13. Professional Management of Professionals

2006 ◽  
pp. 181-193 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Management

Management of Records in Adapted Buildings as Records Centres in Zimbabwe

Mousaion ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samson Mutsagondo ◽  
Getrude Maduyu ◽  
Godfrey Tsvuura
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Personal Observation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
The Government

This paper discusses the challenges of records management that arise from the use of adapted buildings as records centres in Zimbabwe, despite the advantages of using such buildings. A qualitative research approach was used as well as a case study research design. Data were collected from seven officers of the Gweru Records Centre through semi-structured interviews. Personal observation was used to triangulate findings from interviews. It was found that the use of adapted buildings as records centres was a cheaper and quicker way of establishing records centres throughout the country. However, a number of preservation, security and management challenges cropped up as the conditions of the buildings and the environment of the adapted buildings were not conducive to the proper and professional management of records. This study is important in that it explores the prospects and challenges of using adapted buildings as records centres in Zimbabwe, an area that has not been researched by many authors. This provokes archival authorities and the government to seriously consider establishing purpose-built records and archival centres.

scholarly journals Hybridity as a Result of the Marketization of Public Services: Catalyst or Obstruction for Sustainable Development? Deductions from a Study of Three Hybrid Waste Management Organizations in The Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Philip Marcel Karré
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
New Public

Increasingly, hybridity, i.e., the combination of contrasting and conflicting elements within organizations, is seen as a way to create innovation and synergy in dealing with complex societal questions, leading to more sustainable development. Much research on the subject deals with the phenomenon of social enterprise, but hybridity also takes place in other, more traditional organizational settings. For example, many governments have created hybrid organizations by embracing new public management (NPM) as a way to overcome the perceived shortcomings of traditional, hierarchical forms of public administration, such as inefficiency and the lack of an entrepreneurial spirit. Here, hybridity is often not so much seen as a way to increase sustainability but rather as a way to cut cost and to increase the quality of service provision. This article adds the sustainability dimension to this discussion through a deductive approach, reinterpreting the results from a study on the effects of the hybridity of three municipal waste management organizations in the Netherlands. The main conclusions are that hybridity leads to a more professional management style but also to more attention on output than on outcome. The article discusses what this means in terms of pursuing sustainability and sustainable development.

Farmer Producer Company: India’s Magic Bullet to Realise Select SDGs?

2021 ◽  
pp. 097300522199166
Author(s):  
Mamta Mourya ◽  
Madhavi Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Magic Bullet ◽  
Value Addition ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Existing Form ◽  
Method Approach

Sustainable development goals (SDGs) are designed for the betterment of the underprivileged and the marginalised. Some of the sub-goals target doubling agricultural productivity and incomes of the small-scale food producers to realise the SDGs. Access to land, technology, inputs and financial services, opportunities for value addition and markets, non-farm employment and effective and transparent institutions that ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels are assumed to be the means to that end. Based on the Alagh Committee report’s recommendations, to address the voids in the existing form of collectives, producer company as a new legal option was introduced in 2003 by amending the Companies Act. This new form of collective is expected to combine efficiency and professional management of the company form and the cooperative principles necessitating ownership and participation of and governance by producers. This study takes a mixed-method approach. It qualitatively inquires about member’s perception of roles farmer producer companies (FPCs) play in their lives and livelihood. With the help of performance data from five FPCs, this study elaborates on the promises this form holds in realising some of the SDGs and challenges FPCs facing that could make achieving these promises a distant dream.

The analysis of abdominal delivery cases at labor activity anomalies

2017 ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
Yu.P. Vdovichenko ◽  
◽  
N.P. Goncharuk ◽  
E.Yu. Gurzhenko ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Maternity Hospital ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Cesarean Sections ◽  
Birth Canal ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
Natural Birth ◽  
Abdominal Route ◽  
History Of ◽  
Abdominal Delivery

The objective: analysis of the frequency of cesarean sections, their structure according to the indications from the mother; study of the dynamics of the frequency of cesarean sections in case of abnormalities of labor activity (ALA) as indications for operative delivery on the basis of Kyiv City Maternity Hospital No. 1 for 2001-2011. Patients and methods. During the study, the frequency of cesarean sections in general, the frequency of urgent cesarean sections, the structure of cesarean sections according to the indications from the mother's side, the frequency of cesarean sections in ALA were studied and analyzed, and the dynamics of the cesarean section rate in ARP as well as one of the main indications with Mother's side. The history of the delivery of labor was used, which culminated in the abdominal route. Results. An increase in the level of cesarean sections was noted. The number of urgent cesarean sections is gradually decreasing. There has been a significant reduction in the incidence of cesarean sections in anomalies of labor, which are not amenable to drug treatment. Conclusion. The professional management of births, adequate justified use of medicines, the use of modern medical means in practice, an objective assessment of the obstetrical situation, cardiotocoagraphic support, timely and adequate use of epidural analgesia positively influenced the increase in the number of deliveries through the natural birth canal, which is a priority in the professional activity of the obstetrician-gynecologist. Key words: caesarian section, anomalies of labor activity.

Professional Management in Family Businesses: Toward an Extended Understanding

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Hall ◽  
Mattias Nordqvist
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Dominant Meaning ◽  
Case Research ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
Family Membership

Our purpose is to challenge the dominant meaning of professional management in family business research and to suggest an extended understanding of the concept. Based on a review of selected literature on professional management and with insights from cultural theory and symbolic interactionism, we draw on interpretive case research to argue that professional family business management rests on two competencies, formal and cultural, of which only the former is explicitly recognized in current family business literature. We elaborate on the meanings and implications of cultural competence and argue that without it a CEO of a family business is likely to work less effectively, no matter how good the formal qualifications and irrespective of family membership.

Integrating Professional Management into a Family Owned Business

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Gibb Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Family Firm ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Professional Management

Under which conditions can professional knowledge and values be integrated successfully into the organization and management of a family firm?

scholarly journals Group Analytic Methods Beyond the Clinical Setting—Working with Researcher–Managers

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Mowles
Keyword(s):  
Group Analysis ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Analytic Thinking ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Management Scholarship

Group analytic scholars have a long history of thinking about organizations and taking up group analytic concepts in organizational contexts. Many still aspire to being more of a resource to organizations given widespread organizational change processes which provoke great upheaval and feelings of anxiety. This article takes as a case study the experience of running a professional management research doctorate originally set up with group analytic input to consider some of the adaptations to thinking and methods which are required outside the clinical context. The article explores what group analysis can bring to management, but also what critical management scholarship can bring to group analysis. It considers some of the organizational difficulties which the students on the doctoral programme have written about, and discusses the differences and limitations of taking up group analytic thinking and practice in an organizational research setting.

scholarly journals The effects of health tourism investments in tourism businesses in the Northern Hungarian Region

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Róbert Szabó
Keyword(s):  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
Contingency Coefficient ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Correlation Tests

In my article I woud like to find answers for the question how frequently and effectively the region’s business leaders in Northern Hungary participated in various development programs, as regards investments in health tourism, what developments have been made mainly in the area, what the positive effects of these developments were in the life of businesses, whether the businesses (leaders) feel successful, and how their success was manifested. I carried out a questionnaire survey among enterprises. From the data I calculated mean, SD and spectrum and examined the crosstab correlations as well, and the Cramer’s V associate coefficient and Contingency coefficient. The results of the correlation tests could be summarised as the following: According to the survey, the number of the medium-sized enterprises being involved utilised a significant proportion of their development funds, compared to the micro and small enterprises. Although the idea of spas winterizing their pools was not considered an important development, both the adventure and wellness elements were important for the construction of thermal baths. In the case of hotels, the expansion of wellness elements and other additional services together with the development of marketing activities played an important role. Besides the positive business publicity, enterprises see the positive effects of the investment in the increase of their income; the success can be the result of the adequate supply of components, the professional management and that of positive image.

scholarly journals Board–Management Collaboration Case

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-60
Author(s):  
Harry Korine
Keyword(s):  
Board Members ◽  
Professional Management

AbstractThe case describes challenges that commonly arise between board and management in not for profits (NPFs), specifically, (a) questions of strategy related to changes in funding; (b) questions of culture related to the informality of relations among board members, management, and staff; and (c) questions of authority related to the disparity in involvement between volunteer board and professional management. Based on a description of how these challenges played out in an international NGO, an analysis of what was needed to address them, and a presentation of recommendations that were successfully applied, the case provides boards and managements of NPFs a blueprint for how to build stronger collaboration and offers students of NPFs a model for study.

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