J. Steven Ott- PhD
- Professor Emeritus at University of Utah
J. Steven Ott
- PhD
- Professor Emeritus at University of Utah
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This Special Issue focuses on ways in which governments in a variety of countries are attempting to cope with aspects of the challenges posed by international in-migration, including Sweden, Germany, Turkey, South Korea, and the United States. This introductory essay presents an overview of migration globally in order to provide context for the art...
Service to community is a long-standing tradition in American democracy and society. Nonprofit public service organizations are key actors in the provision of public goods and services, as well as partners in the process of governance. MPA program curricula often incorporate coursework and service-learning opportunities to help students better unde...
The most successful post-earthquake rehabilitation program is the one that involves the victims in their own relief, reconstruction, and rehabilitation efforts. The role of the government and NGOs is to facilitate people’s participation. This article explores the concept of coproduction in action in the 2001 post-earthquake rehabilitation in Gujara...
Stewardship theories have been proposed recently as the possible basis for the reform of roles and responsibilities of principals and agents in government contracted service relations, and for the design and development of more effective methods for ensuring accountability (and quality) in contracted human services.This article reports on an empiri...
This article serves as a warning, an exhortation, and a guide to nonprofit trustees, executives, and human resource (HR) managers. The United States has experienced cumulative national shock waves during the past 2 to 3 years of a magnitude not previously experienced before—at least not in the past 50 years. The tragic events of September 11, 2001,...
Agencies at all levels of government are facing strong ideological pressures to downsize, devolve, dispense, and empower both employees and recipients of services. These ideological pressures provide many performance advantages, but collectively they threaten historic notions of achieving economy, efficiency, and effectiveness, along with accountab...
During the 1990s, a new government reform ideology won widespread public popularity. Alternatives to bureaucracy—including downsizing, devolution, diffusion, and empowerment—were widely touted and adopted as practical solutions to a variety of perceived and real problems. These reforms are manifestations of a powerful and widely accepted ideology....
Ten methods or techniques are identified that government agencies employ in their attempts to achieve accountability when they contract out for human services with nonprofit and for-profit service providers. These methods include auditing, monitoring, licensure, the courts, contracts, codes of ethics, whistle-blowing, registries, outcomes-based ass...
Throughout the 1990s public demand for a fundamental shift in the relationship between government and its citizens has intensified. In response, a "new governance" model has emerged, emphasizing decreased federal control in favor of intergovernmental collaboration and increased involvement of state, local, and private agencies.
As the authors of th...
Attitudes toward the legitimacy of influencing various kinds of behavior in an organizational context are examined. An attitude survey revealed that samples from business managers, local union leaders, and college students were highly consistent in their ranking of behavior areas; the more jobrelated the area, the more it was considered legitimate...
