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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"public managers"”.
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Why public managers use performance information : concepts, theory, and empirical analysis
Diese Dissertation untersucht die Verwendung von Performance-Informationen („Kennzahlen“) durch Führungskräfte in der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Unter „Verwendung“ wird dabei die zweckorientierte Nutzung der Daten verstanden, um zu steuern, zu lernen und öffentliche Leistungen zu verbessern. Die …
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An Exploration of Inclusive Management Practices: Through the Lenses of Public Managers
… Management Practices: Through the Lenses of Public Managers Jessica Lee Spencer-Gallucci ABSTRACT This study explores how public managers think about and understand the practices of inclusive management (IM) in the workplace. Specifically, the research explores the lived experiences and …
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Senior management training program for public managers in Puerto Rico : a first step
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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A Model Records Management System for Texas Public Utilities: An Information Science Tool for Public Managers
… an agency uses is considered to be a record. Public administration is no longer a "sit and wait field". Many decisions require "on-demand" access to information and records. That need is magnified in a public utility given the variety of agencies, business and individual customers supported. …
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The role of leadership traits in successfully navigating politically motivated workplace conflicts by public managers: a case of Vhembe District Municipality in Limpopo Province
… politically motivated workplace conflicts by public managers in the Vhembe District. Workplace conflict has a detrimental impact in any public institutions’ productivity and financial viability. The specific problem is that some public managers lack effective leadership traits to manage …
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Values Public Managers Hold, Organizational Environments, and Public Service Characteristics in Explaining the Choice of Public Service Delivery Modes: Focused on County and City Governments in Virginia
… several decades, local governments have provided public services through a dynamic process including direct public delivery and market contracts. These public service delivery modes have been influenced by the dominant paradigms in contemporary public administration such as New Public Management …
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Ambiguity in Public Organizations - Is it always Negative and Difficult to Manage or does Theory Assume Too Much?: A Case Study Review of Customs and Border Protection's Container Security Initiative
… a conceptual framework to understand how public managers strategically engage ambiguity and translate the complexity associated with ambiguity to manageable objectives to control complex work within federal programs. A central assumption for this study is that ambiguity is an …
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Two Octopuses Making Love: An Analysis of Institutional Management Behaviors Across Four Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment Project Networks in Rochester and Buffalo, NY
<p>With intensifying pressure to not only solve public problems by collaborating with actors situated outside the confines of city hall but also to address complex, long-term challenges like climate change adaptation and sustainability, local government public managers find themselves working in …
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Implicit Environmental Value of Old Growth on the United States National Forests in Western Washington
… services in second growth forests, and public managers have considered the significant role of old growth to its environment and ecosystem. The result of structural change test, however, illustrates that the introduction of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 does not change …
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Ethical leadership in the Limpopo Provincial Public Service of South Africa: an imperative for good governance
… of ethical transgression within the province’s public institutions. The reports on fraud and corruption scandals ranges from conflict of interests which manifest itself through payment of ghost workers, tardiness, weak institutions, lack of accountability and honesty by senior and subordinate …
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Participation: A Model Of Individual Willingness To Participate In The Transportation Planning Process
… to participate. Recommendations were made for public managers to work collaboratively with the public as a participative facilitator, thereby opening up the decision-making process to the general public. One suggested course of action is for public managers to use existing civic organizations …
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Beyond the Boundaries: A Sharing of Power in Processes of Public Education Decision-Making and Planning
This researched is focused on how public managers, bureaucrats, can show responsiveness to the needs and wants of the citizens they serve through authentically including citizens in the process of decision-making. To examine this topic, this research reviews a process of public decision-making …
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Preferences For Performance Measures: A Study Of A Federal Agency
… agencies and the preferences of the federal managers who administer the programs in assessing performance measurement systems. Using the general progression of previous budgetary models used in the public sector, the researcher developed the Modified Balance Scorecard (MBSC), a performance …
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Programa Educacional de Resistência às Drogas e à Violência (PROERD): um panorama geral no município de João Pessoa/ PB
… military police, as it enables reflection by the public managers of education, safety, and generally to the commanders of the military police of the state of Paraiba.
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Do Externally-Hired Managers Increase Innovation? Evidence from the U.S. Government
… its own scientists’ innovative output and the managers who are responsible for their performance. Using individual-level data from 2000 to 2013, I investigate the impact of externally-hired federal managers on the innovation output of employees in science, technology, engineering, math, health, …
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Políticas públicas para as mulheres: estudo sobre o Plano Municipal de Políticas Públicas para as Mulheres (2013 - 2016)
At present, Public Policies are increasingly directed to various discourses in society, covering all classes and genres. As far as women are concerned, public policies have come to protect us and liberate us from a Brazilian macho culture, where, for the simple fact that we are "women", we are …
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An Absence of Being: A Jungian-Based Model for Understanding Situational Management In Public Organizations
… in the most "rational" moments of our lives in public administration. They further describe how it is that the individual in the manager-leader role is implicated in and caused by the very situations they are attempting to manage and the way in which acknowledging and relating to the unconscious …
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Social Media Responsiveness in the Public Sector: A Study of Social Media Adoption in Three Functional Departments of U.S. Cities
Public administration research strongly supports the argument for administrator-citizen collaborations and shows that Web 2.0 social media tools have the potential to increase these collaborations. Some public managers have fully embraced the adoption of social media tools to their fullest …
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Análise da mobilidade urbana por transporte sustentável nas cidades médias brasileiras
… The explanation and model could be useful for public managers because it can possible for them to develop public policies to reduce or eliminate the negative externalities of the urban mobility. The diversity of Brazilian cities with different characteristics made it difficult to create a …
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