Essays about: "the effectiveness of public sector management"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 30 essays containing the words the effectiveness of public sector management.

1. 21. Choice of Primary Health Care: A Secondary Analysis of The Free Choice System in Stockholm and Three County Councils

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Rina Yokota; [2011]
   Keywords : New Public Management; Free Choice System; Primary Health Care; the Third Way; Public sector; Private sector; Civil Sector; Citizens’ Participation; Public Value Creation; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This Master’s thesis examines the outcomes of the new Free Choice policy with particular emphasis on whether giving residents the right to choose their providers of primary health care leads to a more equal distribution of primary health care accessibility. This study is based on the Secondary Analysis of assessment for vårdval (choice of health system) in Stockholm by Karolinska Institute (2010), socio-economic distribution in Stockholm and the Population Surveys in three county councils (Halland, Skåne and the Västra Götland Region) from 2009. READ MORE

3. 22. Low-value procurement in humanitarian organizations - the importance of using purchasing management to improve supply function efficiency

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Teknisk logistik

   Author : Hugo Cabós Larroya; [2011]
   Keywords : developing countries; low-value procurement; humanitarian organization; policy management; public sector procurement; purchasing; Keywords: Procurement; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : Background: Public sector organizations develop procurement policies and regulations to ensure appropriate funds management and practice of “best value for money” by managers and purchasing specialists. Nevertheless, while these policies ensure compliance, they often convert the procurement process in resource intensive activities. READ MORE

4. 23. Good work done well? -A study of the measurement of effectiveness and efficiency in Swedish charities

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Johan Ridelberg; August Runge; [2010-06-23]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Background: The increased number of contracts for public services and the media scrutiny following recent control failures have placed a focus on nonprofit organizations and their reporting of effectiveness and efficiency. Since nonprofit organizations per definitions are not allowed to distribute profits to the suppliers of capital, something else must be used as a substitute for this measure. READ MORE

5. 24. A new better future? : A qualitative study of the governmental system in the city of Arkhangelsk, Russia.

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Marina Pirogovskaya; [2010]
   Keywords : Mayor; city manager; mayor municipal government; city manager government; bureaucracy; new public management; efficiency; effectiveness;

   Abstract : Municipal government is responsible for public safety, maintenance of city streets and parks, wastewater treatment, trash removal, fire and rescue services, public transportation, and other essential services which mean that it plays a big role in the life of the city and its citizens. The efficiency of the work of the municipality largely depends on the work of its top management. READ MORE

6. 25. The Best of Both Worlds for Newborn Survival - The relationship between neonatal health behavior and beliefs according to mothers; A case study in the Southern Province of Zambia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Natalie Gagné; [2010]
   Keywords : folk sector; professional sector; popular sector; health behavior; neonatal period; preventive behavior; curative behavior; illness; etiology; folk illness; beliefs on illness causation; Southern Province of Zambia.; local Health Care Systems model; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the context of a global surge in attention towards reducing neonatal mortality in developing countries, this study explores how mothers in the Southern Province of Zambia describe their behavior to prevent and care for neonatal illnesses, and how this behavior is related to their beliefs on neonatal illness causation. Using an anthropological approach that is based on Kleinman’s (1980) local Health Care Systems model, this study has found that mothers’ illness etiology concepts strongly inform their health behavior when it occurs in the popular and folk sectors. READ MORE