Agency Chief Research Articles

Pengaruh Kejelasan Sasaran Anggaran, Pengendalian Akuntansi dan Sistem Pelaporan terhadap Akuntabilitas Kinerja Instansi Pemerintah dengan Kepatuhan Terhadap Regulasi sebagai Variabel Pemoderasi

This research aimed on analyzing of budget goal clarity, accounting controls and systems reporting for performance accountability government agencies with regulatory compliance as moderating variable. In this research, officials who served as a head agency, finance program and evaluation chiefs, treasurers and finance staff at 30 SKPD in Sungai Penuh district were as a respondent . The sampling method uses purposive sampling, while the data processing method uses multiple linear regression analysis. The amount of samples in this study was 90 respondents. The statistic testing result showed that accounting controls and systems reporting have no effect on performance accountability of government agencies, but variable budget goal clarity have positive significant effect on performance accountability of government agencies. The regulatory compliance as moderating variable could moderated the relationship between variable budget goal clarity, controls accounting and systems reporting with performance accountability of government agencies Sungai Penuh. Suggestions for further research to increase the sample and add new variables that may have an effect.

자치경찰 법제도의 문제점 및 시사점 연구

Korea has maintained National Police Agency system from the beginning of the Korean national government in 1948. However, there have been lots of needs to adopt local autonomous police systems for local government autonomy and enhancing the local police responses against the crimes and police services for the people. Eventually, from the July of year 2021, Korea launched local autonomy of the police. This thesis analyzed the legal systems of the Korean Local Autonomy Police and abstracted several policy implications for the advanced local autonomous policing. For this purpose, this thesis focused on the legal provisions of the Police Law of Korea National Police and Local Autonomy Police, in short, the Police Law of Korea. The autonomy range of the Local Police is the most important aspect of the Autonomy of the Local Police. Decentralization of the highly centralized and authoritative Korean National Police was a big issue, because of the national police has been very reluctant to respond to the demands of the local people. The result of the analysis shows a very narrow range of autonomy of the Local Police. The legal powers of the local police’s investigations for the crime incidents are restricted. Local Police has powers to investigate only several small crimes occurred in the mid level province. The committee of the Local Autonomy Police should be established in the local great city and province. The selection of the members of the committee is important affairs, because the committee controls the Local Autonomy Police. In the Police law, status of members are ensured. However, the qualification of the members needs to be classified more highly to guarantee profession of the committee. The National Police’s administrative and investigation procedure controlling over the Local Autonomy Police, analyzed on the basis of provisions of the Police Law, is too severe to be called as autonomous police system. National police Agency Chief has the special power to direct the local autonomy police. As a result, the autonomy level of the Local Autonomy Police is assessed as poor as it could not be called as a really autonomous police system. The achievement of recent Police Law’s adoption of the Local autonomy Police is just a start to be a decentralizing process of Korean Police. If we desire a fully autonomous local police system and highly responsive local police services, our police law needs some revisions to permit more autonomy and police investigation powers on the local autonomous police.

'We face a Herculean task'

It is in everyone's interests to speed the transition to cleaner energy sources, International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol tells Adam Vaughan

E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., Longtime Fierce Advocate for People With SMI, to Deliver IPS Keynote

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Institute on Psychiatric ServicesFull AccessE. Fuller Torrey, M.D., Longtime Fierce Advocate for People With SMI, to Deliver IPS KeynoteMark MoranMark MoranSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:30 Aug 2019https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2019.9a32AbstractE. Fuller Torrey, M.D., this year’s IPS keynote speaker, has for decades been a fierce advocate for patients with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses (SMI) in the public sector.E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center in Washington, D.C., and associate director for research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute, will deliver the keynote address at this year’s IPS: The Mental Health Services Conference in New York.E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., is known for his tenacity. Former APA Trustee Roger Peele, M.D., observed, “When public agency chiefs heard he was due to be on national TV, they ran to their bunkers.”Torrey, who is also a professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, has for decades been a fierce advocate for the seriously mentally ill in the public sector.From 1976 to 1985, Torrey was on the clinical staff of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in the treatment of people with severe psychiatric disorders. From 1988 to 1992, Torrey directed a study of identical twins with schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder. His work at the Stanley Medical Research Institute includes participating in ongoing collaborative research on viruses and other infectious agents as a cause of these diseases.Torrey received a 2014 Special Presidential Commendation from APA. He has also received two Commendation Medals from the U.S. Public Health Service, a 1984 Special Families Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and a 2005 tribute included in NAMI’s 25th Anniversary Celebratory Donor Wall.In a 2007 Psychiatric News profile, past APA Trustee Roger Peele, M.D., said of Torrey, “Fuller gets as much credit as anyone for moving American psychiatry from a psychoanalytic foundation to a biological one. His provocative books … contributed to a focus on the biological. He is combative—when public agency chiefs heard he was due to be on national TV, they ran to their bunkers—and he has used pithy public pronouncements to hammer home the need for public research monies to be devoted to a biological understanding of people with the most disabling of psychiatric illnesses.”It was Peele who, as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at St. Elizabeths, hired Torrey as a staff psychiatrist in 1977.In comments to Psychiatric News, Torrey said he planned to use his keynote address to look at the history of treatment of patients with serious mental illness in the public sector and how that history has shaped many of the challenges and problems today.“My talk will review the mistakes we made in the 1960s when we set up the rules for deinstitutionalization and the community mental health centers,” Torrey said. “It ties these mistakes directly to the problems we have today in the public mental health sector. It is based on a premise that we can’t really solve the problems unless we can understand their origins.” ■E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., will deliver the Opening Session address on Thursday, October 3, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the New York Ballroom, Third Floor, of the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel. ISSUES NewArchived

KEDUDUKAN DAN TANGGUNG JAWAB HUKUM PIHAK SUB KONTRAKTOR PADA PERJANJIAN PENGADAAN BARANG/JASA PEMERINTAH

Abstract : Status and Responsibilities of Sub Contractors Party on the Agreement Procurement of Government Goods / analyze legal problems /issues namely, the Law considerations of the main contractors and sub-contractors to make sub contract procurement of goods / services of the government, the legal relationship between sub-contractors and main contractors with the government, the legal responsibilities of the sub-contractors in getting the default by the sub-contractor, the sub contractor procurement of government goods / services is not made as notarized ,there are differences in the regulation of sub-contract in Article 87 paragraph (3) of Presidential Regulation No. 70 of 2012 prohibited while Article 24 paragraph (1) of Law The Act No. 18 year 1999 on Construction Services allow for the sub contract. The theory framework in this study consisted of Grand Theory: Theory of Equitable Legal Certainty, legal liability theory. Middle Range Theory: Theory of Public Contracts Characteristically (Publiekrechtelijk overeenkomst), the theory as a Notary Public Officials. Applied Theory: Principles consensual, the freedom to make contracts, strength of binding contracts, goodwill, balance, habits, indemnities, timeliness, force majeure, dispute resolution, the principle of the goods / services of the government. The Research methods using type hermeneutic research paradigm. The research approach using Normative Approach, Statue approach, legal Philosophy approach, conceptual approach, legal Historical approach, Sociolegal approach.. The technique of taking conclusions with Deductive method so that it is concluded that the legal considerations around contractors and sub contractors to make sub contract In Clause of Article 8 paragraph (1) in agreement with the main contractor the goods / services of the government, and special expertise for achievement, and the non-legal considerations is cost efficiency. Judgements are binding relationship and The Legal Responsibilities to the main contractor and sub-contractors only, not to the government. It is suggested the agreement the sub-contract made as notarized by a notary public official authorized to guarantee legal certainty and fairness to the parties, so as not to violate Article 87 paragraph (3) Presidential Regulation No. 70 Year 2012 on Procurement of Government Goods/Services that the Deed made is the Partnership Act Consortium Agreement for Joint Operation (KSO) is set out in Chapter III Instruction to Participants Procurement (IKPP) in the Annex to Regulation Agency Chief Procurement Policy/government Services No. 6 of 2012 on the Technical Guidelines Presidential Regulation No. 70 Year 2012 on Procurement of Government Goods/Services. Keywords : Legal Status , Legal Responsibilities,Sub Contract, Procurement of Government Goods / Services

Fungsi Badan Pertanahan Nasional Dalam Pengawasan Pejabat Pembuat Akta Tanah Di Kabupaten Tanjung Jabung Barat

In the national land Agency Chief Regulation No.1 Year 2006 as modified by regulation the head of BPN number 23-year 2009 on implementation of the provisions of the Government Regulation Number 37 Year 1998, head of the Office of land do coaching and surveillance against a land deed official (PPAT). Starting on the dotted the legal basis and see the development as well as the needs of the ground then for the validity of the ownership of the land, should be are published through the certificate of property rights. For it is necessary supervision against the authorized officials as a PPAT in the deed of the land pembuatak. As for the problems in this research is how the functions of the national land Agency in the construction and supervision of land deed official Tanjung Jabung Barat region. The type of research that is in use is the empirical research. Data on use is the primary data and the data of skunder. Data collection was done through the research library and field research. The research describes the construction and supervision on Land against the head of the Office to do the task in Tanjung Jabung PPAT West, running as it should be in accordance with article 65 of the regulation of the Republic of Indonesia head of BPN No. 1 year 2006 regarding the implementation of the provisions of REGULATION No. 37 Year 1998 Of Regulations Office of the PPAT in coaching and supervision is quite optimal. It can be seen that for the year 2016 year 2017 until the violations perpetrated PPAT decreased. Surveillance against PPAT performed by the Head Office of land is to provide direction to all stakeholders associated with the PPAT's, conducting surveillance over the organisation of the profession of PPAT to keep running in accordance with the direction and the goal, run other actions deemed necessary to ensure the service of PPAT continue to run properly and to conduct surveillance against a PPAT and PPAT in order to run the code of ethics of the profession, the PPAT Tanjung Jabung West land in cooperation with the relevant parties especially the IPPAT code of ethics watchdogs and PPAT.

Disputes Settlement To The Measured Object Of The Returns Border Of National Land Agency Against A Neighbor's Boundary Objects In Tegal

The land has an important role in human life because it is completely cannot be separated from land. The issue of the disputes of land boundary may cause a difference of opinion; the value of the interest regarding the layout, borders and vast areas of land that is recognized is the most issue that appears frequently in the Office of land Bordering Counties. The method of the approach that is used in this study is the juridical sociological approach. This approach was conducted to understand the law in the context of the society is a non-doctrinal approach. Through this approach, the object of the law will be meant as part of the social subsystem between the subsystems of the social subsystem-other dispute resolution borders against the border returns object, in the form of legal protection, for misusing of the follow- the Government is due to gross negligence at the time of measurement wide plots of land for the creation of a letter, then the measurement of legal protection used is the preventive protection of the law, the role of the national land Agency Chief Rules Based BPN No. 3 Of 2011 is about the management and treatment of Cases of land. The agreement or the consent of the parties concerned is essential in the framework of the implementation of dispute settlement returns the border of land ownership.Keywords: Returns the Border; National Land Agency; Dispute Resolution.

European Medicines Agency chief raises alarm at forced relocation

European Medicines Agency chief raises alarm at forced relocation

Why do travel agencies choose to undergo IPOs in Taiwan?

Travel agencies have seen an increasing number of firms going public in recent years. This study explores and empirically examines the initial public offering (IPO) strategy model for travel agencies by adopting a three-round Delphi research design. Qualitative interviews with the 13 travel agency chief executive officers and related experts provided additional insights. The result shows that Taiwanese travel agencies consider 9 internal motivations, 8 external environment forces, and 11 determinants for the decision to go IPO and 10 performance indicators post-IPO. Finally, the model herein illustrates how travel agencies can realize IPOs’ strategic goals by increasing the performance of travel agency post-IPO.

Adoption of innovative and evidence-based practices for children and adolescents in state-supported mental health clinics: a qualitative study

BackgroundThis study examined how mental health clinic administrators decided whether or not to adopt evidence-based and other innovative practices by exploring their views of implementation barriers and facilitators and operation of these views in assessment of implementation costs and benefits.MethodsSemi-structured interviews were conducted with 75 agency chief executive officers and program directors of 34 New York State-licensed mental health clinics serving children and adolescents.ResultsThree interconnected themes relating to barriers and facilitators were identified, namely costs and benefits associated with adoption, capacity for adoption, and acceptability of new practices. The highest percentage of participants (86.7%) mentioned costs as a barrier, followed by limited capacity (55.9%) and lack of acceptability (52.9%). The highest percentage (82.3%) of participants identified available capacity as a facilitator, followed by acceptability (41.2%) and benefits or limited costs (24.0%). Assessment of costs and benefits exhibited several principles of behavioural economics, including loss aversion, temporal discounting use of heuristics, sensitivity to monetary incentives, decision fatigue, framing, and environmental influences.ConclusionsThe results point to opportunities for using agency leader models to develop strategies to facilitate implementation of evidence-based and innovative practices for children and adolescents.

Trump’s pick for environment agency chief sued government over climate rules

Oklahoma attorney-general Scott Pruitt has sought to reverse federal limits on greenhouse-gas emissions and air pollution.

Administrative tradition and management reforms: a comparison of agency chief executive accountability in four Continental Rechtsstaat countries

ABSTRACTThis article investigates perceived accountability patterns of national agencies’ chief executives in four countries with a Rechtsstaat tradition and tests theoretical expectations about potential tensions between managerial reforms and administrative values using survey data (N = 453). All countries combine old and new forms of accountability requirements, while legal and financial accountability have not been replaced with results accountability. Switzerland and the Netherlands score highest on results accountability, though in combination with legal and financial accountability, which are dominant in Germany and Austria. Nation-specific characteristics seem more important for core values of public administration than generic characteristics of the Rechtsstaat model.

The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2015

The Region in Review:International Issues and Events, 2015 Nic Maclellan (bio) The Paris Agreement on Climate Change, adopted by 195 nations, was the culmination of a year of action by Pacific Island governments and communities. Global warming was the central issue of security and rights in 2015, and there were significant advances on regional oceans and climate policy—a positive example of the collective advocacy dubbed the “New Pacific Diplomacy” (Fry and Tarte 2015). Throughout the year, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (pifs) introduced the new Framework on Pacific Regionalism, establishing a process to prioritize regional public policy. Despite improved relations after the 2014 elections in Fiji, Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama again refused to join the annual Forum leaders meeting, held in Port Moresby in September. Papua New Guinea and Fiji continued to assert their leadership ambitions, while governments held summits with India, Japan, France, and Republic of Korea. There was increasing debate over human rights across the region, on violence against women, the abuse of asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru, and the right to self-determination in non-self-governing territories. Public concern over West Papua prompted debate at the Forum leaders’ meeting, while the Melanesian Spearhead Group expanded its reach to grant associate membership to Indonesia and observer status to a coalition of West Papuan independence groups. Since her appointment at the 2014 Pacific Islands Forum in Palau, Secretary-General Dame Meg Taylor has bedded down a series of reforms in the Forum Secretariat in Suva. These internal changes come as part of a broader transformation of the regional architecture (Maclellan 2015d) through the Council of Regional Organizations of the Pacific (crop) and newer institutions like the Fiji-based Pacific Islands Development Forum (pidf). Even as the regional intergovernmental organizations were debating their mandate and structure during 2015, there were significant changes of leadership. As Pacific countries mobilized for the climate negotiations in Paris, the director-general of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (sprep), David Sheppard, announced his resignation. After six years at the helm, Sheppard was replaced by his former deputy, Kosi Latu of Sāmoa. At the pidf, Feleti Teo resigned to take up the position as head of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission in March. Former Fiji Secretary of Foreign Affairs Amena Yauvoli stood in as an interim executive before François Martel of Sāmoa was appointed in September as the full-time pidf secretary-general. Martel has worked for many years in resource management, biodiversity, conservation, and climate change. Forum Fisheries Agency (ffa) Director-General James Movick completed his first three-year term in [End Page 430] 2015 and was endorsed by ffa members to serve a second term to 2018. In an unexpected move, the director-general of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (msg) secretariat in Port Vila, Peter Forau, resigned his post in November, two years before the end of his second term. Plans to establish “Melanesian Solutions” as the secretariat’s commercial arm could not make up for funding shortfalls as the msg work program expanded during 2015. Departing his post, Forau also reflected on divergences within the msg over democracy in Fiji and West Papua: “There have been some influences exerted on some of our members about how they should relate to Fiji during the time when the government was not an elected government. And so some of those relationship issues are still around, and sometimes something has happened between, for example, Papua New Guinea and Fiji” (rnzi 2015). In early 2016, Fiji’s Amena Yauvoli was named as a candidate for the post. At year’s end, Audrey Aumua was appointed as deputy director-general of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (spc), taking over from Fekita ‘Utoikamanu. As a former World Health Organization regional representative, Dr Aumua will head the spc’s Suva operations, supporting Director-General Dr Colin Tukuitonga at the spc’s Nouméa headquarters. At a crop meeting in Nouméa in February, agency chiefs agreed to a review of regional governance and financing, to be led by former spc Director-General Jimmie Rodgers. The collaborative work of the crop agencies is currently managed through seven crop...

Agencies and policy in an administrative state: The case of Hong Kong

A survey of agency chief executives in Hong Kong found that they perceive themselves to have high levels of policy autonomy. This could be interpreted in two ways: either that agency chiefs perceive they can exert power over their ‘principals’ through taking advantage of information asymmetries and by adopting other stratagems to evade supervision; or that they feel they possess influence through mutually supportive participation in policy-making with their supervising bureau officials and principal officials (or ‘ministers’). The institutional context of Hong Kong's administrative state, in particular the integrated and inclusive nature of the civil service career system; the absence of an elected political leadership; and the key representational roles played by various boards and panels associated with agencies, makes the second interpretation more plausible. In support of this argument, evidence is drawn from interviews with senior officials in seven Hong Kong agencies, supported by case study material. We find evidence of a number of aspects of the policy roles of agencies which are mutually agreed, rational adaptations to this institutional context, such as partitioning the policy field (when the political executive and the supervising policy bureau formally or informally vacate part of the policy field and delegate it to the agency); filling a policy vacuum (when the political executive voluntarily vacates the field altogether); and acting in a segmented policy process (when agencies are allowed to take the lead in agenda-setting and/or exercise high levels of flexibility and adaptability in the implementation process). These features of relations between agencies, policy bureaus and the political executive are not the product of principal–agent conflict but of mutual cooperation and adaptation.

Biometrics come under scrutiny at the UK border

Biometrics at the UK border have come under heavy scrutiny with the resignation of UK Border Agency (UKBA) chief Brodie Clark after border checks were relaxed, partly as a result of the time taken at passport control leading to long delays for passengers.

What you don't know can hurt your community: Lessons from a local United Way

AbstractThis paper describes how a controversial executive compensation package approved by a local United Way agency eclipsed the agency's long‐standing record and reputation of being a top fundraiser and pillar of the community. Using the framework developed by P. Connelly and York (2003), this case study illustrates how the lack of leadership and adaptive capacity within the board of directors, coupled with questions and speculation about managerial capacity, contributed to a highly visible scandal that resulted in the loss of the agency's chief executive officer, the resignation of the chairman of the board of directors, an internal investigation, and ultimately, a federal investigation. Not only did these events hurt the agency, which was forced to eliminate programs and cut staff, but these events hurt the annual campaign, which declined by more than 30 percent, resulting in substantial cuts in funding to dozens of nonprofit organizations. The findings from this study illustrate the importance of building strong governing boards that focus on both organizational processes and performance outcomes. They also highlight how important it is for the flagship charitable institutions to model best practices and invest in their own capacity.

Open Government Achievement and Satisfaction in US Federal Agencies: Survey Evidence for the Three Pillars

This paper examines the impact of open government achievement and satisfaction through electronic government or e-Government at the federal level in the United States. The three principles of participation, collaboration, and transparency of open government espoused by the Obama Administration in 2009 were examined. A survey of federal agency Chief Information Officers (CIOs) was conducted and the results showed that there was high achievement by federal agencies two years after the President Obama signed the directive. However, there is much room for improvement, with around one third of agencies only reporting some achievement in the three pillars. Statistical analysis showed that overall progress of federal agencies in implementing open government was related to achievement in all three pillars of open government. Essentially agencies that do better in achieving open government, expressed greater satisfaction with what they have accomplished, meaning that success breeds further advancement in open government.

Vaccine Use Gaining as 2015 Deadline for Health Goals Nears

One major component of the ambitious United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), set a decade ago, is to expand global vaccine use while reducing health and financial burdens from vaccine-preventable diseases. With five years left to meet the 2015 deadline, health ministers, donors, and UN agency chiefs met in New York City last September to review progress. In developing countries such as Kenya, Nicaragua, and Afghanistan efforts to reach those goals are already paying off.

A Field Data Examination of Policy Constructs Related to Fatigue Conditions in Law Enforcement Personnel

This study used systematic, semistructured qualitative field interviews for a purposive sample of law enforcement agency directors (e.g., police chiefs, sheriffs) to analyze policy constructs that affect the relationship between fatigue and job performance in law enforcement. Trained interviewers gathered a breadth of field data that describe department-level approaches to policy on secondary employment, overtime, court appearances, and other job-related activities that affect the fatigue of line officers. The findings reveal the reality of a tired workforce but a low-level desire among agency chiefs to have fatigue reduction policy. Where such policy exists, a business-like managerialism dominated executive conceptualization rather than citizen safety or civil liability orientations. Informal controls, rather than formal rules, emerged as applicable tools used to address and reduce officer fatigue.

Business climate

PurposeTo discuss some of the actions investors and businesses are taking against climate change.Design/methodology/approachThis briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments.FindingsThe International Energy Agency's chief economist Fatih Birol probably summed up a lot of people's attitudes towards climate change recently when he said: “We need to act. We are putting [together] a lot of targets, a lot of goals, meetings and so on, but nothing is happening. We want more action, instead of more targets, more meetings and more talks … right away, and in a bold manner.” There are surely few people left in the developed world who are not now aware that both the energy system and the environment are overheated and under threat. But what can we do about it? Or, more pertinently, what is already being done and how is the business world affected?Practical implicationsOffers an overview of current investment in energy. Discusses fast rise in alternative energy resources, including nuclear, solar and wind power.Originality/valueExplains how big businesses are now taking climate change very seriously, and shows which countries are investing in which alternative areas.