Showing papers on "Sustenance published in 2011"

Innovation, public policy and public services delivery in the uk. the word that would be king?

Abstract: This paper explores the dialogue about innovation in public services currently found within public policy and creates an interaction between research and practice about its strengths and limitations. It argues that this dialogue is a flawed one, often both at odds with the existing evidence and lacking a holistic understanding of the nature of innovation and its distinctive policy and managerial challenges. It therefore synthesizes existing research to challenge current public policy thinking about the role and determinants of innovation in public services. It concludes by offering five lessons towards effective policy-making and implementation that would provide a more sophisticated and evidence-based approach to the encouragement and sustenance of public service innovation – and four key areas for further research.

National development in Nigeria: Issues, challenges and prospects

Abstract: Development is critical and essential to the sustenance and growth of any nation. A country is classified as developed when is able to provide qualitative life for her citizenry. Nigeria in the last fifty years has been battling with the problems of development in spite of huge human, material and natural resources in her possession. The paper discussed the problems affecting national development as well as strategies for achieving sustainable development in Nigeria. The paper adopted secondary data as sources of information. The paper concluded that faithful implementation of development plan, commitment on the part of the leaders and absence of corruption are required for the achievement of sustainable development in Nigeria. Key words: National development, development, Nigeria, developing society, governance, development plan.

Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability

Abstract: In Indic religious traditions, a number of rituals and myths exist in which the environment is revered. Despite this nature worship in India, its natural resources are under heavy pressure with its growing economy and exploding population. This has led several scholars to raise questions about the role religious communities can play in environmentalism. Does nature worship inspire Hindus to act in an environmentally conscious way? This book explores the above questions with three communities, the Swadhyaya movement, the Bishnoi, and the Bhil communities. Presenting the texts of Bishnois, their environmental history, and their contemporary activism; investigating the Swadhyaya movement from an ecological perspective; and exploring the Bhil communities and their Sacred Groves, this book applies a non-Western hermeneutical model to interpret the religious traditions of Indic communities. With a foreword by Roger S Gottlieb.

Turning Points in Negotiation

Abstract: Turning points refer to events or activities that change the direction of negotiation, usually moving from impasse to progress. The completed research to date has addressed the question of when and how turning points occur. Case analyses have shown that they occur following a crisis that jeopardizes the sustenance of the talks (Druckman, 1986, 2001). They take the form of clear, self-evident departures from earlier events or patterns during the negotiation process, sometimes appearing rather suddenly, other times more gradually (Druckman, 2004; Olekalns & Weingart, 2008). Less is known about why turning points sometimes facilitate and sometimes impede subsequent negotiations. In this article, we identify gaps in our understanding of turning points and discuss research approaches that have been used in their investigation.

Recommendations for Developing and Sustaining Community Health Workers

Abstract: This report provides recommendations for the development and sustenance of community health workers. These recommendations are a result of the San Antonio Community Health Worker Summit held January 2010. Recommendations include defining the workforce, training standards, evaluating financial benefit, strategizing Medicaid reimbursement, and creating support networks.

Analysis of Performance Indicators on Sustenance of Micro Finance Institutes: A Comparative Study of East Asian & Pacific, and South Asian Countries

Abstract: Micro Finance services have existed for the past three decades in the developing nations. It has been implemented as the complementary to the formal financial infrastructure. The major objective is to provide the financial services to the poverty section that has been denied by the commercial banks. Voluntary and NGOs plays a vital role in the implementation of the Micro finance services in developing nations. The usage of performance measurements in the voluntary and NGOs is low as supported by literature. The literature also highlights the significance of the performance indicators, for better performance of an organisation. Financial self sustenance (FSS) and Operational self sustenance (OSS) reflects the financial performance of Microfinance Institute. The present study attempts to identify the various variables and capture the significance of the influence upon the FSS and OSS of an organisation in the context of East Asia and pacific region and South Asia (regions defined by MIX Market). The increase in the outreach of in Microfinance institutes (MFIs) decreases the depth (average loan/ borrower), which is in sync with the literature. However the prior said phenomena's sensitivity is found to be lower in MFIs in the south Asian countries than the MFIs in the East Asian and pacific countries. The FSS in both the contexts has less of difference but has significant difference in terms of OSS. However, the variables those contribute to FSS and OSS value are also different with respect to the region. The results obtained in this paper identify and highlight the importance of the region specific variables that are to be improved in order to increase the sustenance of MFIs.

Providing Professional Sustenance for Leaders of Learning: The Glass Half Full?

Abstract: This chapter is based on the key assumption that school leadership has considerable potential to influence student learning. It follows, therefore, that the efficacy of the leadership for learning agenda will be determined to a large extent by the ways in which principals are prepared, developed and supported in their roles. Accordingly, this chapter first examines aspects of the current education policy environment that offer hope for the advancement of leadership for learning in Australia’s schools. It then outlines customary arrangements for leadership development before describing some more promising recent initiatives, which acknowledge the need for principals to be powerful leaders of learning as well as powerful learners themselves. The chapter concludes by identifying some conditions that are most suitable for developing school leaders’ agency in asserting a leadership for learning agenda in the nation’s schools.

Resettlement and Caring for the Country: The Anmatyerre Experience

Abstract: Caring for country, the carrying out of traditional responsibility for the land, is a process of great importance for Aboriginal people. If the country is neglected it will become infertile and fail to provide sustenance; and the integrity of its spirit guardians and progenitors will no longer be maintained. Such truths are essential to the fabric of Aboriginal society. They form the basis for definition of Aboriginal traditional land ownership, conventionally understood by non-Aborigines to conform to recognised principles of inheritance, of which descent is perceived to be the most important. But adequately caring for country means being able to visit it and witness its presentation, living in close proximity to it where practical. This has not always been possible. Environmental, economic, political and social factors have, both before and since non-Aboriginal settlement, caused shifts in Aboriginal population and have forced people to adapt their systems of land inheritance accordingly.

The pension reform act 2004 and wellbeing of nigerian retirees: a sociological evaluation of its provisions.

Abstract: Over the past three decades, the living conditions of older persons in Nigeria had deteriorated due to the erosions of their economic power, changes in the family structures and roles, particularly on the care of older members of the immediate family and unsustainability of the pension schemes and inability of government to fulfil her expected role in the care and support of older persons in the country. Worldwide, older persons are regarded as vulnerable group, hence, it has been accepted that older persons, the children and women are in dare need of government attention. This is because poverty ravages this class of people than any other categories in contemporary world especially in developing countries. Various efforts by various successive regime in the country at addressing the needs of older members of the society have proved abortive. For instance, pensions of public servants in Nigeria that are supposed to serves as means of sustenance in their old-age were poorly handled by Nigerian government and its corrupt officials. However, the emergence of full-fledged democracy on May 29, 1999 rekindled the hope of older persons as government introduced in 2004 new Pension Policy. Theoretically, this paper takes a critical look at the 2004 pension policy of the government on the wellbeing of Nigerian retirees. It uses Marxist theory to analyze the issue. The paper concludes that an evaluation of the scheme revealed that the Policy may not be able to achieve its targeted objective to large extents.

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised": Community Activism and the Black Panther Party, 1966-1971

Abstract: This article examines the Black Panther Party's community activism from 1966 to 1971, with two aims in mind. First, it provides an overview of the numerous “survival programs” organized by the party in human sustenance, health care, education, and criminal justice, detailing their revolutionary intentions. Second, and more importantly, it challenges scholars to start considering ways in which community activism and revolutionary violence operated in tandem as part of the same strategy for Black liberation. In this way, it emphasizes the necessity to move beyond stagnant characterizations of the party as either humanitarian do-gooders or violent street toughs to construct a more complex interpretation of the BPP's legacy.

O trabalho como representação: a visão dos jovens universitários

Abstract: One period of particular importance in the relation of the individual to the world of work is the transition from youth to adulthood, when, among other modifications (biological, psychological and social), entry into the job market has a fundamental role, marking a new stage of life. Hence, this study seeks to analyse which social representations are present in the speech of young students of a Management course with regard their understanding of the “work”. For this purpose, 120 young university students attending the first semesters of an evening Management course at a university in the south of Brazil were consulted. The responses regarding “what is work” and “what is not work” were written by the informants themselves and later analysed in relation to the frequency with which they occur and their diversity. In general, it is noted that work continues to be understood as the central activity that structures the life of individuals and of society in general, a form of social integration, in which its image prevails as an element that inserts the individual in the environment, capable of leading to personal and professional fulfilment as well as to financial sustenance.

Sustenance of human capital : Social support as managerial stress reliever for women in developing economies

Abstract: Although women managers in Ghana represent a unique set of human capital, the adverse consequences of job stressors on their performances make their sustenance in organisations a key human resource ...

Towards a Taxonomy of Design Research Areas

Abstract: This chapter focuses on the future of design research and the role of design lexicon research in shaping its future. We first discuss what we mean by “design”, “design research”, and by “future” of design research. We then discuss lexicon research in general, and our initial attempts at developing taxonomy of design research areas to help growth and sustenance of design research.

Trading between New Netherland and New England, 1624-1664

Abstract: Despite political disputes between the governments of New Netherland and the English colonies of New England, little interfered with trade and the commercial networks that developed between merchants in New Netherland and New England. Demonstrating a richer and more internationally diversified economic environment than has been previously portrayed, this article examines the sophisticated trading world New England merchants entered when they chose to conduct business with merchants from New Netherland, with its commercial and legal infrastructures that accommodated foreign merchants. As well, New England’s nascent economies needed to facilitate commerce and they too encouraged and accommodated trade with the Dutch. For seventeenth-century merchants in New Netherland and New England, intercolonial trade supplied necessary sustenance, expanded merchant networks, and presented opportunities for profit.

Small Group Communication and the Asset Mapping Methodology: Enhancing Participation in the Small Christian Communities in Nigeria

Abstract: This article which references the importance of communication in small groups with regard to good use of members‟ talents for the sustenance of the group is drawn from my doctoral dissertation presented at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, 2008.

Systems approach to Information Security Governance: An imperative need for sustainability of enterprises

Abstract: In most of the current or past Information Security Governance programs for enterprises', the approaches used are poor. These approaches do not provide or deal with the systemic view of enterprises' information security governance and the emergent issues for its sustenance. In this paper, the author proposes two system models of enterprise information security governance based on systems thinking concepts. The first model, InfoSGov is used for assessing the current state of Enterprises' Information security governance and the second model, GovInfoS is used for proposing the future state and its sustenance. The application of these models in a large telecom enterprise using the qualitative tools developed, is provided. It has demonstrated the practical use of the models and tools for assessment and sustenance of the enterprise with respect to information security governance.

Developing an Entrepreneurial Economy

Abstract: This paper demonstrates that by examining how entrepreneurial economies are developed and how they create jobs, one can show that in Tanzania it is possible to create five million jobs in five years. This can be accomplished by focusing attention on investments in social education and skills training, economic empowerment, community empowerment, sustenance of high economic growth, and appropriate state policies. In Tanzania training on entrepreneurship skills and management skills as one package should receive greater emphasis. It is clear that management is the organ, of society, that facilitates the transformation of resources into wealth.

Re-Examining the Failing Inter-Governmental Fiscal Relations and Sustenance of Nigerian Federation: An Empirical Study

Abstract: This paper examined the negative impact of the conduct of intergovernmental fiscal relations (IGFR) on the sustenance of Nigerian federation. It showed the extent of centralization of IGFR with particular reference to the distribution of revenue-raising responsibilities and spending responsibilities as well as revenue sharing arrangement among the vertical organs of government. Specifically, the extent of fiscal centralization was examined and analysed on the basis of Federation Account operation, current revenue structure of the three vertical organs, total revenue decentralization ratio, federal-internal revenue sources ratio of the state and FCT and local government, general expenditure decentralization ratio, and summary of fiscal balance/imbalance of some selected states. The paper went further to identify the effects of the IGFR on Nigerian Federation before finally making some recommendations with emphasis on the need to revisit the fiscal relationship to resolve the recurring crises threatening its sustenance.

Notes from small industry clusters: making sense of knowledge and barriers to innovation

Abstract: It has been well established in literature that small industry clusters (SICs) have an impressive record of innovation and knowledge transmission. This paper explores the possibilities in this regard in third-world clusters through an empirical study of three SICs in India. The paper first examines the essential reasons for the survival and growth of clusters temporally over centuries. Then, it critically assesses the factors that threaten the clusters at present—some of which, it appears, might actually be fatal for these clusters. And finally, the paper concludes that though an enhancement in capacity to innovate and transfuse knowledge would contribute to the sustenance of these clusters, this cannot happen unless decisive intervention occurs to preserve and sustain the fundamental strengths of these clusters.

Managing innovations in educational system in Nigeria : a focus on creating and sustenance of culture of innovation

Abstract: Innovation is a tool to enhance sustainable development in education, and it has been receiving the attention of educators, educationists and researchers across the world. In organizational context, innovations is viewed as, intentionally bringing into existence and practice something new, so as to enhance performance and growth through improvement in efficiency and effectiveness. This paper examined the need of educational system for a school culture that is dynamic and forward looking, in order to create an environment for innovation. It discusses innovation as a leadership task, sustenance of innovation in schools, innovation as a tool to transform education, and challenges of innovation in schools. The sustenance of innovation includes: creating and sustenance of culture of innovation; holistic approach to innovation; effective goal definition; avoidance of innovation failures; and innovative lab. Innovations were faced with challenges of inadequate funding and facilities, lack of innovation culture in schools, inadequate leadership guidance and orientation, and poor attitude to research outcomes. It was concluded that school culture of innovation is to enhance and sustain; school quality, productivity and efficiency. Innovation requires development not only for individual creativity alone but creating a sustainable innovative environment. It was recommended that schools should create and maintain the culture of innovation, leaders should create innovation culture, and individual must become a master of innovation so as to constantly inventing or creating their experience.

Sustaining Teacher Educators: Finding Professional Renewal Through Vocation and Avocation

Abstract: This paper examines motivations for becoming a teacher educator and explores ways in which teacher educators can find renewal, revitalization, and sustenance during times of challenge. The field of teacher education is discussed through the lens of the classical notion of “calling” or vocation. The article provides a context for examining the nature of vocation and suggests a context for sustaining personal growth in teacher education.

The Constraints of Information and Communication Technology on Human Resources Development in Nigerian Universities

Abstract: The use of electronic technology for communication has since become a very vital and effective tool of human resources development and management in tertiary institutions across the world. In Nigeria, it is fast becoming a significant aspect of human resources development. Thriving organisations attach great values to good human resources management and effective internal and external communications. The paper attempted to achieve two objectives: (1) to discuss the concepts of information and communication technology; and (2) to analyze the constraints to the use of contemporary communication and how it is impacting on human resources development and management in Nigerian Universities. The paper concluded by presenting some recommendations on how the academic institutions in Nigeria can increase the effectiveness of information and communication technologies for the sustenance of effective human resources management.

Moral hazard problem for poor under joint forest management programme evidence from west bengal in indian context

Abstract: This study explores policy framework on current JFM programme, which secures traditional right of local need subject to the carrying capacity of forest, but face moral hazard problem in which Government cannot legally monitor actions against JFM households which live below poverty line and that extract TFPs for their livelihood, and thereby threatening to sustainability of forest, whereas the incentive work opportunities that Government provides them is insufficient for their subsistence. A good incentive fee dependent on their work plus a lump sum fee (subsidy) are required for their livelihood sustenance and sustainability of forest resources.

Growing from Seed: An Introduction to Social Forestry

Abstract: 1. Introduction: Basic concepts of social forestry 2. People and Forests: The relationship between society and natural resources 3. Communities in Tropical Forests: Examples of cultures and societies that depend on the forests for their livelihood and sustenance 4. Participation: The methodology of social forestry 5. Tailoring forest management to fit local needs Nutrition, food security and livelihood needs Gender, class, religion, age, cultural traditions and other "unchangeable" factors that affect the use of the resource Land tenure and resource constraints Cooperatives and other community organizations 6. Effects of External Organizations on the Community's Practice of social forestry 7. Alternative Strategies: Adapting to new, unplanned circumstances 8. A social forestry approach in Europe 9. Concluding Remarks

Equity: The Shortest Way to Global Sustainability

Abstract: My work on sustainability has been guided by some basic principles including the recognition that all members of the Earth community, human and non-human, have the right to sustenance, to food and water, to a safe and clean habitat, to security of ecological space. Resources vital to the sustenance must stay in the commons. The right to sustenance is a natural right because it is the right to live. These rights are not given by states or corporations, nor can they be extinguished by state or corporate action. No state or corporation has the right to erode or undermine these natural rights or enclose the commons that sustain life.