Search results for: “organizational leadership”

  • Leadership in Local Government

    Literature Review on Leadership in Local Government In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] James H. Svara offers the following summary about the topic of Leadership in Local Government: City managers are executives and city administrators are partial executives […]

  • Leadership

    Charisma or Leadership in Election Law Quality of an exceptional person, often a politician, who creates a compelling feeling among others that he or she has the capacity to lead. Literature Review on Leadership: High Integrity In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, […]

  • Leadership

    Charisma or Leadership in Election Law Quality of an exceptional person, often a politician, who creates a compelling feeling among others that he or she has the capacity to lead. Literature Review on Leadership: High Integrity In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, […]

  • Social Policy

    Social Policy (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Social Policy means: legislative, institutional, budgetary support to achieve objectives in the field of human welfare, to protect the interests of socially vulnerable layers of such socially important areas as health, education, […]

  • Social Policy

    Social Policy (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Social Policy means: legislative, institutional, budgetary support to achieve objectives in the field of human welfare, to protect the interests of socially vulnerable layers of such socially important areas as health, education, […]

  • Kazakhstan

    English translations of key Kazakh laws are published in the Central & Eastern European Legal Materials series by Columbia University's Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. See also A Legal Research Guide to Kazakhstan by Victor Malinovskiy and Karim Shakirov […]

  • MAX WEBER

    MAX WEBER (1864-1920) German political economist and sociologist, originally trained in jurisprudence. Faculty member, for most of his life adjunct, at the University of Heidelberg, and from 1904 editorial director of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik . Author of a prodigious corpus, including the essays The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ,…

  • TELEVANGELISM

    TELEVANGELISM Term first used by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles E. Swann in Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism (Addison-Wesley 1981) to describe a new form of religious broadcasting combining television and evangelism. Televangelism also is referred to as “the electric church” by religious broadcasters, especially Ben Armstrong (The Electric Church , Nelson…

  • STRATIFICATION

    STRATIFICATION A structure of social inequality in which individuals and groups have an unequal share in the distribution of power, privilege, and prestige in society. Over the years, social scientists have investigated the relationship between religion and social inequality. Researchers have focused on issues such as the impact of inequality on religion, the effect of…

  • SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

    SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Network-configured collectivities that seek to promote or resist political and/or cultural change on the basis of shared group identity. As Stanford Lyman (1995:397) has observed, “In virtually all their various manifestations in the United States, social movements have proclaimed a salvational message, each has sought to cure the soul of either the nation,…

  • Nonprofit Organizations Information Technology

    Literature Review on Nonprofit Organizations Information Technology In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Kelly Ann Trusty and Steve Heye provide the following summary about the topic of Nonprofit Organizations Information Technology: In a nonprofit context, […]

  • Nonprofit Organizations Information Technology

    Literature Review on Nonprofit Organizations Information Technology In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Kelly Ann Trusty and Steve Heye provide the following summary about the topic of Nonprofit Organizations Information Technology: In a nonprofit context, […]

  • Executive Department

    Introduction This entry provides an overview of the legal framework of executive department, with a description of the most significant features of executive department at international level. Related Work and Conclusions Resources See Also References (Papers) Legality Of Yogi […]

  • Executive Department

    Introduction This entry provides an overview of the legal framework of executive department, with a description of the most significant features of executive department at international level. Related Work and Conclusions Resources See Also References (Papers) Legality Of Yogi […]

  • Communities of Practice

    Communities of Practice as a Source of Open Innovation, the Law and other Social Sciences In this entry, we first define this new form of learning and knowledge management that is communities of practice. We present the concept as described by the creators of the concept but also comment on […]