclosure and dissemination.
The results of the agency theory-related variables rejected the hypothesised influence of oversight bodies on performance indicator disclosure and dissemination for both Australian and Malaysian government departments. The relevant size of government departments was also rejected as being an influence on the frequency of performance indicator disclosure by both countries. However, for Australian government departments, a significant influence for frequency of size of government departments of performance indicator dissemination was found to exist. The citizenry was found to have no significant influence on performance indicator disclosure by both countries. However, in the case of Malaysia, the citizenry were found to have an influence on the level of performance indicator dissemination. The results of the institutional theory related variables provided evidence that none of the variables have an influence on the frequency of performance indicator disclosure and dissemination in both countries. Finally, the results for culture showed there is a level of influence of culture on the frequency of performance indicator disclosure and dissemination. Overall the results of this study indicate both some differences and similarities between Australia and Malaysia government departments in the disclosure and dissemination of performance indicators. There is evidence in this study to indicate that in Australia, both efficiency and effectiveness performance indicators are being disclosed more often in the annual reports of government departments. However, the results for Malaysia show a considerably lower level of disclosure of efficiency and effectiveness performance indicators in government departments' annual reports than in Australia.
Therefore the contrasts between the mail survey results and interview results provide for some future research that could expand the interview survey to include a larger sample to see if the Sofas perceptions are the same or different in regards to performance indicator disclosure and dissemination. The dual paradigm (agency and institutional) modeling of the determinants of performance indicator disclosure and dissemination have provided important findings from the perspectives of both the variables and the countries on which this study was based. The important findings of this study are that accountability and managerially have had differing emphases in Australia as compared to Malaysia, and that there are varying levels of disclosure, dissemination and use of performance measurement information between both individual government departments and the countries in which they reside. A range of future research possibilities are generated by this study. These possibilities range from extending the context of the hypotheses to encompass other government entities, other countries and other forms of performance measurement.
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Nwokora, Zim G. "Do the candidates matter? : a theory of agency in American Presidential nominations." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2271ba3b-447f-4b1e-bfe2-ec473c87189b.
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This thesis develops a candidate-centred conception of American presidential nominations. Candidates' choices in nomination politics remain under-theorised. The literature on nominations has tended either to downplay the role of candidates' independent influence or to suggest that the impact of their choices is too idiosyncratic to theorize about. I reject both of these positions; and instead develop the basic elements of a theory in which candidates are the principal agents of change in nomination contests. I argue that candidates make distinct identity, tactical, and management choices, and I show that this simple frame can be used to connect aspirants' varying goals to their choices and actions. In my theory, candidates' prospects remain relatively stable unless a shift occurs in their competitive setting in response to an unexpected event - for instance, a surprising election result. These shifts, or critical junctures, define a candidate's path to his party's presidential nomination. I argue that the rival candidates' choices dominate the development of these critical junctures and, therefore, that candidates' choices are crucial to nomination outcomes. Structural factors, the actions of non-candidates and the effects of exogenous events, account for a minority of critical junctures. In the empirical chapters of this study, I examine the Democratic and Republican nomination contests in selected years before the McGovern-Fraser reforms (1912, 1924, 1932) and in post-reform cases (1972, 1976, 1980) to demonstrate the pervasive influence of candidates' choices in contrasting institutional settings. These cases confirm my basic claim about the centrality of candidates' choices and also suggest significant ways in which candidates' choices have changed between 1912 and 1980.
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Rahaman, Andrew. "The Influence of an Action Learning Process on Transformative Learning and Leadership Behavior in a Government Agency." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557500.
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This phenomenological study examined how 10 leaders from one government agency described their experience in an action learning process that focused on the open-ended question and no group dialogue and how this experience resulted in transformational leadership behaviors. This study used Mezirow's (1991) transformative learning theory, transformational leadership theories (Bass, 1985; Kets de Vries, 1994; Sashkin, 1988; Yukl, 2010; Burns, 1978; Kouzes & Posner, 1987; Tichy & Devanna, 1986), and a modified action learning process modeled after Marquardt's (2004) framework as the context for the study. A phenomenological approach of interviews (Moustakas, 1994) was used to understand the participants' experience. The interviews were coded and analyzed using Atlas.ti analytic software. Two coresearchers coded and confirmed the findings.
The action learning process of open-ended questions and no group dialogue allowed each participant to present challenges and to hear different perspectives in the form of questions. The study revealed 12 findings in three broad areas. The action learning process findings revealed that organizational, individual, and program context created the conditions and influenced the degree to which participants experienced transformative learning; The learning findings revealed that all participants learned from the different perspectives; however, not all participants experienced transformative learning. The leadership findings indicated that participants who experienced all or some of the elements of transformative learning developed transformational leadership behaviors.
This study contributes to both theory and practice. First, it identifies the role of open-ended questions accompanied by limited dialogue in creating the conditions for self-awareness and transformative learning. Second, the study provides practical information on how to foster transformational leadership development and create interacting networks within an organization as a way to address leadership challenges through diverse perspectives. Third, this study highlights the use of peer-to-peer learning in fostering learning and leadership. Finally, it provides the basis for developing a framework of questions that address key transformative learning elements and transformational leadership behaviors.
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Garnett, Robert John. "Key issues in the development of the Local Education Authority as government agency between 1988 and 2002." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2003. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/34348.
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This thesis examines some aspects of the relationship between central and local government in the administration of school based maintained education in England from the 1988 Education Reform Act to the point where the government was about to pass the 2002 Education Act. Consideration is given to the extent to which the local education authority (LEA) has become an agent of central government and to the ability of local education officers to influence the direction of policy implementation. The thesis is largely based on qualitative studies in "Centralshire", a county council in the midlands and in "Northall", a LEA in north London.
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Briglauer, Wolfgang, and Christian Holzleitner. "Efficient contracts for government intervention in promoting next generation communications networks." Forschungsinstitut für Regulierungsökonomie, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2012. http://epub.wu.ac.at/3641/1/briglauer_holzleitner_efficient_contracts.pdf.
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Although the future socio-economic benefits of a new fibre-based ("next generation access", NGA) telecommunications infrastructure seem to be uncontroversial, most countries have to date only undertaken NGA investments on a small scale. Accordingly, a universal NGA coverage appears to be a rather unrealistic objective without government intervention. Indeed, many governments have already initiated diverse subsidy programs in order to stimulate NGA infrastructure deployment. We contend, however, that the current contract practice of fixing ex ante targets for network expansion is inefficient given the uncertainty about future returns on NGA infrastructure-based services and the public authorities' incomplete information about the capital costs of the network provider. This paper puts forward to delegate the choice of the network expansion to the NGA provider. Simple linear profit-sharing contracts can be designed to control the NGA provider's incentives and to put in balance the public objectives of network expansion and limitation of public expenditure. (author's abstract)Series: Working Papers / Research Institute for Regulatory Economics
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DeLoria, Julie Elizabeth. "A Comparative Study of Employee Commitment: Core and Contract Employees in a Federal Agency." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29324.
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This study examined commitment levels of two groups of employees: core government employees and contract employees who directly supported the Federal Government. The sample included 85 government employees and 131 contract employees. The research identified each group's level of commitment to various work entities. These included: immediate government office, government organization, employer, and occupation. The focus was on affective commitment, i.e., an employee's emotional attachment to, and desire to maintain membership with, a work entity. A measure was also taken for socialization-related learning.
The purpose was to determine if there were: (1) differing levels of affective commitment among the immediate government office, government organization, the employer, and the occupation within each group, (2) differences in work entity affective commitment levels between the two groups, (3) differences in levels of socialization-related learning between the two groups (4) relationships between socialization-related learning levels and work entity affective commitment levels for each group, (5) differences in work entity affective commitment levels in relation to certain demographic variables, and (6) relationships between certain demographic variables and work entity affective commitment levels for each group.
Findings indicated that both groups of employees did vary in commitment levels to various work entities. Government employees displayed the most commitment to the occupation and least to the immediate office. Contract employees also displayed the most commitment to the occupation but the least to the government organization. Between the two groups, commitment level to the employer differed significantly with contractors displaying a higher level to the employing firm than government employees recorded to the Federal Service. Work entity had a significant effect and a significant employee group-by-work entity interaction was found. Differences in socialization-related learning levels and a relationship between socialization-related learning and work entity affective commitment levels were found for both groups. Several relationships between demographic variables and work entity affective commitment levels were also found for both groups.
Formal and informal interventions and work delegation strategies are recommended for organizations involved in employment relationships involving core and contract employees. Areas for future research are also presented.Ph. D.
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Sweidan, Nada Dimachkieh. "Strategies to Sustain Public Private Partnership: A Lebanese Agency Case Study." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1869.
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Four public private partnerships have been created in Lebanon to fulfill the promises of better public value and accelerated economic development for sustainable business development. The problem is some business owners embark on public private partnership projects without following known documented strategies that ensure business sustainability. The purpose of the single case study was to explore the strategies business owners used to sustain public private partnership businesses in Lebanon. The conceptual framework included the theory of X-efficiency and the new public management model. The Northern Lebanon public private partnership was chosen for the study. All 7 business owners participated through interviews for data collection. The emergent themes from the interviews were compared and contrasted across participants' responses and were cross referenced with the academic literature and printed agency reports. Data interpretations were triangulated through member checking. The business owners identified 7 specific strategies to monitor the agency's work. The top 3 strategies were proper selection of partners, the need for a strong technical director, and hiring of professional staff. Three additional strategies noted were the articulation of a clear mission and vision, followed by the development of bylaws and the identification of international best practices. Holding monthly partners' meetings to discuss emerging needs was the last strategy identified for consistent follow up and forward movement of the businesses. The findings over time could promote social change in Lebanon by revealing how municipalities can partner with the private sector and nongovernment organizations to reduce poverty, create jobs, and ensure local economic development.
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Kerr, Kathleen T. "A Study of the Plain Writing Act of 2010: Federal Agency, Writer, and User Appropriations of U.S. Plain Language Policy." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50426.
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On October 13, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Plain Writing Act of 2010 into law. It requires federal government agencies to use plain writing in all "covered" documents "the agency issues or substantially revises" (Sec. 4 (b)). The goal of the Plain Writing Act is to "enhance citizen access to Government information" (Introduction) and improve government operations and accountability "by promoting clear Government communication the public can understand and use (Sec. 2). This dissertation examines what plain language, as the Act defines it and the U.S. federal government (USG) is implementing it, means and does at the various levels of language policy -- institutional, writer, and user.
I argue that "real" plain language policy differs from the policy documented by the Plain Writing Act of 2010. While plain bureaucratic writing can help to make government documents more understandable for users, plain writing alone cannot achieve the Act's goals. Plain writing is a style of writing. As such, it is not only contingent, but it is also subjective and based on preference, which is impossible to legislate. Hence, plain bureaucratic writing is and does different things at different levels of language policy. Moreover, institutional- and writer-level representations of plain bureaucratic writing are at odds with user representations in many respects. Plain bureaucratic writing for USG agencies and federal writers is another way to describe good writing in the tradition of Edited American English and "fixes" the problem of bad government writing. At the user level, understandable writing is plain writing, regardless of whether it adheres to the principles of standard written English or the plain style. Plain language legislation does not affect the work of most writers in the study or their ability to do it. Nonetheless, user participants generally prefer plain language, reporting that they are more inclined to do what a government document intends for them to do when they understand it. Efforts to enhance government communication should focus on usability instead of plain language since usability is a better measure of the extent to which plain bureaucratic writing impacts the textual government-citizen interaction.Ph. D.
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Rittau, Yasmin. "Regional Labour Councils and Local Government Employment Generation: The South Coast Labour Council 1981-1996." University of Sydney. Business, Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/574.
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The thesis examines the role of regional labour councils in local employment generation. It specifically analyses the case of an Australian regional labour council, the South Coast Labour Council (SCLC), between 1981 and 1996. The Illawarra region was the centre of SCLC activity. It was an industrialised region that experienced high levels of unemployment in the period. These were greater than the State and national averages, which reflected a geographical concentration of unemployment in certain regions in Australia. The SCLC attempted to address this issue, as it was part of the union structure that was specifically focused on the regional level and on regional concerns. The study argues that the SCLC developed a local employment generation strategy and it examines how and why this was adopted and pursued. It finds that the SCLC was well placed at the regional level and was well resourced with a capacity to influence the external environment through its utilisation of both political and industrial methods in a period of agreeable internal relations. The research identifies the development of its local employment generation strategy. Sometimes the SCLC pursued its strategy in a manner of ad hoc decision-making and muddling through, while at other times it involved characteristic and distinctive regular patterns. The thesis concludes by evaluating the SCLC�s strategy of local employment generation and by exploring the applicability of the general trade union literature on methods and strategy to regional labour councils.
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Orosz, Janet Elizabeth Foley. "Leadership transitions of state government executives : a naturalistic inquiry of cases of state agency executive succession in Ohio." Connect to resource, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1264528166.
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Nordgren, Björn. "Analysis of Value Ideals in Swedish Government Agency Electronic Archive projects : Value ideals in four electronic archive projects." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för informationssystem och –teknologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-42517.
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The values and motives behind e-Government projects are sometimes taken forgranted and are often considered as synchronised. Electronic archives can beconsidered a vital e-Government project, and the aim of this study was toinvestigate the values behind electronic archive projects for government agencies.This was achieved by investigating four different specifically chosen governmentagencies: three with electronic archives, and one without, and then assessing themusing the theoretical framework set out in Rose et al's article ’Managinge-Government’ published in Info Systems Journal in 2015: value position theory.The chosen government agencies were: Migrationsverket (the Swedish MigrationAgency), Skatteverket (the Swedish Tax Agency), Energimydigheten (the SwedishEnergy Agency), and Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning (Sweden’s GeologicalSurvey- SGU). Interviews were conducted with those archivists responsible for theelectronic archives at each of these four public agencies. The results of theinterviews were analysed using the value position theory. As a result, severaldifferent values were identified, though the values attached to professionality andefficiency ideals were more identifiable in the interviews than the values attachedto service and engagement. The values guiding the electronic archive projects werefound to be largely congruent. However, these values are not necessarilyrecognised on the state level, as shown by the fact that Statens Servicecenter’sproject has ended without result.
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Maynard, David Charles. "Paying Attention to the Alien: Reevaluating Composition Studies' Construction of Human Agency in Light of Secret Government Surveillance." University of Findlay / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay149381947498726.
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Lloyd-Williams, Philip. "Exercise agency? : the role of elite actors in local democracy in English local government : the local democracy maker." Thesis, Aston University, 2011. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/15802/.
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The way in which employed senior elites in English local government exercise their agency in the practice of local democracy and local governance is considered in this thesis. The research posits the notion that elite Officers act as Local Democracy Makers as they draw on their own traditions and ideologies in responding to the dilemmas of changing policy and politics in the public realm. The study is located in the latter part of New Labour?s term of office and applies an interpretive and reflexive approach to three studies of the exercise of well being powers. The approach is one of applied ethnography through the examination of literature reviews, interviews and observations of decisions taken in the exercise of the powers of economic, environmental and social well-being are used to examine how and why the Local Democracy Makers make sense of their world in the way that they do. The research suggests that, despite prevailing narratives, local governance arrangements depend on a system of hierarchy, employed elites and local politics. The challenges of re-configuring local democracy and attempts at "hollowing out" the state have secured an influential role for the non-elected official. How officials interpret, advise, mediate and manage the exercise of local governance and local democracy presents a challenge to assumptions that public services are governed beyond or without local government. New narratives and reflections on the role of the local government Officer and the marginalisation of the elected Councillor are presented in the research. In particular, how the senior elite occupy managerial, strategic and political roles as Local Democracy Makers, offers an insight into the agency of strategic actors in localities. Consequently, the success of changes in public policy is materially influenced by how the practitioner responds to such dilemmas. The thesis concludes by suggesting that integral to the design and success of public policy implementation is the role of the Officer, and especially those practitioners that advise governing arrangements and democratic practice.
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Goode, Jackie. "Governmentality : welfare, health and higher education as sites of agency, resistance and identity." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2007. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/governmentality-welfare-health-and-higher-education-as-sites-of-agency-resistance-and-identity(6eb9fc1a-f35f-491b-a049-bb5f0b9186c6).html.
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The work that is submitted here for the degree of PhD by publication comprises one book, one book chapter, and fourteen papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Many arise from qualitative research projects on which I was the appointed researcher. I am sole author on five of the publications, lead author on seven, and joint author on four. The publications span the years 1998-2007. They are included in full, and are examined, using Foucault's notion of 'governmentality', in an overview. The projects were designed and conducted during a particular era in history (characterised as 'risk society' or Yeflexive modernity'), dominated by a particular political ideology (characterised as 'neo-liberal'), and all examined aspects of public service delivery and use. Using Foucault's notion of governmentality, this body of research is concerned with questions of how we govern, and how we are governed, and with the relation between the government of ourselves, the government of others, and the government of the state. Foucault suggests that it is only through the analysis of various micro-sites that practices of power or governmentality might be identified. The research collected here represents a study of governmentality in the 'micro-sites' of welfare, (in this case, the provision and use of social security benefits); health care (the delivery and 'consumption' of NHS Direct, an innovative health care service); and education (in particular, the management of change in Higher Education, and the production of university learning, teaching and research).
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Mahoney, James Scott, and n/a. "Clipped Wings: Management discourses during organisational change at Australia's Civil Aviation Authority." University of Canberra. Arts & Design, 2007. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20081113.153047.
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Structural change in organisations is stressful for staff and the managers who must implement it. Most change programs use employee communication techniques to support change directions set by senior executive decision makers-dominant coalitions.
This research used a single case study to explain the context and management discourses of a major re-structure of an Australian Federal Government agency, the former Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), during the early 1990s. A content analysis examined the use of keywords in management discourses that argued the need for change. The keywords represented the two major change discourses: micro-economic reform and aviation safety regulation. A critical discourse analysis investigated the dominant coalition's discourse strategies to justify change. Content and process communication theories, and the role of framing in organisational change, were used to explain how employees may have reacted to change directions.
The research found that change directions were framed as an economic imperative that clashed with a traditional organisational culture that emphasised the primacy of aviation safety. It found that mixed messages by the two principal members of the dominant coalition who drove change exacerbated the clash.
The results suggest a need for further analysis of management discourses used to inform employees about structural change, especially in organisations that have legislative responsibilities. Further analysis of change messages framed by dominant coalitions could lead to a deeper understanding ofhow they affect employees and the change process.
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Hedlund, Hanna, and Dorothea Linde. "Kommuninvests marknadsriskexponering och -hantering." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177681.
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Bakgrund: Kommuninvest är en medlemsorganisation som finansierar en stor andel av den svenska kommunsektorns upplåning. Detta möjliggörs genom att Kommuninvest emitterar obligationer på finansiella marknader för att sedan låna ut kapital till kommunerna. Finansiella institut som Kommuninvest hanterar en rad olika risker i sin verksamhet och eftersom det saknas tidigare forskning angående Kommuninvests exponering mot och hantering av marknadsrisk är detta intressant att studera för att fylla kunskapsluckan. Det är också intressant eftersom kommunerna är en viktig aktör i det svenska samhället och Kommuninvest spelar en stor roll i den kommunala upplåningen. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att analysera Kommuninvests marknadsriskexponering när de lånar upp pengar på den finansiella marknaden för att låna ut dessa till medlemskommunerna, samt att analysera företagets marknadsriskhantering. Syftet är också att analysera hur marknadsriskexponeringen och marknadsriskhanteringen påverkar medlemskommunerna. Genomförande: Studien är designad som en fallstudie. Fallet har definierats som Kommuninvests marknadsriskexponering och -hantering. Det empiriska materialet utgörs av nio semistrukturerade intervjuer och en dokumentstudie. Det empiriska materialet har använts för att kunna dra slutsatser om Kommuninvests marknadsriskexponering och -hantering samt dessas potentiella påverkan på medlemskommunerna. Slutsats: Flera slutsatser kan dras från denna studie. Kommuninvest hedgar främst sin marknadsrisk med derivat och naturlig matchning. Den monetära effekten på låneportföljen konstateras vara relativt liten. Räntemarginalen är så pass låg att de små kommunerna väljer att alltid låna av Kommuninvest och de stora väljer att göra det ibland. Kommunerna i studien har över lag högt förtroende för Kommuninvest och majoritet upplever att de inte påverkas så mycket av bolagets riskexponering eller riskhantering. Denna studie bidrar med ny kunskap om Kommuninvests marknadsriskexponering och -hantering till det företagsekonomiska forskningsfältet såväl som till de svenska kommunerna.Background: Kommuninvest is a member organisation that finances a large part of the borrowing of Swedish local governments. This is made possible by emitting bonds on the financial markets and then lending capital to the local governments. Financial institutions like Kommuninvest deal with several different risks and since no previous research has been conducted on the subject of the market risk exposure and the market risk management of Kommuninvest, this is a pertinent case to study in order to fill the gap. It is also a pertinent case since the local governments of Sweden are a very important part of the society and since Kommuninvest plays a great role in the borrowing of these local governments. Aim: The aim of this study is to analyse the market risk exposure of Kommuninvest when the company borrows capital on the financial markets to lend to their members, Swedish local governments, as well as to analyse the market risk management of the company. A secondary aim is to analyse how the market risk exposure and the market risk management affect the local governments that are members of Kommuninvest. Completion: The study is designed as a case study. The case has been defined as The market risk exposure and market risk management of Kommuninvest. The empirical data consists of nine semi-structured interviews and one document study. The empirical data is used to draw conclusions about the market risk exposure and the market risk management of Kommuninvest, as well as their potential effects on the Swedish local governments that are members of Kommuninvest. Conclusion: Several conclusions can be drawn from this study. Kommuninvest primarily hedges its market risk with derivates and natural hedges. The monetary effect on the loan portfolio is found to be relatively small. The interest margin is low enough so that the small local governments choose to always borrow from Kommuninvest, and the big local governments choose to sometimes do so. The local governments that participated in the study generally have high confidence in Kommuninvest and most of them experience that they are not very affected by the company’s risk exposure or risk management. This study contributes with new knowledge about the market risk exposure and market risk management of Kommuninvest to the research field as well as to the Swedish local governments.
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王瑜纓. "Applying electronic government strategy to the review of the organization law of government agency." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89245133717688415023.
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Government agency is established according by law. The structure and personnel system of a government agency not only constraint by legal statutes, but also need to be amended as environment change. However, the timeliness of amendment is always a government-wide problem that affects administrative efficiency. Since the government reform movement from 1998, lots of efforts have been put on simplifying organization structure, enlarging organization design flexibility, and reducing time for amendment. Also, the enactment of organization basic law, personnel quota, and the restructuring of the Executive Yuan are three most important things. As a member of the Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, which organization is responsible for the reviewing of organization law of government agency and promoting electronic government, this researcher has conducted a case study on applying electronic government strategy in reviewing organization law. This research is focus on “the task force for organization law management information system”, which is a cross agency team effort. Through the study of applying Internet technology, redesigning the review process, standardization of procedure, and simplification of legislation, this research has served two purposes: 1. To assess the effectiveness of applying electronic government strategy to the reviewing process of the organization law. 2. Through the in-depth analysis of this case, the research finding and conclusion can explore how e-government strategy can be applied on reviewing the organization law of government agency. This research has conducted extensive study of theory, administrative records and the practical operation of the information system for reviewing organization laws. It can be inferred that e-government strategy does help to streamline the review process, to reduce paperwork, and to save time for reviewing. Thus, this case study can contribute to the emerging framework for so called e-administration.
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Yang, Chin-Chi, and 楊靜麒. "A Case Study of IT Outsourcing for Government Agency." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82984118284489424028.
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In recent years, the government has begun supporting e-government initiatives, carrying out manpower refinement and streamline of organizations. As facing the needs of information technology, outsourcing has been becoming a main strategic trend of the ongoing of e-government. Although the IT outsourcing is being practicing for a period of time, the individual department needs not only to focus on the core business, but also to introduce the new technology under the circumstance of manpower reduction. Therefore, the governmental staffs in charge needs to get experiences quickly and to be full of the managerial capability of IT outsourcing, in order to lower the disputation and for improving the efficiency during the IT outsourcing processes. In this case study, based on the results of references studies, the organization with IT outsourcing experiences was chosen as a specific case and was investigated. It comes out ten factors: the usual problems and debates during the execution stage, the factor of choosing contractor, the relationship of partners, the critical issue for success, the common questions for outsourcing, the actual action of high-level manager, the coordination of business department, the impact of project manager, the normal risk, and the influence of unique IT accomplishment. This study uses specialist interview method. Other than the organizational people, the specialists also included contractor’s personnel also. It is expected to increase the objectivity from different dimensions acquiring the data. This study reached results that can be beneficial to give assistance in improving the quality of government IT outsourcing.
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Lai, Chung-Chih, and 賴忠志. "Study on Interest Rate Risk of Taiwan Government Agency Bonds." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01248762265848964146.
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Abstract： Bond’s market grows rapidly since 1991 in Taiwan; therefore the transaction in second market is more popular, especially the cases of the government agency bonds which has the best liquidity in Taiwan’s market. Balance of risk and profit by bond’s market will easily appear form the decision that investors make. Thus, how to exactly keep abreast of bond’s risk is turning into a hot topic in investment market. The interest rate risk is greatly concerned by investors, because government agency bonds’ credit risk nearly doesn’t exist. How to precisely evaluate and predict price and value of the government agency bonds will need to be studied. In my thesis, I predict the daily price of Taiwan’s government agency bonds through neural network, then use genetic algorithms to evaluate suitable yield to maturity and duration set. The method is different from the other researches. The result in my thesis shows that neural network can easily predict the price of Taiwan’s government agency bonds without any previous hypothesis and mathematical model, and genetic algorithms can search for appropriate answer set of yield under the price and the date of delivery. I combine those powerful tools and offer investors a theoretical standard to make the decision with their experience.
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Yi-LingHuang and 黃乙翎. "Cross-Agency Interoperable Application Development: A Local Government SDI Perspective." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qvksjr.
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Cross-Agency Interoperable Application Development: A Local Government SDI Perspective Yi-Ling Huang Jung-Hong Hong Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University SUMMARY Spatial Data Infrastructure has been viewed as a cooperative infrastructure of spatial resources for centralizing different spatial resources from different departments. There has been bundles of developed instances of national level spatial data infrastructure around the world, as the rapid progression of information technology, the developing trend of spatial data infrastructure has turned toward establishing a portal of web services, as a gathering of spatial resources which has been responsible by different departments through the working of web catalogue service. It provides an easy way for users to reach resources in need. Three major contributions can be summarized : 1) characterizing common dataset with fixed aspects, including temporal, spatial, identifying and quality, provides an uniform way to evaluate adequacy 2) a series of common solution is proposed with respect to each characteristics, and will be carried out through web service technology by cooperation among different departments with different professional backgrounds 3) correctness and interoperability of cross-agency sharing can be ensured by categorizing data by characteristics and applying the corresponding common solutions through web services The last but not the least, this study emphasizes the importance of a tightly coupled cooperation scenario by taking the application need of users with cross-agency affairs into consideration. And expect to activate the original developing trend of spatial data infrastructure at national level and finally to attend a brand new era of spatial data infrastructure. Key worlds : spatial data infrastructure, local government, cross-agency INTRODUCTION Spatial Data Infrastructure(SDI) has been viewed as a cooperative infrastructure of spatial resources for centralizing different spatial resources from different departments. There has been bundles of developed instances of national level spatial data infrastructure around the world, as the rapid progression of information technology, the developing trend of spatial data infrastructure has turned toward establishing a portal of web services, as a gathering of spatial resources which has been responsible by different departments through the working of web catalogue service. It provides an easy way for users to reach resources in need even without any professional backgrounds. The development of spatial data infrastructure at national level has been focused on open format, standards of data. Often leave the problem of interoperability behind due to the lack of vertical coordination among national governments and local governments and horizontal coordination among departments under local government. The goals of this research are: 1. Characterize the dataset of common need in cross-agency affairs to ensure the correctness of heterogeneous data fusion. 2. Propose common solutions correspond to characteristic types and consider the importance of professional knowledge in interactions between different agencies and take it into consideration when designing the solutions. 3. Accomplish the cooperation planning mentioned above and the coordination among departments under local government by assigning different roles and missions through public power. MATERIALS AND METHODS As for achieving the goal of using heterogeneous data right and interoperable, this research propose solutions by characterizing common dataset with respect to temporal, spatial, identifying and quality aspect. In the meanwhile, a standardized data analyzing procedure is accomplished and hence common solutions are proposed as well. Planning mentioned above is executed by assigning roles of departments under local government with professional backgrounds of each and is ensured to be implemented with the aid of public authority. Among characteristic types mentioned above, temporal factor is the most important one due to every data has its own temporal record no matter what semantic meaning is, like time of data manufactured or time of data updated, and has profound influence in correctness issue of data fusion. Common dataset is set by categorizing dataset involved in cross-agency affairs especially land related among local government apartments. Common dataset include spatial and literal data type : door-plate data, administrative maps, cadastral maps, urban plan data, household registration data, land and building registration data, legal building certification, land tax data. Most of literal data maintained by local government apartments has indirect spatial meaning and could be assign it’s spatial meaning by geocoding. In this way, the efficiency of cross-agency data fusion would be highly enhanced through series of standard data character analyzing, take the corresponding common solution and finally applying into the working of different apartment affairs correctly. Solutions with respect to each characteristics are outline as Table 1. Table 1. Common solutions corresponding to each characteristics Aspect Solution Temporal 1.record time of dataset, include begin and end time of each historical version 2.record semantic meaning with standardized description Spatial 1.direct spatial meaning : (1)record spatial reference system with EPSG code set up by The International Association of Oil ＆ Gas Producers (IOGP)(2)record semantic meaning of spatial location with standardized description contents 2.indirect spatial meaning : (1) spatial hierarchy : record the hierarchical relationship and its contents in standardized way (2)record each historical version with begin and end time Identifying 1.record whether spatial location changes with different historical identifier versions Quality 1.adopt quality elements regulated in TWSMP RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Several data characteristic types are derived after analyzing with temporal, spatial, identifying, and quality aspect. In temporal aspect, time efficiency and historical version existence are two major categories. There are last update type and (up-to-date) time efficiency types and continuous, discontinuous and non-historical version types. With the type of continuous historical, every changes of data can be traced back and data at any time stage within its life cycle can be requested. In spatial aspect, direct and indirect spatial meaning and are two major categories. Characteristic types of indirect spatial meaning can be separated into three major types due to historical version of its literal contents, semantics of spatial location and the hidden spatial hierarchy. If the hierarchy relationship of indirect spatial meaning is known and contents of data has been standardized, then data with higher scale can be generated by elaborating the hierarchy stage of data with lower scale. In identifying aspects, whether spatial location changes with different identifier versions which represent indirect spatial meaning is the major categorization rule. If spatial location never changed with alternations of identifier, then its spatial location is capable to be traced by linking different historical versions. In quality aspect, this research adopted TWSMP quality elements, which follow up ISO19113, as data quality information. CONCLUSION Correctness of heterogeneous data fusion within departments under local government is confirmed by analyzing characteristics with fixed aspect and corresponding common solutions. With local government SDI, cross-agency cooperation is accomplished by assigning role of data producer, data broker or data user and ensured to be taken into practice by formulating local policies. Common dataset has been analyzed with temporal, spatial, identifying and quality aspects and solutions with respect to each one have been turned into designs of data attribute and service flow. Solutions proposed provide data producers an uniform procedure when producing data with different characteristics as well as providing data users a simple and clear way when manipulating different kind of data even without complete domain knowledge. Interaction between national and local governmental SDI should be both top-down and bottom up in order to eliminate restrictions resulted from the nature it originally designed. Top-down interaction exists in the adoption of national SDI in the development of local government SDI. And bottom-up interaction exists in the collection of common needs among different local governments as reducing duplication and strengthening connections between the two. Finally achieving the effect of sharing right and enhancing the essence of SDI.
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Sie, Yi-Fong, and 謝逸峰. "A study of procurement personnel’s job stress at government agency." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4apggn.
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碩士長榮大學
高階管理碩士在職專班(EMBA)
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Government Procurement Act is enacted to establish a government procurement system that is fair and open procurement procedures, it promotes the efficiency and effectiveness of government procurement operation and ensures the quality of procurement. Procurement conducted by any government agency, public school or government-owned enterprise shall be governed by the provisions of this Act. About construction work, it involves planning, design, budget, put out to contract, construction, supervision, inspection and guarantee. All of them are necessary in charge of government procurement personnel. If the procurement process is not rigid, those should be controlled by others. Therefore, the job stress of government procurement personnel is extreme as we know. At first, this study introduces Government Procurement Act and then explains its meaning, concept, legislation process, characteristic and scope. Furthermore, it discusses the meaning of job stress, source of stress, reaction of individual stress, analysis stress model. According to this study, we can realize the job stress source from procurement personnel. This research is depended and related to some abstracts and consults from other reference books. It discusses Government Procurement Act concept, procurement rules and job stress. Finally, we can realize the job stress that government procurement personnel faced and know the way to solve it. Government Procurement Act is enacted to establish a government procurement system that is fair and open procurement procedures, it promotes the efficiency and effectiveness of government procurement operation and ensures the quality of procurement. Procurement conducted by any government agency, public school or government-owned enterprise shall be governed by the provisions of this Act. About construction work, it involves planning, design, budget, put out to contract, construction, supervision, inspection and guarantee. All of them are necessary in charge of government procurement personnel. If the procurement process is not rigid, those should be controlled by others. Therefore, the job stress of government procurement personnel is extreme as we know. At first, this study introduces Government Procurement Act and then explains its meaning, concept, legislation process, characteristic and scope. Furthermore, it discusses the meaning of job stress, source of stress, reaction of individual stress, analysis stress model. According to this study, we can realize the job stress source from procurement personnel. This research is depended and related to some abstracts and consults from other reference books. It discusses Government Procurement Act concept, procurement rules and job stress. Finally, we can realize the job stress that government procurement personnel faced and know the way to solve it. Key words：Government Procurement Act, job stress, open tendering, selective tendering, limited tendering.
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fu-bean, Chen, and 陳福彬. "Operational Difficulties and Development of Government Agency Employees’ Consumer Cooperatives – A Case Study of the Taiwan Provincial Taichung-Area Joint Government Agency Employees’ Consumer Cooperative." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24071789025579904845.
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NING-SHUNCHIANG and 姜寧順. "Study on Performance Assessment System Reforming of Government Servants -Taking Tainan City Government Agency as Example." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53213180082231504694.
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CHEN, YO-WEI, and 陳攸瑋. "On The Use of Non-Permanent Employees in Taiwan's Government Agency." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08863475458750287100.
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碩士國立臺北大學
公共行政暨政策學系
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The objective of this paper is to analyze the use of contracting (or non-permanent) employees in Taiwan’s government agencies from the systematic, legal, and implementing point of view. The impact of related laws of our Contractual and Temporary Personnel Management (CTMP) will also be discussed. In addition, the role of contracting employees, temporary employees, and the emerging dispatched employees in an organization will be examined from the perspective of human resource management and flexible manpower. During the government organization downsizes and becomes more flexible, for the sake of responsing more rapidly to the change of environment, the author believes that dispatched employees can replace contractors and temporary employees. The key to successfully using non-permanent employees is the implementation of appraisal system. The problem of a non-permanent employee in the same position for long time (or become “pseudo-permanent”) is due to failure of implementing the appraisal system. From the legal perspective, clarifying the classification is also essential to the use of non-permanent employees in the public sector.
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Lin, Yi-Min, and 林逸民. "The Influence of Resources of Government Agency on Records Management Performance." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ebjmj9.
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碩士國立東華大學
資訊管理碩士學位學程
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Records Management (RM) is a critical issue concerning inheriting the development of the nation and the maintenance of national precious culture assets. However, previous researches seldom investigate the records management performance systematically. This study, based on the records life cycle (acquisition and creation, preservation and maintenance, and retrieval and public access), integrated resource-based view (RBV) to build up the records management performance framework model, and validated research framework and hypotheses by structural equations modeling. This study finds out that records acquisition and creation, records preservation and information system (IS) in records management operations has a positive effect on the records management performance, and information technology resources (ITR) and complementary organizational resources (COR) has a positive effect on the records management performance via records management operations of government agency. The results of this study are an important reference for records management agency to make performance management strategy.