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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The socialization of new employees in state government agencies.
(2004)
The most important finding from the analysis of the relationship between the agency type, agency size, and employee type and the type of tactics used to socialize new employees is the disconnect between the types of tactics ...
A study of female commanders in the United States Army: Culture, command and the women who lead.
(2003)
Organizational changes occurred at the individual level through the development of personal relationships. Organizational changes were manifested in several ways. Organizational changes occurred through personal interaction ...
The Government Performance and Results Act and the Department of Defense: A view from the bottom.
(2004)
At least five government-wide reform initiatives have been attempted since the end of World War II. The latest is the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) passed into law in 1993. A review of literature on government ...
Fairness in American politics and culture.
(2001)
Fairness is a term often used in political debate but not often carefully examined. In this dissertation I propose a way of understanding fairness by combining the insights of political theory with an examination of the ...
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 ...