Participants' Reactions to Special Assignment Programs: Favorability and Predictors

1989 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-439
Author(s):  
M. Susan Taylor ◽  
Cristina M. Giannantonio ◽  
Judy S. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
Program Administrators ◽  
The Past ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Career Progress

Career experts have long advocated the use of special assignment programs for spurring the career progress of talented individuals. While these programs have existed for many years in the private sector, within the past two decades they have also emerged in the public domain as well. Although special assignment programs generally receive enthusiastic endorsement from the organizations that employ them, there have been few empirical attempts to examine their effects. This article examines participants' reactions to a special assignment program that had operated in the executive branch of the federal government for twenty years. A survey was sent to all 275 individuals who had participated in the special assignment program during any point in its twenty year existence. A total of 131 participants (48%) completed the survey. Results indicated that participants generally react favorably to their experiences and suggested ways to further increase the favorability of such reactions. The article suggests that program administrators, applicants, and sponsoring agencies be aware of the factors that contribute to the success of special assignment programs.

scholarly journals Entre l’arbre et l’écorce : la recherche criminologique au Canada (1960-1985)

Criminologie ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Denis Szabo
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The author describes the relationship that has been established over the past 25 years between university centres doing research in criminology and the Federal Government, pointing out both areas of agreement and as an expert and participant in the field, advocates a pluralistic type of collaboration between the University and the public authorities.

scholarly journals Murals make (Our) history: paintings on the wall as media of cultural memory. Interpreting the current state of Warsaw’s commemorative murals

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 114-135
Author(s):  
Ilija Upalevski
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Secondary Memory ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Complex State ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State

The aim of this paper is to closely examine the ways in which the outdoor mural as a form of art. has been used for commemorative purposes in the context of the Polish capital. Drawing on content analysis this paper will argue that regardless of their democratic potential and potential to act subversively in the public domain, the commemorative murals in the case of Warsaw are predominantly reflecting the official narrations/representations of the past and thus reproducing the state-supported, nation-centered, male-dominated perspective of history. Referring to Wulf Kansteiner methodological instructions, the paper introduces the notion of “secondary” memory makers in order to describe the position the mural makers are occupying in the field of Warsaw’s cultural memory. It will also be argued that mural makers, by adapting their works to the demands of the cultural institutions responsible for the memory production and dominant discourses of memory from mainly pragmatic reasons, are forgoing a fair portion of the democratic and subversive potential of the murals. As such, the paintings on the walls are, intentionally or not, further involved in more complex state-sponsored strategies of nationalizing the public space.

Beyond the Capitalist Workplace

2020 ◽  
pp. 048661342091598
Author(s):  
Costas Panayotakis
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
The Public ◽  
Surplus Production ◽  
The Past ◽  
Labor Power ◽  
Working People

This article analyzes the public and household sectors of the economy as sites of surplus production within contemporary capitalist societies. It also shows how the coexistence of structurally distinct spheres of surplus production creates divisions among workers in the private, public, and household sectors of the economy, thus amplifying the racial, gender, and other divisions that have often in the past kept working people divided. Fueling these cross-sector divisions is the appearance that private-sector workers are paid for their labor rather than for their labor power. Thus, this article also explores an implication of this appearance, which Karl Marx, the thinker who did the most to expose it, did not himself explore.

Breaking Consensual Silence through Storytelling: Stories of Conscience and Social Justice in Emer Martin's The Cruelty Men

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 167-185
Author(s):  
M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Healing Power ◽  
Institutional Abuse

In recent years Irish society has witnessed an upheaval in public opinion before the discovery of conspiracies of silence hiding stories of institutional abuse which had remained concealed from the public domain. These narratives of secrecy have been consistently identified and stripped away by writers like Emer Martin whose novel The Cruelty Men (2018) denounces the fact that forgetting and silence are woven into the fabric of society and politics in Ireland. Drawing on the notion of consensual silence, the article explores The Cruelty Men as a text that addresses institutional abuse and challenges official discourses by rescuing the unheard voices of the victims and inscribing their untold stories into the nation’s cultural narrative. As the article will discuss, ultimately the novel calls attention to the healing power of storytelling as a way of renegotiating  Ireland’s relationship with the silences of the past.

Measures and Tools

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Coghlan
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tourism Management

The old adage says that “you can only manage what you can measure”. Yet, it is also perhaps true that in the tourism space, where the public and private domains collide, perhaps a little more imagination is required, and sustainable tourism management tools may be required to cover the intangible aspects of tourism as well as the more tangible aspects. This is because the public domain, as highlighted in Chapter 2, holds places and spaces in the public trust – the places and spaces that we share with family and friends, that recharge and rejuvenate, that hold aesthetic, recreational, functional and emotional values for us, as residents of those spaces and places. Meanwhile, the private sector sees those same places and spaces as opportunities to generate a return on investment, often transforming them into economically productive areas through processes of urban regeneration or concessions on public land.

How Response Contractors are Remaining Vigilant and Viable Despite the Downward Trend in Oil Spills

2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (1) ◽  
pp. 809-811
Author(s):  
David Usher
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Local State ◽  
Regulatory Mechanisms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Oil Spill Response ◽  
Homeland Defense

ABSTRACT The number of oil spills occurring in U.S. waters from vessels and facilities has decreased steadily over the past several years, and professional oil spill response contractors have found themselves in the position of bolstering and/or securing other lines of work to ensure they remain vigilant, viable, and ready to respond when and where needed. Coupled with a down economy, spill contractors – like other businesses – are making tough decisions on how to do more with less, while maintaining the same level of readiness expected of them from their clients – which includes the oil and maritime industries, along with local, state and federal government. While the regulatory mechanisms are in place to exercise contractor resources between spill events, they are not enforced or utilized enough. Of equal importance is ensuring that the response contractor is compensated for deploying its resources during these drill scenarios. This paper will discuss the measures private sector response contractors are taking to ensure they remain ready to respond, other business lines they are pursuing, and how the regulatory authorities can assist in maintaining the national protection and readiness provided by the private sector response community. It will also discuss how the private sector response community can assist with the national Homeland Defense initiatives, most notably mitigation services for terrorist actions that ultimately impact the environment

scholarly journals Assessing Cultural Management of Abuja Carnival

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Christopher Elochukwu Unegbu
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
Culturally Based ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Security Challenge ◽  
Artistic Directors ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Diverse Cultures

Culture is a major instrument for identifying a people. Over time, Nigeria’s diverse cultures have been celebrated with fun-fare and pageantry for tourism carnivals. The management process of such cultural celebrations becomes worthy of study. The concept of Cultural management is basically out to examine the influence of administration on a culturally-based festival like the Abuja carnival. The idea is to examine the past visions of the Carnival in comparison with the present challenges with the view of clearly solving such problems to ensure a more globally accepted product. The study employs the deductive and analytical methods of research to investigate the concept of Cultural management in Abuja Carnival. In the deductive method, we derive some vital information relevant to the study through interviews with some Artistic directors of the Abuja carnival. For the analytical method, we assess the cultural management through the review of related literatures, magazines and performance brochures. Among others, the study reveals that Abuja Carnival suffers serious funding challenge from its major sponsor which is the federal government of Nigeria. Also, despite having the same preparatory process, the approaches of the studied directors vary according to their perception of what a carnival should be which does not maintain the overall vision of the carnival. It also came to the fore that certain external factors such as national security challenge contribute to the factors militating against the targeted increase in foreign troupe participation in the Carnival. The study concludes that Abuja carnival have increased private sector sponsorship which will lessen the bureaucratic challenge from the major sponsor. Furthermore, private-sector driven sponsorship will accommodate healthy competition and encourage better result in revenue generation among others.

Apologies, Restitutions, and Compensation

2018 ◽  
pp. 696-732
Author(s):  
Robert Aldrich
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Monetary Compensation

Coming to terms with an imperial past has involved difficult and often divisive questions of how far the inhabitants of former imperial powers should accept responsibility for the deeds of their predecessors, how far back into the past one might go to remedy such injustices, and what happens when the reparative demands of injured parties conflict with the security and well-being of others. This chapter looks at a range of cases and claims for restitution, reparation, and apologies in order to consider how the imperial past has entered into the public domain, the selectivity of imperial memories, and processes of reconciliation. After discussing the historical conjuncture in which demands have arisen, this chapter explores three types of ‘reparative politics’: apologies and expressions of regret for colonial-era actions, restitution of heritage objects in metropolitan collections, and monetary compensation for the perceived crimes of colonialism.

More thoughts on St Mary's Island

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
David Levitt
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
New Ideas

It is good to see innovations in housing design being applied to the private sector; the ultimate test of any new idea is that someone should want to invest in it. All too often in the past any experimentation in housing design was mainly confined to the public sector. Lack of ‘market testing’ was one of the main reasons why brave experiments sometimes went horribly wrong. All through those years of experimentation, between say 1955 and 1975, with the exception of Eric Lyons' Span housing, architects found fertile ground in public sector – local authority – commissions. It is only now, with loads of government encouragement, that major developers are beginning to sponsor new ideas in design, in higher density, ‘joined up’ housing.

To: “Ultrasonic Propagation in Solenhofen Limestone at High Pressures” (August 1978, p. 1014–1017), by I. J. Fritz

Geophysics ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 864-864
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
High Pressures ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ultrasonic Propagation ◽  
Self Potential

Two recent technical papers were erroneously copyrighted by SEG. The papers were produced by agencies of the federal government and are in the public domain. The papers are: “Ultrasonic Propagation in Solenhofen Limestone at High Pressures” (August 1978, p. 1014–1017), by I. J. Fritz; and “Calculations of Self‐Potential Anomalies near Vertical Contacts” (February 1979, p. 195–205), by David V. Fitterman.

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