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作者:Teisman, GR; Klijn, EH
作者单位:Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要:It has become popular to advocate partnership arrangements. Such partnerships may be seen as new forms of governance, which fit in with the imminent network society. However, the idea of partnership is often introduced without much reflection on the need to reorganize policy-making processes and to adjust existing institutional structures. In this contribution, we discuss the ambiguity of partnerships. An empirical basis is provided by means of an analysis of the policy making on the expansion...
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作者:Czarniawska, B
作者单位:University of Gothenburg
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作者:Kim, S
作者单位:Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas
摘要:Researchers and practitioners in both the public and private sectors agree that participative man agement improves employees' job satisfaction. Public agencies have also turned to strategic planning to enhance government performance and accountability This study explores the relationship between participative management in the context of the strategic planning and job satisfaction in local government agencies. The results of multiple regression analysis show that managers' use of a participati...
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作者:Bozeman, B
摘要:The familiar market-failure model remains quite useful for issues of price efficiency and traditional utilitarianism, but it has many shortcomings as a standard for public-value aspects of public policy and management. In a public-value-failure model, I present criteria for diagnosing values problems that are not easily addressed by market-failure models. Public-value failure occurs when: (1) mechanisms for values articulation and aggregation have broken down; (2) imperfect monopolies occur; (...
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作者:Berman, EM; West, JP; Richter, MN Jr
作者单位:State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; University of Miami; University of Miami; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要:This article examines orientations toward workplace friendship. Based on a survey of senior managers in cities with populations over 50,000, it addresses the following questions: Do senior managers promote, condone, or discourage workplace friendship? What risks and benefits of workplace friendships do these managers perceive? What policies and strategies that affect workplace friendship are found in organizations? How do these organizational efforts affect perceptions of employee performance?...