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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"participatory decision-making"”.
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Participatory decision-making: Principals' perceptions and teachers' perceptions
This study focuses on the process of participatory decision making as it applies to the functioning of the Professional Personnel Advisory Committees (PPACs) in the Chicago Public Schools. The researcher employed a mixed methodological approach to providing an understanding of the perceptions of …
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Towards participatory decision-making processes in transport planning: an agent-based approach
… nel campo della partecipazione pubblica alle decisioni nella Pianificazione dei trasporti, analizzando il ruolo dei metodi di supporto alle decisioni e i modelli ad agenti per guidare un processo di partecipazione. L'approccio è duplice: da un lato si tratta di comprendere a fondo il fenomeno …
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Principal and Teacher Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Implementation of Site Based Participatory Decision Making in a Small School District
… attitudes and perceptions toward a site based participatory decision making model that was implemented in a small school district. The main variables were the teachers' and principals' attitudes regarding the process, their attitudes regarding how the process was functioning in their schools, …
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Perceptions of Iowa Superintendents Regarding the Appropriateness of Parent Advisory Councils
… were rated on a Likert type scale for input and participatory decision making. A two-way classification analysis of variance and t-test were used on the independent variables, school district size and administrative experience. Findings. Differences existed among superintendents for input and …
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The Relationship between Decision-Making and Accountability: A Case Study of Two State Community College Systems
… nation is the expectation that a collegial or participatory model of decision-making is the appropriate mode of governance. This type of model structures an organization to allow the opportunity for all constituencies to participate in decision-making. Some states, such as California, have …
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Organizational Democracy and Women's Empowerment: An Examination of Four Advocacy Organizations in Bangladesh
… discrimination and their participation in decision making processes often is not allowed in domestic, political and economic affairs. Most women's organizations mainly work to create a better, non-discriminatory, and equal society for women. To focus on this goal, these organizations often …
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Werkstevredenheid van manlike opvoeders in die George–omgewing
… their colleagues. Recognition of achievement and participatory decision making is also of importance to these male educators. Findings highlighted the role of male educators as the maintainer of discipline and fulfilling the role of the father figure in the school. Conclusions from this study …
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The role of principals in managing curriculum change
… changes, through such areas as consultation, participatory decision-making, team-building, school policy and vision. However, it was established that the majority of educators perceived principals as facilitating curriculum change, however, a notable number of respondents were either uncertain …
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Community: A Simulation Game for Environmental Involvement
… represents a design that involved individuals in participatory, decision making situations concerning economic, political and pollution processes, A need is stated for additional research on the effects of simulation gaming. A bibliography lists sources consulted on environmental movements and …
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The Influence of Participatory Practice Making upon Secondary School Teachers’ Job Satisfaction and Commitment in Nyamagana District
This study assessed the influence of participatory practices upon secondary school teachers’ job satisfaction and commitment in Tanzania. Specifically the study examined the extent to which participatory decision making influences retention of secondary school teachers in the teaching profession, …
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Beekeeping and Capacity Building for Sustainable Development: A Critical Assessment of a Beekeeping Training Programme in Cape Town’s Manenberg Township
… groups’ inputs in the processes, or because participatory decision-making processes with participants were misapplied. As a result, the beekeeping training programme did not match the participants’ needs, economic opportunities in their area, and their social situations, and these …
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The Gatekeeping Paradigm and the Constructivist Alternative
… strive to employ the best experts to make timely decisions, discontented citizens increasingly demand better accountability and democratic legitimacy through broad and direct public consultation. Participatory decision-making, on the other hand, is often met by the worry that sound science might …
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Does the concept of “resilience” offer new insights for effective policy-making? An analysis of its feasibility and practicability for flood risk management in the UK
… of resilience is increasingly applied to policy-making. However, despite its widespread use, resilience remains poorly defined, open to multiple interpretations, and challenging to translate into practical policy instruments. Three particularly problematic aspects of resilience concern its rigid …
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An assessment of the effectiveness of performance based reward systems on employee performance at the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund in Namibia
… performance. The study recommends that employee participatory decision making should be encouraged, also ii that there should be an improvement in leadership behavior and the work environment to keep career development
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Perceived factors associated with high and low job satisfaction among teachers
… autonomy, home life, parents, personality and participatory decision-making all affected job satisfaction. The principal was ranked most important. Job satisfiers were tabulated across questions. The most frequently identified intrinsic factor was student success. The extrinsic factors of …
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Architecture for Disasters: Utilizing Architecture to Effectively Provide Disaster Relief: A case study on Poverty in the Dominican Republic
… community focused aid creates opportunities for participatory decision making, appropriate design solutions, and long term capacity building. The best way to achieve long term resilience is through development phases that create needed resources and establish sustainable construction techniques …
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Essays on Public and Development Economics
… higher ex-ante experience with decentralized and participatory decision making (Penza). Moreover, we find that settlements with high pre-treatment accountability levels were differentially benefited by the intervention. Our findings suggest that short-term interventions do not translate into …
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A capabilities approach to environmental assessment: enhancing the integration of human development and well-being in participatory environmental decision making
… social considerations in environmental decision making. The participatory focus emphasises the potential for decision shaping by stakeholders and decision support for stakeholders to participate meaningfully in environmental assessment. The research develops an evaluative framework for …
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Desired Future Conditions of Riparian Areas on Southeastern National Forests
… and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a participatory decision-making tool. I used surveys before and after the riparian meetings to evaluate the effectiveness of the public involvement process. Survey respondents generally were middle-aged, well-educated, high-income males who were …
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