by Tsim Sin Ling Ruth. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1988. / Bibliography: leaves 41-42.

In recent years public sector organisations in New South Wales have been subjected to changes in their operating environments. Changes have included micro-economic reforms by Government and changes in stakeholders' expectations of how public sector organisations manage their affairs. The need to deal with the increasing number and diversity of issues arising, has motivated public sector managers to become increasingly involved in strategic management. The focus of this research was to study how strategic issues were processed within the context of their approach to strategic management. Strategic issue management has been proposed as an appropriate management system for use in conditions of moderate to high levels of environmental turbulence as a means to providing a mechanism for real time response to emerging issues. Three of the four organisations in the study indicated a progressive increase in perceptions of environmental turbulence over a six year period to points mid way between the 'Changing' and 'Discontinuous' levels on the Ansoff and McDonnell (1990) environmental turbulence scale. Research findings indicted that all four public sector organisations undertake a form of strategic issue management which is separate to the periodic strategic planning cycle. In answer to the criticism of the theoretical void which is seen to exist in linking organisational response to changes in the environment, theoretical models were developed for the Sensing, Deciding and Executing functions of the processing dimension of Ansoff's (1987) proposed paradigm of emerging strategic behaviour. The models provide the framework for tracking how eight strategic issues were processed in four public sector organisations. Field research-was conducted over a fifteen month period collecting both secondary and primary data. A case study research methodology was developed for the project following a review of the relevant literature. There were clear indications that the Sensing, Deciding and Executing functions were performed and that the issues under study passed through numerous phases during their processing cycles. The interconnected and iterative nature of issue processing across the Sensing, Deciding and Executing phases were demonstrated in the research findings.

Background Social Media is a communication tool employed nowadays not only by multinational or middle-size and small companies, but also by non-profit organizations and governmental institutions. Today, more than 60% of the Swedish municipalities are participating on Social Media platforms with the purpose of engaging with the citizens. Online Engagement is not radically different from traditional Engagement, just as Citizen Engagement has close similarities with Customer Engagement. All of the Engagement facets are comparatively discussed in the current research paper, and four Dimensions, each including several factors that might differentiate Engaged and Unengaged users are described and used in the empirical study, in order to fulfill the purpose of the research. Purpose This research paper investigates the factors that differentiate the users from different stages of engagment on public institution’s social media profiles. Method The factors differentiating users from different stages of Engagement were identified by using relevant theories and previous research, and by conducting a quantitative study on Trafikverket, Swedish Transport Administration, Facebook profile followers. Conclusion Five factors were tested throughout the statistical data analysis. Three of them were found to be signifcantly different for users that are engaged within the profile and users that are not engaged. These factors are Usefulness, Privacy & Security and Communicaion & Relationship. Based on the findings and literature review, several suggestions for engaging with citizens, were proposed.

Thèse - Paris.

Thesis (D. Admin.)-University of Pretoria, 2004. / Abstract in English. Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 228-235).

Public institutions are becoming ever more dependent upon one another due to their complexity and specialized programs. There is a growing potential for duplication and/or overlap. It is in the context of an increasing need for coordinated action—especially among Federal agencies—that this dissertation is written. This dissertation posits a model for Federal interagency cooperation that moves beyond traditional interorganizational coordination literature and its exchange-based concept of cooperation. Drawing from the principles of authentic management founded in humanistic psychology and the negotiation literature, it suggests that such interorganizational cooperation is developed and nurtured at the micro level. Only through contactful engagement of the principals can the interests of the parties be revealed and dealt with to completion. In addition, this dissertation recognizes the unique character of such engagement when it takes place in pursuit of the public interest, as opposed to more traditional private settings. This dissertation examines this model in the context of a unique interagency organization—the Interagency Regulatory Liaison Group (IRLG). This IRLG was formed by the chief executives of the five Federal health and safety regulatory agencies in 1977. It operated for four years with their personal involvement and enthusiasm until its charter expired in 1981. Involving hundreds of employees from the five agencies, it stands as a unique organizational experiment in cooperative activities. This dissertation applies the IRLG experience, as seen through in-depth interviews with the agency heads and staff, to the micro-level model. The IRLG experience illustrated the model concepts of contactful engagement and integrative bargaining at the Federal interagency level. It showed the importance of the agential perspective on the part of the chief executives as they worked together on joint projects. It also illustrated the essentiality of building a lingua franca—a common language—for discussion and resolution of interorganizational differences. Finally, the emphasis in the model on maintaining both the substantive and process aspects on on-going interagency coordination is shown in the IRLG. / Ph. D.

Presented thesis called "Obliged entities according to The Act on Free Acces to Information" deals with obliged entities in compliance with current legislation, also with legislative development and with current specification in The Act on Free Access to Information. This thesis brings comprehensive view of current problems which arise from practice, primarily from point of view of legal science and specialized literature. Field of obliged entities is especially recently the frequent subject of decision-making practice, which is executed by the constitutional and administrative justice. Mentioned courts spread the number of obliged entities by their judicial working. Author of this thesis tries to present his own solutions of problems, which are related to current legal regulations. Obliged entities are those which have an obligation to provide informatik related to their activities in compliance with The Act on Free Access to Information. The Act on Free Access to Information enumerates four circles of obliged entities. These entities are state authorities, communal authorities and their bodies, public institutions and subjects to whom the law has entrusted deciding about legal matters, legally protected interests or duties of natural persons or legal entities in the area of public administration,...

Persons subject to duty under Act. No. 106/1999 Sb., on a free access to information Abstract Thesis Persons subject to duty under Act. No.106/1999 Sb., on a free access to information, which aim is to uncover the particular groups of the obliged persons and to point out to the most frequent problems, that during the application of the mentioned legal regulation around this groups occur, consists of the eleven parts in total. The first part deals with the right to information in its wide connection - as a constitonally embodied right, that on the one hand helps to fulfil partial principle of transparency of the public administration, which is a subset and a component of the democratic state of law principle, and on the other hand is means of effective utilization of the another rights, especially the political ones. The second chapter gives the definition of the term "information" and pursues to its typical attributes. This part of the text also points out the potentional non-standard handling with information and its legal consequences following from the various legal regulations. The third part summarizes the previous historical evolution of the emboding of right to information and the access to it in the worldwide and european context. The fourth chapter gives the Czech republic current legal adjustement...

Les arts plastiques à Nice dans l’entre-deux-guerres se développent au sein de deux catégories d’institutions : les institutions privées et les institutions publiques. Ces deux catégories ne sont pas homogènes étant donné la variété des structures, des objectifs et des formes d’art plébiscitées au sein des institutions publiques et privées. La période étudiée s’étend de 1919, au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, jusqu’au début de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale en 1939 ; elle est marquée par les conséquences de la Grande Guerre, la crise économique mondiale de 1929 et la montée des tensions internationales au cours des années trente. Malgré l’effondrement du tourisme de luxe qui touche la ville de Nice, la cité, favorisée par une stabilité politique municipale, entreprend au cours de cette période de vastes projets de modernisation. Pendant la Belle Époque la ville de Nice, capitale d’hiver, est surtout associée aux loisirs fastueux et distractions légères de la clientèle mondaine et aristocratique. Pendant la période de l’entre-deux-guerres, les responsables culturels de la ville, soutenus par certains responsables locaux dont en premier lieu Jean Médecin, vont essayer de donner à la ville une autre image, par le biais de la création de nouvelles institutions culturelles et artistiques publiques, dont en particulier : le Musée Masséna en 1921, le Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret en 1928, et le C.U.M. en 1933. Une fois créées, ces institutions mettent en place de nouvelles formes d’activités en espérant séduire le public local. Ces deux types d’institutions, privées et publiques, œuvrant en faveur des arts plastiques, participent à l’enrichissement culturel de la ville de Nice dans l’entre-deux-guerres. / Plastic arts in Nice between the two world wars are developing inside two categories of institutions: private and public. These two categories are not homogenous taking into account the variety of structures, objectives and art forms of those private and public institutions. Our period of study goes from the end of the First World War in 1919 until the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, it is punctuated by the consequences of the First World War, the 1929 world economic crisis and the escalation of international tensions in the thirties. In spite of the luxury tourism collapse which affects Nice at the time, the city benefits from the political stability and realizes during this period several big modernization projects. Considered as winter capital during the Belle Époque, the city of Nice is since associated to beautiful parties and carefree luxury life led by the aristocratic society. Between the two world wars, the cultural authorities supported particularly by the mayor Jean Médecin, will try to give a different image to the city, through the creation of the new public institutions related to culture and arts, which are: the Massena Museum in 1921, The Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret Museum in 1928, the C.U.M. (Mediterranean University Centre) in 1933. Those institutions then elaborate new kinds of activities in order to attract local visitors. These two types of institutions, private and public, working in the field of plastic arts, contribute to the cultural enrichment of the city of Nice between the two world wars.