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Systematic evaluation for nonprofit organizations: Problems, prospects, and recommendations.
(2005)
Evaluation is essential to every organization. Nonprofit organizations typically devote little time to program evaluation but concentrate their efforts on service delivery. Even less time is devoted to a systematic approach ...
A qualitative study of General (Retired) Gordon R. Sullivan, former Army Chief of Staff.
(2006)
It may sound melodramatic, but leadership without commitment from others is like a tree falling in the forest without anyone hearing the sound. Leadership requires people and actions more than words. Leadership and team ...
Work requirements and welfare participation: Analyzing the effects of the JOBS program.
(2000)
The 1996 welfare reform relies heavily on work as an antidote to "dependency." But have we any reason to expect work requirements to spur people to leave welfare? Recent experience provides an opportunity to analyze the ...
Facilitative leadership in public organizations: A study of federal agency supervisors.
(2004)
Using secondary analysis of raw data from two federal government employee surveys, this study examines the concept of facilitative leadership by supervisors within federal agencies. Results from bivariate and multivariate ...
Is human resources management in the leading states being reinvented?
(2004)
Reinventing government is an approach to public sector management theory that may be the most influential and significant in the past half century. It claims that the traditional government employment principles of fitness ...
A cost-benefit analysis of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.
(2004)
As educational policy-makers attempt to allocate scarce resources among competing educational options they face the problem of a lack of quality quantitative research to assist in the process. The purpose of this study was ...
Social learning for sustainability: A local government approach.
(2000)
This research integrates theoretical constructs from the literature on social learning and policy innovation, together with site-specific information, in the creation of a decision-making schematic for environmental policy ...
Implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in small and medium-sized municipalities.
(2000)
The theoretical perspective taken in this research combines the incremental and the boundedly rational approach to decision-making. It suggests that the level of compliance is based on the fact that municipal decision-makers ...
The effects of information flow, seniority and status on communication satisfaction within a United States federal bureaucracy.
(2000)
The effects of information flow on communication satisfaction within a federal bureaucracy were investigated. Specifically, this study investigated the effects of receiving quality information, feedback, and timeliness of ...
Executive budget success: Evidence from the American states.
(2006)
Budgeting is among the executive's most important powers in a separated political system. The extent to which executive budget proposals are adopted by the legislature is an important measure of the executive's political ...