Showing papers on "Formal relationships published in 2013"

A cluster randomized trial of an organizational linkage intervention for offenders with substance use disorders: study protocol

Abstract: Substance use disorders are highly prevalent in community correctional populations, yet these settings frequently are ill-equipped to identify and refer offenders to community-based treatment services. In particular, community corrections staff are often opposed to the use of medication in addiction treatment because of inadequate knowledge, resources, and organizational structures to facilitate client linkages to evidence-based services. Each of the NIDA-funded Research Centers recruited 2 criminal justice agencies to participate in the study. Eligibility rules required study sites that were focused on community corrections (i.e., probation or parole), had few or no formal relationships with treatment providers for referring clients to medication-assisted treatment, and had no state or local policies prohibiting such relationships. Sites under the oversight of the same parent agency were eligible only if they were in geographically distinct catchment areas, and could be assigned to different study arms without cross-contamination at any level. The 18 clusters consisted of community corrections officers and their offender caseloads nested within agencies, each of which was partnered with at least one community-based substance abuse treatment program. Randomization was blocked by Research Center, within which one cluster was randomly assigned to a training-only condition (comparison) and the other to training followed by a strategic organizational linkage process (intervention). Line staff received a scientifically-grounded, systematically-delivered training session that addresses gaps in existing knowledge, perceptions, and information about medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and local availability of MAT services. Key decision-makers subsequently were asked to collaborate in a strategic planning process to enhance formal and informal linkages between criminal justice agencies and local MAT providers. It was hypothesized that the two implementation intervention components together would be more likely than staff training alone to improve the process of referring opioid- and alcohol-dependent adults under community supervision to appropriate addiction pharmacotherapy. Outcomes were measured at the client (referrals), line staff (attitudes), and organizational (linkage) levels. Through closer collaboration among criminal justice agencies and treatment providers, improved linkages to effective substance abuse treatment should yield significant clinical, public health and public safety benefits. Clinical Trials gov registration number NCT01344122 .

ORGANIzATIONAL CITIzENSHIP BEHAVIOR AND SATISFACTION wITH COwORKERS AMONG BULGARIAN TEACHING STAFF

Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyze the relationships between organizational citizenship behavior and the acts of support and trust, and formal relationships in the workplace, among teaching staff in Bulgarian secondary schools and vocational schools. The sample of the study consisted of 127 Bulgarian teachers. Research tools include Organizational Citizenship Behavior Checklist (OCB-C) created by Suzy Fox and Paul E. Spector (2011) and Scale for satisfaction with coworkers (with subscales Support, Trust and Formal relationships) from Questionnaire measuring job satisfaction, developed by Radoslavova (2005). The results revealed a statistically significant positive correlation between OCB and the components of satisfaction with coworkers such as support, trust, and working formal relationships. By providing original data, this study may contribute to the development of knowledge on OCB in Bulgarian teaching context.

Post- Bureaucracy and Post-Bureaucratic Culture in Public Administration.

Abstract: Bureaucratic culture refers to informal inter-personal relationships by reducing chain of command and formal relationships by means of paying attention to the subordinate’s decisions and preferences thereby keeping spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. This pattern, foresees public administrators as acting strategically by taking initiative, reflecting an understanding which is trying to remove the distance between itself and environment and appreciating flexibility, open systems and more effective use of social capital. Dynamic use of information and shining out of information-based power relationships are basic factors of this philosophy. This paper, aims to examine the concepts of post-bureaucracy and post- bureaucratic culture that rises in today’s world in which the inflexibilities overcame and new organization models occurred in public administration.

Contexto de las empresas de clase mundial. una contrastación entre empresas de servicios turísticos y de manufactura sobre la comunicación formal en ciudad juárez, chihuahua

Abstract: This essay focuses on Formal Communication (CF) in world class companies as well as tourism-related chains and franchises in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. The approach has been focused on how the communication plays an important role between the employees and the company. The perspective of the manuscript highlights the breadth of the phenomenon in formal relationships between actors and how far the field of manufacturing and touristic services differs from each other. Although CF is built in an organizational environment, it should also be noted if the cultural conditions for their understanding and its benefits are institutional or not.