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Jackson, Janese Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Given the perils of today's dynamic and resource-constrained environment, intellectual capital has become a source of competitive advantage for public sector organizations. Composed of three elements--organizational knowledge, innovative capability, and organizational commitment--intellectual capital is an asset that cannot simply be bought or…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Epistemology, Public Sector, Government Employees
Borkowski, Tammy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The United States Government relies on information technology to provide services to its citizens, spending more than $600 billion on its products and services in the last decade. Given the current fiscal climate, the Executive Branch of the United States Government has a renewed focus on information technology (IT) innovation, requiring federal…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Responsibility, Emotional Development, Competence
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Harsell, Dana Michael; O'Neill, Patrick B. – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
The authors describe lessons learned from a limited-duration experiential learning component of a Master's level course. The course is open to Master's in Business and Master's in Public Administration students and explores the relationships between government and business. A complete discussion of the Master's in Business and Master's in Public…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Masters Degrees, Business Administration Education, Public Administration Education
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Hughes, Derek – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2010
This paper reviews how action learning was used as part of a regional leadership development programme involving a number of public sector organisations. It explores how the sets were designed and set up and the significant challenges that this particular approach brought. A number of positive tangible outcomes were produced from the sets and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Public Sector, Leadership Training, Foreign Countries
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de Pablo, Isidro; Alfaro, Fernando; Rodriguez, Miriam; Valdes, Esperanza – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
This paper presents a case of collaboration between different types of public services and the private sector for the promotion of an entrepreneurial culture. This collaboration is achieved by means of a centre established and developed by the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, the Centro de Iniciativas Emprendedoras (the Centre for Entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Public Administration, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Culture
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Solhaug, Trond – Policy Futures in Education, 2011
The article focuses on the similarities and differences in using new public management (NPM) administrative arrangements in educational policy as they have been presented in the educational reform process carried out this millennium by two governments in Norway: the Centre-Conservative government and the current Red-Green coalition government.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Kniker, Ted – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
This chapter describes the author's experience and insights as the chief of evaluation for public diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State, and as a consultant assisting federal agencies in a multitude of evaluation activities relating what helps and hinders internal evaluation functions. The article discusses the challenges faced by the internal…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, International Relations, Public Agencies
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Powell, Mark – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2009
When Barack Obama announced his run for the presidency, he seemed an unlikely candidate. Against all odds, he was able to defeat an apparently overwhelming opposition by relating to the electorate in a more horizontal, collaborative manner. What Obama did differently was to empower the new, digitally active, younger political class by involving…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Internet, Montessori Method, Political Candidates
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Lu, Yi; Lambright, Kristina T. – College Teaching, 2010
This study provides a greater understanding of which factors influence the effectiveness of service learning projects at improving graduate students' professional skills. Data for this study was gathered from students in eight Master of Public Administration (MPA) courses taught during two semesters at a large state university. Younger students…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Group Activities, Public Administration Education, Service Learning
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Ribeiro, Fernanda – Education for Information, 2008
There is a brief exposition, in a historical perspective, about the evolution of the professional education in Portugal, in the area of Library and Information Science, since the creation of the Curso de Bibliotecario-Arquivista, in 1887, until its closure in 1982, when it was replaced by the Curso de Especializacao em Ciencias Documentais (CECD).…
Descriptors: Library Education, Public Administration, Information Science, Foreign Countries
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Li, Chenghui; Fu, Yongxian; Chen, Rongxiang; Hu, Xueqi – International Education Studies, 2010
Though the specialty of the public affair management has been developed for ten years, but it is still facing the actuality that the orientation and development are difficult. Only by confirming the cultivation target and the development orientation, the development of the specialty could find the development approach and method. According to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Affairs Education, Specialization, Public Administration Education
Gillam, Mary M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Passage of the Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) of 1996 was in direct response to Congressional inquiry into the perceived lack of proper management and oversight of information technology (IT) in the federal agencies. This current qualitative phenomenological study explored the lived experiences and perceptions of 20 IT professionals to determine if the…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Public Agencies, Phenomenology, Federal Legislation
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Vanhuysse, Pieter; Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Raanan – Critical Studies in Education, 2009
This article aims to contribute to current debates about political power and agency relationships in education and other public sectors. In a recent clarion call for a major redirection of political principal-agent theories (PAT), Terry Moe has argued that standard information asymmetries ought no longer to be regarded as the sole foundation of…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Elections, Boards of Education, Political Power
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Zibarras, Lara D.; Port, Rebecca L.; Woods, Stephen A. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2008
This paper explores the relationship between self-reported innovative characteristics and dysfunctional personality traits. Participants (N = 207) from a range of occupations completed the Innovation Potential Indicator (IPI) and the Hogan Development Survey (HDS). Those who reported innovative characteristics also reported the following…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Innovation, Personality, Adults
American Political Science Association (NJ1), 2011
Is political science positioned to embrace and incorporate the changing demographics, increasing multicultural diversity, and ever-growing disparities in the concentration of wealth present in many nation-states? Can political science do so within its research, teaching, and professional development? These two questions were the focus of the work…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Political Science, Public Administration, Professional Development
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