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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"1605 Policy and Administration"”.
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Digital democracy in Malaysia : towards enhancing citizen participation
… democracy in enhancing citizen participation in policy making within the Malaysian civil service. A qualitative research method is applied through an empirical, in-depth interview based, data collection exercise of a sample of civil servants and commentators on government and technology in …
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Saudisation in the hospitality industry : management issues and opportunities
… experienced its initial cohort of school leavers and graduates arriving into the private sector labour market. Until then, the country’s few educational resources meant that educated Saudis were absorbed into the public sector to establish administrative systems in nation building. By the turn of …
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The Australian-American alliance: Holt, LBJ and the Vietnam War
… an American military presence on the Asian mainland. This thesis examines the Australian-American alliance during the prime ministership of Harold Holt in relation to Australia’s role in Vietnam, and growing concerns over Britain’s planned withdrawal from Southeast Asia.
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Successful service delivery of mass sports programs in Malaysia
… using an organisational effectiveness framework and Appreciative Inquiry approach. The main aim of this research was to determine the factors needed for successful service delivery of Mass Sports programs and to promote public participation in sports and physical activities. The context was the …
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People’s participation for good governance: a study of rural development programs in Bangladesh
International development agencies and developed countries are demanding participatory good governance in local government bodies in developing countries to maximise outcomes from development plan implementations. To comply with this demand, the Government of Bangladesh introduced decentralisation, …
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Exchange rate determination in Indonesia
… examines the options for adopting normative and prescriptive models of exchange rate determination suitable for developed and developing countries. It also develops a new modeling approach for the determination of the exchange rate, which is suitable especially for developing countries, with …
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The applicability of new public management to developing countries: a case from Nepal
… practiced by some of the developed countries and determine their applicability to Nepal. New Public Management (NPM) was defined as cost cutting and downsizing, introducing agencies, separation of purchaser and provider, decentralization of management authority, performance management, …
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Effective family partnerships in early childhood education and care: an investigation of the nature of interactions between educators and parents
Early childhood education and care in Australia is recognised as playing an important role in determining the long term educational benefits and outcomes for children across their life span. A key determinant of a quality early childhood program is the quality of relationships that educators …
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Disenfranchised workers : a view from within the public service
… phenomenology, feminist post-structuralism and narrative theories to make sense of the stories of people working within organisations that have failed, traumatised, belittled, ignored, bullied and destroyed them. The study looks at the experiences of twenty disenfranchised workers who …
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Vocational secondary education during the introduction of regional autonomy in Indonesia
… central government responsibilities directly, and without adequate preparation, to the lowest level of government in districts and cities, bypassing the provincial governments, the second level of the government hierarchy.
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Privatising infrastructure in a developing economy: lessons from stakeholder perceptions in a case study of Thailand's airport
Thailand is undertaking sweeping reforms of its infrastructure sector. In September 1998, the Thai government unveiled its privatisation "Master Plan", written with the assistance of the World Bank, which established its plan for the privatisation of 59 state-owned enterprises (SOEs). These …
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Audit committee effectiveness in Victorian local government
… principles to avoid conflict of interest and conformance to ethical principles. This thesis addresses the issue of possible corruption and misconduct in local government, with particular reference to the role of the audit committee. The primary research question is: ‘Do audit committees in …
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The impact of government funding reforms on the strategic planning of Malaysian public universities
… relationships between the principal (government) and the agents (public universities), and to predict the effects a change in government funding would have on teaching and research performance in institutions of higher education. In the context of Malaysia as a developing country, this theory has …
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The limitations of law pertaining to incest cases: observations of the confines inherent in the current criminal jurisdiction of the County Court of Victoria, which may limit justice for the victims of incest, and the resultant equivocal footing of social policy in this area
… the patriarchal family is somehow sacrosanct, and the debate over the public/private dichotomy relating to child protection, adjoin to further obscure this iniquity. In addition to this, the perpetrators of incest frequently deny, minimise or rationalise their crime, hence making the legal …
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A community-based approach to tourism in Indonesia
… in Indonesia have pursued tourism growth and development with insufficient regard to its impact on local communities and the environment. This study explores a community-based approach to tourism development in Indonesia. In particular, it examines the extent and nature of local community …
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Contractual Coloniality: Strategic State Intervention in Aboriginal Governance
… techniques employed in human services, and the bearing these have on Aboriginal wellbeing. Following Michel Foucault's 'governmentality' approach, tools of discourse analysis and genealogy are used to address these questions and to investigate the limits and possibilities of such an …
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Strategy formulation in community organisations
… organisations. The alignment of strategy and mission is of central concern. Without this alignment, government funded growth threatens to turn community organisations into agents of the state. This development would mean the loss of the mediating function they currently serve. Community …
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Using the technology acceptance model to investigate knowledge conversion in Thai public organisations
… concerned with the development of sharing and the conversion of knowledge, and none of the Thai public sector. Most Thai research studies are concerned with the development of knowledge management practices and how to use created knowledge in organisations. This study used the relationship …
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An analysis of output based budgetting (OBB) in the Victorian government
… in two ways using the decision-usefulness model and the budget process model as theoretical frameworks. First, this study aimed to examine the usefulness of information generated by OBB in the Victorian budget papers from the users perspective. Second, this study aimed to investigate the …
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Financial liberalisation and the crisis in Thailand in 1997
… two decades have been a critical period for Thailand's development. From the mid 1980s to the beginning of the 1990s, the Thai economy performed remarkably well and was a showcase for the world economy. Having achieved a double-digit growth rate for a brief period, Thailand in the late 1980s was …
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