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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"bureaucratic control"”.
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'As you were': Military-bureaucratic control and the employment relationship in the British armed forces
… diverged. The study uncovers a complex web of control mechanisms, termed military-bureaucratic control, along with widespread consent and compliance, but also finds that military personnel, like their civilian counterparts, will resist when the need arises. Furthermore, it identifies gaps in …
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Contracting Out in a Complex Network: An Effectiveness Analysis of EPC Program I
… Gormley's ideas (1989; Gormley & Balla 2003) of bureaucratic control. The results from this dissertation suggest that a decentralized network was related to overall higher translation and dissemination network effectiveness. Specifically, the findings from this study suggest that a decentralized …
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The Politics of the American Policymaking System
… principals threatens to sever democratic control of policy by the populace. Through a series of essays, this dissertation explores the opportunities and limitations of one form of bureaucratic control: ex post political oversight by a third-party. Through a series of formal models I …
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A comparative study of administrative leadership in Thai universities
… universities in Thailand are moving from state bureaucratic control to autonomous status. Effective leadership is therefore of great importance.
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Local Government Budgeting Practices in a Traditional Setting
… decision making. It also depicts that formal bureaucratic control of the local government is also influenced by the control logic imposed by strong family groups, promoting the intervention of familial control over the formal bureaucratic mechanism, thus causing budgeting practices to also …
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Combined operations: British naval and military co-operation in the wars of 1688-1713
… categories of definition: theatre of war, bureaucratic control and command structure. As a result, it is argued that no blanket definition for combined operations can be arrived at, but that any one of the five categories can provide insights into combined operations as an instrument of …
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The Logics of Healthcare – In Quality Improvement Work
… that healthcare professionals’ acceptance of the bureaucratic control of work as legitimate differs - enabling diverse approaches and practices in QIW. Furthermore, the study illustrates that the physicians’ relative dominance hinders the utilization of multiple perspectives in the …
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A study of industrial relations in the insurance industry
… considered as managerial prerogative. The bureaucratic organisational context of insurance employees is described, with particular reference to the way in which tho employer's control over career prospects and work performance is strengthened by increased bureaucratisation. Consideration is …
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Building Character and Producing Door -to -Door Salespersons
… sales company is concerned with unobtrusive control---the control of workers by attempting to set their cognitive premises. Since its salespersons work alone and are independent contractors, the Enterprise Company is limited in its use of direct and bureaucratic control. Instead, it relies on …
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Presidential, Post-Imperial and Personal: Envoy Diplomacy in Japan, 1960s-1980s
… of diplomacy operating outside of established bureaucratic channels. By exploring the promises and pitfalls of ‘one man diplomacy’, it advances an innovative interpretation of envoy diplomacy as both a ‘post-imperial’ and a ‘presidential’ phenomenon: a holdover of imperial-era ways of …
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Understanding How Management Control Affects the Triangle Relationship between Management, Sales Agent and Client: A Case Study from a Chinese Life Insurance Company
There has been growing literature on management control in the context of front-line service work, including sales work. Given the nature of front-line work, service recipients – customers and clients – play an important role in management control and in the social relations in the workplace. …
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Resistance from top to bottom : the dynamics of risk management in complex organizations
… has two parts. First, I argue that resistance to bureaucratic rules is rooted in the lack of involvement that front line actors are afforded in managing anomalies that occur in the application of rules. Second, lack of involvement is more likely to result in active resistance to rules when actors …
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De hjälper oss till rätta : normaliseringsarbete, självbestämmande och människor med psykisk utvecklingsstörning
… procedures. A common feature was an organized bureaucratic control, but apart from that the control forms were disparate. In three units control was enforced before and after an activity, and then as a discrete (normative or ideologi-cal) control or as feedback. In the other three units, as …
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Critical analysis of the Integrated Water Resources Management legal framework in India
… IWRM tends to move away from command- and-control instruments that focus on supply-side water management, such as large– 3 scale water infrastructure, towards incorporating demand-side management with economic instruments such as water pricing. When it comes to India, as mentioned above …
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Specialiserad biståndshandläggning inom den kommunala äldreomsorgen : Genomförandet av en organisationsreform och dess praktik
… discourse the reform was associated with the control function of costs and a more restrictive needs-assessment practice. In the last phase of adoption, the reform had reached the status of a fashion prescribing the modern way of organizing old age care. The second part of the dissertation …