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Strategic Management In Action, Christine G. Springer

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Research

The article discusses the significance of a strategic management in achieving an organization's future initiatives in the U.S. In order for the strategic management process to work, relevant criteria must first be used to make decision and then a consistent management process needs to be agreed. Strategic actions are programs outside an organization's operational activities that are meant to help the organization achieve its strategy.

2008 March, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for March of 2008.

2008 February, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for February of 2008.

Pre-Requisites Of Political Decentralization In Egypt: Case Studies Of Local Popular And Executive Councils In The Villages Of Shubra Babel (Al-Gharbeya Governorate) And Al-Mahamid (Qena Governorate), Omar Ahmed Fouad Abdalla

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Changing Patterns Xiv: Mortgage Lending To Traditionally Underseved Borrowers & Neighborhoods In Boston, Greater Boston And Massachusetts, 2006, Jim Campen

Gastón Institute Publications

This is the fourteenth in the annual series of Changing Patterns reports prepared for the Massachusetts Community & Banking Council (MCBC) by the present author. This year’s report, for the first time, includes the analysis of subprime lending that was previously presented in a separate annual series of Borrowing Trouble reports. The report presents information for the city of Boston, for Greater Boston, and for Massachusetts, as well as for each of the state’s fourteen counties and each of its thirty-three largest cities and towns.

The analysis is based on federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data for 2006, as …

Designated Market Areas: Using Zip Codes As A Marketing Tool: 2008, Melissa Bruns-Dubois

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report converts zip codes of nonresident visitors to Montana into 210 Designated Market Areas and provides an investigation of four population segments. The first analysis looks at DMA representation divided by visitors’ primary reason for being in Montana with vacationers as the primary focus. The second section looks at repeat and first time vacationers to Montana while the third subset explores visitors who indicated that at least one reason for their trip to Montana was to either purchase property or visit a second home or condo. Finally, the zip codes of vacationers who spent at least one night in …

Philanthropy: Giving Meaninfully, Gerard Ee

Social Space

Helming one of Singapore’s more prominent non-profit organisations, the National Kidney Foundation, at a time when public confidence has been severely shaken, is a feat that requires more than just heartwarming feelings of goodwill. As the giving climate in Singapore gives way to donor fatigue and a degree of scepticism, Gerard Ee tells Social Space the kind of philanthropic acts that he thinks will bring local charity to the next level.

When The Client Comes First, Bee Lian Ang

Social Space

When donors, government and other funders provide support, they want assurances that the daily living conditions and lives of the beneficiaries are actually improved. The one question that is often asked is: What is the outcome of the help or service rendered? The science of determining outcomes, or outcome management, has its roots in social science evaluation research. Besides being used as a tool to evaluate the achievement of client outcomes, it is also a valuable management tool.

Msu Update, 2008, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Communications and Marketing Publications Archive

MSU Update Newsletters for 2008.

2008 Spring Convocation Program, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Communications and Marketing Publications Archive

Spring convocation program held in January of 2008.

Tracing Singapore's Social Sector, Sharifah Maisharah

Social Space

How has the face of Singapore’s social sector changed through the shifting landscape of state provision? Sharifah Maisharah looks at the evolution of the social sector pastiche starting from colonial rule in 1819.

Resuscitating A Healthcare Charity, R Akhileswaran, Seet Ai Mee

Social Space

When government funding policies change, voluntary welfare organisations that depend largely on subsidies to run their services can find their survival at stake. Dr R Akhileswaran and Dr Seet Ai Mee present the case study of HCA Hospice Care.

Social Enterprises: Beyond The Hype, Sean Quek

Social Space

With their promises of sustainability, social integration and lower dependence on welfare, social enterprises are the flavour of the month. But, as Sean Quek points out, the challenges involved in designing and executing a sustainable social enterprise are often underestimated.

When Is A Voluntary Code Not Voluntary?, Yuen Teen Mak

Social Space

Many countries have adopted the ‘comply or explain’ approach to raise standards of corporate governance in listed companies. The approach has now found its way into the charity sector in Singapore. Mak Yuen Teen highlights some misconceptions about the voluntary nature of the approach and provides suggestions for its effective implementation.

Phased Retirement And The Age Discrimination In Employment Act: Legal Standards And Risks, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Memos and Fact Sheets

Under current law there is no definition of “phased retirement.” However, employers currently devise a variety of ways in which to implement such programs -- by either allowing critical employees to reduce their schedules rather than retire or by allowing retired employees to return as independent contractors. In either case, employers who implement either formal or informal phased retirement programs must make sure that such programs comply with the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).

Organizational Conflict Within The Department Of Homeland Security, M. Katherine Manderson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis seeks to explain why the Department of Homeland Security had difficulty fulfilling its roles when it was formed, specifically its role as grant administrator. Role theory surmises that conflict arises from unclear expectations, conflicting expectations, and too many roles. This study utilized various public testimonies, legislation, and other government documents to examine how the missions of the twenty-two agencies that were merged together to make up DHS changed. Even though DHS has changed continually over the five years since its existence most employees seem to be clear on the mission of the organization in which they work. However, …

Neighborhood Crime And Non-Auto Mode Choice, Shishir Mathur, Christopher Ferrell, Emy Mendoza

Faculty Publications, Urban and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

After The Tigers: Building A Competitive Citizen Sector, Chris Cusano

Social Space

The citizen sector is a new, yet fundamental idea that underpins the modern phenomenon of social entrepreneurship. Chris Cusano describes how the sector is taking shape and the challenges it faces.

Why Being A For-Profit In The Non-Profit Sector Makes Sense, Carolyn Seah

Social Space

In 2007, the Lien Centre for Social Innovation was commissioned by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports to study the social enterprise space in Singapore for the first time. Carolyn Seah summarises the study’s findings.

Ua7 Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah

ORED Quarterly Newsletter

Connecting Knowledge with Businesses and Society to Promote Economic Growth and to Enhance the Quality of Life

Technology-Aided Participative Methods In Environmental Assessment: An International Perspective, Ainhoa Gonzalez, Alan Gilmer, Ronan Foley, John Sweeney, John Fry

Articles

Provisions for citizen involvement in the assessment of potential environmental effects of certain plans, programmes and projects are present in current legislation. An international survey revealed that public participation is common practice in European and some other countries worldwide. However, a number of issues are observed to affect public involvement in EIA/SEA processes and expert opinion differs when evaluating the effectiveness of existing participative methods. Results suggest that technology-aided methods can improve traditional participation processes. In particular, GIS has the potential to increase community knowledge and enhance involvement by communicating information more effectively. Variable accessibility to technology and data quality …

The Sky Isn’T Falling Everywhere, Brian Mikelbank, Charlie Post, Ivan Maric

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

This report looks at the consequences of treating Cuyahoga County’s housing market as “one market” versus a shrinking but relatively price stable market and a submarket plagued by abandonment and foreclosure. Brian Mikelbank was interviewed about the study on WCPN. org on Tuesday, November 11, 2008.

College Of Business And Public Administration, Steve Moser, Pam Burkes

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

Jessica Burley On The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen Ii Story By Asif Dowla And Dipal Barua. Bloomfield, Ct: Kumarian Press, Inc. 2006. 320pp., Jessica Burley

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story by Asif Dowla and Dipal Barua. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, Inc. 2006. 320pp.

Social Entrepreneurship In The Practice Of Deliberation And Dialogue, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Advocates of public deliberation and sustained dialogue, like other change agents, often embrace roles as social entrepreneurs and engage in entrepreneurial efforts in promoting their cause. In particular, this may involve locating the resources necessary to establish and engage in programs of D & D, seeking to establish the costs and benefits of such programs, and furthering research into their effectiveness.

Assessing Competition Policy Performance Metrics: Concerns About Cross-Country Generalisability, Lesley Denardis, A. E. Rodriguez

Political Science & Global Affairs Faculty Publications

Recent interest in competition policy performance has typically relied on subjective performance metrics that have undergone little direct scrutiny by users. We examine the quality of the popular World Economic Forum's antitrust performance metric and assess whether it is immune from perception-bias. A bias-free metric is required to ensure cross-country consistency in its intended performance assessment.

We note various instances where the WEF's competition policy performance survey was completed but where there existed neither competition legislation nor an associated enforcement agency at the time. This seeming inconsistency is neither amenable to traditional econometric heterogeneity treatment nor instrumentable; importantly, it is …

Property Tax Revenue Decline In The State Of California And The Implications: An Examination Of Selected Local Governments In The State Of California, Ryan M. Mauldin

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

The Center for Responsible Lending projects California local governments to experience a $107 billion dollar decrease in home values and taxable property rolls as a result of subprime mortgage related foreclosures [Lending, 2008]. Due to Proposition 13, property taxes do not account for a substantial portion of local government revenue. They do, however, constitute 53% of statewide K-14 funding, as stipulated by Proposition 98 (Education Revenue Augmentation Fund or ERAF). As a result of ERAF, local governments (defined as counties, cities, schools, and special districts) receive less money through a complex fund shifting process that offsets statewide general fund spending. …

Tourism In Montana's Indian Country, Christine Oschell, Megan Tanner, Norma P. Nickerson

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

The purposes of this research were to gather baseline data on travelers who visit Indian Country in Montana and to further understand why some travelers who are in the vicinity of Montana's Indian Country do not choose to visit the area.

State Corporate Tax Policy: Is Tax Competition The Main Determinant?, Gabriel Ramón Serna

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

In the past few decades state corporate income tax policy and coordination/harmonization of corporate income taxes have been regularly discussed in the tax policy literature. The reason for this level of attention is that capital is assumed to be highly mobile across nations or unions with multiple jurisdictions with differential corporate tax rates (Bucovetsky, 1991; Cnossen, 2003; Frey & Eichenberger, 1996; Gordon, 1983; Isard, 1990; Keen & Marchand, 1997). Further, much of the literature focuses on states’ “race to the bottom” in terms of corporate income taxation or incentives to base capital in their jurisdictions, and the tendency for this …

Parental Payment Abuse Within The Supplemental Security Income Program, Darlean Taylor-King

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Management of Social Security Administration (SSA) has been challenged by the phenomena of overpayments with its Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. Oversight authorities of SSA had expressed concerns about the overpayment abuse caused by parents as representative payees for disabled minor children. It was important to address this problem because the amount of overpayments prior to 1998 had caused integrity issues for management of SSA and increased federal debt from SSI claimants. The purpose of this study was to examine how management of SSA and the SSI program had responded to the concerns of the oversight authorities. Theoretical foundations for …