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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"administrative decision-making"”.
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Bias in administrative decision making: focusing on local government
… of a basic module on local government and administrative law for several transitional local councils. From the numerous questions asked in this regard, it soon became clear that many councillors were uncertain as to when they had to recuse themselves from council meetings on the grounds of …
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Ethical Dimensions of Administrative Decision Making in Schools: The Principal's Perspective
<p>School administrators make numerous decisions every day, ranging from simple, routine decisions to complex decisions. These decisions are governed by standards that go beyond the set of circumstances under consideration. This study explored the beliefs, standards, philosophical frameworks, and …
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The Role of Faith in God in Administrative Decision-Making: a Descriptive Multiple Case Study of Three African-American Christian Women Administrators of American Higher Education
… this study focused on how faith in God impacted administrative decision-making practices of three African-American Christian women administrators of higher education.</p> <p><em>Method</em>. To achieve the purpose of this study, the literature was reviewed to identify existing theories. This …
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Airborne measurements of pollutants in the sphere of influence of the Radford Army Ammunition Plant
… of study may prove useful for the technical and administrative decision making processes of regulatory agencies and munitions manufacturing personnel.
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Social skills, personality, occupational interests, and job performance: A multivariate structural analysis
… assessments of two conflict-resolution and administrative decision-making skills were administered to participants. Printed inventories assessing personality traits and occupational interests were also administered. Behavioral ratings of conflict-resolution and decision-making actions were …
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Budgetary practices as instruments of economic development in the Third World: an evaluational case study of Ghana's budgetary practices
… phenomenon that reflects political and administrative decision making. Much evidence in the Third-World literature on budgeting and ED asserts that ED policies can be most effectively implemented when there is a systematic interrelation and coordination between budgeting and ED policies. …
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Opportunities and Limits for Mayoral–Public Employee Union Collaborations: The Case of the de Blasio Administration in New York City, 2013–2017
… efforts at policy innovation and administrative practice. In particular, how, if at all, do public employee unions shape the administration’s decisions about the balance between providing public services directly versus contracting them out to nongovernmental organizations? How do …
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BLM Land Use Planning in Western Oregon: A Case Study for Integrating Public Participation in Natural Resources Planning
… improve natural resources planning and decision-making. On an ad hoc basis, it has been shown that public participation improves the durability and sustainability of plans and decisions; it increases the technical, consensus-building, and decision-making capacity of the public; it …
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BLM Land Use Planning in Western Oregon: A Case Study for Integrating Public Participation in Natural Resources Planning
… improve natural resources planning and decision-making. On an ad hoc basis, it has been shown that public participation improves the durability and sustainability of plans and decisions; it increases the technical, consensus-building, and decision-making capacity of the public; it …
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Trauma Registry : Data Validity and Benefits of Quality Data
… data are also used for resource allocations and administrative decision making in hospitals, hospital districts, and nationally within countries. International comparisons and collaborations are also possible with this data. Therefore, the data must be valid; it must be reliable, complete, and …
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Hydroecological connectivity as a normative framework for aquatic ecosystem regulation: lessons from the USA
… This provides a guideline for HEC-directed administrative decision making. A connectivity-based approach to water resource governance will require limitations on some land uses on portions of land that is likely to be perceived as terrestrial but which, in fact, forms part of an aquatic …
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The Writ of Certiorari and Its Scope, 1600-1800: For the Orderly Administration of Justice
… come to use the writ of certiorari to quash administrative decisions? What was the purpose of the writ of certiorari? Why did Parliament begin to restrict certiorari? And, how did the judges react to these early Parliamentary attempts to restrict certiorari? It is argued that the writ of …
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Between Bureaucracy and Democracy: Regulating Administrative Discretion in Japan
… (bureaucratic drift). “Discretion” is “administrative decision-making absent directives from political principals.” Evaluating the exercise of discretion of administrators is feasible if one’s evidence is primarily from the administrators themselves. To test these hypotheses, therefore, …
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Stopping the tenture clock : university support on scorn?
… Administrators, defined as employees who have administrative decision making authority over an academic unit at the level of department chair, director, or dean. Additionally, there were 346 Tenured Faculty who participated in the study while 180 Tenure-track Faculty participated. An important …
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The promotion and protection of socio-economic rights under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: prospects and challenges in South Africa and Nigeria
… action, policy formulation and executive/administrative decision making. Against a backdrop of the above, the increasing role of civil society organisations in the realisation of socio-economic rights is also examined. The thesis hypothesised that the Constitutional Court of South Africa …
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Teacher Supervision/Evaluation in the Small (Level III) Schools of North Dakota: A Survey of Teachers, Administrators, and School Board Presidents
… a bachelor's degree. Only 5 percent of the total administrative group had earned a degree beyond the master's degree. Among school board presidents, 48 percent had received education beyond high school.</p><p>In general, the population expressed greater satisfaction than dissatisfaction with the …
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Senior Campus Administrators, Decision-Making and the Campus Racial Climate
… purpose of this study was to understand senior administrative decision-making regarding the campus racial climate within institutions of higher education. Specifically, I addressed the following questions: 1. How do senior administrators learn/develop their views about diversity? 2. What is …
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From re-traumatisation to rightful recourse: designing just and victim-supportive policies for disciplining campus sexual misconduct
… into account the need for procedural fairness in administrative decision-making, while simultaneously incorporating victim-supportive practices to minimise the trauma that disciplinary processes can inflict on victims of sexual misconduct. Among these recommendations are the inclusion of …
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The right to be heard - worth the delay? A critical examination of public participation’s role in the efficiency of administrative action in democratic South Africa
“Section 4 in the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act 3 of 2000 (the PAJA) is a great achievement for South African administrative law, and its very presence in the PAJA is likely to have a positive effect on the rate and quality of participation in administrative decision-making. Despite the …
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