Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaf [64]. / by Tomas Rivera. / M.C.P.

Thesis (MPA.) -- University of LImpopo, 2017 / The Internship programme has been used by many governments and employers throughout the world to integrate academic theory learnt at schools and Universities and practiced in the workplace. The South African government introduced the Public Service Internship Programme(PSIP) in 2002, and one of its objectives was to reduce the high rate of graduates who are unemployable by appointing them as graduate interns for a period of 12 months, thus providing them with the public service skills and experience required by the Public Service in South Africa. The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of the Public Service Internship Programme with regards to its contribution to the employability of graduates: The case of the Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment, and Tourism in the Republic of South Africa. The study used the qualitative research method to interview 80 respondents ranging from Executive Management, Senior Management, Middle Management, Junior Management, Operational employees, Mentors and Graduate Interns to solicit their views and understanding on the implementation of the Public Service Internship Programme within the department. The study used content analysis to analyse data obtained from the 80 research respondents. The analysis was made using themes in line with thematic content analysis. The research findings confirmed that Graduate Interns are obtaining the necessary and relevant skills that will make them employable after completing the PSIP. The PSIP imparts Graduate Interns with skills that contribute to their employability in both the public and private sectors. It instils confidence and provides exposure and experience to Graduates Interns to have competitive advantages during job interviews in the public service and the private sector. It is a very useful programme that must be supported and encouraged in the public service as it assisted many to get jobs and reduce the rate of graduate unemployment in South Africa. It is relevant, useful and necessary to deal with the unemployment of graduates. It is successful and must be promoted because most Graduate Interns are employable during and after the completion of the programme. The study made the following recommendations; That all stakeholders must be inducted on PSIP to ensure its successful implementation, mentors must be trained on mentoring and coaching prior to their appointment, Mentoring vi be linked to the key result areas and key performance indicators of employees for it to be recognised in terms of the Performance Management and Development System, PSIP must be monitored and evaluated like all other government programmes, that the assignment of duties to graduates must be in line with their qualifications and their careers, graduate interns should be allowed to attend departmental meetings and functions as part of their learning areas, that those interning on the departmental Human Resources Management and Development be granted access to the PERSAL system as it is an important system in the South African Public Service, exit interviews must be conducted to get feedback from the interns on the implementation of the programme, and that proper allocation of offices or work spaces must be done by the department to enhance and improve the working conditions of the Graduate Interns

Thesis (MPA.) -- University of LImpopo, 2017 / The Internship programme has been used by many governments and employers throughout the world to integrate academic theory learnt at schools and Universities and practiced in the workplace. The South African government introduced the Public Service Internship Programme(PSIP) in 2002, and one of its objectives was to reduce the high rate of graduates who are unemployable by appointing them as graduate interns for a period of 12 months, thus providing them with the public service skills and experience required by the Public Service in South Africa. The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of the Public Service Internship Programme with regards to its contribution to the employability of graduates: The case of the Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment, and Tourism in the Republic of South Africa. The study used the qualitative research method to interview 80 respondents ranging from Executive Management, Senior Management, Middle Management, Junior Management, Operational employees, Mentors and Graduate Interns to solicit their views and understanding on the implementation of the Public Service Internship Programme within the department. The study used content analysis to analyse data obtained from the 80 research respondents. The analysis was made using themes in line with thematic content analysis. The research findings confirmed that Graduate Interns are obtaining the necessary and relevant skills that will make them employable after completing the PSIP. The PSIP imparts Graduate Interns with skills that contribute to their employability in both the public and private sectors. It instils confidence and provides exposure and experience to Graduates Interns to have competitive advantages during job interviews in the public service and the private sector. It is a very useful programme that must be supported and encouraged in the public service as it assisted many to get jobs and reduce the rate of graduate unemployment in South Africa. It is relevant, useful and necessary to deal with the unemployment of graduates. It is successful and must be promoted because most Graduate Interns are employable during and after the completion of the programme. The study made the following recommendations; That all stakeholders must be inducted on PSIP to ensure its successful implementation, mentors must be trained on mentoring and coaching prior to their appointment, Mentoring vi be linked to the key result areas and key performance indicators of employees for it to be recognised in terms of the Performance Management and Development System, PSIP must be monitored and evaluated like all other government programmes, that the assignment of duties to graduates must be in line with their qualifications and their careers, graduate interns should be allowed to attend departmental meetings and functions as part of their learning areas, that those interning on the departmental Human Resources Management and Development be granted access to the PERSAL system as it is an important system in the South African Public Service, exit interviews must be conducted to get feedback from the interns on the implementation of the programme, and that proper allocation of offices or work spaces must be done by the department to enhance and improve the working conditions of the Graduate Interns .

The Commonwealth parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was established in 1913 and to the end of 1995 had produced 397 reports on government expenditure and administration, with almost all its recommendations implemented by government. However despite the Committee's prominence among the instruments parliament has used to oversight the executive, not only does it lack clear legislative authority for major areas of its activities but its specific purpose is not defined in its legislation. Among other things the latter omission renders proper evaluation of the PAC's effectiveness impossible, as objectives are a necessary prerequisite to assessment. This thesis establishes the de facto purpose of the Committee by tracing the development of standing public accounts committees generally, and by analysing the PAC's work as shown by its output of tabled reports. In that development, six evolutionary phases are identified: the PAC's roots in the move to a parliamentary control of the administration of government expenditure in Britain from the 1780s; its genesis in the 1850s with the concept of the standing public accounts committee, to be concerned with regularity and probity in government expenditure; its origins in the establishment of the British standing public accounts committee , in 1861, stressing high standards of government accounting, audit and reporting; its establishment in the Commonwealth, concentrating on information on departmental activities, efficient implementation of government programs and provision of policy advice; its re-establishment in 1951, stressing parliamentary control of government financial administration; and its operations from 1980, pressing for economic fundamentalist change in the public sector. Their output shows that in these phases the committees concerned displayed characteristic standing public accounts committee activism and independence in utilising the wording of their enabling documentation to adapt themselves to changes in their environment by pursuing a corresponding different mix of one or more of the following concurrent immediate aims: ensuring adequate systems of government accounting, audit and reporting; ensuring probity and regularity in departmental expenditure; obtaining and disseminating information on departmental activities; ensuring high standards of departmental administration and management; providing policy advice to executive government; and ensuring economic, efficient and effective government spending. Together these attributes and practices have made the PAC a parliamentary instrument of unequalled flexibility with a single continuing underlying aim - a purpose not concerning the public accounts per se, but directed at achieving high standards of management and administration in government by calling the Commonwealth's public service to account for its expenditure and activities.

The study explores how the Swedish public service TV institution imagines a child audience in a societal context where the broadcasting landscape hastransformed greatly over the past thirty years and where TV is seen to  constitute both risks and benefits for children. The concept of TV for children is established to broaden the scope for studying what has been broadcast for a child audience on public service TV. The empirical material consists of both broadcasting policy documents and an extensive selection of public service TV programmes targeting children, selected from 1980, 1992 and 2007, which marked before, during and after the abolishment of the Swedish public service broadcasting monopoly. The policy texts, as well as TV content, TV talk and TV visuality, have been studied to investigate how the imagined child audience is configured. The study shows that when the category ‘children’ is mentioned in the broadcasting legislation, they are seen foremost as being at risk of being harmed by commercial messages and only gradually as explicitly entitled to TV programme content meant for them. The broadcasting companies, however, have broadcast programming for the child audience during the whole research period. Adult notions form how children are represented. In the TV programmes, these notions have remained largely unchanged over the studied years, even if technology, legislative demands and approaches to narration also provide opportunities for change. The imagined child TV audience configured in TV for children is knowledgeable, but wanting and in need of more knowledge. This audience is also imagined as being close to nature, eager to interact with the programmes and activate on basically all occasions, which opposes the discursive view according to which children are passivized by television. This study of public service TV for children points to and questions discursive ideas about what it means to be a child in a mediated society. / Denna studie undersöker hur den svenska public service-TV-institutionen förställer sig en barnpublik i en samhällelig kontext där medielandskapet har genomgått förändringar under de senaste 30 åren och där TV ses som både en risk och en tillgång för barn. I avhandlingen etableras begreppet TV för barn för att visa på och lyfta fram bredden av den TV som riktar sig till en barnpublik. Studiens empiriska material består av lagstiftning, tillstånd och årsrapporter inom TV området och av ett omfattande urval av public service-TV-program för barn. Materialet har valts från 1980, 1992 och 2007, vilket betyder före, under och efter det svenska public service-monopolets upplösning. Dokumenten och TVprogrammen har studerats för att se hur föreställningar om en barn-TV-publik konfigureras. Studien visar att när kategorin barn efterhand nämns i TV lagstiftning och sändningstillstånd ses TV främst som en risk för barn, och då i förhållande till reklam. Först senare skrivs det fram explicit i dessa dokument att barn också ska ha tillgång till TV program. Public service företagen har dock sänt program för en barnpublik under hela undersökningsperioden. I TV-programmen har förställningarna om barn varit mer eller mindre stabila över den studerade tidsperioden, även om ny kommunikationsteknologi, förändringar i sändningstillstånden och sätt att berätta i TV har möjliggjort förändring. Studien visar att den tänkta barn-TV-publiken som konfigureras i TV-programmen är kunnig, men vill och behöver veta mer. Publiken föreställs också vara nära naturen, vilja interagera med TV och vara aktiv i nästan alla situationer. Detta ger en helt annan bild av barn-TV-publiken än den diskursiva föreställningen om det passiva barnet framför TV:n. Den här studien av public service-TV för barn påvisar och ifrågasätter diskursiva idéer om vad det innebär att kategoriseras som barn i ett medierat samhälle.

<p>Det har under senare år flitigt debatterats om Public Service vara eller inte vara. Vissa hävdar att Public Service är en föråldrad kvarleva av monopoltiden som borde avvecklas och att TV-utbudet ändå skulle hålla en hög kvalitet. Andra däremot menar att Public Service idag är ”viktigare än någonsin”. Vad man än tycker om programutbudet som SVT, SR och UR har kan man inte förneka att det ligger mycket tid och arbete bakom deras produktioner.</p><p>Uppsatsen behandlar ämnet Public Service i relation till det samiska programutbudet i Sveriges television. Syftet med denna studie är att granska Public Service-relaterade dokument, så som propositioner rörande ämnet, vilka krav Sveriges television har på sig samt om de uppfyller dessa. Med den nationella minoritetsgruppen samer som exempel har vi för avsikt att skildra komplexiteten runt minoritets-ansvaret. Exempel på frågor som behandlas är:</p><p>Vem formulerar detta minoritetsansvar och vad innebär det?</p><p>Hur definierar staten och SVT vem som är same, om man utgår ifrån styrdokument för Public Service?</p><p>Via systematisk undersökning av dessa texter, med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys samt kritisk granskning, har vi analyserat innehållet utifrån våra frågeställningar.</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [121]-137). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [121]-137). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1975. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 356-367).

Orientador: José Carlos de Oliveira / Resumo: Das mudanças que o Estado sofreu no decorrer dos tempos, ultimamente, tem este passado por novas e relevantes alterações. De Estado prestador de serviços, obrando diretamente para a busca do bem estar de sua população, sob a forma de Welfare State, mudou seu enfoque. Diante da crise vivida por este tipo de Estado, impossibilitado de manter e acompanhar - no que diz respeito à prestação de serviços públicos - a evolução tecnológica e a necessidade de cada vez maior demanda na prestação destes, aliado à falta de recursos para continuidade dos apoios e auxílios prestados, obrigatoriamente, viu-se diante da necessidade de rever suas funções e atuações, a fim de não correr o risco de causar um colapso nas relações a seu cargo. Assim, instalou-se o que se convencionou chamar de Estado Regulador ou Subsidiário. Transferiu-se a prestação direta de alguns serviços públicos aos particulares, deixando o Estado de prestá-los, sem, no entanto, abrir mão de seu poder de polícia, ou seja, das funções de planejar, incentivar, regular e fiscalizar a área econômica. Agora, uma nova fase da história se instala, com um Estado mais enxuto, menor, porém não menos presente e atuante. / Abstract: The changings suffered by the State in elapsing of the times, lately it has suffered new and important alterations. From State render services, working directly for the search of well being of its population, which is, Welfare State, changed its focus. Before the crisis lived by this kind of State, disabled maintaining and accompaning with respect to the installment of public services, the technological evolution and need of every time bigger demand in the installment of these, allied to the lack of resources to continuity of the supports and aids then rendered, obligatorily there was the need to review the functions and mainly performances of the State entily, in order not to run a risk of causing a collapse in the relationships to its position. Like this, it settled that stipulated call State Regulator and Inspector, that means, the direct installment was transfered of some public services into privates, stopping the State exercising the installment of these directly, without however, to give up hand of police power, that means, of planning, controling and fiscalization. Now a new phase of the history settles, which a balanced, smaller State, even so not less present and active. / Mestre