The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

Building Leadership Effectiveness This program encourages leaders to develop practices that transform values into action, vision into realities, obstacles into innovations, and risks into rewards. Participants will be introduced to the five practices of exemplary leadership: modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart Coaching & Communicating for Performance Coaching & Communicating for Performance is a highly interactive program that will give supervisors and managers the opportunity to build skills that will enable them to share expectations and set objectives for employees, provide constructive feedback, more effectively engage in learning conversations, and coaching opportunities. Skillful Conflict Management for Leaders As a leader, it is important to understand conflict and be effective at conflict management because the way conflict is resolved becomes an integral component of our university’s culture. This series of conflict management sessions help leaders learn and put into practice effective strategies for managing conflict.

기독교 사역과 Leadership

Social Network Analysis

Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling (2nd ed.)

\"What are your assumptions (implicit as well as explicit) about the most effective way to manage people?\" So began Douglas McGregor in this 1960 management classic. It was a seemingly simple question he asked, yet it led to a fundamental revolution in management. Today, with the rise of the global economy, the information revolution, and the growth of knowledge-driven work, McGregor's simple but provocative question continues to resonate-perhaps more powerfully than ever before. Heralded as one of the most important pieces of management literature ever written, a touchstone for scholars and a handbook for practitioners, The Human Side of Enterprise continues to receive the highest accolades nearly half a century after its initial publication. Influencing such major management gurus such as Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, McGregor's revolutionary Theory Y-which contends that individuals are self-motivated and self-directed-and Theory X-in which employees must be commanded and controlled-has been widely taught in business schools, industrial relations schools, psychology departments, and professional development seminars for over four decades. In this special annotated edition of the worldwide management classic, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Senior Research Scientist in MIT's Sloan School of Management and Engineering Systems Division, shows us how today's leaders have successfully incorporated McGregor's methods into modern management styles and practices. The added quotes and commentary bring the content right into today's debates and business models. Now more than ever, the timeless wisdom of Douglas McGregor can light the path towards a management style that nurtures leadership capability, creates effective teams, ensures internal alignment, achieves high performance, and cultivates an authentic, value-driven workplace--lessons we all need to learn as we make our way in this brave new world of the 21st century.

The Human Side of Enterprise.

Der vorliegende Sammelband «Demokratie als Leidenschaft» bildet die Festschrift zum 65.Geburtstag und zur Emeritierung von Wolf Linder. Der erste Teil des Buches geht auf die Person Wolf Linder ein und fokussiert auf die facettenreichen Rollen des Begrunders und erfolgreichen Leiters des Instituts fur Politikwissenschaft an der Universitat Bern. Die anschliessenden Beitrage wurdigen Wolf Linders Schaffen, indem sie Thesen aus seinem wissenschaftlichen Werk aufnehmen, diskutieren, teilweise ein ungewohntes Licht darauf werfen und sie teilweise weiterfuhren.
Die thematischen Schwerpunkte der rund dreissig Beitrage liegen in der Analyse der komplexen Wechselwirkungen von direkter und reprasentativer Demokratie in der Schweiz, den historischen Grundlagen und neuesten Entwicklungen schweizerischer Institutionen wie Konkordanz und Foderalismus sowie der Rolle der deliberativen Kultur, den Herausforderungen und Chancen bei der Planung und dem Vollzug offentlicher Politik und den Eigenheiten der schweizerischen Demokratie im internationalen Vergleich.
Das vorliegende Werk bietet einen aktuellen Uberblick uber die neueste Forschung von fuhrenden Vertretern der Schweizer Politikwissenschaft, wobei ein besonderes Gewicht auf die Analyse des Wandels der schweizerischen Demokratie in den letzten Jahren gelegt wird. Daruber hinaus kommen auch Verwaltungspraktiker und Politiker zu Wort, die sich zu den viel beachteten und fur eine grossere politische Offentlichkeit formulierten Analysen, Anstossen und fundierten Vorschlagen von Wolf Linder zu aktuellen Entwicklungen der schweizerischen Politik aussern.

Demokratie als Leidenschaft: Planung, Entscheidung und Vollzug in der schweizerischen Demokratie

Analyse comparée de politiques publiques

L'article analyse la liberalisation des services publics de reseau, le processus de (re) regulation induit et ses implications pour la (re)distribution des responsabilites publiques. Dans un premier temps, un modele descriptif distingue les acteurs et les fonctions de la regulation au sein d'un secteur liberalise. Les responsabilites politique et manageriale y sont definies en se referant a la regulation de la concurrence, du service universel, des operateurs et du patrimoine public. Le modele propose met un accent particulier sur les jeux croises entre ces quatre elements constitutifs de la regulation publique. Dans un second temps, une etude empin'que compare, pour le secteur de l'electricite, les modalites de liberalisation et de regulation en vigueur en Angleterre, en Norvege, en Allemagne, en France et en Suisse. En guise de conclusion a cette recherche exploratoire, quelques pistes pour analyser plus avant les effets de l'actuelle liberalisation des services publics de reseau sont proposees.

Libéralisation des services de réseau et responsabilité publique : le cas de l'électricité

Sur demande de la Delegation administrative de l'Assemblee federale, les Services du Parlement ont mandate des chercheurs de l'Universite de Geneve (Departement de science politique et relations internationales et Institut de recherche appliquee en economie et gestion) pour realiser une etude scientifique devant repondre a trois questions: • Quel est le montant du revenu parlementaire, le volume du travail parlementaire et le rapport entre les deux? • Quel est le montant des charges decoulant des activites politiques directement liees au mandat parlementaire? • Quelles categories de personnes actives dans le secteur prive percoivent une remuneration horaire comparable a celle des parlementaires? Ce rapport presente les principaux resultats de cette etude independante. Il s'appuie d'une part sur les donnees des Services du parlement (comptabilite et duree des seances) et sur une enquete par questionnaire aupres des parlementaires de la 49e legislature (2011-2015), et d'autre part sur les donnees de l'Enquete suisse sur la structure des salaires (ESS).

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Frédéric Varone

Papers

Demokratie als Leidenschaft: Planung, Entscheidung und Vollzug in der schweizerischen Demokratie

Analyse comparée de politiques publiques

Libéralisation des services de réseau et responsabilité publique : le cas de l'électricité

Etude sur le revenu et les charges des parlementaires fédéraux

Conflict and Consensus in Belgian Biopolicies: GMO Controversy versus Biomedical Self-Regulation