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Tipuna, Kitea. "Whakawhiti whakaaro, whakakotahi i a tatou convergence through consultation : an analysis of how the Māori world-view is articulated through the consultation processes of the Resource Management Act (1991) : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the Master of Arts, 2007 / Kitea Tipuna." Click here to access this resource online, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/370.
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Grant, Susannah, and n/a. "God's governor : George Grey and racial amalgamation in New Zealand 1845-1853." University of Otago. Department of History, 2005. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070501.133119.
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The legend of Governor Grey is a major feature of nineteenth century New Zealand historiography. This thesis seeks to understand Grey as a real person. Acknowledging the past as a strange and foreign place, it argues that Grey (and previous interpretations of him) can only be understood in context. The intellectual milieu of liberal Anglicanism and Victorian structures of imperial authority are crucial to understanding Grey's policies of racial amalgamation.
Focusing on Grey's first governorship of New Zealand, 1845 - 1853, this thesis begins by exploring the imperial networks within which he operated. The members of Grey's web gathered and shared information to further a range of different agendas - scientific, humanitarian, and political. Grey's main focus was native civilisation. His ideas about race were informed by liberal Anglican theology, scientific investigation and personal experience. Grey believed in the unity and improvability of all mankind. His mission as governor was to elevate natives to a state of true equality with Europeans so that all could progress together still further up the scale of civilisation. This model formed the basis of Grey's 1840 plan for civilising native peoples, in which he proposed a range of measures to promote racial amalgamation in Australia.
Between 1845 and 1853 Grey implemented those measures in New Zealand. He used military force and British law to establish peace and enforce Crown authority. He used economic policies to encourage Maori integration in the colonial economy. He built schools and hospitals and enacted legislation to encourage the best features of British culture and limit the effects of its worst. He also augmented his power and encouraged amalgamation through personal relationships, official reports and the structures of colonial authority.
Grey was driven by complex, sometimes contradictory motives including personal gain, economic imperatives and political pressures. His policies have had ongoing, often devastating effects, on Maori and on race relations in New Zealand. This thesis brings to light the ideas and attitudes which formed them. Grey understood himself as a Christian governor ordained to civilise Maori and join them with British settlers in accordance with God's divine plan for improving humankind.
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Poata-Smith, E. S. Te Ahu, and n/a. "The political economy of Maori protest politics, 1968-1995 : a Marxist analysis of the roots of Maori oppression and the politics of resistance." University of Otago. Department of Political Studies, 2002. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070508.153703.
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This thesis provides a Marxist analysis of the political economy of contemporary Maori protest politics in the years from 1968 to 1995. It is argued that Maori protest politics embraces a range of competing political ideologies, which are informed by different assumptions about the causes of Maori inequality in wider society, and in turn, different sets of strategies for ameliorating and transcending that inequality.
Overall, the thesis has two central concerns: firstly, it identifies the critical economic, political and ideological conditions and context that have allowed particular competing political ideologies and strategies to dominate contemporary Maori protest politics. This involves a particular focus on understanding and explaining the rise of identity politics and cultural nationalism as the dominant political strategy within Maori protest politics. This involves a particular focus on understanding and explaining the rise of identity politics and cultural nationalism as the dominant political strategy within Maori protest politics. Secondly, the thesis critically assesses the effectiveness of contemporary Maori struggles against racism and oppression on the basis of whether they involve, or are likely to contribute towards, the transformation of the generative structures that give rise to manifest inequalities between Maori and non-Maori. It is argued that the systematic alienation of land and the inequality that exists between Maori and non-Maori are not simply the result of the underlying cultural values of individual non-Maori but are rather the result of the historical process of capitalist development in Aotearoa and the economic, political and ideological requirements necessary for the generalised commodification of indigenous labour-power.
The thesis explores how the politics and practice of Maori protest has been shaped and influenced to a large extent by the underlying social, economic, political and ideological forces of global capitalism. It is argued that the international collapse of the long boom, the global upturn in class struggle and the emergence of the New Left internationally from the late 1960s had an enormous influence on the political direction of Maori protest in the New Zealand context. The success of the working class offensive and the growing political influence of rank and file Maori workers ensured that Maori protest groups formed part of the progressive social movements of the time. Indeed, although some were explicitly nationalist in their orientation, these movements were consciously part of the Left.
The balance of political forces within the Maori protest movement changed considerably during the late 1970s and early 1980s with the rise of the New Right as a political force internationally together with the rise of employer militancy, the defeat and demoralization of the working class movement internationally, the decline of the social movements and the absence of mass struggle. This had important implications for the influence of the various ideological factions that co-existed uneasily in the Maori political milieu from the early 1970s onwards. The downturn in militant mass struggle saw the rise in the influence of identity politics as cultural nationalist strategies came to dominate Maori protest politics, representing a fundamental retreat from Left-wing ideas. In practice this entailed a rejection of the class politics and mass struggle that had informed the politics and strategies of Maori protest groups from the late 1960s, and its replacement with a politics of cross-class alliances and a personal rejection of �Pakeha society�. In practice this was a recipe for passivity and divisiveness within the Maori protest movement itself.
The politics of cultural nationalism left Maori ill-equipped to resist the ruling class counter-offensive and the anti-working class policies that successive governments introduced to restore the conditions for profitable capital accumulation. In particular, the rejection of a class analysis of Maori inequality in capitalist society has undermined the capacity of working class Maori to resist the neo-liberal agenda and a Treaty of Waitangi settlement process that has resulted in a substantial shift in resources to those sections of Maori society already wealthy and powerful. Although the settlement process represented an important concession by the state, it has never compensated for the anti-working class policies of governments since 1984, which have widened the social and economic inequalities in New Zealand society. In this way, the emphasis on cultural identity alone as the determining factor in Maori oppression has been counter-productive for working class Maori as successive governments shifted the costs of the economic crisis on to the weakest sections of the community.
As New Zealand entered a new period of economic and social crisis in the 1990s, the commercial interests of Maori tribal executives, Maori corporate enterprises, and the Maori bureaucracy were clearly at odds with the material interests of the vast majority of working class Maori families. This fundamental conflict in class interests was to set the scene for a revival of militancy on scale not seen since the 1970s.
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Chiang, Jerry Kao. "Reducing government proposal procurement process complexity." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90774.
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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT.Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2014. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 73).
US Aerospace Defense Vehicle Manufacturer (UADVM) sells Assembled Complex Equipment to the US Government through multi-year contracts. According to the Truth in Negotiations Act (TINA), such government defense contracts require cost and pricing data as well as supporting documentation, known as material substantiation, to justify pricing and supplier selection. In order to comply with these government regulations, UADVM needed to estimate material costs provided by its supply chain, in a process known as multi-year procurement process. At UADVM, this process involved substantial time, effort, and rework. Through interviews and surveys, total administrative effort to manage the Multi-Year X (MYX) Procurement Process is estimated to be about 41 full-time equivalents (FTEs) per year for three years, translating to an estimated fully loaded cost of $17.3 million. In order to significantly improve the current process, a key area of opportunity is to reduce the complexity of the entire process through 1) reducing the number of inputs, including the number of parts and bids sent out as well as suppliers and price points solicited, and 2) improving the design of the bid strategy, the determination of which parts are bid out to which suppliers, how to group these suppliers and parts into bids, and who should manage these bids in the most efficient and effective manner. Through the analysis of UADVM's MYX data, input reduction can potentially reduce the number of price points solicited by 99.2% and the number of interactions, also known as the number of unique combinations between parts, bids, and suppliers, by approximately 94%. These efforts can be complemented by an improved bid strategy through the use of a data-driven mixed integer linear programming optimization model, which, in tests on a sub-portion of the data, reduces the number of packages by 43%. These methods and analyses for complexity reduction can be generalized beyond current applications at UADVM, aerospace companies, and government proposals; they may be applied to any procurement process where multiple parts, suppliers, and bids are involved.
by Jerry Kao Chiang.
M.B.A.
S.M.
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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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Head, Lyndsay Fay. "Land, authority and the forgetting of being in early colonial Maori history." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Maori and Indigenous Studies, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/967.
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This thesis attempts to understand the intellectual milieu of Maori society in the early colonial period through the medium of Maori-language sources of information dating from that time. A base in Maori documentary allows Maori history to exist under the same disciplines as that of other literate peoples. The thesis argues that the imposition of English meanings on Maori language has shaded Maori meanings. It offers a rereading of documents including the Treaty of Waitangi in order to restore their Maori historicity. Maori society has also been misrepresented historiographically by the creation of false distance between metropolitan and indigenous culture, including the failure to sufficiently consider the shaping force of literacy on Maori perceptions of citizenship and on the politics of sovereignty that developed at mid-century. The thesis argues that land sales were the main Maori experience of government, and that the government's ability to define the terms of the market reconstrued society in ways which destroyed its former political structure.This turned it into a land-owning collective, in which power lay not in human consequence, as formerly, but in the size of the cultivations to which an owner could prove a right in terms constructed by officials. All members of the kin-group were constutued land owners, and the status of the chief was reduced to the size of the lands to which he could prove ownership. By 1865, when the Native Land Court was instituted, power within Maoridom lay in the land itself: te mana o te whenua. This position was written into culture, and endures into the present. The premise of the thesis is that change towards western norms is the proper frame of study of colonial Maori society, but that the magnitude of change has been obscured, both by the politicisation of the past on presentist premises and by the transformation of colonial models into what is now assumed to be 'traditional Maori society'. In order to separate the colonial from the traditional the thesis looks at precontact society custom regarding authority over land and fisheries. The thesis underscores the magnitude of change when tapu disappeared as the support of chiefs' civil governance, which was played out in the migration of mana (personal power) from chiefs to, modern, land. The disappearance of tapu also, however, aided the rise of Maori civil society within the colony on the basis of the desire for modernity which kept Maori engaged with the government - and therefore still governed. This is studied through letters that detail the operation of civil life in Taranaki and among Ngati Kahungunu, with special reference to the experience of Wiermu Kingi and Renata Kawepo.
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Webster, Karen Lesley. "Whakapiri tātou, hei manaaki tāngata, hei manaaki whenua Effective governance for urban sustainability : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 2009 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/854.
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Begg, Anne, and n/a. "Bicultural nationhood in the bonds of capital." University of Otago. Department of Communication Studies, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070508.142710.
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This thesis approaches the issue of bicultural nationhood as articulated through a Maori/Pakeha binary in Aotearoa/New Zealand by interrogating the deeply entrenched social forms that inform liberal democracy and that institutionalize capitalism in the modern nation-state. More specifically, it explores the concepts of �self-governing people�, �public sphere� and �free market� as three forms of collective agency that discursively construct �society� within the social imaginary and that interact to set the terms of democratic citizenship. Central to this discussion is the indigenous/non-indigenous binary constituting biculturalism and the manifestation of �indigeneity� as both unassimilable difference in the project of modernity and as political struggle for recognition and power. This study elaborates through the mediated texts of the mediasphere and argues that there is a constant relation between nation, culture and class wherein culture-as-difference provides a framework for masking class struggle in capitalist relations of production as well as for enabling the dominant group to discursively construct their own ethnicity as national cultural identity.
What is at stake in this discussion is the contrast between cultural difference as it emerges in the performance of everyday life and as reaction to issues of economic marginalization and cultural difference as it is contrived by the nation-state in terms of a Maori/Pakeha binary. The aim of this thesis is to highlight the necessity of difference in cultural identified, labeled and marketed as a fixed concept, but is an ephemeral by-product of ongoing social struggle for survival, recognition and political power. The objective is to undercut current ideological propositions and demand a just, equitable and democratic approach to the conceptualization of nationhood in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
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Rood, Sally Ann. "Government Laboratory Technology Transfer: Process and Impact Assessment." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30585.
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This study involved a qualitative comparative analysis of government laboratory technology transfer, examining both the process and impact of successful cases before and after passage of technology transfer legislation. The legislation, passed in the mid- and late-1980s, was intended to encourage cooperative research for commercialization purposes.
The study examined a variety of factors related to government laboratory technology transfer, including the researchers' roles, mechanisms used, partners, and economic impact.
Certain aspects of the researchers' roles became more positive toward technology transfer. They contributed to technology marketing by producing more laboratory prototypes and samples in the post-legislation period. On the other hand, they retreated from broad-based technology marketing in the sense that their roles as technology champions became centered around their relationships with their CRADA partners. There was an undercurrent of caution by the laboratory researchers towards technology transfer in both the pre-legislation and post-legislation periods, and neither time period contained many examples of market analysis or technology evaluation work by the laboratories. Also, there was tension between the research role and technology transfer role, possibly indicating a lack of trust in that relationship.
The laboratories primarily used CRADAs and licenses to transfer technologies, and used other mechanisms to a lesser degree. There was even less variety in mechanisms in the post-legislation period. The researchers' comments about license royalty-sharing became stronger in the post-legislation period, indicating that incentive is working. Yet, the data suggested new administrative needs such as for royalty tracking statements and dispute mechanisms.
The post-legislation period involved more small-firm partners and more user-initiated contacts, indicating more market pull. The post-legislation period also exhibited more "institutionalized" university relationships. State and local governments were not prominent among the users in either time period.
The technology transfer legislation had positive effects in terms of economic impact and outcomes. The following indicators increased in the post-legislation period: new products (generated as a result of technology transfer), sales revenues, new companies, new jobs, and technology transfer contributions to dual use. Technology transfer and commercialization failures decreased and the time to market decreased.
The assessment revealed additional findings related to increased international activity, private sector problems, and other factors contributing to technology transfer.
An extensive literature review provided background for the issues and problems in evaluating technology transfer. This review included an inventory of technology transfer measurement activities to-date, including models from non-government technology transfer communities. The study experience, itself, further uncovered some insights to technology transfer metrics at a time when the experience base in this area is still prematurePh. D.
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Mahuta, Dean P. S., and n/a. "Ko taku rau kotahi." University of Otago. Te Tumu - School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, 2005. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070430.115046.
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Raupatu (conquest of land) has been and still is a threat to the sovereignty and self-management of the Maori people. For the people of Waikato, raupatu has had such a significant impact that it has become a part of the people's identity. The New Zealand Land Wars of the 1860s signalled the beginning of the troubles for Waikato that would plague them for generations. Many Waikato people died for the land that had once nourished them, which was 'stolen' by the Crown and its colonial forces under the guise of 'confiscation' by way of the New Zealand Settlement Act 1863. This thesis examines raupatu in relation to the Waikato people, and the effects raupatu has had on them. This thesis also illustrates the connection between the Waikato people and whenua tupu (ancestral lands) through countless generations of people who committed their lives to the struggle to have their lands returned as proclaimed in the decree 'i haere whenua atu, me hoki whenua mai.' This decree is examined in relationship to the Deed of Settlement 1995 whereby the Crown addressed the grievances of the Waikato people and some hope was once again instilled within the people.
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Hill, Kim Charisc. "Managing Employee Motivation Through the Process of Government Furloughs." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4858.
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Budget constraints will cause federal furloughs to continue through 2035. Federal furloughs such as the one in 2012-2013, affected 800,000 out of 2.7 million federal employees. This dramatic workforce reduction caused remaining employees to experience stress and morale issues in the workplace. The purpose of the research was to understand how managers comprehend and experience the impact of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation on remaining employees' performance and attitudes during the furlough process. The theoretical foundation and conceptual framework were designed using both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation concepts and theories. Aspects of self-determination theory and hierarchy motivation theory were used to describe intrinsic motivational concepts. Extrinsic workplace motivation was described through expectancy theory, equity theory, and goal-setting theory. The overarching question addressed the lived experiences of 15 government managers to understand their perceptions on employee motivation during a furlough in the workplace through a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. Through the use of Flick's method of data analysis, 5 themes emerged from the interviews with the participants. The most notable results described the perceptions that managers had about their challenges in maintaining employee motivation and trust in an organization where the managers felt powerless. Recommendations may support positive social change by enabling more local control for managers and to develop and implement policies and procedures to support motivation of employees. Additionally, this study outcomes may lead to sensitizing national leaders to the detrimental effects of furloughs and the impact to employees and their families.
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O'Connor, Peter J., and n/a. "Reflection and Refraction: The Dimpled Mirror of Process Drama: How Process Drama Assists People to Reflect on Their Attitudes and Behaviours Associated with Mental Illness." Griffith University. School of Vocational, Technology and Arts Education, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20031210.113358.
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The National Project to Counter Stigma and Discrimination was established by the New Zealand government in 1997. The Project recognised that people with a diagnosis of mental illness are marginalized and excluded from full participation in society. The Mental Health Foundation was contracted to provide workshops for mental health service providers to shift workplace attitudes and behaviours that were discriminatory or stigmatising. This thesis used a case study approach to capture and evaluate the significance and nature of the transitory form of process drama in three workshops I facilitated in largely Maori communities in the far north of the North Island. The principles of reflective practitioner research informed the use of research tools, data collection and analysis. This research focused particularly on reflective strategies that occurred inside process drama work and the way in which meaning was constructed in that context. The central research question asked: 'In what ways does process drama work to assist people to reflect on their attitudes and behaviours associated with mental illness?' This raised a secondary question: 'What potential is there for a model to counter stigma and discrimination that uses process drama as a central strategy?' This thesis posits a new model for understanding the nature of reflection in process drama. The mimetic notions of the fictional and the real as discrete and defined entities should instead be seen as permeable frames of existence that on occasions collide and collapse into each other. The double paradox of process drama is that, having created an empathetic relationship with the roles taken, we purposefully structure distance so we can then deliberately collapse the distance to create deep moments of reflection. I suggest a more accurate term to describe reflection in process drama is refraction. Refraction acknowledges that, rather than clarity, process drama seeks ambiguity: instead of resolving issues it seeks to further problematise and complexify. The tension of working with a democratic and open-ended art form towards a pre-ordained end as part of the project is closely examined. The impact of performative rituals and proto drama processes as part of the context of working in Maori settings is also explored. A three step model for countering stigma and discrimination is formulated and workshopped. The content of the model is based on an analysis of research undertaken within an anti-racist context, and models that have informed similar mental health campaigns. The form of the model is process drama. An analysis of the workshops demonstrated that the first model developed was limited in its effectiveness. Instead, participants should engage in repeating cycles of generating and investigating images. This leads to the development of what I have termed the Spiral Three Step Model. Although the effectiveness of the Spiral model is not tested in this research, it became apparent that the workshops based on this structure provided opportunities for participants to consider and reflect/refract deeply on their workplace's attitudes and behaviours.
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Rappaport, Malcolm Howard. "Strategy and leadership : an elite study of the strategy process in local authority." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2002. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/97/.
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Over the last 20 years or so, local government in Britain has been experiencing a relentless, rapidly changing environment. With successive Conservative governments introducing policies to encourage a new and improved managerialist approach during the 1980s and 1990s, there has been a shift away from the bureaucratic and professionally dominated type of administration to a more customer-focused, private sector style of management and service delivery. The impact of these changes has provoked many local authorities to adopt a more strategic approach. This thesis examines the strategy process in one such authority, a London Borough, during the mid-nineties following the appointment of its new chief executive. The process is seen as one essentially driven by the need for the authority to respond more effectively to the internal and external exigencies facing local government. As a case study, it explores the way the leadership, both executive and the political, moved the authority away from the former professional bureaucracy towards a more corporate way of working and management style. The thesis traces the perceptions, speculations and behaviour of the senior elected members of the political administration as well as those of the new chief executive and describes how these influenced the strategy process.
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Case, Julie Martine. "Process improvement in local government, a case study in purchasing." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ49165.pdf.
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Basson, Bruce Ahswin. "Organisational commitment after a transformation process at a provincial government department." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2008. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_4414_1260521840.
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Organisations are by nature, dynamic entities that continuously undergo transformation in response to both internal and external pressures, which are imposed on them (Robbins, Odendaal &
Roodt, 2003). Government departments are by no means immune to these changes, which pose challenges that affect their service delivery. During periods of fundamental transformation, individuals typically experience changes in their levels of organisational commitment, which impacts on effective and efficient service delivery. Organisational commitment as an area of research is one of the factors that could lead to greater morale, strong organisational climate, motivation and productivity in many organisations facing transformation (Salami, 2008). The aim of this study was to investigate the level of organisational commitment after a transformation process at a Provincial Government Department. Recent organisational transformations (both in the private and public sector) have included the redrawing of divisional boundaries, flattening of hierarchic levels, spreading of spans of control, revising compensation, streamlining processes and reforming governance (Ndlovu &
Brijball Parusumar, 2005). The results of the research indicate that employees are moderately committed to the organisation. Statistically significant relationships were found between the dimensions of organisational commitment, except for affective commitment and total commitment which were not significant.
Furthermore, results indicate that statistically significant differences exist based on the biographical characteristics (namely, gender, race, tenure, marital status, age and job level) but these characteristics do not significantly explain the variance in organisational commitment for this organisation. A limitation of the research is that the sampling composition and research design preclude the results of this study being generalised to other organisations and it is recommended that a stratified random sampling design be utilised for future research.
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Al-Shammari, Zayed Ammash. "The relationship between government policy and the international technological transfer process." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494020.
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The aim of this research is to investigate the role of the governmental technological policy of international transferring technology in developing countries with particular focus on Kuwait. It is also an endeavour to propose a framework for the public sector for formulating technology development strategy favourable for technology transfer for developing countries.
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Runde, Sharon M. "An analysis of business process re-engineering for government micro-purchasing." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/43990.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThis project examines the current business processes for micro-purchases within the government and analyzes the current processes with a potential to be system by utilizing business process re-engineering (BPR). The methodology includes a comparative analysis of BPR methodologies and tools, analysis of the current as is processes for the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) micro-purchases, and the development of an improved to be processes. Data was gathered from various stakeholders in the purchasing process. BPR software was used to create use cases to study the process flow of the as is and to be systems. The implementation of the process flow, workload, and information systems is highly individual to each agency. The efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency of procurements within individual agencies are highly dependent on leadership, experience, skill sets, training, information technology solutions, and human resources. This research shows working models of improved cost, turn-around-time, and performance. The ultimate goal is to decrease the amount of time that it takes to complete the processes within the workflow system thus improving the turn-around-time for an end user to receive a product or service. Upon completion of the analysis of the as is model and the to be model, savings in both cost and schedule were demonstrated. Re-engineering a few activities that were causing bottlenecks improved the total duration from approximately 20.96 days to 10.4 days. While the changes made are unique to the processes in place at NPS, the structure of BPR can be broadly applied across the government.
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Ewell, William Henry Carsey Thomas M. "Partisanship, inter-institutional bargaining, and the appropriations process in American government." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2283.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Political Science." Discipline: Political Science; Department/School: Political Science.
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Nusir, Muneer. "Government to citizens e-service co-design." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11017.
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e-Government services are typically developed by internal service providers, often neglecting the service end user. Subsequent delivery of services can be jeopardised without due consideration of the service user, lacking in consideration of their needs and expectations in the design process. However, the service provider when designing e-services for varied users, find it is hard to meet the prospective users’ expectations and needs and involve them in an iterative design processes. To address this issue; a Co-design approach has been applied and focuses on Jordanian Government to Citizens (G2C) e-services. Co-design tools/methods maximize opportunities and provide new possibilities for communicating and collaborating with varied and diverse users. The main aim of this research is to improve the quality and efficiency of G2C e-services by adopting the Co-design approach including its tools/methods to support user participation throughout design process, and how these tools/methods pretend the features of user participation. A novel G2C e-Service Co-Design Framework (G2C-SCOF) is constructed with mechanisms for understanding the stakeholders’ requirements, and granting them an active role throughout design process of G2C e-service design. A wiki-based Co-design prototype (WCP) is developed and introduced as a response to and evaluation of the developed G2C-SCOF. This research also presents results from the case study in Jordan and used to evaluate WCP effectiveness regarding users’ participation role(s) throughout the Co-design process based on standard service design phases. Interestingly, involvement throughout design process as such can be an enriching experience for the users. Offering a channel to uncover their own creativity and provide enjoyment for them as they see their contributions evolve into a viable service. A robust method for uncovering domain concepts is derived that bridges the requirements’ gap between service provider and service user within a G2C e-service design context. A first iteration evaluates the adoption and acceptance of Jordan Government Portal (JGP) based on a model titled Methodology for e-Government Service Adoption and Acceptance Measurement (MEGA-M). MEGA-M is then used to design a survey and subsequently investigate how citizens perceive the quality of the JGP. RepGrid methodology with semi-structured interviews are deployed in the second iteration – with 24 participants from diverse backgrounds contributing to a synthesised cognitive model titled Stakeholder’s requirements map for G2C Service Design’ (SRM-G2C). Finally, a prototype WCP is developed as the third iteration for evaluation purposes. WCP is a platform for facilitating the sharing and expression of ideas and/or assumptions used to improve the effectiveness of G2C e-service design. The conclusions and contributions drawn from this research are expected to benefit researchers, providing insights for future research in the field of e-Government service design, and practitioners, providing a systematic framework for supporting the collaboration among stakeholders in designing G2C e-services.
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Kukuruzovic, Naida. "Security Management : Fulfillment of the Government Requirements for a component assurance process." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-189983.
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Protecting organization’s assets from various security threats is a necessity for every organization. Efficient security management is vital to effectively protect the organization’s assets. However, the process of implementing efficient security management is complex and needs to address many requirements. The problem that this master’s thesis project addressed was to propose a component assurance process for the Swedish Armed Forces. This process has to be followed in order for a solution or product to be approved at a specific component assurance level. This problem was solved by first performing market research regarding security management. Various security management approaches were examined and the top security management solutions were selected. These solutions were then compared with the assurance requirements stated in Swedish Armed Forces’ KSF v3.1 (Swedish: “Krav på IT-säkerhetsförmågor hos IT-system”, English: Requirements for IT security capabilities of IT systems). This documentation lists the requirements for information technology (IT) security capabilities of IT systems. The solution that satisfied the most of these requirements was selected and modified in order to satisfy the full set of requirements. Finally, a component assurance process is proposed. This process may be used to decide which solutions or products can be used, along with the manner in which each solution or product should be used. The impact of having a component assurance process is that all the solutions and products are approved to a specific component assurance level exclusively based on this process. The ability to include such requirements in the acquisition of any product or service provides the Swedish Armed Forces with assurance that all products or services are approved to specific assurance levels in the same manner and hence provides the Swedish society with assurance that procedures within the Swedish Armed Forces are documented and protect the interests of the country and its citizens.För varje organisation är det nödvändigt att skydda information från olika säkerhetshot. Att ha en effektiv säkerhetshantering är avgörande för att kunna skydda informationen. Denna process är komplex och många krav måste tillfredsställas. Problemet som detta examensarbete avser att lösa handlar om hur införandet av en assuransprocess kommer påverka Försvarsmakten. Denna process måste följas för att en lösning eller produkt ska godkännas till en specifik komponents säkerhetsnivå. Frågeställningen besvaras i första hand av en marknadsundersökning om säkerhetshantering. Olika säkerhetshanteringsstrategier undersöktes och de bästa säkerhetslösningar valdes. Lösningarna jämfördes därefter med de assuranskrav som anges i Försvarsmaktens KSF V3.1 (Krav på IT säkerhetsförmågor hos IT – system) som är den dokumentation som anger kraven för IT säkerhetsfunktioner i ett IT system. Lösningen som uppfyllde de flesta kraven valdes och modifierades för att uppfylla samtliga kraven. Slutligen rekommenderades en komponent assuransprocess, vilken skulle kunna användas för att avgöra vilken lösning eller produkt som skulle kunna användas samt på vilket sätt det skulle kunna användas. Möjligheten att införa sådana krav i förvärvet av vilken produkt eller tjänst det än gäller förser Försvarsmakten med garantier för att alla produkter eller tjänster är godkända enligt särskilda säkringsnivåer på samma sätt och därmed försäkras det svenska samhället att förfaranden inom svenska väpnade krafter dokumenteras samt skyddar landet och dess medborgare.
Säkerhetshantering, informationssäkerhet, autentisering, auktorisering, styrning, riskhantering, följsamhet, användaradministration
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Poxon, Jennifer Mary. "The development planning process in context : change and challenge." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310793.
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Breckel, Daniel W. "The process of hardness of heart." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Modlin, Steve W. "The theoretical application of the dichotomy-duality model to the county government budget process." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2008. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-07092008-103757.
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Grant, Susannah, and n/a. "God�s governor : George Grey and racial amalgamation in New Zealand 1845-1853." University of Otago. Department of History, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070427.112933.
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The legend of Governor Grey is a major feature of nineteenth century New Zealand historiography. This thesis seeks to understand Grey as a real person. Acknowledging the past as a strange and foreign place, it argues that Grey (and previous interpretations of him) can only be understood in context. The intellectual milieu of liberal Anglicanism and Victorian structures of imperial authority are crucial to understanding Grey�s policies of racial amalgamation.
Focusing on Grey�s first governorship of New Zealand, 1845 - 1853, this thesis begins by exploring the imperial networks within which he operated. The members of Grey�s web gathered and shared information to further a range of different agendas - scientific, humanitarian, and political. Grey�s main focus was native civilisation. His ideas about race were informed by liberal Anglican theology, scientific investigation and personal experience. Grey believed in the unity and improvability of all mankind. His mission as governor was to elevate natives to a state of true equality with Europeans so that all could progress together still further up the scale of civilisation. This model formed the basis of Grey�s 1840 plan for civilising native peoples, in which he proposed a range of measures to promote racial amalgamation in Australia.
Between 1845 and 1853 Grey implemented those measures in New Zealand. He used military force and British law to establish peace and enforce Crown authority. He used economic policies to encourage Maori integration in the colonial economy. He built schools and hospitals and enacted legislation to encourage the best features of British culture and limit the effects of its worst. He also augmented his power and encouraged amalgamation through personal relationships, official reports and the structures of colonial authority.
Grey was driven by complex, sometimes contradictory motives including personal gain, economic imperatives and political pressures. His policies have had ongoing, often devastating effects, on Maori and on race relations in New Zealand. This thesis brings to light the ideas and attitudes which formed them. Grey understood himself as a Christian governor ordained to civilise Maori and join them with British settlers in accordance with God�s divine plan for improving humankind.
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Tan, Chin Kern Joseph. "Leadership and the strategic planning process in two government secondary schools in Singapore." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/7808.
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This thesis centres on the research problem of leadership and strategic planning processes in two Singapore government secondary schools, both of which were engaged in the strategic planning guided by the School Excellence Model (SEM) Framework launched in 2000. Many schools are apprehensive toward this mandatory requirement. They are unclear of the strategic planning approach, process, or model to adopt. This study investigates how the strategic planning process was established and managed in two contrasting case schools, and expounds on the factors influencing the strategic planning processes in each school. Emanating from the aims, the study seeks to address the following research questions: First, what do school leaders and teachers understand by strategic planning? Second, what are leaders’ and teachers’ perspectives on how schools develop their strategic plans? Third, what are leaders’ and teachers’ perspectives on how the strategic plan is implemented, managed and led? Fourth, what are the perceived helping and hindering factors engaging in strategic planning? In addressing the research questions, a case study approach and qualitative research methods using interviews, non-participative observations, and documentary analysis were employed to elicit in-depth information from school leaders and teachers of two contrasting schools, one deemed successful and the other less so, in implementing, leading and managing the strategic planning spectrum. Key findings, inter alia, suggest that the principal’s approach to leadership of the process of strategic planning greatly influenced the likelihood of successful implementation, influencing and shaping the approach of other senior staff and teachers. In particular, a more democratic and consultative approach inspired staff more to execute the plan compared to command and control –something of a paradox for Singaporean schools, given their centralised culture. Findings also affirmed that time allocated for strategic reviews at planning meetings, coupled with effective communication strategy to involve stakeholders, can enhance strategic thinking and capability of staff.
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Cabral, Braulio J. "Exploring Factors Influencing Information Technology Portfolio Selection Process in Government-Funded Bioinformatics Projects." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2957.
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In 2012, the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA) conducted a review of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology's (CBIIT) bioinformatics program. The BSA suggested that the lack of a formal project selection process made it difficult to determine the alignment of projects with the mission of the organization. The problem addressed by this study was that CBIIT did not have an in-depth understanding of the project selection process and the factors influencing the process. The purpose of this study was to understand the project selection process at CBIIT. The research methodology was an exploratory case study. The data collection process included a phenomenological interview of 25 managers from program management, engineering, scientific computing, informatics program, and health sciences. The data analysis consisted of coding for themes, sensitizing, and heuristic coding, supported by a theoretical framework that included the technology acceptance model, the program evaluation theory, and decision theory. The analysis revealed the need for formal project portfolio governance, the lack of a predefined project selection process, and that the decision-making process was circumstantial. The study also revealed six major themes that affected the decision-making process: the CBIIT mission, the organizational culture, leadership, governance, funding, and organizational change. Finally, the study fills the gap in the literature regarding the project selection process for government-funded initiatives in information technologies. This study may contribute to positive social change by improving the project selection process at CBIIT, allowing for the effective use of public funds for cancer informatics researchers.
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Blain, Russell Paul. "A Lightning Design Process for a Production of Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391516848.
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Dowd-Krause, Amanda. "An optimal skills development planning and implementation process flow model for local government." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1211.
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The purpose of this study was to develop an optimal skills development planning and implementation process flow model for application within local government authorities, more specifically for application within the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. To achieve this, a literature review was conducted which provided for an understanding on how skills development structures and strategies have changed in recent times and how the laws which provide the framework and landscape for skills development in South Africa, have been adapted to accommodate these changes. The literature review continued with an analysis of various theoretical training and skills development models in order to determine an optimal systematic approach to training and development in South Africa, and to determine the sequential flow of skills planning and implementation process flow steps. From the literature and theoretical models, an all-embracing skills development planning and implementation process flow model was developed for implementation in local government authorities. This model was used as the basis for the development of a survey questionnaire to establish to what extent metropolitan municipalities, agreed or disagreed, that it implemented the aspects of the proposed model developed in this study. Structured interviews were conducted using the survey questionnaire. The results obtained were used to adapt the theoretical model, and to align it with the viewpoints of the majority of the respondents. Although various facets of skills development were found to be implemented across metropolitan municipalities, the majority of the municipalities did not apply optimal skills planning, nor did they apply optimal sequential process steps to ensure effective and efficient skills development. iv The empirical study established without a doubt that a dire need exists for an optimal skills development planning and implementation process flow model within local government authorities. Based on the analysis and interpretation of the research findings, the model proposed for local government authorities was customised to produce a process flow model to facilitate optimal skills development planning and implementation within the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality.
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蘇偉業 and Wai-yip Bennis So. "Elites, bureaucracy, and the policy process in China: a study of the Socialist Transformation of capitalistindustry and commerce, 1949-56." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31214629.
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Wang, Hua. "Origin and network : examining the influence of non-local Chambers of Commerce in the Chinese local policy process." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8249/.
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China’s transition from planned economy to market economy (economic liberalization) has catalyzed the private sector’s emergence and growth, as well as given birth to new forms of business associations within the private sector, such as Non-local Chambers of Commerce (NCCs, hereafter). NCCs emerged from mid-1990s, and have proliferated rapidly across China’s localities and industries. Unlike traditional official business associations, NCCs have significantly participated in local governance and demonstrated new types of state-society relations. However, they have not yet reached the attention of scholarly researchers, and have been understudied within and outside of China. At the same time, political scientists working on policy processes have begun to include China as a case to enrich their theory, but find it hard to adapt established models to China’s policymaking system. Research on the Chinese policy process have gone from elite politics in the 1950-1960s, to “fragmented authoritarianism” in the 1970-1980s, then to “fragmented authoritarianism 2.0” after 2000. During the evolution of these theories, it has been noticed that more and more non-bureaucratic actors have been involved into the policymaking process if not being the prominent actors. There have been studies on “policy entrepreneur”, environmental NGOs, international NGOs, Chinese think-tanks and different forms of business lobbying. However, within the spectrum of business lobbying, there is a gap in understanding business associations’ influence in policy processes, especially the new type of so claimed “grass-roots” business associations. This thesis sheds lights on this new type of private sector business association - NCCs and their influence in the local urban policy process. NCCs have been widely involved in local governance and political engagement. However, their political participation shows great variation due to differences in regions, organizational forms, industries and policy spheres. So the question of what lead to the variation of NCCs’ policy influence has become the highlights of this research project. By using the empirical materials from participant observation and interviews, this thesis aims to answer two main questions: How did NCCs influence the local policy process and what explains the difference in their policy influence? In this thesis, I develop a typology for NCCs by using the dimensions of “origins” and “networks”. Thus all the NCCs have been categorized into four types: “Dependent NCCs”, “Independent NCCs”, “Coupling NCCs” and “Decoupling NCCs”. Through in-depth case analysis, I argue that NCCs’ networks and their ability to mobilize resources within their networks determine their policy impact. In terms of NCCs’ network orientation, the state networks of NCCs directly affect their access to policy lobbying, while the business networks directly affect the resources for their lobbying, thus determine NCCs’ lobbying capacity in the local policy process. In terms of NCCs’ network strategy, network span influences policy making while network intensity influences policy implementations. To be specific, NCCs with network span strategy could influence more general policy agendas and policy spheres, while NCCs with network intensity strategy could exert more influence in specific policies especially in the policy implementation stage.
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Billing, Karmyn Maria. ""Sowing the Seeds for Change" A process evaluation of Te Kakano, the SAFE Programme for Maori men who have sexually offended against children." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/5731.
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In the field of sexual offender treatment, there is limited literature on cultural influences and processes in therapy. Conventional treatment approaches for minority groups, including Maori in Aotearoa/ New Zealand, may be less effective if interventions are not culturally responsive. This thesis presents the findings of a process evaluation of Te Kakano, the SAFE Network Incorporated programme implemented by Maori clinicians and offered to Maori men who have committed sexual offences against children. The evaluation aimed to describe the programme with a focus on cultural concepts and practices, to identify the programme’s strengths and weaknesses, and to make recommendations for improving programme content and delivery.
Qualitative methods including interviews with service users and observations of group therapy sessions were carried out over a 15-month period. Twelve Tane (men), four whanau (family) members and three Kaimahi Maori (staff) participated in the research. The central finding was that Tikanga processes and values encompassed all aspects of the programme and were highly valued by men and their whanau despite differing levels of cultural knowledge amongst the group. A Maori-centred approach has a number of potential benefits: 1) it allows for participation in activities that can strengthen cultural identity and knowledge; 2) the approach recognises the importance of relationships as a context for change; 3) Te Kakano provides a programme that addresses sexually abusive behaviour and is culturally responsive to Maori offenders; 4) the involvement of Maori amongst therapy staff and management is a step towards ensuring that Maori values and perspectives are represented within the organisation.
The results indicate that therapeutic initiatives for Maori offenders that utilise Tikanga Maori beliefs and practices may help to reduce offending by improving engagement in treatment, providing a rationale for prosocial behaviours, and assisting healing and reparation processes for individuals, whanau and the wider community.
The results are discussed in terms of specific recommendations for programme improvement as well as theoretical and clinical implications. This study makes a unique contribution to the literature by exploring the value of indigenous approaches to treating sexual offending with the aim of protecting tamariki (children) in our communities.
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Chan, Chun-man, and 陳俊文. "Understanding the policy process of mandatory building inspection in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46779395.
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Dangerfield, Brian Charles. "System dynamics models in the process of corporate and public policy." Thesis, University of Salford, 1991. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14741/.
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The thesis is a contribution to the literature on policymaking in business and government. By a critical examination of relevant published work in the field and by specific examples it seeks to demonstrate how the system dynamics modelling methodology can contribute to an improvement in the process of corporate and public policy design. It is argued that the relative lack of use of models in the policy process may now be reversed. This is, in part, because of the development of user-friendly interactive modelling software on personal computers together with large screen colour projection facilities. But the most important stimulus to the fulfilment of the potential of modelling work in these areas will come with a realisation by policy makers of the proper role of the model in the overall process. This is a central tenet of the thesis: the model provides a fulcrum for debate and enhanced understanding and should never be viewed as an 'answer generator'. All too often miscasting models in this latter role has, in the author's view, seriously affected their adoption at the strategic policy level. Three specific examples are used to support the above line of argument. These are concerned with: M Technology policy and planning in the steel industry. A model is devised which addresses the crucial role of the blast furnace in an integrated steel works. The pursuit of economies of scale has led to larger and larger furnaces being installed. Given the often cyclical nature of customer demand for steel, together with forced interruptions to production in order to periodically reline the furnaces, it is argued that larger production units are not necessarily advisable. (ii) Public policy considerations arising from the AIDS epidemic. The spread of AIDS and the implications of this for health planning has taxed governments worldwide. A model is presented which captures the spread of HIV disease within the U. K. homosexual population and policy issues arising from model runs are discussed. This is in contrast to some other models which attempt to 9forecast2 the progress of the epidemic. (iii) Financial policy in a firm which failed (Laker Airways). This example differs from the other two in that the policy issues surrounding the firm's financial management are directed at students. They are the 'clients' who would want to use this model in order to explore the implications of alternative strategic policies. System dynamics models of a real-life case study can be usefully harnessed in such a pedagogic role.
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Chung, Wan-hon. "The role of advisory bodies in the policy process of the Hong Kong Government." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36442653.
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Lo, Chi-kan Breaker. "An analysis of the policy making process of the HKSAR government anti-smoking policy." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38602209.
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Chung, Wan-hon, and 鐘雲漢. "The role of advisory bodies in the policy process of the Hong Kong Government." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B36442653.
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Lo, Chi-kan Breaker, and 盧志勤. "An analysis of the policy making process of the HKSAR government anti-smoking policy." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38602209.
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Mousa, Rania. "E-government adoption process : XBRL adoption in HM revenue and customs and companies house." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1752/.
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The last two decades have seen an evolution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capabilities in the public sector which facilitates the adoption of several IT innovations. Electronic government is one of these strategic innovations that many government agencies have considered adopting to deliver government information and services and support the modernisation of government’s administrative tasks. This research investigates an e-government adoption process as represented by the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) adoption process. XBRL constitutes one of the key components of the electronic regulatory reporting process in HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and Companies House (CH). A comprehensive conceptual framework is developed to examine XBRL adoption process and the influential technological, organisational, environmental factors and e-government challenges that affect this process. The contribution of this comprehensive framework is that it develops various relationships among these factors, challenges and stages of the adoption process which have not been identified in the IT adoption or e-government literature. The framework for e-government adoption in the public sector is useful in multiple ways. The major benefit is to contribute to understanding the adoption process, identify the technological infrastructure, and emphasise the importance of the organisational readiness and impact of the environment on the adoption process. The framework can also help government decision makers to visualise a suitable strategic action plan for the future of electronic government by identifying the key issues and potential challenges associated with adopting e-government projects.
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Watt, Ian James. "The relationship between councillors and officers and the policy process in English local government." Thesis, University of Hull, 1990. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16064.
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Kunene, Thabani W. "Business processes alignment for an effective e-government implementation: a case study of a Provincial Government in South Africa." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4937.
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Magister Commercii (Information Management) - MCom(IM)The purpose of the research case study was to assess the current state of alignment of business processes to Provincial Strategic Goals (PSGs) and services in the Provincial Government and to identify the way to align business processes to PSGs and services for an effective e-government implementation. Existing literatures were reviewed in order to identify relevant models to achieve the purpose of the research case study. An empirical research case study and comparative approach were used in order to identify suitable models, by means of strengths and weaknesses of the identified models and discussed. A qualitative research design and methodology was applied while assessing existing models from various literatures. A model to identify the current state of business processes was identified by the researcher and tested to assess the current state of business processes in the Provincial Government in question. There was no existing model to assess the alignment of business processes to Provincial Strategic Goals and services. Alignment elements that were cited by various literatures were used by the researcher to design and propose a Business Process Alignment Model (BPAM). The BPAM was tested and accepted by the Provincial Government where the study was conducted. The research case study predominantly used a qualitative research design and method. The quantitative illustrative approach was applied only to validate the proposed model that was designed by the researcher. A questionnaire was used to conduct interviews with research participants that were selected within the Provincial Government in question. It should further be noted that a quantitative approach was used to illustrate some findings that were analysed by the researcher. Results confirmed that the current state of business processes within the Provincial Government in question was still at level two (repeatable state). Yet the alignment of business processes to Provincial Strategic Goals and services did not exist; this alignment was assessed using the proposed BPAM which was designed by the researcher during this research case study. The effectiveness of e-government services is dependent on proper alignment of business processes and the maturity level of business processes across the organisation. Without proper alignment of business processes, it is a challenge for the public sector organisations to realise effective e-government implementation, not excluding other factors that have been identified by other literatures. This research case study will contribute to the current body of knowledge regarding effective e-government implementation, particularly in the public sector at Provincial level. Public sector organisations in South Africa could leverage on this work to address issues associated with business process alignment.
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Foo, Wing-hung, and 傅永洪. "The impact of the Democratic Party on the policy process of the Hong Kong Government since the 1995 direct elections." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31965209.
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Figueira, de Lemos Francisco. "A Political View on the Internationalization Process." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-196465.
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The role of governments in the internationalization of the firm had early recognition in prominent seminal studies in international business, such as Hymer’s thesis or the Uppsala Model, though the interaction between multinationals and governments has attracted scarce attention. As such, the main stream of economics and management studies have focused on internationalization essentially as an issue of the firm, wherein the multinationals’ interaction with the environment is limited to a business-industrial scope of suppliers, clients, and competitors. In a different direction, this thesis includes the political setting and studies the beneficial side of governments in the internationalization process of the firm. With this purpose, the present dissertation proposes a conceptual framework based on Johanson and Vahlne’s (1977) internationalization process model, complemented with Williamson’s (1975) Transaction Costs Economics, and encompassed by conceptual insights from institutional studies related to international business. Specifically, the role of governments in the internationalization process is examined through the variances of the relation between knowledge and commitment at the micro, meso, and macro level. The structure of the thesis reflects the multilevel approach, integrating one conceptual and three empirical papers, each of which dealing with a particular level of analysis. Through the aggregation of each paper’s intrinsic contribution, the dissertation’s summary offers a wide view on the internationalization phenomena, adding the political elements to the industrial-business elements of the environment. Overall, internationalization is conceptualized as a process of interaction with the business environment, whereas the public nature of political elements induces the compromise of combining activities between firms and governments. Evidence gives the ground to conclude that internationalization is not a game played just between firms, or, even, between firms and markets, but also with and within governments.
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Li, Tao, and 李濤. "Retirement protection in Hong Kong: a study of the policy-making process 1991-95." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31965337.
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Hill, Martin. "National Agricultural Livestock and Extension Programme (NALEP) : Study of the Implementation Process." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Statsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-15280.
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In 2007 Sida received a lot of criticism for not keeping track of the Swedish aid to countries in Africa. Aid has been sent to developing programmes which have been poorly evaluated and where there have been high risks of corruption. The aim of this study is to view the implementation of the National Agricultural and Livestock Extension Programme (NALEP), which is the largest development extension programme in the East African country Kenya. The purpose of NALEP is to decrease the poverty and increase the production in the focal areas of the country. It is also supposed to increase the influence the small scale farmers have in their own production. Sweden has been funding the programme since the start in June 2000 and has been the only external financial supporter during the whole process. The programme started off with a five years plan and was later extended another five years. This paper will view the entire implementation process of the programme as well as evaluate whether or not the programme has been successful. The results received by the evaluation have shown that the programme has had a positive effect on the agricultural sector. The programme has also been a relatively successful way to increase the small scale farmers’ influence in the local political decision making processes.
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Thompson, Hunter Bryan. "The process of decentralization in ex-Soviet states : a case study on the Republic of Lithuania /." View online, 2007. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/252/.
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Luk, Ming, and 陸明. "A study of the ranking process of civil service grades in the Hong Kong government." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31975112.
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Ngobeni, Stanley Ace. "An analysis of the tender process in national government in South Africa / Stanley Ace Ngobeni." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/7596.
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Tendering process is central to national government in South Africa. The goods and
services bought by national government in South Africa represent a large amount of
public money, and it is very important that national government put in place measure
to manage how these goods and services are acquired. In the main government
acquire goods and services through tender system and the focus of the study was
tendering process in national government in South Africa. The amount of public
resources that national government uses in the tendering process is huge and is
approximately over 20% of GDP, which has direct implication for service delivery and
job creation as well as redressing past discrimination by empowering designated
groups of peoples to receive preference in tendering.
South Africa is one of the countries with the highest level of corruption rate in the
world, of which tender fraud and corruption play a major part. Considering that, the
reform of tendering process in national government is therefore inevitable and has to
take place.
The primary objective of this study is to analyse national government tender system,
and identify the tendering problems facing South African national departments. The
study further made practical recommendations to National Government, National
Treasury, and all the relevant stakeholders relating to the management of tendering
process. Data from 355 questionnaires completed by participants, represented 45
national department was collected and analysed.
This study found that national government is facing major challenges in managing of
tendering process, and these challenges relates to implementation and adoption of
the code of best practice.
The most important conclusions drawn from the study are:
* The department complies with all the above legislation and keep the rules as
stipulated in the legislation;
* There is a need to issue a single national legislative framework in terms of
section 76(4)(c) of the PFMA to guide uniformity in tendering process;
* The tendering legislations and its associated regulations are complex and
may make it difficult to implement correctly;
* The department follow all tendering process generic steps at all times;
* The current evaluation system is not a good system and is biased towards
the lowest price bidders;
* The current tendering practices in government are outdated and inefficient;
* Tender practitioners are not adequately trained in the application of the tender
process and its associated regulations;
* The departments did not keep a detailed and consistent documentation of all
events of the whole tendering procedure at all times;
* The current tendering practices do not conform to internationally accepted
best practices;
* The department’s tendering function is not carried out in a cost–effective way;
and
* The current tendering system is fair, encourages competition, and has
integrity.
Practical recommendations are suggested to ensure the effective management of
tendering process in national government.Thesis (MBA)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.
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Tamaira, A. Marata. "Making Myth, Making Nation: Maori Symbols and the Construction of Bicultural Identity." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/21130.
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Knox, Colin. "Whakapumau te mauri : values-based Maori organisations : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Maori Studies at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/912.
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The political and economic history of New Zealand since the turn of the nineteenth century has been characterised by the colonisation of the indigenous Maori people by settlers mainly from Britain. In 1840 the British Crown and representative Maori Rangatira signed the Maori language version of the Treaty of Waitangi, which guaranteed to Maori continuing ownership of their land and natural resources, and self determination under the protection of the Crown, What Maori did not know in signing the Treaty was that already thousands of new settlers were being recruited in Britain on the promise of a paradise, where vacant land could be purchased cheaply and every man was the equal of his master. While the Maori population was in decline following the introduction of disease and the musket, the immigrant European population exploded. It established a Westminster styled Government which in its early years included no Maori, and passed laws which over the next 50 years alienated Maori from 95% of their land, prevented Maori from accumulating capital and participating in the most rewarding industries, and imposed alien social institutions on a previously well organised and successful people. For many Maori in the twenty-first century, the legacy of colonisation has been either marginalisation in rural communities on land frozen by legal structures which run counter to traditional values and procedures, or migration to towns and cities where employment opportunities are mainly in less skilled work and subject to variation in the economy. This thesis examines the extent of the displacement of the institutions of Maori society and its impact on the development of Maori land and other assets. It proposes an approach which could assist shareholders in Maori land to reassert traditional values and tikanga and promote collective decision making, while gaining understanding of the concepts and language of business and organisations and a skill base for greater participation in the organisations which own and manage their assets. The research results are promising, with participants in a research project accepting an approach to governance and organisation which bridges tikanga and modem business structures. There is evidence from an extended case study that the approach engenders a confidence which has positive social and cultural outcomes while encouraging the development of Maori land
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Reeves, Jane. "Indigenous Rights: Hawaiians and Maori in the International Political Context." 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/21119.