NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES UNIONISM COMES TO THE PUBLIC SECTOR Richard B. Freenan Working Paper No. 1452 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 September 1984 The research reported here is part of the NBER ’s research program in Labor Studies and project in Government Budget. Any opinions expressed are those of the author and not those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER Working Paper #1452 September 1984 Unionism Comes
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Overview of Central Public Sector Enterprises The government-owned corporations play a pivotal role in the economic development of emerging economies because their participation is higher in the industrial and commercial activities of these economies. Resource constraints and limited scope of the private sector in the early stages of development and planning have set the stage for predominance of the public enterprises in these economies. Thus‚ public sectors in the leading developing countries
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Management and Organization Development: Planned Change in a Public Sector Organization HARRY SMINIAÃ & ANTONIE VAN NISTELROOIJÃÃ Ã The Management School‚ University of Sheffield‚ UK‚ Ã Ã Department of Administrative and Organization Science‚ Faculty of Social Sciences‚ Vrije Universiteit‚ Amsterdam ABSTRACT This paper reports on a case study on the introduction of organization development (OD) techniques in a traditionally top-down lead public sector organization in the Netherlands. The findings suggest
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ROI in the Public Sector Interest in return on investment (ROI) by public sector organizations continues to grow. This interest is not isolated to large federal agencies. Myths regarding the use of ROI in government abound‚ prevents many agencies from developing a comprehensive approach to evaluating human resources‚ training‚ and performance improvement initiatives. The key is distinguishing what is myth versus what is reality. Efforts have been made toward more responsible performance management
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Competitiveness Index GDP Gross Domestic Product GDR Global Depository Receipt GoP Government of Pakistan HBL Habib Bank Limited IFI International Finance Institution IMF International Monetary Fund IPO Initial Public Offering IPP Independent Power Producers MCA Monopoly Control Authority MTDF Medium Term Development Framework KESC Karachi Electric Supply Corporation KPT Karachi Port Trust KSE Karachi Stock Exchange NCBs
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on Environment of Accounting Submitted to:- Prof. Dr. Parimal Chandra Datta Submitted by:- ID# Name 151009067 Muntashir Rahman Jeesa 151008067 Shihab Kamal Munshi Date of Submission: July 13th‚ 2015 Primeasia University‚Bangladesh Table of Content Sl PAGE 1. Brief History of Accounting 2. Definition of Accounting 3. Activities of Accounting 4. Bookkeeping & Accounting Compared 5. Uses of Accounting Data 6. Reasons for Using Accounting Data 7. Ethics in Accounting 8.
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“Private and public sector management differ only in context‚ but this difference is significant.” George Boyne in his article “Human resource management in the Public and private sectors: An empirical comparison” explains with empirical evidence how even though private and public sector management differs in service ethos but this difference is significant which impacts the tradition‚ culture and practises of both the sectors. Over the past two decades many different interpretations and perceptions
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Causes for loss of public enterprise What is enterprise ? The term “enterprise” has two common meanings: Firstly‚ an enterprise is simply another name for a business. we often come across this word when reading about start-ups and other businesses…“Simon Cowell’s enterprise” or “Michelle set up her successful enterprise after leaving teaching” etc. Secondly‚ and perhaps more importantly‚ the word enterprise describes the actions of someone who shows some initiative by taking a risk by setting
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IDENTIFY THE KEY FEATURES OF CORRUPTION. ESTABLISH WHY PUBLIC SECTOR CORRUPTION IS REGARDED AS A PROBLEM ESPECIALLY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. 1.0 INTRODUCTION Corruption is regarded as a complex problem to solve or refer solutions to. Corruption may be taken to include those modes of employing money to attain private ends by political means which are criminal or at least illegal‚ because they induce persons charged with a public duty to transgress that duty and misuse the functions assigned to
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However‚ there is one sector in which organized labors are at historic lows and are unlikely to rebound: government. This has severe implications for the nature of organized labor itself. Unionism grew in the private sector as a result of government support through the passage of laws and the establishment of regulatory bodies intended to encourage the expansion of unionism and collective bargaining throughout the workforce. On the other hand‚ union organizing in the public sector starterd only after
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