Characteristics of Organizational Resilience during a Security Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 632-655
Author(s):  
Eti Boehm-Tabib
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Theoretical Issue ◽  
Organizational Resilience ◽  
Community Centers ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Departments ◽  
Organizational Patterns ◽  
Crisis Situations

Abstract In light of the crisis situations the world over, resilience of organizations has become an increasingly important practical and theoretical issue. This research examines the characteristics of resilience in public organizations during the early stages of a security-related crisis. Based on personal interviews with 32 managers and employees in local social service departments and community centers who experienced the crisis as part of their jobs, the most prominent characteristic that contributed to resilience was the propensity to act. Characteristics that undermined resilience were also identified. The article discusses the characteristics of resilience identified and their implementation, as well as the need during a crisis to break away from routine organizational patterns and the planning that can develop organizational resilience.

An End to Incrementalism? The Impact of Expenditure Restraint on Social Services Budgets 1979–1986

1989 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aidan Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Activity Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Total Budget ◽  
Service Departments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACTThe theory of incrementalism is a long-standing and influential perspective on policy making and resource allocation in the public sector. Previous research on social services budgeting suggests that resources are allocated incrementally, although there has been some debate as to whether this would persist in an era of prolonged expenditure restraint. Incremental budgetary outcomes are operationalised as percentage changes in budgets pro-rata with percentage changes in the total budget, and as stable shares of total expenditure for each activity. Data for 99 English social service departments supports incrementalism in that budget shares change by only 1.8 per cent, but percentage allocations depart from pro-rata incrementalism by a mean of 74 per cent. The comparison of the two summary indices over time supports those who have argued that prolonged restraint would encourage non-incremental budgeting, but change in the agency's total budget does not consistently predict budgetary outcomes. The effect of restraint on incrementalism varies with the measure used and across the component activities of the measures, but there is enough evidence to suggest a significant decline in the level of incrementalism in social service departments. In particular, non-incremental budgeting is strongly associated with the growth of day centre expenditure on the mentally ill and the elderly before 1982–3, and after that with the pursuit of the ‘community care’ strategy within state provided services for the elderly and children. Incrementalism as a general theory of agency budgeting is limited in its ability to explain variations in the degree of incrementalism between agencies, between component budgets and over time. The conclusion suggests that further research should seek explanations for these variations in the varying balance of the competing forces which shape outcomes in welfare bureaucracies and in the relationship between these forces and the organisation's environment.

Team Managers in Local Social Service Departments in Israel as Bottom-Up Social Policy-Makers

2021 ◽  
pp. 324-345
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Psychosocial Services ◽  
Service Departments ◽  
New Policies

Following on Felice Perlmutter's work on the managerial role of social workers in social services, this article contributes to the still limited knowledge on the role of social workers in middle-management positions in formulating new policies `on the ground`. The study expands knowledge about policies determined by team managers in local social service departments in Israel. It occurs in the nexus between street-level bureaucracy, professionalism and managerial positions. Semi-structured interviews with 28 team managers revealed that they formulated `new` policies with regard to the provision of psychosocial services and material assistance (who gets what, when and how). This occurs when they resist official policy, when it is vague or non-existent. Most of their policy decisions are not documented and draw upon consultations with colleagues and superiors though not with clients. The team managers perceive these policies as a means for achieving balance between clients' well-being and budgetary constraints. Yet their decisions lack transparency, are decided upon without public discourse and may lead to greater inequity between clients

The Beginnings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Pierotti ◽  
Brandy R. Fogg
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Gene Pool ◽  
Southern Asia ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Relationship

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the relationship between humans and wolves. The relationship began as coevolutionary, with the species cooperating at times but also capable of functioning independently. This state of affairs dominated early stages of the relationship between the two species and may have persisted for 20,000 years or longer. In other parts of the world, for example, southern Asia, humans began to shape wolves into clearly domestic forms: animals phenotypically distinct from wolves, especially in body size. This latter process involves various aspects of the wolf gene pool being essentially divided, with many individuals staying true wolves while others changed in form, becoming what people now describe as “dogs” without losing their genetic links to their wolf ancestry or their ability to interbreed with wolves.

scholarly journals Edukasi Tips Memilih, Mengolah, dan Menyajikan Makanan yang Aman pada Mahasiswa STIKES Graha Medika Secara Daring Menggunakan Aplikasi Zoom Cloud Meetings

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Hairil Akbar ◽  
Sarman ◽  
Muhammad Ichsan Hadiansyah
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Food Poisoning ◽  
Processed Food ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Health Institute ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The World ◽  
Safe Food

Efforts to achieve Indonesian citizen with quality are closely related to food and nutrition factors. Fulfillment of food and nutrition adequacy can be seen from the level of food provided and the quality and diversity of food and nutrition available. Approximately 70% of cases of food poisoning in the world are caused by ready-to-eat food, namely processed food, especially by catering businesses, restaurants, canteens, restaurants, or street food. Food poisoning is usually caused by the food being contaminated with bacteria or microbes. The purpose of this community service is to increase students' knowledge and understanding regarding selecting, processing, and serving safe food. Methods used consisted of counseling and health education on tips for selecting, processing, and serving food using the zoom cloud meeting application, with the target of Graha Medika Kotamobagu Health Institute students. The activity was held on Monday, October 12, 2020. The results of the community service activities showed that of the 34 students who participated in the activity, 80% of students knew and could mention tips on choosing, processing, and serving safe food. The implementation of social service is very important to increase knowledge in selecting, processing and serving food that is safe for consumption.

scholarly journals Foreign Delegations in Dnipropetrovsk City and Dnipropetrovska Oblast in 1945–1959

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Olga Kakovkina
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Central State ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign Presence ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
The City

The purpose of the article is to figure out the features of a foreign presence in the city and the region during 1945–1959, its intensity and content on the example of the visit of foreign delegations – from the end of the World War II, as a result of which the political map of Europe and the world, the content of international relations have changed, to the assignment to Dnipropetrovsk the status of a conditionally closed city in August 1959, which led to the prohibition of its visit by foreigners until 1987.Research methods: historical-chronological, comparative.Main results: One of the aspects of foreign presence in the region is revealed on the example of target groups, which, as a rule, came at the invitation of public organizations, as well as certain departments. Some features of visiting the region by foreign delegations, quantitative indicators, the composition of individual groups, residence programs, service problems were identified. It was found that a certain limit in visiting foreigners to the region, as well as in the whole USSR, was 1953, when, as a result of the liberalization of the foreign policy of the Soviet leadership, the foreign presence in the region became more massive and public. Dnipropetrovsk and the surrounding areas, along with Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, were one of the visiting points. The purpose of its visits was to familiarize with the Soviet reality for the formation of a certain image of the USSR, to demonstrate the "advantages" of the Soviet model, and, therefore caused a significant ideological load of programs and strict control by the party bodies. Since the mid-1950s, with the intensive development of international economic relations in the region, primarily in heavy industry, the number of delegations with production targets had been growing. The economic component of relations dominated the tourism sector, which almost did not cover the Dnipropetrovsk region, given the formation of closed industries. In conclusion, it was noted that already at the stage of late Stalinism, the city and region were a significant part of the international presentation of the USSR and Ukraine. However, the stay of foreign groups revealed significant problems in their service due to material difficulties, lack of experience and personnel, and the specifics of organizing admissions under conditions of totalitarian state.Practical significance: the article recommended for the practice of teaching and research regional and urban history.Originality: sources that were first introduced to scientific circulation were used – the Central State Archive of the Public Organizations of Ukraine, the State Archive of the Dnipropetrovsk Region (oblastʼ) and regional periodicals of the period.Scientific novelty: the issue of the presence of foreign delegations in the Dnipropetrovsk region during 1945–1959 was considered, the problem of the place of Dnipropetrovsk region, Dnipropetrovsk in the system of international relations of Ukraine of the totalitarian period was determined.Article type: explanation.

Community Impact of Telebased Information Centers

2011 ◽  
pp. 298-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Falch
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Universal Coverage ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Centers ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Community Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
It Capabilities ◽  
Point Of Departure

Telebased information community centers or just telecenters have been seen as the killer application to empower local communities in developed and developing countries to meet the challenges of the information society. The point of departure has been different in various parts of the world, and a number of quite diverse models for development of telebased information centers have been applied. While centers in developed countries, with an almost universal coverage of telephony services, have been focussed on enhancing IT capabilities and access to IT-based communication services, developing countries have also focussed on provision of basic telephony. This chapter presents the approaches taken in Scandinavia, Hungary, Western Australia and Ghana in order to reach these objectives, and discusses the experiences with the different models and the national strategies used for setting up telebased information centers with special attention to their applicability in developing countries.

Vulnerabilities of Virtual and Networked Organizations

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-34
Author(s):  
Zora Arsovski ◽  
Slavko Arsovski ◽  
Aleksandar Aleksic ◽  
Miladin Stefanovic ◽  
Danijela Tadic
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Organizational Resilience ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
New Business ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Networked Organizations

Virtual organizations (VO) represent a future paradigm of business. Having in mind different types of perturbations in business today, from the economic crisis to the earthquakes in Japan and terrorists’ actions, new business solutions have emerged in order to sustain development all over the world. As a new field in scientific research, organizational resilience needs to be investigated in the context of VO’s. This paper has the intention to suggest a qualitative way to assess one dimension of organizational resilience in VO’s related to keystone vulnerabilities and to establish directions for future work, emphasizing the importance of quantifying overall organizational resilience.

Advisers to Disabled—Job Analysis

1979 ◽  
Vol 42 (12) ◽  
pp. 306-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Milne ◽  
P. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Job Analysis ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Service Departments ◽  
Salary Negotiations

The role of the O. T. in Social Service Departments is not always fully understood. In Cambridgeshire all the O. Ts. decided to change our title to “Advisers to the Disabled” as we felt this term more appropriate to the depth and diversity of our role. Having requested a change oftitle we discovered that the confusion as to our role lay not only in the minds ofthe clients but also in the minds of our managers. In order to define our role and to assist in salary negotiations the following job analysis was drawn up.

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