scholarly journals Power Relationship in the Governance of Regional Tourism Organizations in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calidon Costa Conceição ◽  
Francisco Antonio Dos Anjos ◽  
Sara Joana Gadotti dos Anjos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regional Tourism ◽  
Effective Manner

Objective: The development of tourism is one the main objectives of managers seeking a greater competitive advantage for destinations. To achieve this objective, the political-institutional structure related to public and private organizations involved in the Brazilian scenario of tourism activities deliberately operate in the format of Regional Tourism Organizations—RTOs, which started in 2004. In this context, the aim of this study arose, which is to analyze the power relations of Regional Tourism Organizations of tourist regions. Design/Methodology: This research adopted a qualitative and quantitative approach, with data collection through documents, laws, reports and information about the RTOs and questionnaires in forms applied to 27 representatives of the public sector, 14 representatives of private sector and six representatives of the third sector, from a total population of 89 active members of the Regional Tourism Organizations: Costa Verde e Mar (state of Santa Catarina), Hortênsias (state of Rio Grande do Sul), and Costa das Dunas (state of Rio Grande do Norte). During the application of the forms, interviews were carried out, totaling 47 interviews with members of the RTOs. Quantitative analyses were generated by mean, mode, absolute and relative frequencies, multiple responses and dispersion graph, with the use of descriptive analyses. The qualitative analyses involving documents were descriptive, and those involving oral information were carried out using analysis of content of Bardin (1977). The different methods that were used in an interrelated manner and helped in the analysis of the data coming from the application of forms (quantitative), official documents (laws/decrees, regulations and statutes), and interviews with actors of the regional tourism organizations (qualitative), enabled the measurement of the effectiveness of the process of management of RTOs in relation to the dimension Power Relationship and the variables analyzed Representativeness, Harmony, Trust and Decision-Making Power. Results: As a result, it was seen that the regional tourism organizations of the tourist regions operate in an effective manner in the public or private sectors and that they involve the management of shared practices by the regional tourism organizations in the destinations studied in terms of representativeness, harmony, trust and decision-making power. Novelty/Value: This research theoretically deepened for the academy the theme of regional governance and power relationship between public and private actors in tourism who are important for the competitive performance of a tourist destination. It also analyzes how the management and governance of regional tourism organizations behaves in terms of power relationships.

scholarly journals Exploration of Silence's Motives Towards the Work Decisions: The Case of Jordanian Public and Private Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 266
Author(s):  
Osama Khaled Alkhlaifat
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Last Stage

The aim of this study has been to investigate and provide a deeper understanding of the motives of silence towards the participation in the work-related decisions, in both the public and private schools in the Jordanian capital (Amman). ‘100’ teachers were interviewed using the semi-structured interviews through the available communication means. The pre-set questions were directed to the sample of the study to identify both the situations related to the decisions and motives leading to silence and non-participation from the respondents' point of view. The motives were classified according to the factors to which they belong, as well as the situations were classified according to each stage of the decision-making process, where some specialists in the field of human resources management had been asked to help in accomplishing the classification. The results showed that the largest percentage of respondents faced at least one situation in which they chose to remain silent. Most of the situations mentioned were related to the first and last stage of decision-making process (identifying the problem and following up the decision). The results also showed that most of the motives were related to the organizational practices by the officials, where the total iteration is twice as the personal motives.

Underlying values and competencies of public and private sector managers

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean D. Darling ◽  
J. Barton Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Visionary Leadership ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public And Private Sector

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify unique values and competencies linked to private and public sector environments. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on critical incident interviews with a sample of senior leaders who had experience in both the public and private sectors. Findings The findings illustrate distinct public and private sector relevant competencies that reflect the unique values of their organizations and the character of the organization’s environments. This paper suggests a range of distinct public sector competencies including: managing competing interests, managing the political environment, communicating in a political environment, interpersonal motivational skills, adding value for clients, and impact assessment in decision-making. These were very different than those identified as critical for the private sector environment: business acumen, visionary leadership, marketing communication, market acumen, interpersonal communication, client service, and timely and opportunistic decision-making. Private sector competencies reflect private sector environments where goals need to be specifically defined and implemented in a timely manner related to making a profit and surviving in a competitive environment. Public sector competencies are driven by environments exhibiting more complex and unresolvable problems and the need to respond to conflicting publics and serving the public good while surviving in a political environment. Originality/value A key message of this study is that competency frameworks need to be connected to the organization’s unique environments and the values that managers are seeking to achieve. This is particularly important for public organizations that have more complex and changing environments.

scholarly journals Hinduism in the News: The Shifting Role of Religion and the Media in Canadian Public Life

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Mann
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Media ◽  
Role Of Religion

This article studies Canadian and international newspaper reports from September, 1995, of the Ganesha milk drinking miracle. It analyzes the chronology of the newspaper reports as the story develops from an account of a miracle in the “exotic” East to an account of a miracle also occurring in Canada. The evidence demonstrates an inability on the part of the Canadian news media to view religion as hard news with broad social and political implications. The comparison with international reports demonstrates that the story had a significant political dimension and was viewed as hard news in other parts of the world. The comparison questions the assumed boundaries between the public and private spheres in relation to religion and demonstrates that such boundaries are constructed through power relationships and the news media itself.Cette etude examine des articles canadiens et internationaux parus en septembre 1995 concernant le miracle de la consommation du lait de Ganesha. Elle analyse la chronologie des articles de journaux tenant compte du développement du miracle de l’Orient ‘exotique’ vers le développement de ce même miracle au Canada. La discussion l’analyse fait valoir l’incapacité de la part des médias canadiens de percevoir la religion comme étant au centre des actualités sérieuses ayant des conséquences sociales graves et des implications politiques. La comparaison des rapports internationaux montre que ce sujet a une dimension politique importante et est considéré d’actualit sérieuse. La comparaison remet en question les frontières définissant les sphères publiques et privées en matière de religion et démontre que de telles limites sont construites par l’entremise des relations de pouvoir et des médias eux - mêmes.

Economic Decision-Making in Private Corporations Versus Public Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-98
Author(s):  
Brian J. Galli
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Private Firms ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Economic Decision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Processes

This research takes a comparative analysis approach to study the process of economic decision-making within the private sector and the public sector. There are four main research objectives that guided this article. First, it aims to identify the different kinds of decision-making methods. Second, this article analyzes the economic decision-making processes that stakeholders have to make in public and private firms. Third, this r seeks to illustrate that establish effective decision-making and financial performance relate. Lastly, the article will offer effective economic decision-making procedures in private and public organizations, so as to make recommendations and to guide these businesses. To do so, there is a literature review in this research to find the best economic decision-making processes. Data collection tools were created in reference to the literature review that directed the structuring of the variables, and the study based the quantitative analysis on the adopted descriptive methodology. The sample was comprised of 100 respondents from China, and since 95% responded, that was a total of 95 responses. Based on the formulated study hypothesis and the research objectives, the collected data was examined for descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. In general, the findings showed that cost-benefit analysis was the favored economic evaluation method, and the respondents specified that they their internal and external economic decisions directly influence the company's operations. When focusing on how organizational performance is affected by effective economic decisions, the findings established that there was a key component for a better economic analysis outcome in the public and private firms: accounting information. Additionally, evaluating the number of processes in public and private firms led to findings that revealed the following: every decision in the public sector requires many approvals. These approvals greatly hinder economic decisions and decision-making. Social, cultural, and environmental aspects influence the decision process significantly, so they must be addressed immediately.

scholarly journals Bridging the Public and Private in the Study of Teaching: Revisiting the Research Argument

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
RACHEL E. SCHACHTER ◽  
DONALD FREEMAN
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
Role Of Teachers

In this essay, Rachel Schachter and Donald Freeman present the familiar problem in studying and improving teaching: how to connect what teachers know and think with what they do as they teach. They outline how research on the public and private worlds of teaching has become bifurcated, with the private side of the work often disconnected from observable practices, and contend that focusing on how public actions and private reasoning are connected is crucial to more fully understanding teaching. They revisit stimulated recall as a research procedure that connects the public and private in teaching, reviewing how it has been used in studying teachers' decision-making and questioning assumptions that generally frame the procedure as a means of data collection. This critique distinguishes stimulated recall as a procedure for collecting data from the claims and the justifications on which it is based. In shifting the basis of the approach, Schachter and Freeman argue that the procedure offers a practical vehicle for researchers to use in both connecting the two worlds and repositioning the role of teachers in the study of their work.

Information Economics: A Practical Approach to Valuing Information Systems

1992 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devra Wiseman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Value Of Information ◽  
Information Economics ◽  
Scoring Systems ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technology Managers

This paper describes an approach to analysing the value of information systems to an enterprise, and the risks that the value will not be realised. The approach is called Information Economics (IE). A key use is to prioritize investments in information systems. It brings together business and technology managers, by providing, at one level, a tool they can use for scoring systems. At another level, it offers a decision-making process that provides a number of key benefits, such as improved communications. Two case studies, from the public and private sectors, show two different, practical uses of the Information Economics approach, and how it can be adapted to different organizations.

scholarly journals Bring Back Bentham: "Open Courts," "Terror Trials," and Public Sphere(s)

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Resnik
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Application Of Law ◽  
Private Providers ◽  
Private Power ◽  
A Site

The identification of courts as “open” and “public” institutions is commonplace in national and transnational conventions. But even as those attributes are taken for granted, the privatization of adjudication is underway. This Article explores how—during the last few centuries—public procedures came to be one of the attributes defining certain decision-making institutions as “courts.” The political and theoretical predicates for such practices can be found in the work of Jeremy Bentham, a major proponent of what he termed “publicity,” a practice he commended by detailing the architecture for various entities—from the Panopticon for prisoners to the Parliament for legislators and courts for judges. Bentham argued the utility of publicity in enhancing accuracy, public education, and judicial discipline.Moving forward in time, I examine various contemporary techniques in several jurisdictions that shift the processes of adjudication toward privatization. Included are the devolving adjudication to less-public government entities such as administrative agencies; outsourcing to private providers; and reconfiguring the processes of courts to render them more oriented toward settlement.For those appreciative of the role courts play in developing and protecting human rights, these new practices are problematic because adjudication can itself be a site offering opportunities to engage in democratic practices. The odd etiquette entailed in public adjudication under democratic legal regimes imposes obligations on government and disputants to treat each other—before an observant and often times critical public—as equals. Public and private power can be constrained by such performative requirements. When decision making takes place in public, the application of law to fact can engender normative contestation predicated on popular input. This claim of public adjudication’s democratic potential and utilities is, however, not an argument that the judgments provided and the norms developed will necessarily advance a shared view of the public welfare. Hence, while eager to re-engage Bentham, I offer different claims for publicity and less optimism about its consequences.

scholarly journals Exploring Tools for Public Real Estate Enhancement in Italy: From Criteria to Decisions

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 622
Author(s):  
Marzia Morena ◽  
Genny Cia ◽  
Alessandra Migliore ◽  
Stefano Mantella
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Property ◽  
Technical Features

The debate on public real estate enhancement is prominent and requires innovative strategies to assure economic and social sustainability. This article aims at systematizing the currently available methods and tools of public property enhancement in Italy, proposing a system of criteria to support the public administration (PA) in the decision-making process when managing public real estate enhancement oriented towards public utility. Namely, this article considers and assesses consolidated and innovative public real estate enhancement methods and tools currently available to the Italian PA according to the “endogenous criteria” of the real estate tools and “criteria of purpose” of the public administration promoting the enhancement process. The final aim is to support the decision-making process of PAs and help both public and private actors in grasping and managing the complexity of public real estate enhancement. An overview of the literature and of reference laws on public property enhancement builds the research framework, together with a path of research, dialogues, and fieldworks with the Italian State Property Agency (Agenzia del Demanio). The decision-making process of PAs for selecting a suitable enhancement strategy or tool should rest on endogenous criteria and criteria of purpose. Specifically: (i) the distinct technical features of each public asset; (ii) the public utility aim that the public entity intends to pursue; (iii) the needs of the community (i.e., the demand); (iv) the skills available within the PA that promotes the strategy.

scholarly journals Condicionantes da Tempestividade das Prestações de Contas Contábeis no Terceiro Setor

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (37) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Laís Amélia Revoredo de Paula ◽  
Maria Aparecida do Nascimento Cavalcanti Marques ◽  
Roberto Silva da Penha
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Specific Organ ◽  
Internal Accounting ◽  
Social Entities

O Terceiro Setor compreende as atividades voluntárias realizadas pela sociedade civil voltadas para o atendimento do interesse público. O objetivo da pesquisa foi identificar os principais fatores que influenciam na prestação de contas das Organizações da Sociedade Civil de Interesse Público (OSCIP) das entidades situadas no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Foi realizada uma pesquisa descritiva, na qual se utilizou como instrumento para a coleta de dados um survey direcionado aos gestores das 38 entidades qualificadas como OSCIP e que possuem o registro no portal do Cadastro Nacional de Entidades Sociais do Ministério da Justiça (CNES/MJ). Os resultados demonstraram que 50% das instituições não possuem os relatórios de prestação de contas disponíveis no portal CNES/MJ, apesar dos gestores entenderem a prestação de contas como uma forma de continuarem percebendo recursos. No que tange aos fatores identificados como passíveis de influenciar na prestação de contas, verificou-se que as entidades que possuem mais tempo de qualificação têm algum órgão específico dentro da organização e que o fato de ter uma contabilidade interna favorece a prestação de contas. Outro achado importante é que na percepção dos respondentes, o prazo estipulado para a prestação de contas é insuficiente comprometendo a adimplência por parte das entidades.Palavras-chave: Terceiro Setor. Prestação de Contas. OSCIP.Abstract The third sector comprises voluntary activities carried out by civil society aimed at meeting the public interest. The objective of the research is to identify the main factors that influence the accountability of Civil Society Organizations of Public Interest (OSCIPs) of entities located in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. A descriptive research was carried out in which a survey was conducted as a tool for the data collection directed to the managers of the 38 entities qualified as OSCIPs and that have the registration in the portal of the National Register of Social Entities of the Ministry of Justice (CNES / MJ). The results showed that 50% of institutions do not have the reporting reports available on the CNES/MJ portal, although managers see accountability as a way to continue to perceive resources. Regarding the factors identified as capable of influencing the accountability, it was verified that the entities that have more qualification time have some specific organ within the organization and that the fact of having an internal accounting favors the rendering of accounts. Another important finding is that in the respondents’ perception, the deadline for accountability is insufficient, jeopardizing compliance by the entities.Keywords: Third Sector. Accountability. OSCIP.

scholarly journals The level of scientific literacy and its relation with a making decision Field study of the third secondary scientific students in the secretariat، Sana'a: مستوى الثقافة العلمية وعلاقتها باتخاذ القرار لدى طلبة الصف الثالث الثانوي علمي في أمانة العاصمة صنعاء

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazza Abdu Al-Homaidi, Abdu Mohammed Al-Dagashi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third

The study aimed to recognize the level of scientific literacy and its relation with making decisions of the third secondary scientific students in the secretariat (Sana'a). -The study used the descriptive statistics methodology that is regarded as a good methodology to this study. The study came up with the following conclusion: • A low – level of the scientific literacy of the study sample on the scientific literacy in general as well as its subsidiary axis than the extreme that the study pointed which is (80%). • There were statically differences at the level (0.05)in the favorite of male students in general exam،and there are no statically differences in the scientific knowledge. • Three were statically differences at the level (0.05) in the favorite of male students in the public schools. However، there were no statically differences in (science nature –scientific knowledge –STS) • No statically differences at the level (0.05) in the average marks of the private schools students in general exam and its subsidiary axis. • No statically differences were found at the level (0.05) between the averages of students' marks in general and (science nature، scientific knowledge) of both the public and private schools، but there were in the (STS) the favorite of private schools. • There were a positive relation (R=0.40) at the level (0.01) between the level of decision making and the scientific literacy together with (science nature، scientific knowledge، STS) R= (0.37-0.39-0.31) respectively. Recommendations: The decision making and level of scientific literacy should be raised among the third secondary science students، and it is necessary to give a list of scientific literacy، to have training sessions to science teachers، in order to renew their information، increase their scientific literacy and their decision making.

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