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January 2000 - December 2018
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September 1979 - August 1983
May 1974 - July 1975
September 1967 - June 1972
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The challenges for those responsible for the mental health of students on the campus are multi-faceted and complex. These medical challenges are exacerbated by the administrative realities that there is no consistent process for seeking a standard of mental health care on college campuses. This is not about the professionalism of those in counselin...
This review begins to pull some of the analyses from across the globe to bear on the central themes of this study; the extent to which the sense of the new normal of fiscal distress is accepted by the public as both normal and possibly even normative (Cox and Ostertag, 2014). Across the world, against the evidence, the ideology of the governments a...
This article explored the dynamics of interpersonal trust relationship between political appointees and career managers. Premised on the contemporary public management reforms at the state level, the article found a relatively limited level of interpersonal trust from the perspectives of career managers, and that correlated positively with manageri...
This article aims to elucidate convergent and divergent viewpoints on
issues of ethics and integrity in governance and suggest building blocks
for framing appropriate responses to the issue of corruption. In the
scholarly discourse, divergent viewpoints are often overlooked, resulting
in a discord that substantially impedes the understanding of the...
The task of this paper is to dig more deeply into the implications of the difference between the pursuit of “good” management reform and the pursuit of effective governance. Implicit in the different characterizations of ethics and integrity is the perspective for understanding behavior. In the first perspective, ethics is the sum of the individual...
Leadership studies generally focus on the role and importance of the positional or formal leader. The paradigmatic leader is the great military or political figure—the historian’s “great man.” There is no coherent foundational perspective on followership that is not the resultant of leadership. This work offers a framework for a follower-centric vi...
Este estudio de caso compara los esfuerzos de reforma en el servicio civil en el Estado de México, México, y el Condado de Sum mit, Ohio, Estados Unidos. El sistema de servicio civil en Estados Unidos es visto como el modelo ideal. Históricamente el reclutamiento y selección de empleados gubernamentales ha sido el esfuerzo más controvertido y con m...
This case study com pares civil ser vice re form ef forts in the State of Mex ico and Sum mit County, Ohio. In the case of Mex ico, the U.S. Civil Ser vice sys tem is viewed as an ideal model. Historically, re cruit ment and se lec tion of gov ern ment em ploy ees has been the most con tro ver sial and po lit i cally charged per son nel en deavor....
The goal of this analysis is to define the individual and organizational parameters within which the ethical exercise of discretion may occur. The application of tacit knowledge is the introduction of judgment prior to deciding. Discretionary judgment is not an assignment or position. It is not the product of explicit knowledge. It cannot be delega...
Police corruption is an age-old problem in the United States. Reform techniques focused on the malfeasance and misbehavior of individual officers have not succeeded. Better personnel screening, training, internal processes, and functional internal and external integrity units also have not fully addressed the problem. In a very real sense police "m...
Due to the recent flurry of police incidents that have make the public paranoid and befuddled about the Constitution's guarantees for the protection for its citizens, this article reviews the efforts of the Supreme Court to redress wrongs against citizens by the police. The article examines the court cases that deal with constitutional questions as...
The central theme of this article is that we have not adequately addressed the question of teaching management. The academic community has done a better job of preparing persons for technical/professional positions in personnel, budgeting and policy analysis. This failure to address the problem of teaching management leaves students (particularly m...
In 1960, Samuel Huntington noted that governmental decision-making was quite similar in the executive and legislative branches. Huntington went so far as to suggest that the decision process is legislative rather than executive in character. Thus, the governmental executive lives in an environment which is as much "legislative" as "executive." Howe...
