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... sense to talk about the strategy of a unitary firm even though different managers, affiliates, d...The training and acculturation of executives is a vital component in tackling this problem. . C...
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The Dutch police system has been under pressure during the last decades. Critical debates focused on police' dealing with the growing (perceived) insecurity, the administrative problems of size and efficiency, the core tasks of the police, the distribution of power over the police and it's accountability. These issues have become even more relevant since integrated local safety policies have been developed to tackle public safety problems by the police together with more and different partners, within government or even outside of it. At the same time the national government wants to direct its local and regional partners more, while holding on to local performance. The aim of this article is to show the developments of the last decades that have influenced the (re)organization of the p...
... the legislature (parliament), the executive (government) and the judiciary (the courts). These...The Netherlands are a decentralized unitary state, which means that actions are organized base...
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The status of the Personnel function is subject to an ongoing debate in which attention has largely shifted from department to individual practitioner level. There remains, however, significant functional power in organisational structures, particularly in more institutionalised contexts. Aimed at the departmental level, the higher education state funding council for England (HEFCE) introduced an initiative to improve Personnel departments in Higher Education. However, survey evidence confirms the continuation of the low power position of the department. An exploration of the empirical data highlights why: the routine rigidity of power in organisational structures, the fragmentation of departmental power, and Personnel role ambiguity.
... of power and assumes that subunits are unitary and cohesive (Clegg et al. 2006: 125). In reality,... with a place for Personnel on the Executive Committee (Guest/Clinton 2007). In contrast, pre- ...
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... requirements, the Federal Council (executive) is obliged to present it to Parliament and, final..., corresponds rather to the idea of a 'unitary federal state': co-operation between Lander and Bu...
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..., the role of administrative agencies in unitary versus federal states, the reaction towards intern...embryo research), the Executive's intervention to set up a licensing procedure, an...
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... three broad institutional headings: a unitary state which, for twenty years, has undergone signi...The opening of executive bodies to new political parties, with the concomit...
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... the majority of parliament and the executive sole political shaping and focuses on the majority... many renewals such as the creation of a unitary law and a national administration, which still exi...