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Patterns of Growth and Their Correlates in Selected Federal Agencies
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The Glass Ceiling: An Analysis of Women Working for Federal Agencies
… the percentage of women and men working in the federal government agencies. This research also looks into public policies that are designed to improve bureaucratic representation of women in the United States. The paper begins with an explanation of the glass ceiling concept and key findings of …
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Strategic human capital management and public sector performance : an investigation of federal agencies
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.]
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Senior executive service candidate development programs: a descriptive analysis of five federal agencies
In 1994, the Federal Government is projected to face a critical personnel problem that a large number of Senior Executive Service members will be eligible for retirement. The Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program (SESCDP) is a major program designed to train potential candidates …
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A Framework for Adoption of Challenges and Prizes in US Federal Agencies: A Study of Early Adopters
… signaled an unprecedented commitment by the US Federal Government to stimulating more innovation and creativity in problem solving. The policy and legislation empowered agencies to open up their problem solving space beyond their regular pool of contractors in finding solutions to the nation's …
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An Examination of the Privacy Impact Assessment as a Vehicle for Privacy Policy Implementation in U.S. Federal Agencies
… captured in the records held by government agencies. However, the scope of privacy protection has expanded in light of advances in technology, heightened security, ubiquitous threats, and the value of information. This environment has raised the expectations for public sector management of …
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A Comparative Analysis of Federal Agencies' Integration of Equity and Diversity Practices Addressing Minority Representation in Senior Executive Service
… they integrate equity and diversity programs in federal agencies. When federal agencies address the issue of minority representation in Senior Executive Service (SES), the degree to which leaders institutionalize diversity and equity programs varies. Leaders at different levels have their own …
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Gender Pay Gap in Public Organizations: An Analysis of Trends in Pay Gaps Between Men and Women in Federal Agencies
… pay disparities between men and women in the federal government and explore the progression over time in an effort to see whether there have been significant changes.</p> <p>This analysis is an exploration of trends in pay gaps between men and women in the federal government. The data used in …
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A Study of Strategic Planning in Federal Organizations
This dissertation explores strategic planning in federal agencies. The research seeks to uncover difficulties federal agencies experience when making strategic plans, to explore the relationship between these difficulties and the degree of publicness of the agencies, and to uncover and describe …
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Federal Government Recruiting: a Comparative Study of the Public and Private Sectors
Federal government agencies are currently experiencing recruiting difficulties and the future may be even more problematic. Because human resource recruiting is vital to organizations, this thesis examines federal government agencies, under the direction of the Office of Personnel Management, as …
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An investigation into the methods, models, and approaches employed to transfer federal laboratory technologies with a special focus on public education applications
"""Technology Transfer"" is well referenced in federal law and regulation. In federal laws promulgated in 1993, Congress made 67 separate references to ""technology transfer."" There are literally hundreds of agency references to ""technology transfer"" within federal agencies. Handsome sums, …
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Managing information technology in the federal government: new policies for an information age
The federal government relies extensively on information technology to perform its basic missions. This study is a formative program evaluation of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) primary policy for overseeing federal agency management of information technology. The goal of the research …
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An investigation of a collaborative meeting room supporting small group planning and decision-making
… of planning in local communities, State or Federal agencies, or corporate environments requires planners to work together in group meetings. Prior research has shown the technology known as ""Groupware"" to be a plausible tool for facilitating collaborative behavior in groups. This study …
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Improving the efficiency of research and development using belief networks
… and development projects across its various federal agencies. There is a considerable, long-standing need to monitor, justify, and improve this allocation of taxpayer monies. However, oversight and prioritization of research funding has been haphazard, largely because the agencies that …
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Electronic records & The Law: Causing the Federal Records Program to Implode?
… that govern the day-to-day-management of agencies are founded in law and the federal records management program is no exception. This dissertation explores whether the existing legal framework accommodates the changes occurring in the federal records management program as a result of …
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Evaluating Clinger-Cohen Act Compliance in Federal Agency Chief Information Officer Positions
… develops a method for evaluating whether federal agencies have complied with the intent of the Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) of 1996 as they established Chief Information Officer (CIO) positions. The research is important because the CIO position, as envisioned by the CCA, oversees a growing …
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An Interagency Approach to Reforming the Administration of Federal Grant-In-Aid Programs: A Case Study of the Indian Task Force of the Western Federal Regional Council
… more obvious than in the administration of the federal grant-in-aid programs which developed during the 1960's. Effective administration of these programs has been hampered at the intergovernmental level by the tremendous explosion in the number of grant-in-aid programs, the increasing reliance …
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A Machine Learning Approach to Recognize Environmental Features Associated with Social Factors
… Justice Screening Tool (CE JST), which assists federal agencies in identifying disadvantaged census tracts, by extracting five environmental features from Google Street View (GSV) images. The five environmental features are garbage bags, greenery, and three distinct road damage types …
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Employee Engagement and Burnout: A Quantitative Study of their Correlations with Job/Organizational Satisfaction
… been en vogue in practitioner literature. The federal government as well now measures its agencies annually on how well they implement conditions conducive to engagement. Federal agencies are also ranked annually as “Best Places to Work” based on their aggregated score on three survey items …
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Daily relationship interventions : an integrative review
… instability. Due to these costs, state and federal agencies have invested millions in relationship and marriage education programs (RME) in the hopes of mitigating the negative, and promoting the positive effects associated with healthy relationships. However, a recent review has questioned …
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