To date, governments across the world have widely recognised the potential of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to bring about fundamental renewal in not only government and public sector processes, but also in their relationship with civil societal groups, the private sector, citizens, and various other actors. In the governmental relationship with citizens, civil society a...

Intervention forces are special, often state-run organizations that are in charge of surveillance and intervention tasks. Examples are police, medical emergency services, civil defense, and security firms. From a business processes view, intervention forces are a subset of organizations whose operational business is mobile. The contribution analyzes the potentials and limits of mobile business ...

This proposed rule would implement revised Executive Branch policy that, consistent with constitutional church-state parameters, faith-based organizations compete on an equal footing with other organizations for direct Federal financial assistance, and to fully participate in Federally supported social service programs, while beneficiaries under those programs receive appropriate protections. T...

Education is widely considered to be the most important form of human capital, especially in less developed countries where the rates of return are generally high for all individuals, including for agricultural producers. However, for schooling to play an important role, the system of education needs to provide quality education, which among other things requires high quality teachers. Unfortun...

This article assesses the daunting challenges facing the changing patterns of Public Administration in Ethiopia. It seeks to outline the major determinants that have shaped Ethiopia's system of Public Administration. It is argued in the course of this exercise that Ethiopia's public Administration, as is the case of most developing countries, has had to assume the role of prime mover in the pro...

ALBANY, Oct. 18—The Civil Service Employees Association took the unprecedented step of getting, in advance of the general State-wide elPcUon, the views of the Republican and Democratic parties on matters affecting civil service. These views were presented by two of the major candidates—J. Raymond McGovern, GOP candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Democratic candida...

This article examines personal and work-related characteristics of a sample of the nearly 1 million Federal civil-service retirees who were receiving annuities based on their own wage records as of December 31, 1975. Employment patterns and subsequent annuities in civil-service careers have been related to corresponding experience in jobs covered under the old-age, survivors, disability, and he...