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Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management
No full textJournal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management (JPBAFM), a double-anonymous peer-reviewed journal, publishes articles that focus on the advancement and dissemination of research in the field of public budgeting, accounting, auditing, and financial and performance management. JPBAFM is an interdisciplinary journal that reaches a wide audience of academics, politicians and policy-makers, consultants and advisors, practitioners, analysts, journalists, and students. The editors welcome contributions from different disciplines (accounting, public management, public finance, etc.) and a broad international perspective, which offer critical analyses or undertake comparative analyses
Public Health Workforce Self-Identified Training Needs by Jurisdiction and Job Type
No full textContext: Ensuring adequate and appropriate training of the workforce is a crucial priority for governmental public health. This is particularly important, given the diverse backgrounds of the public health workforce; the vast majority (approximately 83%) do not have formal training in public health, and those that do have formal training in public health have limited training in management and other essential organizational skills.
Objective: The purpose of this article is to identify training needs among public health workers in specific job types and settings.
Design and Participants: This cross section study used 2014 data from the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey. Qualitative analyses were used to code open-ended responses to questions about training needs. Needs are stratified across job types and jurisdiction.
Results: Eight main themes or skill areas were identified with the largest proportion indicating a need for management/leadership skills (28.2%). The second most frequent need was communication skills (21.3%). Across the 9 job types examined, general management skills were either the first or second training need for 7 job types. Among individuals who already have leadership/management positions, budgeting was the most common training need.
Conclusions: Findings from this study can inform targeted strategies to address training needs for specific types of employees. Such strategies can influence the efficiency and effectiveness of public health efforts and employee satisfaction. As new public health frameworks–like Public Health 3.0 and the Chief Health Strategist–are advanced nationally, it is necessary to ensure that the workforce has the skills and abilities to implement these frameworks.
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Construction management abstracts : cumulative abstracts and indexes of journals in construction management, 1983-2000
No full textThe purpose of this document is to provide a single source of reference for
every paper published in the journals directly related to research in
Construction Management.
It is indexed by author and keyword and contains the titles, authors, abstracts
and keywords of every article from the following journals:
• Building Research and Information (BRI)
• Construction Management and Economics (CME)
• Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management (ECAM)
• Journal of Construction Procurement (JCP)
• Journal of Construction Research (JCR)
• Journal of Financial Management in Property and Construction (JFM)
• RICS Research Papers (RICS)
The index entries give short forms of the bibliographical citations, rather than
page numbers, to enable annual updates to the abstracts. Each annual
update will carry cumulative indexes, so that only one index needs to be
consulted
Methodological Appendix for: In Search of the Public Interest
No full textThis page contains the methodological appendix for "In Search of the Public Interest" by Jodi L. Short, published in the Yale Journal on Regulation (2023)
Motivation and values of European Commission staff
Get PDFThe concept of public service motivation has been central to the discussion of motivation in the field of public management but has never been studied in international organizations. This paper reports on a preliminary study of motivational issues within the European Commission, including motivation for entry and public service motivation. Based on a survey distributed to the entire staff of the European Commission, supplemented by personal interviews, we demonstrate the importance of public service motivation within the Commission and explore the antecedents of public service motivation, including socio-demographic variables, organizational position, and entry motivation. Results have significant implications for human
resources management policy and efforts aimed at motivating staff
Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies, Reading Practices and Academic Attainments of University Students
Get PDFThis study was conducted to examine the relationship between metacognitive awareness of reading strategies (MARS), and academic attainments (AA) of undergraduate business students. It also investigated the relationship between reading practices (RP) and MARS. There are three different categories of MARS – global, problem solving, and support reading strategies. The Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI), developed by Mokhtari and Reichard (2002) was used as the instrument for this study where the sample consisted of 571 male and female students of undergraduate business program from private and public universities of Karachi. The results showed Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies significantly predicts academic attainments of university students. The findings suggest that conducting workshops or training sessions for promoting MARS may be helpful to enhance students’ concentration towards the reading process that may affect their learning. Keywords: academic attainments, metacognitive awareness of reading strategies, reading practices, undergraduate students
Thirty years of public management scholarship: plenty of “how,” not enough “why”
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to determine the overarching lessons to be gleaned from 30 years of public management literature.
Design/methodology/approach
The methodology was simple: review the professional literature generated during that time period.
Findings
Despite important contributions to our understanding of everything from bureaucratic motivation, public budgeting processes, the promises and pitfalls of contracting out and identification of the skills needed to be an effective public manager, to the scientific arcana of sustainability and the respective responsibilities of public administrators and elected officials, the profession would benefit greatly from more sustained emphasis upon the history and philosophy of the constitutional choices made by those who framed America’s original approach to governance.
Originality/value
The lack of a common understanding of America’s legal culture, or even a common vocabulary for exploring our differences poses immense challenges to public administrators, whose effectiveness requires a widely shared, if necessarily superficial, agreement on the purposes of America’s governing institutions and an ability to recognize the bases of government legitimacy. In the past 30 years, however, literature that addresses the important connections between constitutional theory and management practice, between the rule of law and the exercise of public power and discretion, has been all too rare. Let us hope that the next 30 years corrects that deficiency.
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Preventing Leader Derailment—A Strategic Imperative for Public Health Agencies
Get PDFPublic health leaders, such as those who serve as state health officials (SHOs), routinely face challenges that are uncertain and complex. Those who reflect on the challenges they face and use those reflections to improve themselves and their teams develop into more effective leaders. Not addressing challenges can lead to the risk of premature “derailment.” In this column, we review research from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), a global authority in leadership development, which explores the underlying dynamics of derailment. We also share insights gained from ongoing research into SHO success discussed in prior Management Moment columns.1 , 2 Finally, we offer several thoughts on strategies for preventing derailment among senior public health leaders
Designing EU Crisis Management Capacities: Filling the Glass
No full textThe European Union (EU) has modest but promising capacities to assist member states overwhelmed by disaster through its Civil Protection Mechanism. The EU also routinely sends civil and military missions to hotspots outside EU territory. But these capacities do not suffice in the face of transboundary crises: threats that cross geographical and policy borders within the Union. Examples include epidemics, financial crises, floods, and cyber terrorism. Nation states cannot cope with these threats without international collaboration. In this article, we explore the EU's efforts to develop transboundary crisis management capacities. We describe these budding capacities, explain their policy origins, and explore their future potential.</p
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