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Best Practice in Funeral Industry Regulation
No full textThis report has been prepared at the request of the Queensland Funeral Industry Regulation Working Party. The working party was established at the request of the Honourable Rod Welford,Attorney General and Minister for Justice, and aims to:\ud
· summarise the issues and problems facing the funeral industry;\ud
· identify possible solutions to these problems, through a comparative analysis of the way in which five other jurisdictions have addressed these issues; and\ud
· develop a framework for furthering public policy relating to the funeral industry.\ud
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The purpose of this report is to formally make a number of recommendations to government about issues of concern to the industry. The report is intended to provide the basis for further consultations with various government departments about the best way to address the concerns and recommendations raised herein.\ud
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15 Recommendations were made on areas related to the registration of businesses, Code of Conduct, Public Health and Workplace Health and Safety issues, establishment of a Funeral Industry Board, training for industry participants, and issues related to the Privacy Act
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Working with non-government organisations: A sustainable development perspective
No full textGovernments have been developing and applying various approaches to ecological sustainable development (ESD) and sustainability over the last twenty yean The broad trend, partly displacing the traditional focus on regulatory standards and consultation, is that governments have increasingly adopted collaborative approaches, in concert with diverse and conflicting non-government organisation (NGO) stakeholders, to address the "big issues". Tensions and conflicts are not avoided, but are contained as far as possible within broad longterm frameworks supported by inclusive processes and good science. In Australia, management of these major sustainability issues is made more complex through the interplay between three levels of government. This article adds to the emerging literature presenting models of government and NGO relationships by developing the concept of collaborative partnership as participatory co-governance. Two case studies oj natural resource management in the state of Queensland (Australia) are used to examine the means by which government-NGO relationships might move from consultation to significant collaborative participation
Responses to Public Sector Reform Policy
No full textThe article compares the ways in which different public sector organizations respond to similar federal government demands for public sector reform. The empirical basis of the article is a comparison of public sector reform in three agencies managing road systems in three Australian states. There are two constants in the research; namely, the nature of the responsibilities of the agencies with respect to the road network, and the demands of federal government policy for road reform throughout Australia. Yet within the ambit of these two constants, there is a distinctive contrast in the way the agencies have approached and implemented both policy and reforms. The article uses Hood's framework for viable organizational design options for variables relating to grid and group as an explanatory model for the results obtained from the research. Furthermore, it examines the utility of Hood's four styles of public sector organizations in order to explain different change outcomes in the three agencies studied
Knowledge Management and Management Theory: An Analysis of Sullivan's Conceptualisation of Knowledge Within Organisations
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