Administrative Leadership and Social Change

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Larry Luton
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Administrative Leadership ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Aldo Leopold ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
History Of ◽  
John Wesley Powell ◽  
Gifford Pinchot

Although the history of public administration has not received the attention it deserves, leadership is a topic that bas enjoyed periodic bursts of attention among those who are concerned with issues related to governance, management, and adminis­tration. Most often these treatments of leadership focus on leadership within an organizational structure, within a corpo­ration or a bureaucracy. This article adds to the literature on administrative leadership by examining examples of the lead­ership of public administrators in a larger context, in social movements. Public administrators focused on in this article include: John Wesley Powell, Gifford Pinchot, Aldo Leopold.

Public Administration In Ancient China: The Practice and Thought

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Vatche Gahrielian
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Early History ◽  
Military Strategy ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Sun Tzu ◽  
History Of

Modem public administrators can gain useful insights by studying centuries old administrative phenomena and philosophical teachings. This essay discusses the development of Chinese civil service and the important role it played during the early history of Chinese civilization. Approaches to public administration and governance in three important streams of political thought of ancient China-Taoism, Confucianism and Legalism - are explored, as well as similar ideas in Sun Tzu' s classic treatise on military strategy.

Pioneering Geologic Studies of the Black Hills, Dakota Territory, USA

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Aalto
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Black Hills ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Geologic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Geologic Map ◽  
Field Season ◽  
Thin Section Petrography ◽  
John Wesley Powell

Discovery of significant gold deposits in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory, in the early 1870s led to a Congressional mandate that organized geological exploration of the Hills be undertaken. Ferdinand V. Hayden (1829-1887), who had previously visited the region, principally to collect fossils, was thwarted in his efforts to oversee such exploration by the combined efforts of John Strong Newberry (1822-1892) and John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), who instead promoted Walter P. Jenney (1850-1904?) and Henry Newton (1845-1877), both colleagues of Newberry at the Columbia College School of Mines. In a four-month field season the Jenney/Newton Survey (1875) carefully examined some 6,000 square miles of the Black Hills. Newton then oversaw production of an extensive report on the geology, mineral resources and other aspects of natural history. The report included a detailed geologic map, numerous stratigraphic columns, interpretive figures illustrating the geomorphic evolution of the Hills, thin section petrography of samples collected and a general discussion of the geologic history. Of note are Newton's interpretations of laccolith formation and drainage evolution. Despite Congressional approval funding production, the publication of the report was delayed until 1880, after Newton's untimely death in 1877 during a second visit to the Hills. It appeared under the auspices of John Wesley Powell's Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountains Region. G. K. Gilbert (1843-1918) unofficially edited the final version of the report, using Newton's notes, drafts and figures. However, Newton should justly receive credit for its excellence.

scholarly journals Υγεία και ασφάλεια των εργαζομένων στην Ελλάδα, το ευρωπαϊκό ρυθμιστικό πλαίσιο και η εθνική εφαρμογή του

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Κωνσταντίνος Μέκος
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Origin ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Enforcement Mechanisms

<p>This article examines the institutional framework<br />regulating health and safety at work in Greece.<br />The analysis reveals that the regulations concerning<br />occupational health and safety are mainly<br />of European origin, since national legislation is<br />harmonized with the Community Directives. On<br />the other hand, the enforcement mechanisms of<br />the legislation between member-states hardly<br />converge, since the public administration of each<br />country still operates with its own functions and<br />procedures. The organizational structure and<br />history of each enforcement mechanism are of<br />great importance, while its independence from<br />the government is essential for its impartiality.<br />The European Social Charter is also mentioned in<br />the article, though its significance is deemed to<br />be limited up to now.</p>

The Art of Administrative Biography: Wallace Stegner's John Wesley Powell

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Larry Luton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
The Impact ◽  
John Wesley Powell

Wallace Stegner's biography of John Wesley Powell is a valuable case study of the art involved in administrative biography. Biographical narratives entail a kind of thinking that involves the use of imagination, a viewpoint regarding human intentions and dynamics, an appreciation of the complex influences of historical and cultural context, and an empathetic engagement. This kind of thinking is valued highly by public administrators. It is well suited both to the representationand to the development of practical knowledge. Examining the impact of Stegner's perspective on this biography leads to important lessons regarding the interpreter's influence on the meaning derived from a nonfiction narrative.

scholarly journals Υγεία και ασφάλεια των εργαζομένων στην Ελλάδα, το ευρωπαϊκό ρυθμιστικό πλαίσιο και η εθνική εφαρμογή του

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Κωνσταντίνος Ζ. Μέκος
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Origin ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Enforcement Mechanisms

<p>This article examines the institutional framework regulating health and safety at work in Greece. The analysis reveals that the regulations oncerning occupational health and safety are mainly of European origin, since national legislation is<br />harmonized with the Community Directives. On the other hand, the enforcement mechanisms of the legislation between member-states hardly<br />converge, since the public administration of each country still operates with its own functions and procedures. The organizational structure and history of each enforcement mechanism are of great importance, while its independence from<br />the government is essential for its impartiality. The European Social Charter is also mentioned in the article, though its significance is deemed to be limited up to now.</p>

Regna Darnell, And along came Boas: Continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, 86.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1998. Pp. xviii, 331. Hb $89.00.

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 612-615
Author(s):  
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Substantial Influence ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Present Book ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
John Wesley Powell

All researchers observe a balance between continuity with prior tradition (so others will know enough to understand and value the work) and innovation (such that only new contributions are generally deemed publishable). This balance can be difficult to recognize at times of disciplinary revolution, when a previously accepted paradigm is rejected in favor of a newer one – the sort of change in assumptions described by Kuhn 1962. At such times, it requires considerable subtlety for the disciplinary historian to unearth the substantial influence of previous research generations, since the rhetoric emphasizes revolution and change to the exclusion of all else. In the present book, Darnell studies one such critical point: the shift to professionalization within anthropology that occurred at the beginning of the 20th century. It is to her credit that she documents substantial continuities between the research conducted in the immediately pre-professional stage by John Wesley Powell and others in the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), and that of Franz Boas and his students, despite decades of rhetoric – from the participants, as well as their students – that have emphasized only the differences. Despite the fact that “oral histories of American anthropology have generally assumed that … professional anthropology in America sprang forth full-blown about 1900 when Boas began teaching at Columbia” (p. 6), Darnell demonstrates that professionalization was a more gradual process.

Aldo Leopold and the Search for an Integrated Theory of Environmental Management

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan G. Norton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
Aldo Leopold ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
General Terms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hetch Hetchy ◽  
Gifford Pinchot ◽  
Final Acceptance

Aldo Leopold led two lives. He was, in the best tradition of Gifford Pinchot, a forester and a coldly analytic scientific resource manager, devoted to maximizing resource productivity. But Leopold was also a romantic, who joined the Forest Service because of his love for the outdoors, a love he never lost or fully subjugated to the economic “ciphers” that so constrain public conservation work. During the last decade of his life, Leopold the romantic fashioned a little book of essays. He chose from the best of his stacks of field journals and his voluminous publications a few short essays, supplemented these with new pieces, polished them, and strung and restrung them like pearls. The manuscript, representing the essence of his long career, was given final acceptance by Oxford University Press only seven days before Leopold’s death, and the essays were published as A Sand County Almanac. The final essay in that book is “The Land Ethic,” which, Leopold said, “sets forth, in more logical terms, some ideas whereby we dissenters rationalize our dissent.” Although he was not primarily an abstract thinker, Leopold, I will assert, has been the most important figure in the history of both environmental management and environmental ethics. This evaluation is based on one reason: Having faced the environmentalists’ dilemma and, having to formulate goals and actions, he articulated a workable, practical philosophy that transcends the dilemma. The story of how he did so is a sketch of his life. Leopold was a forester in the Southwest for fifteen years. He saw the range deteriorate. He saw the main street of Carson City erode into a deep chasm, and he knew, by the early 1920s, that his agency and its Pinchotist philosophy was significantly responsible. But he was as befuddled as anyone else, and grasped at philosophical straws, or any other straws, to articulate in general terms what was going wrong. Leopold had entered the Forest Service at the height of the Hetch Hetchy controversy. He recognized, of course, that there were critics of the service, and he surely had some respect for Muir’s viewpoint.

Network Organizational Structure (a Scientific and Practical Review)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 613-618
Author(s):  
A. V. Altukhov ◽  
S. A. Tishchenko
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
History Of ◽  
Business Structures

The presented study reviews practically relevant research papers in the field of network structures, modern network business models and platforms.Aim. The study aims to elaborate and explain the concept of network structure and platform and to show the reasons for the progressiveness and potential of network organizational structure at the current stage of socio-economic and scientific development.Tasks. The authors highlight the main scientific ideas about network structures in business, including significant studies in this area; provide and explain the main terms and definitions and examine the key characteristics of network business structures; characterize “platforms” as an important concept for modern business and show the relationship between platforms and network structures.Methods. This study uses analysis of information and subsequent synthesis of new knowledge in the form of the authors’ conclusions and a wide range of relevant scientific publications of Russian and foreign authors, including original publications in English and French.Results. The history of network structures is briefly provided. Definitions and characteristics of such concepts as “network structure” and “platform” in relation to business are provided and explained by the authors.

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