Court-Ordered Community Service

Published: Jan. 9, 2025

Community service is a common court-ordered sanction in many countries. Individuals sentenced to community must work specified number of uncompensated hours at an approved agency, typically as condition probation. A core expectation that the agencies benefit from this labor. However, very little research examines organizational and interpersonal dynamics involved when organizations with workers. What are local public nonprofit organizations' experiences workers? How do workers, themselves, experience within agencies? We address these questions through interviews 31 volunteer managers 34 workers two court jurisdictions Northeast Georgia. frame our findings management literature suggest practices could improve for both worker organization.

Language: Английский

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Standing Up for Nonprofits

Published: May 23, 2024

This Element examines the recent history of nonprofit sector-wide advocacy at federal level, focusing on work done by national infrastructure organizations and charities, to advocate issues, such as tax incentives for charitable giving, that affect a broad range nonprofits.The draws interviews with thirty-nine state leaders policymakers well published papers journalistic accounts.It finds many are only weakly supportive sector.In end, this points an uneasy, shifting balance in sector between informal, decentralized, issue-based coalitions focused short-term, if vital, legislative victories, one hand, public good mandate embraced some advocates, which attends longer time horizons conception defense civil society, other.This title is also available Open Access Cambridge Core.

Language: Английский

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Sustainable Inclusion through Performance-Driven Practices

Published: April 24, 2025

How can organizations better achieve inclusion, equity, and superior performance from diversity? Decades of stalled progress require a wider range policies. Applying system thinking approach to transdisciplinary synthesis research findings, the authors' comprehensive framework guides inquiry practice by identifying problematic dynamics. Comparative case studies reveal, in contrast, favorable dynamics intergroup contact that result an evolved elaboration practices for inclusive interactions, socialization, accountability. Over time, when promoted mission attainment, applied all members, customized workgroup, generate performance.

Language: Английский

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Topics in Public Administration

Published: Nov. 29, 2024

This inductive examination of the topics in public administration literature using computational social science and corpus linguistics (17 journals, N=12,760 articles, 1991–2019) reveals a new landscape topics, changes over time their distribution: • Topic modelling stock whole identifies 50 topics: top ten included health care, federal government, performance management, environmental regulation, HRM networks accounted for just third scholarship between 1991–2019. Focal identified individual journals similarities with popular – networks, less frequently examined including gender diversity partnerships. Analysis shows substantial flow moving from country practice focus early stages our study period to concepts such as governance, citizens late (2015–2019).

Language: Английский

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Public Service Explained

Published: Dec. 9, 2024

This Cambridge Element aims to advance theory by investigating the nature of participation in public service delivery. It situates itself under Public Service Logic advocate for a strategic orientation as an element value creation services. introduces concept and discusses motives, incentives, tools engage citizens delivery processes. Then, it frames citizens' approach ecosystem capture dynamic relationships among citizens, other actors, processes, structures that may contribute determining presents dynamics destruction service. The concludes with implications research practice. title is also available Open Access on Core.

Language: Английский

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