Autocratic‚ Democratic‚ and Optimal Government: A Sketch W. A. Niskanen In his paper Niskanen provides valuable analysis of the effects of the voting rule‚ the progressivity of the tax structure‚ and the length of the fiscal horizon in democratic governments and interesting insights of the effect of alternative regimes on policies‚ such as war and immigration‚ that affect the number of people subject to the regime. His article follows Mancur Olson’s work called “Autocracy‚ Democracy‚ and Prosperity”
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Transformation or Transactional Leadership‚ a better concept for contemporary organisation (Organisational Behaviour and Relationship Management) To: By: Antony Pratap Ekambaram Subject & code: OBRM Email: Word Count: 2206 (24.04.2014) Executive Summary On understanding the requirement of a contemporary organisation and its high performance values‚ it is evident that the organisation needs to be involved constantly in change management and have a vision for diversity within its organisation
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Supplement Career-Oriented Majors Over the past years‚ liberal art majors have decreased‚ while career oriented majors have skyrocketed. Budget conscientious families and hard economic times have limited the scope of a student’s study plan. Liberal art students prepare by gaining exposure‚ so they may remain flexible in their career pathway. On the other hand‚ career-oriented majors prepare students for employment in a specific field of study. Students should have a career oriented major supplemented
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Bass and Riggio (2006) say‚ Transactional leadership consists of three dimensions: contingent reward and active and passive management-by-exception. Contingent reward involves the use of rewards for goal attainment. Active management-by-exception is setting clear expectations and active monitoring
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for your insightful post as you highlighted that the “putting people first” methodology is a result of Gary Bouch’s transformational leadership style. Transformational leaders such as Bouch‚ are the vehicles in organizations that secures a competitive advantage by motivating‚ empowering and inspiring the employees to attain organizational objectives (“Strategic Direction”‚ 2015). The components associated with this style of leadership start with‚ the innate ability and gift of idealized influence
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Project-wide or objective-oriented evaluations HSM/270 January 17‚ 2014 Project-wide or objective-oriented evaluations Checkpoint week 4 Project-wide an or Objective-oriented evaluations I believe both the project-wide and the objective-oriented evaluation plans could benefit the PEACE Domestic Violence Program‚ but the project wide evaluation would be better suited for the program. The project wide looks at the program as a whole‚ and can be setup for the staff‚ and the clients
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1950s: focus on efficient automation of existing processes 1960s: advent of 3gl‚ faster and more reliable computers 1970s: system development becomes more like an engineering discipline 1980s: major breakthrough with 4Gl‚ case tools‚ object oriented methods 1990s: focus on system integration‚ GUI applications‚ client/server platforms‚ Internet The new century: Web application development‚ wireless PDAs‚ component based applications 3. List and explain the different phases in the SDLC?
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Chapter 8 – Systems oriented theories 1. Introduction Rationale: Why corporate management might elect to voluntarily provide particular information to parties outside the organisation. (Page 250 & 251) Gray‚ Owen and Adams (1996): Legitimacy Theory and Stakeholder Theory are two theorietical perspectives that have been adopted by a number of researchers in recent years. The theories are sometimes referred to as “systems-oriented theories”. Within a systems-based perspective‚ the entity is assumed
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Problem-Oriented Policing Rod Taylor University of Phoenix Problem-Oriented Policing According to Dictionary.com‚ “policing is to regulate‚ control‚ or keep in order with or as if with a law enforcement agency.” The art of policing has changed significantly for many different reasons but mainly to accommodate the times. Crime rates have gone up substantially when compared to 50 years ago. Much of the reason why this may be is the easy accessibility to gory movies
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they seek people able to guide others and maximize performance. One of the thoughts that come to people on this is to achieve Leadership but to be able to do it‚ it is imperative to understand its meaning‚ its strengths‚ its weaknesses and all concepts that may help individuals and organizations to approach it in their modern world. Thanks to these needs‚ many researchers have been looking for answers and ways to represent what is leadership significance. The purpose of this essay is to analyze
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