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作者:Pitts, David
作者单位:American University
摘要:A number of organizations across sectors have begun efforts toward managing workforce diversity. At the federal level in the United States, almost 90 percent of agencies report that they are actively managing diversity. However, very little empirical research has tied diversity management to work group performance or other work-related outcomes. This paper uses a survey of U.S. federal employees to test the relationships between diversity management, job satisfaction, and work group performanc...
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作者:Meyers, Roy T.
作者单位:University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore County
摘要:The budget process is seriously flawed, as Irene Rubin suggests, but there is little prospect for its effective reform. Current economic and political conditions could open the window for reform, but the excessive partisanship that helped create these conditions also has reduced the pool of institutionalists who could lead reforms. More important is confusion about which reforms might be most effective. Most proposed reforms would create more rules, but they will not work unless politicians co...
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作者:Weber, Edward P.
作者单位:Washington State University
摘要:Current theories of community-based collaborative governance arrangements rely on the presence (or absence) of certain antecedent community conditions as well as incentives for institutional change deriving from the sociopolitical and economic environment. The combination of antecedent conditions and incentives is helpful in understanding why collaboratives emerge and succeed in easy cases (strong incentives, conducive antecedent conditions). Yet the combination is of little help in understand...
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作者:Hutchinson, Janet R.
作者单位:Virginia Commonwealth University