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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Public Organizations"”.
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Implementing sustainability in large public organizations: impacts of bureaucracy
… voluntary; behavior change will come from within organizations, not imposed from outside. The concept of sustainability fits in this new phase of environmental planning and policy. In order for organizations to be successful in achieving sustainability goals, they must create an organizational …
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Trimming public organizations : impacts on quality of working life
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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Distributed Information Processing Systems in Public Organizations: A Case Study
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Designing Public Organizations and Institutions: Essays on Coordination and Incentives
… chapters that address issues of how organizations and institutions should be designed in order to provide adequate incentives and enable coordination. The first essay uses a multi-task principal-agent model to examine two reasons why coordination problems are common when public sector …
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Internal dispute resolution: the legal environment of complex public organizations
… exploration of the legal environment of organizations by examining the dynamics of legalization in the Commonwealth of Virginia Grievance Program. It extends legalization research to the public administration and policy field by exploring and describing how the legal environment of …
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Using Gentile's Reframing Diversity Model In Public Organizations: FDIC As An Illustration
… model provides for the development of a public sector diversity program. The Reframing Diversity model does not suggest that diversity programs conform to a "one-size-fits all" design. The dissertation applied the lenses (motivation, mindset, method, and measure) of Gentile's Reframing …
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Exploring the implicate order in public organizations: the complementarity of Bowen theory and chaos theory
… viewpoint from physics, is being adopted by some public organization theorists as a new standpoint for understanding and managing organizations besieged by instability and turbulence. A basic tenet of chaos theory, known as mutual causality, denies that an entity behaves or evolves in isolation. …
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An Absence of Being: A Jungian-Based Model for Understanding Situational Management In Public Organizations
… in the most "rational" moments of our lives in public administration. They further describe how it is that the individual in the manager-leader role is implicated in and caused by the very situations they are attempting to manage and the way in which acknowledging and relating to the unconscious …
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Influence of Motivation on employees retention in Public Organizations ; A case study of Tanzania Ports Authority
… influence of Motivation on employee retention in public organization. Tanzania Port Authority (TPA) was used as a case. The research methodology employed by this dissertation included both primary and secondary data. Structured questionnaires and interview were exploited to collect Data. Data …
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A Test of Abelson and Baysinger's (1984) Optimal Turnover Hypothesis in the Context of Public Organizations using Computational Simulation
… U-shape) when studied in the context of a public organization. The modeling approach is based on developing and integrating causal relationships derived from logic and the theory found in the literature. The computational approach used parallels that of Scullen, Bergey, and Aiman-Smith …
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Assessing Impact of Job Description on Employee’s Performance in Public Organizations: A Case Study of the Zanzibar Electricity Corporation (ZECO)
… previous researchers found that in many organizations employees complain for having ineffective or non-existence job descriptions. The existence of the problem warrants researcher to undertake this study and assessing impact of job description in ZECO, in relation to increasing …
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Gender Pay Gap in Public Organizations: An Analysis of Trends in Pay Gaps Between Men and Women in Federal Agencies
… issue in the American workforce and particularly public administration as early as the 1800s, but has continued through the 1940s, 1950s and up to 2012. There are many different forms of pay gap or other names for the same issue, such as; the glass ceiling, sex discrimination, and comparable …
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An investigative study on the relationship between organizational factors and knowledge management effectiveness in UAE public organizations: the case study of Abu Dhabi
… Management Effectiveness (KME) in Abu Dhabi public organizations. The literature indicates that these factors are widely used to explore KME in construction organizations, but little analysis has been undertaken for UAE public construction companies. The government of Abu Dhabi regulates …
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Factors Influencing Employees’ Job Satisfaction In Public Organizations In Tanzania: A Case of Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) Limited in Dar es Salaam
… the factors that influence job satisfaction in public organizations in Tanzania, using Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) Limited as a case study. The objective of the study is to determine the factors which influence employees‘ job satisfaction at work places. Data were collected using …
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Ambiguity in Public Organizations - Is it always Negative and Difficult to Manage or does Theory Assume Too Much?: A Case Study Review of Customs and Border Protection's Container Security Initiative
… a conceptual framework to understand how public managers strategically engage ambiguity and translate the complexity associated with ambiguity to manageable objectives to control complex work within federal programs. A central assumption for this study is that ambiguity is an …
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The Effect of Motivation on the Performance of Public and Private Organizations in Tanzani: a Comparative Analysis of Tanzania Posts Corporation, FEDEX, SCANDINAVIA and DHL
… the effects of motivation on performance in public organization in Tanzania, concluding the necessary improvement, to advice on implementation of the changes based on the study and literature of the public organizations. The study focused on Tanzania Post Corporation to represent other public …
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Financial benefit of implementing environmental management system ISO 14001 in Icelandic companies
General public, companies and public organizations in Iceland, as elsewhere in the world, meet increased demand for more emphasis on environmental issues and protection of nature. The requirements for minimizing the impact on the environment (by reducing energy usage, increasing environmental …
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Strategisches Management zweckbasierter Organisationen: Strategie und Umsetzung in öffentlichen und Nonprofit-Organisationen neu fokussiert
… management literature assumes that nonprofit and public organizations can freely choose their fields of action in the strategy process. However, the practical reality looks different. In this thesis, the difference between scientific literature and practical experience was explored. In addition, …
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THREE ESSAYS ON CONDITIONS OF INNOVATION IN PUBLIC SECTOR
Public organizations around the world are under unprecedented pressure to innovate. However, our understanding of conditions of innovation within public sector organizations is still at a formative stage. Conceptual studies on the topic are not empirically substantiated while empirical studies are …
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Publicness, Priorities, and Mega-gifts: Does Money Change Anything?
As constraints on public funding become more prevalent and public policy devolves funding responsibility to the agency level in part, public organizations seek additional revenue streams. One identified private resource is philanthropy, which has seen a growth in importance over the past decade as …
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