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Author: Patricia McLagan
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781881052562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKs people reject authoritarian government, bureaucracy and the denial of human rights. Featuring an opportunity for readers to participate by progressively completing an organization assessment, this book is a practical, experience-based handbook for instituting, sustaining and nurturing the changes necessary today.
Author: Anna A. Amirkhanyan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1351379267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCitizen Participation in the Age of Contracting is based on a simple premise: in democracies, power originates with citizens. While citizen participation in government remains a central tenet of democracy, public service delivery structures are considerably more complex today than they were fifty years ago. Today, governments contract with private organizations to deliver a wide array of services. Yet, we know very little about how citizens influence government decisions and policies in the "hollow state." Based on nearly 100 interviews with public and private managers, our findings about the state of citizen participation in contract governance are somewhat disheartening. Public and private organizations engaged citizens in a number of ways. However, most of their efforts failed to shift the power structure in communities and did not give citizens a chance to fundamentally shape local priorities and programs. Instead, elected officials and professional staff largely maintained control over significant policy and administrative decisions. Widespread, but narrow in their forms and impact, the participation practices we uncovered did not live up to the ideals of democracy and self-governance. Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting is suitable for those who study public administration, as well as in other closely related fields such as nonprofit management and organizational behavior.
Author: Daina Middleton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-11-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1118402308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTurn intrinsic human desires into your most powerful marketing tool. Marketing in the Participation Age shows you how to rethink marketing. Transform consumers into active participants for your brand by capturing their interest, empowering them to contribute, and developing meaningful relationships that keep them involved. Learn how to create a marketing environment that fulfills your customers' desire to seek challenges and discover new things—and watch their participation yield greater revenues for your business. "Marketing is constantly evolving. Companies can't compete by using the same old, tired tools. This book provides fresh inspiration, with a new framework for doing things differently." —Sally Hogshead, author of Fascinate; inductee into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame "Participant marketing transformed the way we did business in the marketplace as an agency and provided a framework for doing business with clients that added unique value to their marketing efforts." —Kris Pinto, founder of Moxie Interactive
Author: Monroe G. Sirken
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 50
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 596
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Author: Geoff Hayward
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2021-10-26
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1800431929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearners with a VET background experience much higher rates of attrition compared to learners entering HE with academic qualifications. Degrees of Success explores the transition from vocational to higher education, and outlines what more can be done to support and provide improved access to HE for these learners.
Author: Dora L. Costa
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0226116220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 1998 Paul A. Samuelson Award given by TIAA-CREF, The Evolution of Retirement is the first comprehensive economic history of retirement in America. With life expectancies steadily increasing, the retirement rate of men over age 64 has risen drastically. Dora L. Costa looks at factors underlying this increase and shows the dramatic implications of her findings for both the general public and the U.S. government. Using statistical, and demographic concepts, Costa sheds light on such important topics as rising incomes and retirement, work and disease, the job prospects of older workers, living arrangements of the elderly, the development of a retirement lifestyle, and pensions and politics. "[Costa's] major contribution is to show that, even without Social Security and Medicare, retirement would have expanded dramatically."—Robert J. Samuelson, New Republic "An important book on a topic which has become popular with historians and is of major significance to politicians and economists."—Margaret Walsh, Business History
Author: Mr.Ravi Balakrishnan
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2015-04-02
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 1484315626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe U.S. labor force participation rate (LFPR) fell dramatically following the Great Recession and has yet to start recovering. A key question is how much of the post-2007 decline is reversible, something which is central to the policy debate. The key finding of this paper is that while around 1⁄4–? of the post-2007 decline is reversible, the LFPR will continue to decline given population aging. This paper’s measure of the “employment gap” also suggests that labor market slack remains and will only decline gradually, pointing to a still important role for stimulative macro-economic policies to help reach full employment. In addition, given the continued downward pressure on the LFPR, labor supply measures will be an essential component of the strategy to boost potential growth. Finally, stimulative macroeconomic and labor supply policies should also help reduce the scope for further hysteresis effects to develop (e.g., loss of skills, discouragement).
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 308
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