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Why Is it So Hard to Rationalize the Budgetary Process? A Behavioral Analysis of Performance-Based Budgeting
No full textSince the mid-twentieth Century, several efforts have been made to rationalize the government budgetary decision making process. Most of these efforts were either incomplete or a failure. This paper provides a behavioral analysis of why it is so hard to rationalize the budgetary decision making process, taking performance-based budgeting (PBB) as an example of a budget innovation that has been proposed for more than 50 years to rationalize the budget process by linking allocations to performance results without being fully implemented. This paper looks at the rationalization of the budgetary process from the lens of non-linear systems models, and analyzes the forces/elements that have made this rationalization an objective hard to attain, emphasizing the policy-making and implementation gap with regard to performance-based budgeting
Voice, creativity, and big five personality traits: A meta-analysis
No full textDue to the benefits of voice and creativity on organizations\u27 effectiveness, scholars have tried to understand the reasons why employees engage in voice and creativity and determine the antecedents of these behaviors, including the role of personality. Previous literature, however, has shown inconsistent results about the effect of personality on voice and creativity. Addressing these inconsistencies, the authors use a meta-analytic approach to examine these relationships and to test potential boundary conditions that might exist in these relationships. This study also seeks to provide empirical support for the previous theoretical claims of similarity between voice and creativity. Clarifying these points, the results of this meta-analysis showed that Openness to Experience, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness are good predictors of creativity and voice. The findings also reveal similar directions and magnitudes of effects sizes in most of the relationships between the Big Five, voice, and creativity, which appears to support the similarities between voice and creativity. The moderation results provide further information about the role of gender differences, the sample type (student/employee sample), and the source of rating (self/other reporting) in these relationship
Fostering Inclusive Culture through Partnerships with Nonprofits
No full textNELP Standards place a particular emphasis on “the leaders’ responsibility for the well-being of students and staff as well as their role in working with others to create supportive and inclusive district and school cultures” (Preparing for the National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP) Program Review: A Companion Guide, 14). This concept, that of working with others to create inclusive district and school cultures, necessarily means that school leaders are required to look at organizations and leaders in the community to foster positive growth. Because of this, there is a fertile ground upon which to investigate the benefits of partnerships with other nonprofit organizations in a school district. Mcmillian, Wolf, and Cutting (2015) found that the more rural an area, the more positive impact nonprofit organizations have on the local economy. The school district plays a vital role in leading the quality of the impact from nonprofits. Often, the public-school system is not only the largest nonprofit organization in a particular community, but it is also the largest employer as well. Considering, among other things, the potential mutual benefit of partnerships between schools and other nonprofit organizations in a community, a list of seven interview questions was developed and interviews were conducted with 18 nonprofit representatives located across the state of Texas in urban, suburban and specifically rural locations to develop a greater understanding of the perspectives of individuals who work in nonprofit organizations as they relate to characteristics embodied by school leaders and guided by the NELP standards
Signal Temporal Logic-Based Attack Detection in DC Microgrids
No full textEmerging converter-dominated dc microgrids employ distributed cooperative control strategies and communication network. Since there is no central entity to monitor and assess the global cyber scenario, microgrids employing distributed control are prone to cyber attacks. This work presents signal temporal logic (STL) detection of two major types of cyber attacks, namely false-data injection attacks and denial-of-service attacks. Such cyber attacks can compromise voltage regulation and load sharing in dc microgrids. STL is a formalism to monitor the output voltages and currents of dc microgrids against the defined specifications, such as operational bounds, over time. Besides detection, the proposed approach also quantifies the attack impact. Moreover, it can be effectively employed for a complex dc microgrid without prior knowledge of its dynamics. This detection technique is successfully demonstrated using a physical microgrid setup or in a hardware-in-the-loop environment, where various attacks are formalized, detected, and quantified
Litigant participation and success in water rights cases in the Western States
No full textOver the years, many decisions concerning the rights to water resources have been addressed in state legislatures and federal courts; however, the majority of decisions concerning the conflicting demands over water have been addressed in state courts. This study examines the body of water rights cases heard in state supreme courts of the eleven Western states and focus on litigant participation and success. The data set includes all the water rights cases decided between 1972 and 2008 in the eleven western state high courts (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). The study explores the propensity of different types of litigants to initiate water rights cases at the state supreme court level, and also examines litigation patterns to determine which litigants are the targets of these appeals. Galanter\u27s (1974) party capability theory is used to help explain patterns of litigant success
A New Algorithm to Measure the Convergence of PSO with an Application to Hydronic Design in Buildings
No full textThe particle swarm optimization (PSO) method is one of the simplest methods to apply in order to solve HVAC engineering design optimization problems. The effective application of this method in design requires an appropriate criterion for convergence and a good estimate of the number of particles to use. A common way to check for convergence in many iterative methods is to monitor the change in the objective function. However, in this paper, the authors propose using the distribution of particles to determine the convergence of the PSO method. Because of the variety of objective functions that may be possible in HVAC design, the authors investigate the rate of convergence and the appropriate number of particles using some representative test functions as well as a practical hydronic design problem. The hydronic problem simulates closed-loop systems starting with two floors and a basement to 28 floors and a basement. The results show that the PSO method does not always convergetothe solutionwhen aninsufficient number of particles are used and may be too costly if too many particles are used. For the hydronic design in this study, the recommended number of particles is eight for a two-floor building increasing to 32 for a 28-floor building. In other HVAC design problems, the same number of particles may be used to start the iteration proces
Turkish immigrants in the mainstream of American life : theories of international migration
No full textThis book focuses on the sociological dynamics of two of the most important Turkish immigration waves to the United States. It describes the wave of early Turkish immigration during the early 19th century and the most recent from the late 20th century. Although a few historians have studied the topic (Karpat, 1985; Acehan, 2005; Micallef, 2004; and Akcapar, 2009), this study utilizes extant international migration and adaptation theories to explore issues related to Turkish immigration to the United States and the outcome explains Turkish immigration to the United States from a distinctly sociological point of view. This book also enlightens the concepts of identity formation across Turkish American generations and analyzes vital distinctions between first and second generation immigrants with regard to their acculturation. Moreover, this book contributes to discussions on cultural tourism, international business relations, and the cultural market. In addition to that, the meaning of race, the existing theories of race, and how the construction of whiteness are points of interest in this book. Finally, the emphasis on intermarriage, religion, and Turkish identity are analyzed.https://falconcommons.utpb.edu/utpb-facbooks/1004/thumbnail.jp
Using Internal Audit Service Projects for Experiential Learning
No full textStudents are very familiar with their own universities and also are interested in improving their alma maters. The purpose of this research is to share insights about a project that can be used for both traditional Auditing courses and the Internal Auditing course. The project requires that students audit certain elements of the universities\u27 non-confidential finances as well as perform operational and compliance techniques. The project creates synergy for experiential learning and improvement of university operations. Examples of educational issues that were improved with the operational audits are 1) better information posted for office hours and class times, 2) better scripting for professors\u27 and staff s voicemail messages, and 3) campus safety improvements. The students also seemed more enthusiastic about Auditing and happy to contribute to the excellence of their university