The firmer the structure of public higher education¡¦s board of regents and the more properly the board is operated, the greater the impact it produces upon the decision-making of the president, thus effectively boosting the efficiency of school conference, promoting the professional development of the faculty and showing the spirit of campus democracy. But, if the board of regents is not well-structured or not operated properly, it will inflate the administrative power led by the president and thwart the conference proceeding, causing factional disruption when it comes to polling time, which in turn undermines campus harmony and the function of the university as a whole. This study aims to find out factors that lead to the malfunction of the administrative power and the board of regents and ways that will help boost interaction of the two so as to uplift the efficacy of faculty professionalism. In particular, such aims consist of l) analyzing factors leading to ill-operated administrative power, 2) analyzing factors leading to ill-operated board of regents, 3) finding out ways for interaction between the two authorities, 4) finding out effective ways for conference proceeding, and 5) offering reference for boosting faculty¡¦s professional efficacy. Two approaches were taken for those aims: 1) questionnaire survey and 2) interview survey. For the first, a total of 384 copies were handed out and 359 of them returned. The results of the survey were further analyzed through such statistical techniques as median, standard deviation, cause analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA and LSD. For the latter, five participants were interviewed, including the principal, chiefs for academic affair and administrative affair, and non-executive faculty staff. And the study was made through qualitative approach to the survey stuff. It was found that when the principal was at odds with the board of regents, the board members will discuss with the principal as to the vision of the university to reach common ground. When the board members are at odds with each other, they will take the decision made by majority vote. Gender and experience in executive jobs show significant difference in the board of regents¡¦ contribution to school reform. The same is true for staff position, school location, school nature, and school size. The top three contributions by the board to school shape-up as agreed by the respondents are 1) emphasizing school development as a whole, 2) helping cultivate school features and 3) granting more opportunities for school staff¡¦s involvement in school affairs. With respect to the respondents¡¦ opinions as to the board¡¦s IV functions in cultivating school reform, the interviewees show less approval in such items as ¡§ covered-all development ¡§, ¡§member growth¡¨, ¡§cause pursuit¡¨ and ¡§performance uplifting¡¨. As there are not enough male professors in the board, some universities have to fill the vacancy by adding some associate professors to them. But, the meetings of the board of regents were often aborted due to the fact that neither male nor female members hold up to one-third of the posts. So, before the rule was amended by the government authority, the president might as well pick professors from outside to hold the jobs so that outside experience or rule may be learned to upgrade the operation quality of the board of regents. The survey of this in depth interview also find a principal who honors faculty professionalism and fully delegates power to the board will produce more loyal board members to guarantee the smooth operation of the board, and thus exercise its functions to the full.

Univ., Diss.--Utrecht.

Thesis (B.Psy.Sc.(Hons.)) - University of Queensland, 2006. / Includes bibliography.

This thesis represents a scholarly journey towards an understanding of corporate governance. Unlike the vast majority of writings on governance, this work attempts to take a step back, and to consider why and how we should study corporate governance. These critical questions have been largely ignored during the frenzy of governance research in the past few decades. The thesis argues that corporate governance theory and practice reflects a Tower of Academic Babel¹ reality as writers from diverse backgrounds use different approaches, invent terminology and proclaim a new 'theory'. The thesis analyses the extent of this conceptual confusion about corporate governance and why this arises. It also considers some possible reasons for the increasing disillusionment with the legal, ethical, cultural, institutional, regulatory and other contexts of corporate governance. The corporate governance literature indicates that much uncertainty has arisen over the nature of corporate governance. Both, denotative and connotative meanings of corporate governance have been ambiguous, often because of poorly defined concepts. This ambiguity is compounded by confusion over methodological concepts such as "paradigm", "system", "model" and "theory", the key constructs employed by many legal, and other, writers. Moreover, much of the literature on corporate governance is founded on ethnocentric concepts that are often "chauvinistic in the extreme".² This confusion has been intensified by the added complexity of unique phenomenology, demonstrated by numerous writers with "scholarship and advocacy that is culturally and economically insensitive"³ This thesis argues that the search for corporate efficiency and effectiveness is often misguided, both because of biased performance criteria and a lack of a clear conceptual domain. Consequently, the corporate governance discourse fails meaningfully to address the enigma of what is the range of corporate governance influence on corporate activities? The overarching argument made in this thesis is that our understanding of corporate governance requires a clarification of methodological approach and a comparative perspective. By recasting corporate governance research within consistent models, theories and applications this thesis lays the foundation for future research by which we may investigate the causal relationships that determine corporate efficiency, effectiveness and the optimum structures for good corporate governance. practitioners from most cultures.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2009. / Adviser: Robert Folger. Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-112).

Thesis (PhD (School of Public Management and Planning ))—University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / Among the multitude of problems that contemporary South Africa is faced with, is corruption. Corruption in contemporary South Africa has spread to a systemic level, as evidenced through national and international research, official government statements, and the media. The leakage of billions of Rand from government coffers to greedy individuals is alarming. Allegations of corruption are increasingly implicating top government and party officials. Some of government payrolls are invaded by ghost workers; government accounts are charged by over- and under-invoicing, phantom billing and ghost beneficiaries. Resources are diverted and leaked in the process of supply chain activities. Against these, ICTs are not well placed, despite their capabilities to counter administrative corruption. The dissertation focuses on exploring the answers to the following questions in the South African public sector. i. What is corruption and why is it still increasing, despite the availability of ICTs that can effectively assist in tracking and tracing irregularities in the financial system? ii. How sufficiently and effectively are ICTs designed to minimise susceptibility to corruption in financial transactions, HR issues, and the activities (elements) of the supply chain? iii. How cohesive and integrated are the sub-systems and systems in the anticorruption industry (organisationally, nationally and internationally) in order to close the loopholes for corruption? iv. Is there a nationally centralised database system that is used as a frame of reference in administrative decision making? v. What general problems are there in the anti-corruption system? 6 In the effort to move from the conceptual to the empirical level, these problems provide the main stimulus for exploring the status and role of information technologies in the anti-corruption system.

Human right protection is a trend all over the world. Nowadays, there¡¦s no country that implements democratic constitution doesn¡¦t take Constitution as the basic regulation for human right protection, expecting to achieve the goal of protecting human right with the implementation of constitutional government. However, does human right receive absolute protection? Should conflicts occur between public interest and private interest, based on the consideration of public interest, restrictions shall be imposed on private interest. Fighting crimes to establish a society of justice, then there can be space created for individual basic rights. As progresses of the times and advancements of technology, techniques in collecting criminal evidences are renewed constantly. The more advanced high tech crime investigating instruments would have the greater inclination to violate people¡¦s rights. Although the society can¡¦t exist without controls to certain extent, an individual can¡¦t survive without freedom to certain degree, either. Communications surveillance, though a keen weapon applied to criminal investigation, would unavoidably clash with the maintenance of individual rights. High tech monitoring of communications surveillance would inevitably infringe upon personal privacy. As our society changes and develops rapidly, there¡¦s room derived for advancement and development concerning the delimitation of human rights protection and associated concepts. It¡¦s hoped that the problems dwelling in the legal system of communications protection and electronic surveillance of Republic of China can be examined based on administrative law, by means of its five frameworks, namely, basic principles, administrative organization, limitation of administrative power, administrative relief, and administrative supervision. Furthermore, it¡¦s expected that practical suggestions against items required improvement in existing legal system can be brought forth herein pursuant to the discourse of five major frameworks of administrative law mentioned hereinbefore to make the legal system of communications protection and electronic surveillance more sound and complete.

This research asserts that all the government agencies must abide by law in the exercise of public authority in democratic society. This research is developed based on the view of administrative laws, under the Five Frameworks of The Administrative Laws¡XPrinciples of Sexual Harassment Prevention Act, Administrative Organization, Administrative Power, Administrative Relief and Administrative Supervision. Scholars from all over the world and organizations of public and private sectors have been endeavoring in research of sexual harassment prevention and attempt to put forward possible solutions. As one of the law enforcement officials, the researcher believes that it¡¦s an inescapable duty to see into this issue seriously. The scope of application, rights protection and relief methods of relevant laws should be defined clearly. Thus, it will relieve the trauma of those who suffer from sexual abuse, find proper solution and minimize the damage. The methodologies this research adopts are Comparative Analysis, Literature Studies and Induction Research. The preliminary chapters define the ¡§Sexual Harassment¡¨ and its relevant laws, introduce the three laws stipulated against sexual harassment¡XGender Equality Education Act, Gender Equality in Employment Act and Sexual Harassment Prevention Act. Further, the identification of sexual harassment and its lawful application, the problems which existing laws confront are discussed in the following chapters. Consequently, for those unsolved problems, this research wishes to bring forward concrete suggestion for the legislators, under the five aforementioned frameworks, as reference to amend existing laws and regulations in the future. Sexual harassment is by no means a single problem, but a collective issue of politics, society, economy, power/rights, gender and social classes. Therefore, the civilization and progress should be founded on the fair treatment of genders and protecting victims¡¦ legal rights. The attitude we take towards the gender issue will deeply impact our life and quality of human rights. To pay back the victims with the justice, create an equal genders environment will rely on the awareness of equality and attitude of life one builds up.

The principal tasks for police officers aren¡¦t beyond the scope of ¡§Society Security¡¨ and ¡§Traffic.¡¨ However, police authorities used to attach greater importance to social security than traffic in the past and were unaware of the harmfulness generated from traffic problems. The casualties as well as property loss resulting from traffic accidents are not less than and go even farther than that of social security (criminal) cases in fact. For traffic problems didn¡¦t receive deserved attention, domestic traffic security and order weren¡¦t improved for so many years. Among which, drunk driving constituted one of the major causes for traffic accident fatalities. Therefore, drunk driving enforcement becomes one of the major tasks for police officers upon traffic law enforcement. Owing to the lack of initiation requirements, execution procedures, and relief measures for drunk driving, necessary inspection and regulation upon communications and other equipments, and control district delimitation, ¡§excessive enforcement¡¨ and ¡§excessive control¡¨ then occurred frequently and public complaints were therefore incurred repeatedly. To prevent tragedies caused by drunk driving and decrease social problems derived consequently, we shall make observation in aspects of society, politics, economy, and legal system as well as consult and deliberate in the advantages of other countries to remedy defects. The final conclusion shall be made after being examined from aspects of administrative organization, personnel system, fund budget, and the design and application of limitation of administrative power, with proper rehabilitation by means of administrative relief, and further monitored by the internal and external control mechanism of administrative supervision. The complete and practicable suggestions produced accordingly can therefore provide well-established laws and decrees for police officers to follow pursuant to the system and can accomplish tasks according to law, reason, and feeling in handling measures, and therefore gain instant result upon the law enforcement of drunk driving. Police officers¡¦ power and prestige in duty execution then can be established and people¡¦s rights can be protected as well to effectively prevent the occurrence of drunk driving accidents. It¡¦s hoped that the problems dwelling in the legal system applied for drunk driving enforcement of the Republic of China can be examined and found by administrative law, with the five major frameworks derived from which, namely, basic principles, administrative organization, limitation of administrative authority, administrative relief, and administrative supervision. And it¡¦s further expected that with the discourse of administrative law¡¦s five major frameworks mentioned above, specific suggestions against the items required for reformation in existing legal system can be brought forth to provide solution or reference for legislative agency in future legislation, establish complete legal system of drunk driving enforcement by police officer, and therefore improve the image of the Republic of China as a country ruled by law.

As it¡¦s proclaimed in Article 14 of Constitution of the Republic of China that ¡§The people shall have freedom of assembly and association,¡¨ the government shall stipulate associated laws to protect people¡¦s freedom to exercise the said right. However, since the practice of Constitution, owing to political environment, the constitution of laws guaranteeing people¡¦s freedom to exercise the right of assembly and parade had been delayed for a long time. Assembly and Parade Law was not promulgated until Jan. 20, 1988 after the martial law declared to be ended. Hence, people can claim the right of assembly and parade and police authority can execute tasks regarding order maintenance accordingly. Nevertheless, the said Law was stipulated under the time and environment that the concept, ¡§Value Society Security above Human Right¡¨ being purposely reinforced. Therefore, controls over people¡¦s basic rights still remained therein. Though Assembly and Parade Law was amended twice and supported by Interpretation of Shih-Zih No. 445 made by Council of Grand Justices, there seemed no changes made on the entire regulation and the shadow of controlling still existed. Therefore, unceasing criticism was generated arguing that it is violation of Constitution. As a result, it¡¦s essential to make a research on how to formulate the legal system of assembly and parade that will ¡§protect people¡¦s freedom of assembly and parade¡¨ as well as ¡§maintain social orders.¡¨ The legal system of assembly and parade of Republic of China is examined herein by the basic methods of administrative law, namely, the five major frameworks, including administrative principles, administrative organization, limitation of administrative power, administrative relief, and administrative supervision from every respect and viewpoint. Meanwhile, bibliography exploration, historical narration, comparative analysis, and generalization analysis are adopted as the principal research approaches to explore whether there¡¦s any improvement required regarding ¡§Legal System of Assembly and Parade¡¨ on the basis of five major frameworks of administrative law. Additionally, practical implementation and suggestions for regulations and actions concerning future assembly and parade are hereby provided to achieve the goal of protecting people¡¦s freedom to assemble and parade and maintaining social orders as well. With the exploration by means of five major frameworks of administrative law, the assembly and parade legal system of Republic of China has formed the prototype as that of countries ruled by law. However, problems such as inappropriate system design, incomplete decrees and laws, uncertain legal concepts and unclear meanings as well as rigid adherence to bureaucrat system still remained in the existing legal system of assembly and parade of Republic of China. As a whole, restriction exceeding protection is also the major cause generating criticism against the legal system of assembly and parade presently. Under this condition, it would result in endless ¡§Police-Civilian Conflicts¡¨ emerged upon assemblies and parades and even the freedom and right that people have for assembly and parade will be violated illegally. The governor shall examine the problems dwelling in assembly and parade legal system of Republic of China on the basis of five major frameworks of administrative law one by one as soon as possible and further to review and perform modification. This is exactly the method of radical reformation and solution.