Government Workshop Research Articles

The ELEVATE Study: Evaluating the Impact of Educational Professional Governance Workshop on Nurses' Perceptions of Shared Decision-Making.

The ELEVATE study evaluated whether an educational workshop would improve the perceptions of shared decision-making of nurses in an organization as demonstrated by an increase in Index of Professional Nursing Governance (IPNG) score. Available literature insufficiently links educational interventions to improvements in shared professional governance. Six hundred ninety-one participants' IPNG scores were analyzed before and after an educational workshop was administered to formal administrative leaders and registered nurse (RN) RN council leaders every 6 months during a 2-year research study. Index of Professional Nursing Governance scores were higher for RNs participating in nursing councils than scores for those who did not. The organization's IPNG scores remained stable from 2019 to 2021. Secondary analysis may suggest that council members were more resilient during crisis. Further investigation is needed researching the relationship between professional governance education and RNs' perception of shared decision making.

Discipline and Empower: The State Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers

How do states manage their populations? Some scholars see the state as primarily governing through punishment, but how might the state engage in other forms of disciplining subjects? I address these questions by exploring the state management of labor migration through interviews and participant observation of compulsory government workshops. I look at the case of Filipino domestic workers in Arab states. States are said to exercise bio-power when they market and discipline migrants to be competitive and compliant workers, in the process ignoring migrant vulnerabilities. In contrast, this article establishes that sending states attend to migrant vulnerabilities. In addition to bio-power, states also exercise pastoral power, caring for the well-being of migrants through the creation of labor standards, regulation of migration, and education policies. This analysis extends our understanding of the state management of migration as well as the state management of populations as it advances Foucault’s discussion of the exercise of power.

COPIM Community Governance Workshop Recap: Part 2 - On the Meaning of Community

COPIM Community Governance Workshop Recap: Part 2 - On the Meaning of Community

COPIM Community Governance Workshop Recap: Part 1

COPIM Community Governance Workshop Recap: Part 1

Feedback between fisher local ecological knowledge and scientific epistemologies in England: building bridges for biodiversity conservation

Fisher local ecological knowledge in England has developed through interaction with research, as well as adding to scientific knowledge. Despite this, fishers and scientists continue to have different epistemic frameworks, and the typical form of communication from science to fisheries remains the ‘catapult’ approach, where knowledge exchange is a one-way form of communication. There are opportunities to develop ‘ferries’ and ‘bridges’ across the epistemologies which are explored through the concept of biodiversity. As more fishers have invested in technologies to improve catch efficiency and impacts on habitats, marine governance has slowly evolved to increase research in order to sustain marine resources. However, the benefits of biodiversity are not always well understood in fisheries communities, and how this conceptually relates to their forms of fishing and their interactions with habitats and conservation zones. The paper identifies that the governmental positivist natural capital approach may not be successful in identifying the intrinsic value of biodiversity, as it cannot register intrinsic value because it is not fungible with goods and services. This is particularly important to address in future marine conservation zone workshops. This paper has involved interviews, participant observation of fishers in government workshops and elicitation. It has been identified that the catapult approach remains dominant in government interactions with fishers. The paper shows examples of where social science approaches have been successful for biodiversity. Where fisher LEK is integrated, fishers’ trust in research and governance is increased making for a more active, participatory, marine democracy. Finally, the paper identifies these themes from the case in England to the need to overcome the general negative perception of the accuracy of non-scientist knowledge. There are opportunities to implement this as new policies such as the Fisheries Bill and the 25YEP Defra policy are implemented. This challenge can be observed across the world against holders of LEK in natural resource governance.

The un-equal playground: Developers and urban activists struggling for the right to the city

The insufficient access to housing and the commercialization of public space are most problematic aspects of urban development in Poland. As we witness the effects of neoliberalization in the urban policy sector – with an increased presence of private corporate actors combined with a withdrawal of the earlier so dominant public authorities – there is still no long-term policy in place to counteract the negative social as well as economic effects on the citizens. To the contrary, existing political order in many cities supports market solutions, while scaling down investments in public space, municipal housing or building for rent. To better explain the dynamics of urban policy, the paper uses a field theory approach (Martin, 2003), to analyse the role of developers and urban grassroots movements in planning and building of Polish cities. Data from formal and informal interviews with developers, urban activists and public authorities are used, supplemented by results of participatory observations at national conferences, government workshops and activists’ gatherings. Paper describes the ongoing ‘game of the city’ (Domaradzka and Wijkström, 2016) in which incumbents defend their dominant position and control over space, while a set of challengers seek to introduce new values and behaviours. It presents the wider context of Polish urban policy field and organizational practices of developers and urban activists to illustrate the field dynamics and actors’ changing strategies. The analysis also shows how the dominant narratives are shaped through re-defining the ‘right to the city’ frame and incorporating it into the developers’ agenda.

Exploring governance issues among boards of directors within state-owned enterprises in Barbados

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine corporate governance (CG) issues among boards of directors (BODs) in Barbados’ state-owned enterprises (SOEs) by utilizing agency and institutional theories as the theoretical framework.Design/methodology/approachThis research adopts a mixed methods approach using quantitative and qualitative methods. Data are collected in five stages including data initially from a governance workshop attended by BODs. The findings are presented and feedback obtained in subsequent stages including several seminars attended by BODs, government officials, regulators and other stakeholders.FindingsBODs perceive that they perform their roles and responsibilities in an effective and efficient manner, influence decision making, exercise control in SOEs and conduct well-organized meetings. However, respondents from the various stages report that there is lack of accountability and transparency, inadequate disclosure, lengthy board meetings resulting in excessive delays in decision making, unclear accounting and auditing guidelines, and a lack of training in financial and CG matters. Political interference, board appointment and composition are also cited as major concerns.Research limitations/implicationsSuggestions include reduced political interference, increased training, following OECD (2005) best practices and greater accountability.Originality/valueThe paper extends the literature on CG in BODs in SOEs in emerging economies. This study utilizes the agency and institutional frameworks to understand the phenomenon.

Public Event: Commons Governance Workshop: Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation

The Global Communication M.A. Double Degree Program is holding Program's Colloquium Presentation - Part III: Commons Governance Workshop with Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation on Thursday, March 17, from 10:00am to noon at Vancouver Harbour Center Campus Room 2250. For details, please see the attached PDF.

Spatial issues in Arctic marine resource governance workshop summary and comment

The rapidly changing Arctic marine ecosystems face new challenges and opportunities that are increasing and shifting governance needs in the region. A group of economists, ecologists, biologists, political scientists and resource managers met in Stockholm, SE, Sept 4–6, 2014 to discuss the governance of Arctic marine resources in a spatial context. We report on the findings here.

Future of governance workshop summary

This paper presents the results of a workshop on the future of governance held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The participants were broken into five groups based on different perspectives on governance: local, state, federal, international, and courts. Each group developed a definition of good governance, assessed trends impacting their conception of good governance, developed future scenarios, and tested the scenarios against six wildcards. Good governance is characterized by transparency, accountability, representativeness, and effectiveness. Unfortunately, most trends are negatively impacting good governance, with advanced in information technology being the lone exception. World governments face a catch-22 situation because in order to deal with these negative trends they need to improve in all aspects.

Parasitology in the practice laboratory: Part 1

of decreased productivity in the United Kingdom (UK), costing the UK national flock an estimated £84 million annually (Nieuwhof and Bishop, 2005). There have been recent reports of changes in UK parasite epidemiology. Haemonchus contortus and Fasciola hepatica are becoming both more common and more widespread; warmer autumns and longer grazing seasons are allowing parasite development to continue to occur later in the year and larvae to overwinter in greater numbers. Nematodirus battus, conventionally seen in young lambs in spring, is being recorded increasingly during autumn. In addition, anthelmintic resistance is now being identified much more commonly in the UK.At least eight UK cases of triple resistance to benzimidazole, levamisole and ivermectin in Teladorsagia have been identified, and experience suggests that the true incidence may be much higher. The sustainable control of sheep parasites in the UK has been considered by an industry and government workshop and the Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) advisory manual produced (Abbott and others, 2004), outlining suggested new parasite control guidelines to minimise the selection for resistant worms. There is a strong argument that cattle enterprises should also be concentrating on avoiding the development of resistance before it becomes a real problem in their sector. They also need to consider other concerns, such as the spread of liver fluke and the control of lungworm in late summer, and in adult animals. Veterinary surgeons dealing with farm animal parasitology need to be able to provide the following services:

Silicon Nanoelectronics and Beyond: Reflections from a Semiconductor Industry–government workshop

Silicon Nanoelectronics and Beyond: Reflections from a Semiconductor Industry–government workshop

The Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation team: overview and IKONOS joint characterization approach

The Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) team was formed to leverage government agencies' capabilities for the characterization of commercial remote sensing data. The team is composed of staff from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Each JACIE agency has a vested interest in the purchase and use of commercial imagery to support its research and applications. It is critical that this imagery be assessed for its accuracy and utility. Through JACIE, NASA, NIMA, and USGS jointly characterized image products from Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite. The JACIE team acquired IKONOS imagery of several study sites to perform the assessments. Each JACIE agency performed an aspect of the characterization according to its area of expertise. NASA and its university partners performed a system characterization focusing on radiometric calibration, geopositional accuracy, and spatial resolution assessment; NIMA performed image interpretability and feature extraction evaluations; and the USGS assessed the geopositional accuracy of several IKONOS products. The results of the JACIE team's IKONOS effort, which were discussed with Space Imaging and then presented at an industry–government workshop, ensured and improved overall product quality and benefited both the commercial industry and the government. Additional JACIE activities include the characterization of other commercial products such as those from the DigitalGlobe QuickBird and the Orbital Imaging (Orbimage) OrbView-3 satellites.

ElectroTextiles - Technology to Applications

ABSTRACTElectroTextiles is a technology area that is in its formative stages of development. Over the past three years, several government and industrial workshops as well as international conferences have discussed and presented fundamental technical approaches and a few small companies are starting to offer commercial products. The combination electronics and textiles offer a new and unique way to fabricate novel large-area, flexible and conformable military and commercial systems. This paper will discuss the some of the challenges that need to be addressed for this technology to mature in the future.

Conference report ‐ Designing a corporate governance course ‐ What do you think?

During the Corporate Governance Workshop in Bangor on the 19th December 2000, and the March 27th SIG meeting at the 2001 BAA conference, the SIG made some progress in our attempt to design a high level corporate governance course. We wished to do this to establish a clearer focus for and higher quality communication within the SIG group, to acquire a common view of what the core of the field constituted, with the aim of improving the design of existing and emerging courses, and to identify new areas of research which linked SIG members. We recognised that ‘Corporate Governance’ comprises a very wide field and that we had to limit our course design in some way. As a result, we agreed to narrow the course design parameters and aims as follows. The course should consist of a 20 hour teaching module, have a corporate focus, reflect the interests of the SIG members, be aimed at the final year of a UK undergraduate programme in accounting and finance and emphasise this subject area and the teaching and research skills of staff in this field. We also expected that the course would make full use of available theoretical approaches, namely, contracting theory, institutional theory and critical theory, as well as relevant economics, law or sociology literature, without becoming hostage to one view. We therefore expected the course to have a solid inter disciplinary focus, but with the accounting and finance field at its heart.

Radio waves, wireless signals, and public health: Is this the next silent spring?

Dr. George Carlo is a public‐health practitioner and a . As chairman of Health Risk Management Group, he oversees work assessing the public‐health impact of consumer products, drugs, workplaces, and the environment. Dr. Carlos serves on the faculty of The George Washington University. While at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, he chaired the research committee of the Department of Family and Community Medicine and designed the acute and chronic clinical work performed by that department. Dr. Carlo has served in many scientific advisory capacities, including sitting on the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment Agent Orange Advisory Panel, and chairing Wireless Technology Research, L.L.C. He also wrote the enabling legislation for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (A TSDR), the government authority responsible for the public‐health aspects of hazardous‐waste contamination and has been an advisor to that group since its inception. He has participated in numerous government expert panels and workshops. He has testified before Congressional and Parliamentary government and regulatory committees around the world. It is rare that a single book actually changes the course of history, but the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did just that, and portended a new paradigm for societal views of chemicals in the environment. At that time, environmental chemicals derived from both consumer products and industrial production, were for the most part invisible to most of society and, consequently, were not viewed as a danger to either public health or the environment. In the four decades that have followed, the clarification of environmental chemical impact on public health, and the technological and public health remedial steps undertaken by society, have been both remarkable and of considerable benefit to public health and the environment. Nonetheless, the movement fostered by Rachel Carson's work also ushered in a new era of mass tort litigation, unprecedented legal liability concerns for business, and a rethinking by society of the balance of responsibility for harm resulting from the use of a wide range of consumer products and services. Today, the immense popularity of the wireless phone, the prodigious worldwide growth of the wireless industry, and the likelihood that radio waves are not without biological effects have created yet another unique challenge for government regulators, public‐health professionals, and society as a whole. Despite scientific information currently ambiguous about the safety of radio frequency radiation, in the United States there are currently more than 90 million wireless‐phone subscribers, with thousands more people each day taking them up. Worldwide there are an estimated 450 million users of wireless‐phone technology. Over the next two years, it is predicted that the number of people exposed daily to wireless signals will double, as the wireless Internet takes hold. Wireless signals and the radio frequency radiation that derives from them are invisible to the senses as Rachel Carson's chemicals of 1962 were to society. As new data become available, our understanding of this complex problem will improve; however, the explosion of this technology in society creates a unique necessity for ongoing interpretation of the science and the communication of intervention options to those who are may be affected and concerned. Consumers should be given the opportunity to know what risks they may likely incur with the use of this technology, and have the opportunity to make informed judgements about the assumption of that risk. But what of the ramifications for the wireless‐phone industry, the wireless Internet industry, and their insurance carriers? As Rachel Carson's Silent Spring portended a social revolution in the issues surrounding environmental chemicals, are these new data and their ramifications prophetic as well? More important, will the hard lessons of environmental chemical liability be applied as society grapples with radio‐wave exposure?

The Women's Rights in Land workshop

CONSTANCE MOGALE and SOPHIE PHOSHOKO reflect on the important issues raised for rural women at a Government workshop on land and gender

The Women's Rights in Land Workshop

CONSTANCE MOGALE and SOPHIE PHOSHOKO reflect on the important issues raised for rural women at a Government workshop on land and gender

Thoughts on the AP: A Teacher Responds

Professors Rosati, Schlozman and Conradt offered some interesting views on the United States Government and Politics advanced placement examination in the Fall issue of The Political Science Teacher. I would like to add a few comments to the discussion. My remarks are based on my experience teaching 144 Kingswood-Oxford AP government seniors over the three years of the test, as well as my contact with other AP teachers. I have led the U.S. Government and Politics workshop at the 1988 and 1989 Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies, where I have had a chance to talk with many teachers who are offering AP courses.First, Professor Rosati identifies the inadequate background of some high school AP Government and Politics teachers as a significant problem. While all the teachers I have encountered seem well qualified, I concede that inadequately prepared staff may be a problem. Undoubtedly, the most concerned are the teachers themselves: no teacher enjoys groping his or her way through unfamiliar material for a semester, with the added pressure of awaiting AP results which may reveal clearly the gaps in the course. Professor Schlozman suggests a remedy which I feel should be underscored. Workshops and institutes are helpful, although not all can attend and they are over in a few days or weeks. More useful is an on-going reliable relationship between a high school AP teacher and a college professor who is familiar with the introductory American government course.

A Great Government Workshop

A Great Government Workshop