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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 ...
A qualitative model for designing and implementing effluent trading programs.
(1999)
Effluent trading programs (ETPs) have been proposed as cost-effective alternatives to command-and-control regulations for surface water quality management. In addition to reducing environmental compliance costs, ETPs may ...
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 ...
In the eye of the storm: Mediators' perspectives on resolving labor-management conflict.
(1999)
The participant observation portion of my research involved attending the FMCS new mediator training program. This training program consisted of four intensive week-long training sessions. The interview data were derived ...
PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS AND HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCE
(2018-07-18)
This dissertation examines the diffusion of performance-based funding policy in higher education based on the conceptual framework of policy innovation and diffusion. After examining the two waves of state adoption of ...
Plumbing the prairies: water management in the agricultural Midwest, 1850-1920
(2023-05-12)
This dissertation examines the use of state authority to manage natural resources and how the application of that authority changed over time. Between 1850 and 1920, Iowans interacted with the state’s prairie environment ...
Location, Location, Location: What Factors Drive Where U.S.-Based NGOs Go?
(2016-05-13)
This dissertation advances our understanding of how U.S.-based transnational nongovernmental organizations (TNGOs) with international scopes of work navigate decision-making related to country-level location choices. It ...
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 ...
Coping with limits: Responding to reform in Oklahoma.
(1998)
The model of legislative reform posited here include internal factors like: members' characteristics, professionalism, and internal political culture. It also include external influences like: the constitution, the states' ...