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This study aims to investigate the relationship of good public governance and ease of doing a business performance. The motivation of the study was driven by slowing down global economy and competition among countries around the world to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Foreign investors will consider investing their capital in a certain country if in that country adopting ease of doing business practice. The study was intended to reveal, whether the country that applies the good practice of public governance will also lead to good performance in terms of ease of doing business. The study adopted exploratory research design which is public governance and ease of doing business performance treated as two independent variables. Public governance variable was represented by attributes namely public accountability, effectiveness government, regulatory quality, control of corruption, rule of law and political stability. World Governance Index (WGI) was adopted to measure Public Governance and Distance to Frontier (DtF) value is representing a measurement of ease of doing a business performance. The study applied bivariate correlation analysis and involved 188 countries member of World Bank. The results showed that all public governance attributes were positively and significantly associated with ease of doing a business performance. Pearson correlation coefficient indicated that all attributes of public governance had a strong correlation ( r > 0.6, p<0.01), except for political stability attribute (r = 0.584, p<0.01). The result implies that practice of good public governance in governmental institution have potential impact on performance of the government in terms of streamlining bureaucracy of doing business in that country.

Part 1: Defense Policy and Strategy Development for Foreign Defense Institutions Part 2: Defense Governance and Management: Defense Policy and Strategy Seminar Material ; This two part paper is intended to assist United States government representatives in advising foreign defense institutions that seek to improve their defense governance and management capabilities. By defense institutions, we mean ministries of defense and the headquarters staffs of the armed forces and/or military services as well as other national level institutions responsible to plan for and manage thedevelopment and employment of armed forces. Part one's focus is on the conceptualization, development, and application of defense policy and strategy. Part two is a set of seminar materials provided as PowerPoint slides; some with annotated notes. These materials are for use by U.S. government representatives sent to educate or familiarize members of foreign defense institutions on the topics covered in part one. The slides are intended to be modular. Accordingly, a user is encouraged to adapt the seminar materials to the topics he or she wants to focus on and further modify based upon the audience. ; Office of the Secretary of Defense OUSDP (SPC/SC) ; This work was conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses under contract HQ0034-14-D-0001, Project DF-6-3870, "Defense Institution Reform Initiative (DIRI) Program Support," for the Under Secretary of Defense for policy (USD (P)) and the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) ; HQ0034-14-D-0001

Šio darbo tikslas – išanalizuoti ir įvertinti Lietuvos viešojo sektoriaus personalo, darbo užmokesčio ir institucinio valdymo pokyčius Europos šalių kontekste. Straipsnyje nagrinėjami skirtingų metų duomenys: vieni iš jų apima 10 ir daugiau metų laikotarpį, kiti – pastaruosius 6 ar net 1 metus. Siekiant identifikuoti dabartinius pokyčius Lietuvos viešajame sektoriuje, analizuotos naujausios tendencijos. Straipsnyje pateikta analizė Lietuvos savivaldybių, kurios buvo suskirstytos į keturias skirtingas grupes: didžiųjų miestų, vidutinio dydžio, mažas ir kurortų savivaldybes. Padaryta išvada, kad viešojo sektoriaus darbuotojų skaičiaus mažėjimas nebūtinai reiškia didesnį viešojo sektoriaus organizacijų efektyvumą. Ne darbuotojų skaičius, bet jų kvalifikacija ir kompetencija lemia sprendimų kokybę viešajame sektoriuje. Kita vertus, balansuojant tarp darbuotojų skaičiaus ir paslaugų efektyvumo viešajame sektoriuje, turėtų būti pasirinkta "vidurio kelio" politika. ; The purpose of this paper - to analyse and evaluate changes that have occurred in the Lithuanian public sector's staffing, employee pay and institutional management in the context of the European countries. The article analyses the data of different years: some data cover the period of 10 and more years, while other – the last 6 or even 1 year. The newest tendencies were analysed, seeking to indicate the contemporary changes in the Lithuanian public sector. The analysis of employees' changes in four distinguished groups of Lithuanian municipalities: large cities, medium-sized municipalities, small municipalities and resorts was presented. It was concluded that the decrease in the number of public sector staff does not necessarily means higher efficiency of the public sector organizations. Not the number of employees, but their qualification and competence determine the quality of decisions in the public sector. On the other hand, to achieve a balance between the staff number and the efficiency of services in the public sector, a middle-path policy should be used.

In den letzten Jahren ist die Geschlechterdiversität am Arbeitsplatz zu einem breit diskutierten und erforschten Thema geworden, einschließlich der Frage der Vertretung von Frauen in Aufsichtsräten. Das starke Interesse der Öffentlichkeit an der Geschlechterdiversität wird begleitet von zunehmendem Druck unterschiedlicher Interessenvertreter sowohl in öffentlichen als auch in privaten Konzernen, die Aufsichtsräte durch die Ernennung von weiblichen Mitgliedern zu diversifizieren. Diese Dissertation stellt ein integriertes, ganzheitliches Bezugssystem der Human Resource Governance vor, das von den wegweisenden Ideen von Prof. Martin Hilb und seiner Arbeit zur neuen Corporate Governance inspiriert ist. Das in dieser Arbeit vorgestellte neue HR-Corporate-Governance-Modell ist den Anforderungen der Rekrutierung von Aufsichtsratsmitgliedern unter Berücksichtigung der situativen, strategischen, integrierten und kontrollierten Dimensionen gut angepasst. Der Ansatz zur Verwirklichung der Geschlechterdiversität in Aufsichtsräten, der in dieser Forschungsarbeit angewandt wurde, basiert auf einer sorgfältigen Einschätzung des Führungstalents, der spezifischen Anforderungen von Aufsichtsräten und der potenziellen Beiträge prospektiver Aufsichtsratsmitglieder. Für die Erarbeitung des Themas wurden zwei empirische Studien verwendet. Die erste empirische Studie untersucht einen globalen Talentpool von männlichen und weiblichen leitenden Führungskräften, die über die für die Arbeit in einem Aufsichtsrat notwendige Erfahrung verfügen. In der zweiten empirischen Studie wird eine tiefergehende Fallstudie für die Schweiz entwickelt, um ein besseres Verständnis für die Dynamik der Geschlechterdiversität und der Rekrutierung von Aufsichtsratsmitgliedern auf dem Schweizer Markt zu gewinnen. Diese Dissertation ist so konzipiert, dass sie sowohl zu akademischen als auch zu praktischen Perspektiven dieses Themas beiträgt. Der a

International air travel is increasingly affecting the epidemiology of infectious diseases. A particular public health, economic, and political concern is the role of air travel in bringing infectious passengers or vectors to previously non-endemic areas. Yet, little research has been done to investigate either the infection risks associated with air travel or the empirical evidence for the effectiveness of infection control measures on aircraft and at borders. We briefly review the interface between international and national legislation, policy, and guidelines in the context of existing infection risks and possible scenarios. We have found that public health guidance and legislation, which airlines are required to follow, are often contradictory and confusing. Infection control measures for air travel need to be underpinned by coherent and enforceable national and international legislation that is based on solid epidemiological evidence. We recommend further research investment into more effective on-board vector control, health screening, and risk communications strategies, and the development of enforceable and harmonised international legislation.

This article compares two anti-domestic violence campaigns created by the Edmonton Police Services and the Government of Alberta. This paper argues that both campaigns rely on and reinforce gendered and racialized schema, legitimize each institution, and simultaneously call upon you, the viewer, to address domestic violence. Résumé Cet article compare deux campagnes de lutte contre la violence familiale lancées par les services de police d'Edmonton et le gouvernement de l'Alberta. Cet article fait valoir que les deux campagnes s'appuient sur un schéma fondé sur le sexe et la race et le renforcent, légitiment ces deux institutions et, font simultanément appel à vous, l'auditeur, pour lutter contre la violence familiale.

Abstract A form of metropolitan government in Italy was originally introduced in 1990. After 25 years, the approval of Law 56/2014 has opened a new season of experimentation, full of expectations but at the same time not exempt from critique. The paper presents and discusses the elements of innovation and path-dependency that have shaped the current normative framework, explaining in particular the climate under which the new law was adopted. The author critically focuses on three main problematic aspects of the law that institutes the new città metropolitana, i.e. the definition of boundaries, the nature of the new institution, and its competences and tools for action, considering their ability to deal with the challenges related to the processes of regional urbanisation affecting contemporary Italy.

In this paper we use new venture creation in Indian family firms to explore the family firm as an inter-institutional system. We argue that in societies where the traditional family dominates social and economic life, the relationship between the two institutions, the firm and the family, is managed via inter-institutional logics. These inter-institutional logics help reconcile the tensions that often arise in the family firms during strategic decision-making. We use archival and interview data on thirty-six new ventures in eight Indian family firms to identify these logics. Our analysis shows that the interaction between firm and family institutional logics in Indian family firms generates four sub-logics: Economic, Expertise, Reputation and Attachment. These four logics are used to frame and screen new venture opportunities and justify resource allocation.

Much recent attention referring to surveillance practice in China has been paid to Chinese authorities' authoritarianstrategies like hiring online inspectors and building the Internet Firewall. While this focus meets the conventional imagination of a non-democratic regime, it neglects the underlying policy changes and structural arrangements with which the Chinese government conducts its governance in the era of big data. My ongoing study demonstrates, there has appeared a market through which various for-profit institutions are selling data services to help the governments conduct domestic governance in China. Through purchasing the Internet information surveillance system which is based on technologies like data mining, sentiment analysis and cloud computing, most Chinese local governments have incorporated the surveillance of public online opinion into their daily work. This phenomenon implies that aneolibralform of governance whichaims at monitoring and guiding public sentiment is taking shape in authoritarian China.

Se da por hecho que un Estado es "constitucional", porque tiene uncuerpo normativo que establece la estructura de gobierno, que reconocecomo objetivo primordial los derechos humanos y que expresamecanismos de control del poder a favor del pueblo. Sin embargo, sinun entramado democrático, las normas no garantizan que sus fines secumplan. México ha tenido diversas reformas constitucionales que nohan logrado cumplir su cometido. En este contexto, el trabajo alude quela crisis institucional, económica y de derechos humanos en México no sesolucionará con reformas, sino mediante una reorientación de los actoresimplicados en los sectores políticos, administrativos y de administraciónde justicia. Asimismo, como aporte, el artículo propone nuevas líneas deacción para mejorar la gobernanza con bases y objetivos participativos;que hagan realidad las disposiciones jurídicas, económicas y políticasde la Constitución. ; CONACYT (CB/156846)