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Showing 1 to 20 of 310 for “"Public services"”.
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Fair Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Public Services
Public services (like health inspections, mail delivery, and street sweeping) are essential operations that a government provides to address the needs and well-being of communities. Efficient and fair outcomes of such operations are needed to ensure the resources are well-utilized and their benefit …
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Factors Influencing Value Added Public Services in Maldives
Civil servants in the Maldives serve the public in many ways and are key stakeholders who implement the policies of the incumbent government. With decentralisation as the key phenomenon in moving to a more democratic society, the city councils play a key role in delivering a range of services to …
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Local Taxes, Public Services, and Intrametropolitan Industrial Location
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:06:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8008999.pdf: 4073342 bytes, checksum: 95f972fab5964aa12127b7e000ad667a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Effective Collaboration in Public Services – The Views of Practitioners
… heavily on collaboration as its main driver for public sector reform since 2004. Of significant interest is the viewpoint of public sector practitioners and the competencies required to ensure successful collaborative activities. The research is set in the context of RSPs in Wales. The specific …
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Decentralization and centralization of local public services in Tunisia
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Economies of scale in the provision of urban public services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1967. M.C.P.
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Joining up public services : a critical realist framework for holistic governance
… It is argued that attempts to join up public services need to take into account the dimensional complexity of the operating environment for their delivery. The Operational Dimensions Framework is underpinned by realist assumptions, and the methods used to evaluate it apply critical …
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Internationalisation of public services: a social network analysis of global ownership
… of the relations between the private and public sector that is taking place during the last three decades. Neo-liberalism, dominant in the policy agenda of the leading world powers during this period of time, advocates the necessity of privatisation, including privatisation of public …
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The strategic facilitation of change across UK public services: a critical reflection
This Context Statement critically explores my public works in my various capacities as a community organiser, strategic facilitator, an educator and leadership development specialist, and as a Director in the English National Health Service (NHS). My intention has been to consider these public …
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A novel approach for route generation and real-time scheduling for public services
Snowplowing and sweeping are essential services to municipalities, which affect travel safety, environment protection, and health to residents. To provide acceptable quality services, route optimization is one of the key strategies that allow for enhancing efficiency, saving costs, and balancing …
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The United States Weather Bureau: Its Scientific Development and Public Services, 1870-1941
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T21:20:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0020894.pdf: 7482497 bytes, checksum: 8b796fea17df6329ebbb72dff61045fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1957
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Tempered Tempos: The Politics of Waiting for Public Services in Contemporary Cape Town
This dissertation recognises that waiting for public services in South Africa is becoming an increasingly important point of contestation between the state and its citizens. Rather than exploring the spectacular expressions of this tension seen in ongoing service delivery protests, it foregrounds …
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The role of special districts in the efficient provision of local public services
… the role of special districts in providing local public services is assessed. Using economic theory, it is determined, theoretically, that special districts do provide an institution by which consumption, production, and distributional efficiency in the provision of local public goods and services …
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To what extent can sustainability be embedded in decision-making for procuring public services?
… One focus at legislative level is sustainable public procurement of goods and services. Effective planning and monitoring is an essential part of the process of transformation toward sustainable procurement. Post-normal science approaches treat this process as more than just setting targets and …
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Privatization of Public Services: Market Structure, Analysis of Performance and Implications for Anti-Trust
… a way for government to control costs, yet many services are still provided through apparently less efficient mechanisms. Researchers have speculated why this should be the case. Others have questioned whether privatization can meet all its objectives, since governments will not achieve cost …
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Bringing public services to the public: interpreting and translating in healthcare settings for social cohesion
… languages and to communicate with their users in public service settings. In all the four states, the governments demonstrate their agency by mandating, recommending, or referencing the use of Public Service Interpreting and Translation (PSIT) to various extents, as influenced by the legislation …
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Bureaucratic and individual knowledge and action in the public services units of an academic library
… patterns of knowledge and action demonstrated by public services staff in interactions with users. It was a three-month ethnographic study of five public services units in an academic library, using participant observation. The data were analyzed by a framework (coorientation) which compared the …
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Challenges in the implementation of performance management : case study of the Russian public services, Krasnoyarsk City
Many public sector organisations worldwide have implemented performance management systems to improve performance. Performance management was initially designed by the private sector in Western countries and then adopted by the public sector. Now, performance management has become a global reform …
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