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McLaverty, Lauren. "Public administration research in South Africa : an assessment of journal articles in Journal of Public Administration & Administratio Publica from 1994-2006." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14710.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-172).This dissertation is a study on Public Administration research in South Africa. It explores the current nature of Public Administration research in the country by analysing and categorising journal articles extending over a thirteen year time period from 1994-2006. The hypothesis guiding this dissertation is that South African Public Administration research focuses too heavily on practitioner-orientated research (applied research) rather than enhancing basic, theory-generating research. The methodology used is a content analysis of two prominent South African Public Administration journals: Journal of Public Administration (JOPA) and Administratio Publica (AP). A total of 383 articles (278 from JOPA and 105 from AP) were classified according to a set of descriptive and analytical variables to measure research characteristics prevalent within the field. Findings from this study not only confirm the hypothesis but also conclude that research deficiencies identified in the British and United States contexts exist within South African Public Administration research. This implies that there has been little evidence of developing a cumulative knowledge base within the discipline and research methodologies are generally of a poor quality making little effort to contribute to a systematic, scholarly base of Public Administration knowledge. Therefore basic, scholarly theory development in the field is weak.
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Fusimalohi, Taniela L. "Culture-bound public administration : the value basis of public administration in Tonga /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19271.pdf.
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DUBOIS, HANS FRANCOIS WOUTER. "Decentralization in public administration." Doctoral thesis, Università Bocconi, 2009. https://hdl.handle.net/11565/4053892.
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Al-Saedi, Hayder Saeed Jihad. "Delineation of administrative law and public administration in iraq’s legal theory." Thesis, Молодіжний науковий юридичний форум: [Матеріали міжн. наук.-практ. конф. До дня науки, м. Киїів, НАУ, 18 травня 2018р.] Том 1.- Тернопіль: Вектор, 2018. С. 117-119, 2018. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/34740.
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Little, John H. "Reframing public administration : a systems-methodological analysis of governance and the role of public administration /." Diss., This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10022007-145413/.
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Quattlebaum, Reginald. "Welfare administration is welfare administration a critical analysis of welfare administration during the Governors Richard Thornburgh and Robert Casey periods /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1991. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1991.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2957. Abstract precedes thesis as [3] preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-77).
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Scheepers, Louis Adrian. "Professionalisation of local public administration management." University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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Local government is the sphere of government that is most directly involved in rendering services to communities and individuals. It is also at this sphere of government where the basic needs of people are addressed. Services like water, sanitation, waste removal and electricity have a direct influence on the quality of life that people live. In order for the occupation of local public administration to contribute meaningfully towards rendering services of a high level, both in quantity and quality, it is important to lay down a number of preconditions. In this research report it was argued that for local public administration management to become a profession in the full sense, it will be necessary: to draw well-qualified graduates from tertiary institutionsto develop practitioners in the occupation on a continual basis
to develop minimum performance standards and requisite competencies
to develop standards of ethical conduct acceptable to the community at large, and the occupation as a whole
and to continuously develop knowledge in the science of public administration as it is found in the local sphere of government.
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Міненко, Сергій Володимирович, Сергей Владимирович Миненко, Serhii Volodymyrovych Mynenko, Віталія Василівна Койбічук, Виталия Васильевна Койбичук, and Vitaliia Vasylivna Koibichuk. "The blockchain technologies in public administration." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/80875.
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В роботі розглядаються особливості та можливості використання технології блокчейну в державному управлінні. Обґрунтовано доцільність використання інноваційної технології обміну даними у сферах державного державного управління з метою ідентифікації особи, підтримки виборчої кампанії, діяльності податкової інспекції, нотаріального посвідчення документівВ работе рассматриваются особенности и возможности использования технологии блокчейна в государственном управлении. Обоснована целесообразность использования инновационной технологии обмена данными в сферах государственного государственного управления с целью идентификации личности, поддержки избирательной кампании, деятельности налоговой инспекции, нотариального удостоверения документов
The article deals with the features and possibilities of using blockchain technology in public administration. The expediency of using the innovative technology of data exchange in the spheres of state public administration for the purpose of identification of the person, support of election campaign, the activity of tax inspection, notarization of documents
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Bauer, Hartmut. "Verwaltungskooperation : Public Private Partnerships und Public Public Partnerships; einführende Problemskizze." Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/2944/.
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A. Verwaltungskooperation als Strategie der Staatsmodernisierung
B. Public Private Partnerships
I. Einsatzfelder, rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen und Implementationsprobleme
II. Gesetzgeberische Reformbestrebungen
C. Public Public Partnerships
D. Zu Suche und Auswahl des Kooperationspartners
E. Zukunftstrend Rekommunalisierung?
F. Entwicklungsszenarien
G. Anhang: Gesetz zur Erleichterung Öffentlich Privater Partnerschaften des Landes Schleswig-Holstein vom 19. 6. 2007 (GVBl S. 328) – Auszug
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Kim, Se Jin. "The Study of Public Administration in Korea: The Executive-Centered Approach to Public Administration and Its Legacy." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82842.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine if, and how, the executive-centered approach to public administration, which emphasized public administrators' unwavering loyalty to the president, intellectually shaped the founding and growth of Korean mainstream public administration in the 1962-1987 period. Specifically, this dissertation identifies the four normative tenets underlying the executive-centered approach and conducts comprehensive qualitative content analysis of mainstream scholars' journal articles and book chapters to investigate if, and how, such normative tenets framed the intellectual trajectory of Korean mainstream public administration in the 1962-1987 period.
The major findings of this dissertation indicate that: 1) Korean public administration was intellectually founded upon the four tenets of the executive-centered approach and such tenets became fully entrenched as unassailable normative beliefs in Korean mainstream public administration scholarship in the 1962-1987 period and 2) Korean mainstream public administration scholars' strong commitment to the executive-centered approach led them to uphold executive-centered governing order, in which the president exercised exclusive control of public administrators, and to champion the authoritarian developmental state, in which the authoritarian president pushed administrators into controlling civil society and market in line with his political and policy agenda, in the 1962-1987 period.
This dissertation also contends that in the post-1987 period, the advent of the new governing order of separation of powers created an intellectual dilemma for Korean public administration scholars because their blind adherence to the executive-centered approach, which stressed administrators' exclusive responsiveness to the president, came into essential tension with the new governing order of separation of powers, in which administrators were required to be simultaneously responsive to not only the president, but also the legislative and judicial branches.Ph. D.
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Dunbar, Nina L. "Public arts administration and the Public Art Fund inc. : a report." ScholarWorks@UNO, 1988. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/aa_rpts/72.
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The subject of this report concerns one organization that has been at the forefront of the contemporary public art movement. The Public Art Fund Inc., an eleven year-old, private nonprofit organization dedicated to the integration of art in urban settings, can be viewed as a case study in the challenges and problems of public art administration. Founded one decade after the newly created National Endowment for the Arts awarded its first grant for a public art project in 1967, the Public Art Fund has grown with the public art movement by adapting with innovation and dedication to its changing concerns. Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of the Public Art Fund offers insight into special nature of public art administration as well as into
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Al-Akayleh, Wa'el A. "Democratisation and public administration reform in Jordan." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493523.
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The aim of this study is to examine democratisation and public administration reform in Jordan after 1989. This study defines democratisation and presents its nature and limits in the Middle East in general and Jordan in particular. It presents major arguments with regard to despotism, the rentier state, modernisation and level of development and fragmented societies. We have argued that the democratisation process emerged in 1989 as a result of domestic catalysts and facilitators together with numerous external factors.
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Keeler, Rebecca L. "A Career of Research in Public Administration." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/652.
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Piccorelli, Justin Thomas. "The Aesthetic Experience and Artful Public Administration." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1408765860.
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Lo, Mouhamadou. "L' administration électronique et le droit public." Paris 1, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA010279.
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Internet connaît depuis quelques années une application croissante dans l'activité de l'administration, qu'elle soit centrale ou territoriale. L'administration électronique, source de simplification des démarches administratives, s'affirme chaque jour comme l'instrument privilégié d'une nouvelle stratégie de communication au service des usagers. Elle se traduit par un échange sous forme numérisée des formalités administratives entre les services publics et les citoyens. Le gouvernement veut en faire un outil majeur en vue d'améliorer le service rendu aux administrés avec la mise en ligne des formulaires, des données publiques et la création de nouvelles procédures électroniques. Toutefois, sa mise en oeuvre est un véritable laboratoire en tant que siège d'évènements ayant des conséquences juridiques importantes voire préoccupantes. En effet, l'Internet public se conjugue avec l'obligation de résoudre quelques défis juridiques qui tiennent à la définition de nouveaux moyens de sécurité (sécurité des systèmes informatiques, confidentialité des données, la cybercriminalité, etc. ) et à l'encadrement des procédures administratives numériques par rapport aux principes fondamentaux régissant le service public. Face à ces défis, le droit public est-il en mesure d'y faire face ? Les réponses à cette question constitueront les éléments essentiels de nos travaux.
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Miller, Mark D. "Rural public administration : the tasks of leadership /." Diss., This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09192008-063015/.
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Beauvais, Grégory. "Téléservice public et service public." Lille 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008LIL20011.
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L’administration française connaît, depuis quelques années, une accélération de l’utilisation des technologies de l’information et de la communication. Celles-ci ont pour but d’améliorer l’organisation interne et externe de l’administration et des services publics. Dans ce cadre, se mettent en place des prestations d’intérêt général d’un genre nouveau : les téléservices publics. Un téléservice public est une activité d’intérêt général, mise en œuvre directement ou indirectement par une personne publique, qui utilise les outils de télécommunication. Cette définition rappelle celle du service public qui désigne une activité d’intérêt général, assumée ou assurée par une personne publique. Le téléservice public constitue pourtant, du fait des règles qui lui sont applicables, une notion juridique émergente qui s’automatise par rapport à celle du service public. Les règles relatives aux téléservices publics comprennent des dispositions ad hoc, dont la valeur normative n’est pas toujours claire, et des concepts et catégories juridiques applicables aux services publics qui connaissent, par leur adaptation aux téléservices publics, une redéfinitionFrench administration experiences and acceleration of new technologies uses. Tpublic services and administration’s internal organisation so the relationships with users. Inside this frame, new general interest services are provided : public teleservices. A public teleservice is a general interest activity, directly or inderectly applied by a public entity, wich uses telecommunication tools. This definition recalls the public services’ one which points out a general interest activity, assumed or endorsed by a public entity. Public teleservice constitutes, due to applicable rules, an emergent legal notion which is acquirring his autonomy from the public service’ definition. Rules applicable to public teleservices contain ad hoc legal notions whose normative value is not always clear. Some concepts and legal categories applicable to public services which know, by their adaptation to public teleservices, a redefinition
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Reichard, Christoph. "Institutionelle Alternativen zu Public-Private-Partnerships : kommunale Eigenleistung, Public-Public-Partnerships und Contracting-Out." Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/1738/.
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A. Leitbild des Gewährleistungsstaates
B. Institutionelle Arrangements
I. Eigenleistung
II. Verselbstständigung
III. Kooperation
IV. Auslagerung
C. Bewertung der institutionellen Alternativen
D. Trends
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Ng, Siu-ling Giselle. "Accountability in public administration : the case of Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18539105.
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Bruk, Boris V. "Formation of New Ideologies of Administration in American and Russian Administrative Reform." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49610.
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This research project seeks to identify commonalities and differences between new administrative ideologies in the United States and post-Soviet Russia. To achieve this goal, the study explores the question of administrative ideology through the lens of the New Public Management (NPM) related reforms, which spread around much of the world in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The discussion is structured around two broad themes identified in the review of the literature on NPM and Reinventing Government: the new vision of the government (and its bureaucracy) and the relationship between government and the public. As a method of inquiry, the study uses the review and analysis of official publications and elite interviews with high-ranking officials, analysts, and scholars in the United States and Russia. The research demonstrates that although new ideologies of administration in the United States and Russia share significant characteristics, they differ in a number of important respects. � �Ph. D.
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Horton, Sylvia. "From public administration to public management : studies of change and innovation in the public services." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327003.
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Köhler, Thomas, Eric Schoop, and Nina Kahnwald. "Knowledge Communities in Business, Science and Public Administration." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2018. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-234282.
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The 20th Communities in New Media (GeNeMe) Conference presents innovative technologies and processes for the organization, cooperation, and communication in virtual communities. It is a forum for professional exchange especially in the fields of knowledge management and online learning. The conference focuses not only on technological and economic aspects of the use of new media, but takes a closer look at sociological, psychological, economic, didactic, and legal facets as well. GeNeMe is geared towards experts from research and industry. It is designed to promote practical and scholarly insights among participants from various disciplines, organizations, and institutions from academia, business and administration. [... from the introduction]
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Nicolay, John Alan. "Historic preservation : a study in local public administration /." This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05222007-091336/.
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Papaioannou, Georgios. "Essays on contemporary patronage, public administration, and reform." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22839/.
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Köhler, Thomas, Eric Schoop, and Nina Kahnwald. "Knowledge Communities in Business, Science and Public Administration." TUDpress, 2017. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A30878.
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The 20th Communities in New Media (GeNeMe) Conference presents innovative technologies and processes for the organization, cooperation, and communication in virtual communities. It is a forum for professional exchange especially in the fields of knowledge management and online learning. The conference focuses not only on technological and economic aspects of the use of new media, but takes a closer look at sociological, psychological, economic, didactic, and legal facets as well. GeNeMe is geared towards experts from research and industry. It is designed to promote practical and scholarly insights among participants from various disciplines, organizations, and institutions from academia, business and administration. [... from the introduction]
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Nicolay, John. "Historic preservation: a study in local public administration." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27843.
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Do citizen volunteers, sitting on legislatively created local historic architectural review boards, represent a part of the American governance tradition? This study examines the relationships between public board members, citizen interests, career public administrators and the elected appointing authorities. This research involved a national survey of over 1200 members of boards of historic architectural review. In addition, four town or county case studies are presented in detail. These case studies are Jonesborough, Tennessee; Lynchburg, Virginia; Cobb County, Georgia; and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. These case studies are examined through an ecological perspective.
Within the context of this study, boards of historic architectural review are very much a part of the urban/town/county governance model. They are highly professional in their composition, highly egalitarian, and deeply committed to furthering highly individualistic notions of community. Although some national community studies suggest a malaise in communitarian ideals, this research suggests just the contrary. The failure of citizenship falls more upon the legitimacy accorded to citizens as public administrators rather than an apathy toward manifesting that citizenship.
Historic preservation itself is in a national state of disarray. Its ethos is poorly defined, and the national wellspring for preservation impetus to the local community is strained. Most communities find themselves struggling to fit a nostalgic, sentimental vision of the preserved environment into a well articulated economic model.
This research suggests that local historic architectural review boards need to draw upon themselves to create better opportunities through self-study and formal certification programs. By enhancing their natural reserves of professionalism and commitment, they will advertise what they already do very well: administer in the public interest. By joining with like-minded community-based public boards this new coalition promises a energy and direction for municipal governments. The key is to foster an open environment of dialogue and debate centered on furthering good, responsive government.Ph. D.
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Ndiaye, Malick. "L'exemplarité comme management public : le Plan administration exemplaire." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019CNAM1277.
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Ancrée dans une attitude constructiviste, une fondation théorique du management public et des organisations publiques, cette thèse exploratoire en sciences de gestion mobilise les champs de la bureaucratie et de la post-bureaucratie afin de décrypter la politique publique française d’exemplarité en matière de développement durable et d’analyser ses effets sur l’organisation publique et le management public. La volonté d’observer les rhétoriques exemplaires et de comprendre ce qu’ils peuvent signifier pour une organisation publique amène à en questionner le contenu : « C’est quoi l’exemplarité pour une organisation publique - en réseau » : S’agit-il de bureaucratie wébérienne ? S’agit-il de nouvelle gestion publique ? S’agit-il d’une transformation organisationnelle qui tend vers une organisation publique émergente ? Nous constaterons qu’en réalité, l’exemplarité induit des organisations publiques qui ne s’inscrivent pas toujours dans un paradigme particulier. Elles existent sous la forme de systèmes « hybrides » dont les caractéristiques des différents paradigmesbureaucratiques, post-bureaucratiques se chevauchent et décrivent un mix entre des connaissances organisationnelles et une gouvernance éclatée qui n’est ni celle de la centralisation wébérienne, ni celle de la focalisation autour du « volontarisme managérial au centre de la logique du modèle d’organisation post-bureaucratique (De Rozario, Pesqueux, 2018)Anchored in a constructivist attitude, a theoretical foundation of public management and public organizations, this exploratory thesis in management sciences mobilizes the fields of bureaucracy and post-bureaucracy in order to decipher French public policy of exemplarity in sustainable development and to analyze its effects on public organization and public management. The desire to observe exemplary rhetoric and to understand what it can mean for a public organization leads us to question its content: "What is exemplarity for a public organization - networked": Is it a Weber bureaucracy? Is this new public management? Is it an organizational transformation that tends towards an emerging public organization? We will see that, in reality, exemplarity leads to public organizations that do not always fit into a particular paradigm. They exist in the form of "hybrid" systems whose characteristics of the different bureaucratic, post-bureaucratic paradigms overlap and describe a mix between organizational knowledge and fragmented governance that is neither that of Weberian centralization, nor that offocusing on "managerial voluntarism", at the centre of the logic of the post-bureaucratic organizational model" (De Rozario, Pesqueux, 2018)
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Overstreet, Penni Kaye. "Computer literacy in master of public administration classes." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/556.
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Eliogu-Anenih, Joy Onyinye. "Strategic Leadership in Public Sector Administration in Nigeria." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4618.
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Inefficiency in the public sector as a result of leadership ineptitude is said to have contributed significantly to the underdevelopment of Nigeria. This has led to the mismanagement of human and financial resources as well as contributed extensively to poor service delivery to the citizens. The research considered the critical role of public sector administration to the functionality of a society, noting that the major determinant for public sector success is leadership effectiveness. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to identify how leadership ineffectiveness could be addressed in public sector administration in Nigeria and consider the implications of adopting a different approach to improve effectiveness. The study was partly informed by the dearth of literature on leadership in public sector administration, especially within the Nigerian context. The study was underpinned by leadership theories particularly strategic leadership. Research questions focused on existing leadership approaches and how it hindered/enhanced effective service delivery. The study utilized a case study of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) and collected data through face-to-face interviews of 17 staff. Data was analyzed using content analysis and findings revealed the existence of pseudo leadership and blame avoidance behaviour which are detrimental to public sector efficiency. Recommendations are that strategic leadership, administrative accountability, patriotism and reframing be adopted to refine leadership attitude to work in TETFund and other public sector organizations. Application of findings will result in positive social change by providing adequate service delivery for the Nigerian populace thus improving their living standards and supporting economic growth.
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Jordan, Sara Rene. "The public interest in public administration: an investigation of the communicative foundations of the public interest standard." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5977.
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The public interest is the highest standard for bureaucratic action in American
government. While the importance of this standard ebbs and flows in the literature, the
eminence of it remains unquestioned as the North Star for the American ship of state.
As the highest standard in American politics and policy, this standard must be formed
democratically. In this dissertation, I examine the formation of the public interest
standard through the lens of citizen-bureaucratic communication, using the theory of
communicative action advanced by the contemporary German social and political
philosopher, Jürgen Habermas. I support the use of such a theoretical framework in
America by examining the importance of communication for the American pragmatist
philosopher, John Dewey. I examine the ramifications of communication in the
American democratic state as foundational for the formation and continued expression of
the public interest throughout the institution of the American executive branch.
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Bouzanis, Jason. "Quebec's public diplomacy: A study on the conceptual convergence of public diplomacy and public relations." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28121.
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The thesis expands Signitzer and Coombs' (1992) seminal study on the conceptual convergence of public diplomacy and public relations. Similar to international public relations, public diplomacy serves to transmit infolination, promote influence, create understanding and build relationships. However, a review of the existing academic literature reveals that the public diplomacy/public relations nexus has received insufficient attention from scholars. The purpose of the study is to determine whether there exists a strong enough similarity between the two domains to actively theorize public diplomacy from a communications (public relations) perspective.
The research systematically applies the Signitzer and Coombs comparative model to interpret evidence of conceptual convergence in five areas of Quebec's public diplomacy (academic and cultural relations, investment and tourism promotion, and sports diplomacy). It is demonstrated that public diplomacy and public relations are both premised on the concept of symmetry, but also share asymmetrical tendencies. The findings suggest that the two disciplines are experiencing a process of convergence and support the value of exploring public diplomacy with public relations-based theories and models. However, public diplomacy practitioners are generally unwilling to recognize the relationship between public diplomacy and public relations. The development of shared concepts is therefore encouraged to overcome these perceptual gaps. Future research centred on common functions, such as reputation management and relationship building, is proposed and the thesis concludes that interdisciplinary cooperation is necessary to advance the public diplomacy scholarship.
Keywords. public diplomacy, public relations, Quebec international relations, international communications, nation branding, cultural relations, academic relations, investment promotion, tourism promotion, sports diplomacy, conceptual convergence.
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Wood, Judith, and n/a. "The emergence of 'information management' in Australian public administration." University of Canberra. Administrative Studies, 1995. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061110.165502.
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Lefébure, Alessia. "Transformer la culture administrative par les marges : l’introduction en Chine du Master in Public Administration (MPA)." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016IEPP0011/document.
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Au sortir de l'époque maoïste, le Parti communiste chinois a cherché à s’appuyer sur une bureaucratie plus compétente pour réussir le développement économique dans un contexte de stabilité politique. Les réformes ont concerné le recrutement, la gestion et l'organisation d’encadrement des fonctionnaires, mais aussi leur formation, dans l’objectif de renforcer leurs compétences. L'introduction en 1999 du Master in Public Administration (MPA) en milieu universitaire valorise la scientificité du savoir administratif, sans abandonner les dispositifs et les critères de sélection préexistants. À la lumière d’une mise en perspective historique, de l’analyse de la circulation transnationale de modèle éducatif et de l’étude de la modernisation de la bureaucratie, le MPA se révèle être l’instrument d’une double transformation, celle de l’enseignement supérieur et celle de l’administration chinoise contemporaine. Le MPA accompagne et rend possible la modernisation du pays, en permettant à l’enseignement supérieur d’introduire de nouvelles pratiques, à l'État-Parti de réformer l’administration sans rupture et aux agents du secteur public d’acquérir des ressources valorisables, quel que soit le scénario de transformationChanging nothing to change everything: innovation and continuity in the reforms of Chinese administrative training — At the end of the Maoist era, the Communist Party of China (CPC) attempted to create a more highly‑skilled bureaucracy to achieve economic development in a stable political context. Reforms concerned not just recruitment, management and civil service organization, but also the training of officials in order to improve their skills. The introduction of the Master of Public Administration (MPA) in 1999 enhanced the scientific character of administrative knowledge while pre‑existing selective mechanisms were retained. The MPA supports the country’s modernization by enabling the State‑Party to undertake continuous reform of public administration. It allows as well the emergence of a new ethos and a community of vision among the new generation of civil servants, whose competences are adjustable to several possible political scenarios
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Jegou-Vincensini, Jean-Christophe. "La politique de formation professionnelle dans les pays méditerranéens : d'un service public hésitant à un service public décentralisé." Nice, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997NICE0052.
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La mise en oeuvre d'un service public de la formation cohérent implique de la part des différents acteurs publics et privés méditerranéens de revolutionner leur approche de la formation qui s'est averée jusqu'a présent peu pertinente. Ainsi, le facteur humain constituant une ressource précieuse et stratégique qui doit etre developpée tant qualitativement que quantitativement, il est essentiel de repondre aux profonds changements d'une société qui a besoin de bases nouvelles par l'instauration d'objectifs institutionnels et d'accords nouveaux entre les différentes parties prenantes à la formation afin de determiner de facon rationnelle les orientations qui doivent être données aux différents dispositifs. La conduite d'une action à long terme portée par un accord collectif apparait par conséquent indispensable. Par ailleurs, il est evident qu'en matière de formation professionnelle seul un modèle décentralisé est à même de resoudre les problèmes qu'ont connus les pays méditerranéens car il permet d'atteindre le meilleur niveau de rentabilité, de rendement et de pertinence dans l'action qui s'avèrent indispensables à l'instauration d'une société plus juste. En effet, la mise en place d'un service public décentralisé devrait permettre de trouver à leurs problèmes de formation des solutions qui leurs soient propres et non de recourir à des panacées non applicables à toutes les situations. L'approche territorialisée permet donc une approche intégrée des dispositifs d'action particulièrement appréciable étant donné que leur organisation sur un espace défini précisément identifié est susceptible de favoriser l'obtention des résultats escomptés.
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Jansson, Patrik, and Victor Holmlund. "Första linjens chefer, administration och New Public Management : En studie av New Public Managements inverkan på första linjens chefers administrativa arbete i vården." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-19940.
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Title: First line management, administration and New Public Management Level: Final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, 15hp. Author: Patrik Jansson & Victor Holmlund Supervisor: Pär Vilhelmson, Kristina Mickelsson & Elena Ahmadi Date: 2015 - May Aim: The purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of how first line management in public organizations is effected by New Public Management related reforms and how they handle related administrative tasks. Method: The study is based on a deductive and qualitative methodology. We conducted 10 semi-structured interviews with first line managers in Swedish public healthcare organizations. A result is reached by a thematically constructed analysis were citations are presented and analyzed. Result & Conclusions: The study shows through the model that has been used that first line managers are highly affected by administrative tasks that can be linked to New Public Management. The participant managers see these related tasks as important for the organizations and natural in their profession. Contribution of the thesis: The study contributes with an increased understanding of the managing of first line managers and how it is affected by New Public Management related administration through a perspective that is lacking in previous research. The new perspective gives a nuanced view of the manager’s role as administrators and gives rise to suggestions of future research. Key words: New Public Management, Administration, First Line Managers, Healthcare.Titel: Första linjens chefer, administration och New Public Management Nivå: C-uppsats, företagsekonomi, 15hp. Författare: Patrik Jansson & Victor Holmlund Handledare: Pär Vilhelmson, Kristina Mickelsson & Elena Ahmadi Datum: 2015 - maj Syfte: Syftet med studien är att skapa ökad förståelse för hur första linjens chefer i offentlig sektor påverkas av införandet av NPM relaterade reformer och hur de hanterar administrativa uppgifter. Metod: Studien bygger på en kvalitativmetod där empiriskt material har insamlats via 10 semi-strukturerade intervjuer. För att skapa ett resultat har vi använt oss av en tematisk analysmetod där transkriberade citat presenteras, analyseras och diskuteras. Resultat & slutsats: Studien visar via den modell som använts att första linjens chefer inom offentlig sektor påverkas i hög grad av administrativa arbetsuppgifter som kan återknytas till New Public Management. Studien visar att de medverkande cheferna överlag ser dessa administrativa uppgifter som viktiga för organisationen och självklara i deras yrkesroll. Uppsatsens bidrag: Studien bidrar med en ökad förståelse för första linjens chefskap i offentlig sektor samt hur cheferna påverkas av New Public Management relaterad administration ur ett perspektiv som saknas i tidigare forskning. Det nya perspektivet ger en nyanserad bild av chefernas roll som administratörer och ger upphov till förslag om framtida forskning. Nyckelord: New Public Management, Administration, Första Linjens Chefer, Sjukvård
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Li, Hung-Hui. "High performance teams in public organizations : a case study of Ohio's "Team Excellence in The Public Sector" /." Connect to resource, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1263402604.
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Nicinski, Sophie. "L'usager du service public industriel et commercial." Paris 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA010252.
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L'idée qui illustre le mieux l'usager du service public industriel et commercial est celle d'ambivalence. Son histoire reflète un conflit entre intérêt général et intérêts particuliers. Sa notion s'appréhende à l'aide de critères objectifs et subjectifs. Son statut est un compromis entre le droit conventionnel et le droit statutaire. Son régime se situe à l'intersection du droit public et du droit privé : c'est un régime autonome ayant ses propres principes de fonctionnement.
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Bauer, Brenda Anne. "Sacred ideals, the interpretation of Canadian public administration reforms." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq24089.pdf.
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Ng, Siu-ling Giselle, and 吳小玲. "Accountability in public administration: the case of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31214514.
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Chung, Lung-shan Peter, and 鍾龍山. "Public administration translation in Hong Kong: a sociolinguistic perspective." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47849678.
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Translation studies in Hong Kong have been focusing mainly on the
literary aspect of the discipline. Although huge amounts of bilingual
texts are churned out every year from virtually every government and
quasi-government department and other institution, these products of
translation, as well as the work processes involved, do not receive due
attention of the academia for research purposes. Studies on translation of
this type and nature may have largely been ignored.
To promote academic studies in this field, this thesis attempts to establish
Public Administration Translation as a genre which bears distinctive
features and a production process of its own, although the linguistic
features of this genre do not form part of the present study and are left for
future exploration. To achieve this goal, a general history of Public
Administration Translation in Hong Kong with regard to various grades of
Public Administration Translation service providers has been compiled to
track the development of these grades, as well as the relations among them.
With a view to putting Hong Kong’s Public Administration Translation in a
sociolinguistic perspective, a sociolinguistic framework regarding societal
multilingualism types with reference to territorial monolingualism,
bilingualism and trilingualism, as well as diglossia and triglossia, is
proposed for discussing Hong Kong’s Public Administration Translation
and its service providers. After detailed analysis and discussion, it is
suggested that Hong Kong’s sociolinguistic situation has always been
evolving in response to its political and demographic development, and the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region seems to be moving towards a
society of biliteracy (i.e. Standard Written Chinese and written English)
and trilingualism (i.e. Cantonese, spoken English and Putonghua) while
Hong Kong’s Public Administration Translation keeps reacting accordingly
to the changes in the sociolinguistic situation of the community.published_or_final_version
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Nagashima, Takeshi. "Arthur Newsholme and English public health administration 1888-1919." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366211.
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England came to have a nation-wide administrative system for public health in the 1870s. It consisted of the local councils which were designated as sanitary authorities and the Local Government Board (LGB) as the central department. This thesis explores how public health reform was pursued under this administrative system, by tracing the career of Arthur Newsholme (1857-1943), who served as Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for Brighton, 1888-1908, and as Medical Officer to the LGB, 1908-19. The main aim of the thesis is to examine the activities in which Newsholme was involved and his views, in order to consider the development of public health activities, or state medicine, in relation to the traditional notions of government and society in England, that underlay the administrative system such as 'minimal government', , local self-government' or 'voluntarism'. The first half of the thesis deals with public health reform in Brighton during Newsholme's years of office as local MOH. Particular attention is paid to how the scope of public health administration was decided through interactions between the MOH and the local council as a representative body of the community, and to how voluntary efforts were involved in its extension. The second half deals with Newsholme's administrative ideas and activities in the process of, and after, becoming the country's leading health official. By the time of his assumption of office at the LGB, Newsholme envisaged a comprehensive state medical service as the ultimate medical ideal. The thesis examines how he tried to pursue this ideal by means of reconciling it with traditional ideas of government. Special attention is paid to Newsholme's difference from his fellow reformers such as the Webbs and George Newman, particularly in respect of their recognition of the framework of centralllocal relations that underlay the administrative system, and concerning how reforms should or could be proceeded with by means of central bureaucratic initiatives.
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Nikolova, Pavlina Stoyanova. "Europeanisation : public administration and sub-national governance in Bulgaria." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436418.
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McCann, Lluana. "American Public Administration: A Foundation for Praxis and Praxiology." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26031.
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American Public Administration (PA) theory and practices have lacked adequately articulated or formalized normative foundations since the formal founding of the American State. Discussions regarding how PA theory derives from individual and collective critical reflection on practices (praxiology) and how that knowledge can inform future actions (praxis) virtually have been absent in all organizations. The recognition of the political legitimacy of PA has been lacking. The placing of a viable and critical social theory that posits conscious, responsible, and committed human practices within the context of the administration of the American Constitutional State, a politically narrow context, has been lacking as well. This dissertation establishes the works of social theorists Orion White, Jr., Michael Harmon, Robert Denhardt and Bayard Catron as the foundation for understanding how individuals do and can contribute to the collective administration of the complex state, including how they operate daily in organizations they join, critique and are capable of changing. These scholars understand the dynamics of human being and present discussions of human actions and practices that are capable of tackling the challenges associated with administering the American State. The work of John Rohr has established the other missing linksâ the constitutional legitimacy of PA and the clarification of constitutional values to which American administrative actions and knowledge must adhere. This dissertation asserts that it is the placing of human theory and action within the distinctly American theory and practices of the State that constitutes the solid normative foundations for American PA Praxis and Praxiology that constitutes a viable and formal founding of American Public Administration in word and deed.Ph. D.
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Cavalcanti, Bianor Scelza. "The "Equalizer" Administration: Managerial Strategies in the Public Sector." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26644.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the managerial â actionâ of public administrators in the management of their organizations within the brazilian context.
It seeks to understand the relationships between managers and formal management mechanisms by exploring the complementary nature of the effective managerial action in the face of structural deficiencies and flaws, considering the possibility of overcoming the structuralism-subjectivism dichotomy present in the construction of the Theory of Organizations.
Initially, the study provides a review of the literature on organizational design. It highlights the â goodness of fitâ proposition on strategic choice issues concerning the main organizational variables design and organizational goal attainment. It also calls special attention to the emerging interest of designing theorists on interpretivist aproachs to the matter, such that of Karl Weick.
A review of the the administrative reforms in Brazil is made from the perspective of the main stream organizational design conceptual framework. It highlights the complex dynamics of a constant search for differenciation and flexibilization subject to patherns of advances and reversals, due to the centrality, streng and pervasiveness of the bureaucratic model. It is concluded that in no single given moment, a public manager and his team, may count on a formal organizational design wich attends the â congruencyâ criteria, devised by organizational design conceptual frameworks, to explain organizational results in different environmental sets. Although this conclusion may explain failure at the public sector, it can not provide understanding on the many instances of significative success attained by government operations in spite of inadequate formal administrative structures. This point calls for a better understanding from the interpretivist aproach, on how public administrators, strongly associated with good organizational results, engage into transformative action, in order to superate administrative structures flaws and disfuncional cultural patherns of conduct, structurally present and constantly reproduced, in vigorous develloping countries, such as Brazil.
The dissertation transcribes the testimony of four outstanding public administrators, doing a deep incursion in the managerial real world of public administration, as subjectivelly defined by them and transformed by their engagement into action.Through the thematic version of the Oral History methodology, full segments of the complete enterviews are
cathegorized into the thirty two managerial strategies captured wich are presented on a recathegorized manner under eight main strategies: (1) Interchanging Frames of Reference; (2) Exploring the Formal Limits; (3) Playing the Bureaucracy Game; (4) Inducing the Inclusion of Others (5)Promoting Internal Cohesion; (6) Creating Shields against Transgressions; (7) Overcoming Internal Restrictions; (8) Letting the Structures Blossom. Each one of these eight blocks of strategies presented, deserves further reflexive interpretation by the author, on the light of the interpretivist aproach to organizational design.
A final effort is made, now on theory building, for improuving understanding on the matter. In order to find a significant meaning underlining all the strategies extracted from the â practical constiounessâ of the enterviweers as revealed in their report, the author resort to a methafor. This methafor helps to: (1) better describe and understand a not adequately treated phenomenon, namely, good results under inadequate structural social and organizational conditions; (2) reveal the logic and the meaning underlining all the strategies adopted to generate results under these unfaithfull conditions; (3) name, accordingly to the nature of the managerial transformative social action envolved, an open ended class of managerial interventions of a pragmatic sort driven by an ethics of results much common to good managers, that is, the concept of â managerial equalizationâ ; and (4) give back to public administrators, represented by the enterviwees, to be incorporated in their â discursive counciousnessâ , something the most effective and experienced public managers already have as tacit knowledge built in their â practical counsciousnessâ , and so, help the education and development of new talents.Ph. D.
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Trenkamp, Lesley M. "The Identification of Ethiocal Frameworks Using Public Administration Students." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1258386482.
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Snider, Keith F. "Pragmatism and the intellectual development of American public administration." Diss., This resource online, 1997. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10052007-143410/.
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Daoudi, Mouloud. "Gestion et financement de l'hôpital public au Maroc : étude de droit public." Montpellier 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994MON10020.
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Le but de cette these est d'etudier la gestion et le financement de l'hopital public au maroc afin d'en cerner les dimensions critiques et d'en esquisser quelques elements de reforme. Elle s'articule autour de deux grands axes precedes par des elements introductifs. Le premier axe essaye d'exposer les principales insuffisances des structures publiques hospitalieres au maroc. L'accent est notamment mis sur l'inadequation du cadre de leur gestion financiere aux exigences de la rationalite et sur l'insuffisance de leurs ressources financieres. Le second axe de la recherche degage les reformes susceptibles d'ameliorer la la gestion et le financement des hopitaux publics au maroc. Tandis que les elements introductifs retracent l'historique, les missions, les modes de gestion et les carences actuelles du service public hospitalier marocainThis thesis tends to analyse management and financing of public hospital in morocco in order to point out crucial dimensions as well as to initiale some elements for improvement. The study consists of two parts starting with an introductive presentation including history, missions, management approach and current deficiency of moroccan public hospital services. The first part deals primarly with structure deficiency of public hospital in morocco. It emphasizes the gap between rational requirements and financing managements as well as shortage of financial resources. The second part proposes some reforms that may improve management and financing of the public hospital in morocco
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Sánchez, Povis Lucio Andrés. "The Liability of the Public Administration in the Peruvian Administrative Law: Approaches to an Institution Pending Reform." Derecho & Sociedad, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118009.
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The author studies the protection that the liability of public administration regime offers against Public Administration’s actions in Peruvian Administrative Law. In this context, he notes the shortcomings of such regime and proposes Peruvian legislation must change in order to overcome this weakness. Finally, the author notes that it is necessary to change this regime in order to guarantee effective economic protection against illegal decisions of the Regulatory State.El autor estudia el régimen de responsabilidad patrimonial de la Administración pública en el ordenamiento peruano, partiendo de las relaciones que guarda éste con el régimen de expropiación forzosa y las garantías que ofrece para hacer frente a los daños derivados de la actuación administrativa. En este contexto, el autor advierte las deficiencias adjetivas que este régimen padece en sede judicial y propone su reforma para lograr un régimen eficaz de responsabilidad patrimonial en un contexto de cada vez mayor intervención pública sobre los particulares.
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Burtch, Patrick H. "The Effect of Leadership Flexibility and Effectiveness on City Manager Tenure." ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/918.
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Tenure can affect administrative continuity and proper governance in cities that employ the council-manager form of government, as most public policy proposals originate with the city manager. Literature regarding low tenure in medium and large communities is relatively well explored; however, little is known about the relationship between length of service and leadership style among small municipalities. Using Hersey and Blanchard's theory of situational leadership as a theoretical framework and the Leadership Behavioral Analysis IIRTM Self (LBAIIRTM Self) as an instrument, this study looked at managers' leadership flexibility and effectiveness and whether selection of an appropriate leadership approach impacts length of service in the city manager role. An additional questionnaire was used to determine gender, educational level, the racial homogeneity of the community served, and tenure. A random sample of 350 city managers of small municipalities were surveyed by mail and 25 percent of the surveys were returned (n = 90). Data were analyzed using Pearson product moment correlations and t-tests. Findings indicate that there are no statistically significant relationships between any of these variables, including tenure, and a manager's leadership flexibility and effectiveness, suggesting that leadership ability and tenure are not related. These findings are not consistent with the academic literature regarding public leadership. This study contributes to social change by providing city managers and other municipal leaders with more nuanced information about tenure and leadership and can be used by city managers and city councils in making policy decisions, including decisions about appointment to the city manager position.
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Brantley, William A. "The effect of mental models on creating organizational alignment around a change vision." ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/693.
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The communication of an organizational change vision is a key to the success of organizational transformation. Theorists have prescribed models of how to make change vision communication successful but these models have no empirical data to support them. The purpose of this study was to explore the efficacy of change agents in communicating a change vision that compels employees to accept a perception of reality (mental model) that aligned with the change agents' vision. A case study of the merger of two metropolitan agencies was conducted to examine the relationship between the communication of a change vision and its effect on organizational change. The primary change agent and several organizational members affected by the transformation were interviewed. Primary and secondary organizational documents concerning the merger were collected. Mental models from organizational members were compared for similarity to the change agent's vision. Written and oral materials communicating the change vision were analyzed using Automap text analysis software as a measure of effectiveness and to determine which type of communication was most effective. Findings suggest that the change agent's vision was poorly defined and communicated yet the transformation succeeded because organizational members created their own compensating change vision. Social change implications of this study may include challenging unproductive methods of organizational change that have wasted resources and led to organizational misalignment. A better understanding of the communication of change visions will lead to cost savings and more effective and efficient change efforts that benefit managers, employees and the customers of public agency services.