The Working Sheep Dog as a Model of the Street- Level Public Servant

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Anne J. Hacker
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Servant Leader ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
The Relationship

There are examples all around us of natural, simple, yet amazingly complex organizational structures that demonstrate models of leadership that are of use today. The working sheep dog is one such example. It is a vision of grace, ability, stamina and integrity. The relationship that exists between theses canine and human partners mirrors that of the street-level public servant and servant leader.

Drivers of changes in product development rules

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K Christiansen ◽  
Claus J Varnes
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the drivers that induce companies to change their rules for managing product development. Most companies use a form of rule-based management approach, but surprisingly little is known about what makes companies change these rules. Furthermore, this management technology also has developed over time into different versions, but what drives firms from one version to another has only been suggested, not empirically studied. Design/methodology/approach – The dynamics of the rules of five companies are analyzed over a period of more than ten years based on three rounds of interviews with 40 managers. Findings – Previous research has assumed that the dynamics of product development rules are based on internal learning processes, and that increasingly competent management will stimulate the implementation of newer and more complex rule regimes. However, the analysis here indicates that there are different drivers, both internal and external, that cause companies to adopt new rules or modify their existing ones, such as changes in organizational structures, organizational conflicts and changes in ownership or strategy. In addition, contrary to the predictions in previous research, companies sometimes move back and forth between different generations of rules. Companies that have moved to a more flexible third generation of rules might revert to their second generation rules, or supplement their flexibility with an increased level of management control and information systems. A model is proposed to explain the relationship between the drivers of rule change and the actual dynamics of rules, incorporating two sets of moderators: organizational moderators and rule-related moderators. Research limitations/implications – The findings indicate that many factors influence the modification of rules, and that there is no simple linear progression from one generation to another. Organizational learning is one among several other factors that influences the dynamics of rules for managing product development. Further research is needed to explore the dynamic relationship between different factors, the proposed moderators and changes to rules. Lack of historical record keeping in companies puts special requirements on research concerning rules. Practical implications – Companies need to consider how and why their present versions of rules have emerged, whether or not the existing rules can actually solve the challenges they face today, whether or not the rules support the intended company strategy, and what mechanisms influence their product development rules. Originality/value – A great deal of research has investigated the relationship between the uses of structured rule-based approaches to manage product development, but little is known about what makes these rules change. This is the first study to uncover the multitude of drivers that stimulate change in product development rules and to suggest sets of moderators that influence the outcome.

scholarly journals Servant Leadership and Enhancement of Organizational Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 117-122
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hashim ◽  
Muhammad Azizullah Khan ◽  
Saqib Adnan
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Leader Behavior ◽  
Servant Leader ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Emotional Healing ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

The Servant Leader Model is a theory that advances administration, supports trust, coordinates effort, future-arranges and utilizes moral capacity to engage others, focusing on good ethical practices. This study inspects the faculty of public and private universities in Peshawar for elements of servant leader behavior (wisdom, emotional healing and persuasive mapping) and effect on performance. Drawing on information from 95 teaching faculty members from different universities, we discovered help for the immediate impact of the all elements of servant leader behavior administration on universities performance. The findings add to servant leadership practices, in like manner to values-based administration, which conceivably may include novel literature regarding the relationship between servant leadership and performance of universities teachers. Implications form the last part of the paper.

scholarly journals Trajectories of Civil Society Leaders in Italy: Individual Careers, Organizational Structures, and Ideological Affiliations

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824402110615
Author(s):  
Cecilia Santilli ◽  
Roberto Scaramuzzino
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
National Level ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Third ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
Member Organization ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between individual leaders’ career trajectories and organizational structure and identity in Italian civil society organizations (CSOs) active at national level. The analysis in this qualitative study draws on two sets of data, semi-structured interviews with leaders on their career trajectories and their understanding of what it takes to become a leader of a CSO and short biographies of leaders’ career trajectories. Three main representational logics are idenitified: within: multi-level, within: member-organization, and outside: supporting organization. The two first logics are based on a trajectory within the organizations either departing from the local and regional levels of the same organizations or within one or more member organizations. The third logic is based on a trajectory outside the organization that is marked by the ideological affiliation of the president through leading positions in other organizations within the same movement or field.

scholarly journals Growing Value: Describing The Nature Of The Relationship Between Street-Level Greenery and Housing Prices in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer Bridgwater
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Urban Forestry ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Developmental Context ◽  
Street Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Aerial Perspective

The role of urban forestry has become increasingly important in the context of sustainability, both from an environmental context, and from a developmental context. Greenery in an urban environment has demonstrable implications for health, air quality, aesthetics, and land value, as described broadly across the literature. Until recently, studies on green urban canopies and housing prices have been limited in their methodology by using aerial-perspective data. The MIT Senseable City Lab in 2015 developed the Treepedia project, which uses Google Street View images to quantify greenery levels in urban environments. Using the green view index (GVI) data from the Treepedia project, street-level greenery densities were compared against housing prices across Toronto. Models for different property types, accounting for characteristic, locational, and demographic variables, were estimated. It was determined that a statistically significant relationship between street-level greenery and housing prices exists in Toronto for detached homes, semi-detached homes, row/townhouse units, condo apartments, and condo townhouses.

Physician Practice Organization and Negotiated Prices: Evidence from State Law Changes

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-296
Author(s):  
Naomi Hausman ◽  
Kurt Lavetti
Keyword(s):  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
State Level ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Physician Practice ◽  
Fixed Costs ◽  
State Law ◽  
Practice Organization ◽  
Percent Increase ◽  
Noncompete Agreements ◽  
The Relationship

We study the relationship between physician organizational structures and prices negotiated with private insurers. Using variation caused by state-level judicial law changes, we show that a 10 percent increase in the enforceability of noncompete agreements (NCAs) causes 4.3 percent higher physician prices, and declines in practice sizes and concentration. Using two databases containing every physician establishment and firm between 1996 and 2007, linked to negotiated prices, we show that larger practices have lower prices for services with high fixed costs, consistent with economies of scale. In contrast, increases in firm concentration conditional on establishment concentration leads to higher prices. (JEL D24, G22, I11, J44, K22, L13)

Understanding Outsourcing of Web-Based Applications in Organizations

2011 ◽  
pp. 171-187
Author(s):  
Teuta Cata
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Organizational Size ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
The Relationship

This article has investigated the insurance industry and provided insights into the relationships of organizational size and age with outsourcing and organizational structure. Also, this study investigated the relationship between Web site age, outsourcing, and organizational structure. The main findings are that firm size and maturity is related to the decision of Web-based development approach and the best organizational structure to support online activity. The insights obtained by a new variable: Web site age suggests that insurance companies are trying to develop their Web-based activities within their existing organizational structures, rather than creating new e-commerce divisions.

Discourses of Boundary Crossing

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-55
Author(s):  
Julie Thompson Klein
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Typologies classify activities into similarities and differences in a semantic web of purposes, contexts, practices, organizational structures, and theoretical frameworks. Huutoniemi and Rafols (2017) contended multiple claims tend to paralyze debate on definition. Yet, Frédéric Darbellay (2015) identified two major lines of argument in current discourse about interdisciplinarity: an epistemological, theoretical orientation that transcends disciplinary boundaries and a pragmatic, participative orientation to problem solving. The epistemic approach is philosophical, raising questions about the nature of knowledge amplified by ontological questions about the nature of reality. In contrast, problem solving is oriented to instrumental needs. This chapter compares discourses of philosophy and problem solving while adding a third imperative of critique. After acknowledging differences, it then takes into account their intersections. The chapter closes by asking whose knowledge counts, weighing the relationship of generalizations and individual cases, and reflecting on how discourse shapes definition.

Marketing's Role in the Implementation of Business Strategies: A Critical Review and Conceptual Framework

1987 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orville C. Walker ◽  
Robert W. Ruekert
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Research Propositions ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The authors review and integrate various theoretical perspectives, normative statements, and pieces of empirical evidence about the organizational structures and processes best suited for implementing different types of business strategies. Particular emphasis is given to the relationship of different types of structure, processes, and policies involved in the performance of marketing activities to the overall performance of different business strategies. Several specific research propositions are developed.

Law, Morality, and Health Care Professionals: A Multilevel Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-135
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Chiarello
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Multilevel Approach ◽  
Health Care Work ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Movement Mobilization ◽  
The Relationship

Socio-legal scholars have long been interested in the relationship between law and morality. This article uses a multilevel approach to understanding this relationship by focusing on health care professionals, key actors in an institution that covers broad swaths of social life and that serves as a key site of moral meaning making and practice. I demonstrate how morality and law interface differently at three levels: through daily social interaction, during which providers assess patients’ deservingness while patients attempt to present themselves as morally worthy; through organizational structures and processes that establish legalistic rules and bring diverse workers into shared space; and through field-level legal and moral infrastructures that shape frontline decision making and that change due to social movement mobilization. The article concludes by describing the benefits of a multilevel approach to examining the interplay between law, morality, and health care work and suggesting strategies for theoretically investigating these relationships more completely.

How a participatory process with inclusive structural design allocates resources toward poor neighborhoods: the case of participatory budgeting in Seoul, South Korea

2020 ◽  
pp. 002085232094366
Author(s):  
Won No ◽  
Lily Hsueh
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Public Money ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the relationship between inclusiveness with respect to the structural design of the participatory process and resource allocation outcomes in participatory budgeting. Empirically, this article examines the case of participatory budgeting in Seoul, South Korea, where redistribution is not an explicit goal. Findings suggest that creating organizational structures that enable and encourage public participation has led Seoul’s participatory budgeting to distribute public funds toward poor neighborhoods. Points for practitioners Participatory budgeting is an exemplar practice of public participation in the government decision-making process. It is a local budgeting practice that allows the public to participate, discuss, deliberate, and decide where and how to spend public money. This study highlights the importance of designing inclusive organizational structures in participatory budgeting to encourage public participation. Empirical results underscore the link between inclusive organizational structures and more equitable allocation outcomes.

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