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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 ...
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 ...
Expressing political and administrative values through stories: A semiotic analysis of the National Performance Review.
(1998)
The argument presented here is that the stories in NPR are effective at communicating the values intended by the authors of the report. This finding supports what many administrative theorists have recently postulated about ...
Center for Economic Development and Administration :
(1984)
Much of the data for this study has also been collected from various agencies and institutions. The best practical research design for this study was found to be the institution building model developed by Milton Esman. ...
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 ...
Nonprofit Collaboration: Building Relationships Across Sectors
(2014-05-09)
Discussions about nonprofit organizations often portray a very unique sector with a specific set of values, goals, and norms. And yet, there is a lot of diversity among nonprofit organizations in role, purpose and structure. ...
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 ...
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 ...