Dealing with a Not-So-Benevolent Uncle: Implied Contracts with Federal Government Agencies

1985 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1367
Author(s):  
Michael C. Walch
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Implied Contracts

Project, programme and portfolio maturity: a case study of Australian Federal Government

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Young ◽  
Raymond Young ◽  
Julio Romero Zapata
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Management Processes

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the notion of maturity assessment and maturity models more broadly and goes on to examine the findings from the assessments of project, programme and portfolio maturity undertaken across Australian Government agencies. Design/methodology/approach – A statistical analysis was performed to determine the level of maturity that best represents the Australian Federal Government agencies as a whole. The unit of analysis in this study is the agencies overall scores in each sub-model across the seven perspectives of the portfolio, programme and project management maturity model (P3M3) maturity model. Findings – This study has identified a number of interesting findings. First, the practices of project, programme and portfolio across the dataset practiced independently of each other. Second, benefits management and strategy alignment practices are generally poor across Australian Government agencies. Third, programme management practices are the most immature. Finally, the results showed a high sensitivity to the “generic attributes” of roles and responsibilities, experience, capability development, planning and estimating and scrutiny and review. Research limitations/implications – All data used in this analysis are secondary data collected from individual Australian Government agencies. The data were collected by accredited consultants following a common data collection method and using a standard template to ensure a consistent approach. Practical implications – The study poses some implications for practice, particularly given the context of Australian Federal Government agencies current plans and action to improve organisational maturity. The study suggests that benefits management processes at the project level and benefits management, governance and stakeholder management processes at the programme level should be an area of focus for improvement. Originality/value – This study is the first attempt to systematically review the data collected through such an assessment and in particular identify the findings and the implications at a whole of government level.

scholarly journals Восстановление автономий репрессированных народов Калмыкии и Северного Кавказа в конце 1950-х гг. и проблема реабилитации: дискуссионные вопросы в современной российской историографии

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-86
Author(s):  
Evgeniy A. Gunaev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
General Context ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Southern Russia ◽  
Critical Notes

Introduction. The late 1950s restoration of autonomies for the repressed peoples is an important era in the history of those ethnic statehoods. Still, even over 60 years thereafter quite a number of issues remain essentially problematic. And the main question is as follows: Can one interpret the late 1950s restoration of autonomies for the repressed peoples of Southern Russia as a rehabilitation? Materials and Methods. The study analyzes a number of scholarly Russian historiographical publications examining the mentioned period, and employs the historical genetic and historical legal methods. Results. The article considers a range of problematic issues, such as substantial features of ‘rehabilitation’ for repressed peoples in the Soviet era, political and historical essentials of the process, general issues of periodization of the rehabilitation (including that of the Soviet era), debating aspects of the phenomenon in respect to the restoration of autonomies, contemporary political and legal aspects related to the Soviet restoration of South Russia’s ethnic autonomies. Conclusions. In Russian historiography, there is a consensus as to the identification of the period of the restoration of autonomies for the repressed peoples as a rehabilitation, though incomplete one. The paper shows observation of the principle of historicism presupposes this period be viewed in a general context of the whole Soviet era that witnessed the rehabilitation of repressed peoples pinnacled with the rehabilitation decrees of perestroika. Since 1992 there emerged a new — Russian — stage of the rehabilitation. As for critical notes on outdated norms of the RSFSR Law On the Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples, it seems evident that the agenda of its complete implementation was never actualized by federal government agencies since the mid-1990s. It is possible that another law be created in future to comprise the rehabilitation experiences of the Soviets, including that of the initial stage from the late 1950s. This would require explicit political and legal assessments of the repressed peoples’ rehabilitation in a historical perspective.

scholarly journals Standard Measurement of Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine Exhaust Smoke

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. L. Champagne
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Unit Volume ◽  
Standard System ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Engine Exhaust ◽  
Turbine Engine ◽  
Standard Measurement ◽  
Definition Of

A standard system (equipment and procedures) for measuring smoke emitted by aircraft turbine engines has been developed. It has been adopted by several Federal Government agencies. In this paper, the system is explained and its accuracy defined. An experimentally determined relationship between the system’s parameters and true smoke density (weight of solids per unit volume) is presented and theoretically examined. The definition of smoke plume visibility in terms of the system’s parameters is also developed. This work led to the conclusion that aircraft turbine engine exhaust smoke is composed of two groups of particles: the very small, which are primarily responsible for visible obscuration, and larger particles, which may constitute as much as half of the total by weight, but do not appreciably contribute to plume visibility.

The Effects of Electronic Publication on Social Science Researchers in Canada

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsti E. Nilsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Data Dissemination ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Cost Recovery ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Electronic Publication ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Revenue Generation

This paper considers the effects of electronic publishing on social science researchers, specifically as it relates to statistical data dissemination. Data of interest to social scientists are increasingly available only in electronic formats and, in Canada at least, at inflated prices. Canadian federal government cost-recovery and revenue generation initiatives of the mid-1980s encouraged government agencies to treat information as a marketable commodity.

scholarly journals Equivalence of Visual Immunoprecipitate Assay (VIP®) for Salmonella for the Detection of Motile and Nonmotile Salmonella in All Foods to AOAC Culture Method: Collaborative Study

2000 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 888-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip T Feldsine ◽  
Linda A Mui ◽  
Robin L Forgey ◽  
J Bargholz ◽  
David E Kerr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Collaborative Study ◽  
Culture Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Type ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
Paired Samples ◽  
Contaminated Food

Abstract Six foods representative of a wide variety of processed, dried powder processed, and raw food types were analyzed by the Visual Immunoprecipitate Assay (VIP®) for Salmonella and AOAC INTERNATIONAL culture method. Paired samples of each food type were simultaneously analyzed; one sample by the VIP method and one by the AOAC culture method. A total of 24 laboratories representing federal government agencies and private industry, in the United States and Canada, participated in this collaborative study. Food types were inoculated with species of Salmonella with the exception of raw ground chicken, which was naturally contaminated. No statistical differences (p < 0.05) were observed between VIP for Salmonella interpretation and the AOAC culture method for any inoculation level of any food type or naturally contaminated food. The method was adopted Official First Action status by AOAC INTERNATIONAL.

American Libraries and the US Federal Government: an overview of partnerships for enhanced resource access

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 2-6
Author(s):  
Bethany Latham
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Us Federal Government ◽  
Partnership Program

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the US Government Publishing Office’s (GPO) partnership program: what it is, how the GPO defines partnership, the types of institutions that are participating and the resources these institutions are making available through partnership. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews the available literature and information from the US GPO on its partnership program, examines the institutions contributing to the program and what those contributions entail, surveys the resources made available through these partnerships and examines how this affects access to government information. Findings – Partnership with the US GPO provides benefits to libraries, museums, government agencies and other entities, increasing discoverability and enhancing access to digital collections of government information and other resources. Originality/value – This paper examines the parameters of the US GPO’s partnership program, why libraries and other institutions might wish to partner with the GPO and the effect these partnerships have had on enhancing access to government information resources, an area that has not been extensively covered in library literature.

Human Factors Issues for Resolving Adverse Effects of Human Work Underload and Workload Transitions in Advanced Transportation Systems

1994 ◽  
Vol 38 (13) ◽  
pp. 784-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Cost Performance ◽  
Function Allocation ◽  
User Acceptability ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
Human Function

A workshop was conducted in which the specific purpose was to build on earlier work by the National Research Council, Federal Government agencies, and the larger human factors community to: (1) clarify human factors issues pertaining to degraded performance in advanced transportation systems due to human work underload and workload transition; and (2) develop strategies for resolving these issues. The workshop affirmed that: (1) work underload and workload transition are issues that will have to be addressed by designers of human-automation operating configurations, if cost, performance, safety, and user acceptability are to be optimized, (2) human function allocation models, standards, and guidelines which go beyond simple capability approaches will be needed to preclude or seriously diminish the work underload and workload transition problems, and (3) the issues identified during the workshop, need resolution if these models, standards, and guidelines are to be achieved.

scholarly journals Profiling the Facial Comparison Practitioner in Australia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Semmler
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Group Project ◽  
Comparison Task ◽  
Work History ◽  
Australian State ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
Technology Group ◽  
Tools And Techniques

This report details the performance of professional and expert facial comparison practitioners working in the Australian policing and national security context. As part of a joint University of Adelaide - Defence Science and Technology Group project, known as the Human Operator Capability Project, a comprehensive survey of 149 facial comparison practitioners within Australian State and Federal Government agencies was conducted in late 2010. The survey collected data in a range of categories including: demographics, training and work history, facial comparison tools and techniques, attitudes to the facial comparison task and use of facial recognition systems. This report outlines the key findings from the survey, including implications for the consideration of participating agencies at the time. An epilogue reflects on what has changed in the time since the survey was conducted.

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