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Showing 1 to 20 of 525 for “"Public Service"”.
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Public service motivation and volunteering.
… of understanding the relationship between public service motivation and volunteering. Set in the backdrop of increased corporate and public sector social responsibility, I first examine the theoretical rationale behind public service motivation (PSM). I address the debate of how it affects …
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Performance management in Kenya's public service
This study was inspired by the desire to contribute to literature on performance management from the context of a developing country. The guiding research questions were: How do managers use performance information in decision making? Why do managers use performance information the way they do? The …
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Security of employment in the public service in Botswana : a study of public service law and ethics
… concern of this study is the law relating to the public servant in Botswana. It assesses the efficacy of both statutory legislation and common law principles in promoting tenure for public servants. The employment relationship between the servant and the state is considered starting from his/her …
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A Commentary on 'Local Public Service Television'
… following Chapter Three) considers the public space that 'local public service television' might occupy. Taking an historical view and a protagonist or interventionist stance the author demonstrates that a demand for local communications through television broadcasting has had strong …
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Modes of governance and public service efficiency
… relationship between modes of governance and public service efficiency. We argue that different modes of governance yield different levels of efficiency depending on the nature and scale of the transactions upon which they are deployed. The experience of OECD countries is used to examine the …
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Public Service Labour Relations: Centralised Collective Bargaining and Social dialogue in the Public Service of South Africa(1997 to 2007)
… only one bargaining council exists for the public sector. This public sector bargaining council is known as the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC). The PCSBC subsequently established four sectoral councils to further collectively bargain on matters pertaining to sectoral …
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Disenfranchised workers : a view from within the public service
… of disenfranchised workers in the Australian Public Service. The best methodology for my study is a hybrid. A hybrid that takes the wisdom of ethnographic case studies, phenomenology, feminist post-structuralism and narrative theories to make sense of the stories of people working within …
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The Social Contract: Duty and Discrimination in Public Service
… particularly those who volunteer for military or public service? The works in this portfolio attempt to answer these questions and delve into the social contract between the American government and its citizens, often through the lens of sexual orientation. Using original correspondence from the …
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The Komera Initiative : turning product design into public service
… our scope to transform the product into a public service initiative. This thesis discusses the trials and tribulations of both directions. We explore the differences and challenges in designing for the developing world within a 1 st-world product design context - paying attention to …
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Re-Defining Public Service In An Era of Networked Governance: An Examination of the Influence of Public Service Motivation On Contractors In Homeland Security
<p>Over the last several decades, the notion of public service motivation (PSM) has been established through a wealth of scholarly work as a key commonality amongst those who choose to serve the public sector, with a broad consensus that public servants have a special calling (Boyne 2002; Houston …
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Recruitment and capacity building in the public service of Namibia
… for obtaining of Degree of Master of Public Policy and Administration
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Dispersion and spatial decentralization in the British Columbia public service
… have focussed attention on administrative and public sector employment. This thesis is a study of the administrative spatial patterns in the British Columbia Public Service, and the factors which produce such geographic distributions. In particular, the two phenomena studied are the dispersion …
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Television public service in Philadelphia: a thing of the past?
… to determine if national trends in television public service have influenced decision makers in Philadelphia and to provide public relations practitioners with detailed information about local practices. Online and library searches were conducted to secure information about television public …
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