Private Management Research Articles

A Perspective Review on Hyperledger Fabric Access Control System

Blockchain technology has enormous potential and is currently seen as a new technical trend with a quickening growth rate. Supply chain, health care, and finances are just a few of the application areas wherein blockchain-based systems are gaining interest. Whenever it comes to public and private management, data integrity is crucial and becoming more essential. Data integrity can be achieved in an access control system which is built on the blockchain. By using encryption protocols, access controls, and cryptography techniques, the Hyper ledger Fabric is created to be safe against unauthorised access and use. Systems for access control exist to safeguard resources against unwanted access. Platforms for blockchain systems, such as Hyperledger Fabric, are built with data integrity, complete transparency, and confidentiality. This article provides an in-depth analysis of a Hyperledger enterprise blockchain technology.

Environmental sustainability through green HRM: Measuring the perception of university managers.

Environmental sustainability has gained great momentum worldwide especially in the United Nations (UN), governments, and corporations, and by those who promote global awareness of environmental challenges and are engaged in environmental management. Even as these stakeholders struggle hard, academia has actively engaged in an ongoing debate to make "green human resource management" an independent field of research and teaching. From the large body of academic literature, it has been observed that the field is yet in its embryonic stage in many developing countries such as Pakistan and there is insufficient knowledge on how universities face and manage environmental challenges. Hence, this study addressed this gap in the literature and measured the perception of public and private sector university managers regarding environmental sustainability by using a multi-respondent multi-wave design and collected data from academic heads/supervisors and university faculty in three-time intervals. The data found support for all the hypothetical relationships. The study revealed that the green human resource management (GHRM) practices of public and private universities have a positive impact on environmental sustainability through the mediation of innovative work behavior of employees.

Formation of the Regional Political Elite of Vinnytsia Region

The article examines the process of regional political elite formation of Vinnytsia region in the context of Ukrainian state formation based on the analysis of the results of national and local elections held in the constituencies of Vinnytsia region, biographies of deputies from the region as well as deputies of Vinnytsia regional and city councils, heads of Vinnytsia regional state administration, heads of district state administrations and district councils of the region. The author provides the definition for the regional political elite and outlines the ways of its set up, offers the model of its modern structure for Vinnytsia region.Also, it was determined that at the beginning of the existence of an independent Ukraine, a key role in the formation of the new regional political elite was played by the people from the «nomenklatura» and former leaders of the Soviet enterprises. The obtained data confirms, that this social group was the main pool of recruitment of heads of Vinnytsia Regional State Administration and District State Administrations of Vinnytsia region until the mid-2000s, and the traditions they introduced into modern political culture influenced the formation of political and economic groups (clans) and the dominance of neopatrimonial relations in the interaction between different actors.As defined, people from different spheres of economic and socio-political life of the region participate in the formation of the modern regional political elite of Vinnytsia region. In particular, they are representatives of the economic elite (business owners, managers of private and state enterprises), party elite, elites of mass media and public organizations, and intellectual elite (heads and employees of science, education, medicine and culture). The tendency to increase the number of business representatives in these authorities while reducing the number of heads of state authorities, local governments and utilities was shown by the example of the Vinnytsia Regional Council of II, III, VII convocations and Vinnytsia City Council of VI and VII convocations; a consistently high level of the number of people from the intellectual elite in the regional and city councils was noted. Special attention is paid to the penetration of media and public sector figures into the power institutions as well as to their influence on the formation of the political agenda of the region.

Tourism and Sustainability

Experience tourism in the midst of nature, the appreciation of healthy food, which allows to appreciate, taste and experience the moment becomes the motto for the beginning of a new era. The objective of this study was to identify which actions are necessary to internalize the SDGs in the resumption of tourism activities after the pandemic. The analysis of the perceptions of public managers, private initiative, and educational institutions to understand and awaken the issues of sustainability in environmental issues, in the resumption of tourism with a demand for activities in the midst of nature. The methodology was exploratory explanatory, of qualitative analysis, and uses content analysis, the NVivo11 software was used for transcription of the videos and description of the speeches of the speakers who participated in the extension activity three webinars held in 2021, within the extension project entitled "Tourism and Sustainability - a conscious resumption", proposed by the Research Group on Policies, Public Management and Development of UERGS/CNPq. He concluded that the speakers representing both educational institutions and public and private management emphasized in their speeches that: a) tourism, b) research, c) sustainability, and d) gastronomy are currently inseparable themes. Finally, the uncertainty of the future to reassess and plan the issues of environmental, economic and social sustainability, both in the resumption and how to adhere to the SDGs in a conscious and possible to do.

The Study on the Possible Operational Mode of Alternative Schools as a Private Management of Public School in Japan

The Study on the Possible Operational Mode of Alternative Schools as a Private Management of Public School in Japan

Management 4.0: Concept, applications and advancements

Management 4.0 assists businesses in evolving, surviving and performing in the competitive and dynamic world. This fourth revolution uses advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics, Holography, Additive Manufacturing etc., for the proper management systems. These technologies facilitate working personnel and make it more appealing to complete their duties efficiently and accurately. The main aim of this paper is to understand the concept of Management 4.0, its technologies and applications for proper management systems. As Management 4.0 enhances process control, the chance of human error is reduced, leading to increased efficiency. It enables rapid and intelligent decision-making, reduces costs, accelerates growth, and raises profitability. Management 4.0 technologies and advanced data analytics are helpful to make smart supply chain management well suited to fulfil industry 4.0. Thus, to overcome various obstacles and effectively deploy Management 4.0 technologies in manufacturing industries, top management must establish a clear asset performance management plan with the help of process engineers familiar with industrial system failure occurrences and what operators need to improve. Management 4.0 involves advanced technologies, system connectivity, data collection & analysis at the organisation level. Management 4.0 is expected to be a critical component in the long-term survival of any business, either manufacturing or service-providing organisations. This paper explores the development of Management 4.0 and its dimensions and transformations through Management 4.0 perspectives. Finally, the significant role of Management 4.0 for appropriate private management system in manufacturing industries are identified. Organisations require a system that seamlessly meets the company's expectations, consumers, investors, and other stakeholders to remain competitive, and Management 4.0 will enable this. Many businesses strive to integrate technologies and upskill their personnel to adapt to the new job duties and attract more workers with the necessary abilities.

Perceived climate change risks among other risks affecting private forest owners in a top-down decision-making process

Abstract Forest management adaptation to climate change is a matter of forest type, disturbances regime, and forest owners’ behavior face the climate change issue. Knowing factors that determine people respond to climate change challenges is essential to explaining their perceptions of climate change adaptation. We have conducted astudy in North-Eastern Romania applying the Model of Private Proactive Adaptation to Climate Change. The aim was to identify private forest owners’ perceptions about climate change and forest management threats and constraints and to analyse what variables differentiate private forest owners’ adaptation behavior. The PFOs with higher education were aware of the forest regime regarding private management. They knew how to assess climate change risk, while those with secondary education were the only interest was obtaining wood. The PFOs’ risk experience played an important role in adaptation. The perceptions and beliefs of PFOs were strongly influenced by socio-economic status, and they believe in climate change effects on forests but not on theirs. Adaption has become less urgent because forest management problems blur climate change beliefs. Assuming that the Romanian PFOs’ perceptions and beliefs about climate change will follow the European trend, they will want to improve their knowledge about climate change impacts and adaptive measures. Therefore, aggregating the interested PFOs, creating suitable communication channels, and organizing trainings on forest management adaptation to climate change will be needed to prevent this need.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its Impact on Employees’ Performance at Private Management Colleges in the Kathmandu Valley

This paper aimed to analyze Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its Impact on employees’ performance at Private Management Colleges in the Kathmandu Valley. This research has reviewed some related literature having similar objectives alongside theoretical framework on the subject matter. This paper adopts the descriptive research design based on secondary data in achieving the stated objective. It has collected the previous literature and analyzed based on the thematic area of the study. Based on the findings, the study recommended that organizations should improve more on its information technology to enhance its productivity. The research results showed that ICT and its availability has a significant positive impact on employee performance.

Shaping the Future of Shared Services Centers: Insights from a Delphi Study About SSC Transformation Towards 2030

In recent years, shared services centers (SSCs) have been central to organizational transformation strategies of many large firms and governments to reduce costs, improve service quality, and innovate services. SSCs are undergoing significant transformations due to the advancement of technologies. To better understand the technologies’ impact on SSCs in 2030, a Delphi panel with over 30 experts, executives, and researchers was conducted in the first half of 2020. Panelists pointed out six recent technologies potentially impacting SSCs by 2030: AI/ML, internet/package-based automation, BPMS/RPA, business analytics, blockchain, and cloud computing. The experts expect that these technologies will cause a transformation in the SSC business model and disruptive changes in SSC employees’ and managers’ profiles. Managers cannot merely continue their regular efforts and should refocus from automating repetitive functions towards intensifying the use of technology in value-adding services. The outcomes should help public and private sector managers to be ahead of change and prepare their organizations for the future of SSCs.

Gestão de Destinos Turísticos baseado em evidências:

The production of information for decision-making in tourism is a sensitive and crucial issue that lacks appropriate instruments for its good management and efficient use. Over the last few years, the tourism observatories have gained relevance as they are institutional resources that allow the monitoring of tourism performance while providing public and private managers with information for better decision-making based on data. However, there is a lack of studies that try to compress the determining elements of these instruments. To fill this gap, this study builds a conceptual model of tourism observatories, considering the stakeholders involved, possible products derived from the ordering of data produced by the observatories and results derived from the efficient use of these instruments. The model derived from this study will allow us to understand the determinant elements of observatories, provide a taxonomic basis that can be used to assess the activities of observatories, and serve as a basis for the creation of new observatories.

Emotional Intelligence Management: Key tool for success

The responsibilities that workers of Indian banks are tasked with doing have gotten increasingly difficult in this period of competitiveness, instability, and dynamism in the environment. This is also owing to the fact that with the opening up of the economy through globalisation, liberalisation, and privatisation as well as the natural drift towards information technology, the difficulties get amplified when one is required to function in a varied working environment. In order for businesses to successfully satisfy their clients, they want employees who are not only knowledgeable in their respective fields but also possess the emotional and social skills necessary to do so. Interventions in emotional intelligence are being implemented in part as a reaction to the challenges that workers in the business sector are facing in the modern day. The competencies associated with emotional intelligence can make a contribution to the development of these talents and skills that are related with this new line of goal or aim. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and contrast the levels of emotional intelligence possessed by managers in private and public sector banks, as well as the influence that this trait has on employees' levels of commitment to their organisations. The study was also helpful in determining the connection between emotional intelligence and the climate of a company.

Public administration and political science: From monogamous marriage to professional partnership

Public administration and political science: From monogamous marriage to professional partnership

A Systematic Literature Review of Structural Quality Policy Implementation in Public Preschools

The benefits of quality early childhood experiences are indisputable as more studies have demonstrated the positive results of high-quality early childhood care and education (ECCE) on child outcomes. These benefits have recently spurred many countries to prioritise preschool programmes in their national plans and pursue a quality preschool agenda. This systematic literature review (SLR) aimed to analyse the worldwide practice of policy implementation regarding public preschool structural quality and examine the related challenges. This paper was based solely on SLR, where the literature was examined via the Scopus and Web of Science databases and Google Scholar. The review adopted PRISMA Statement (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) and thematic analysis was employed to analyse the relevant research papers. The SLR revealed that varying service quality was the main theme of global public preschool policy implementation. In many countries in the included articles, the preschool education programmes were conducted by multiple agencies, which resulted in varied quality of the service provided. In this study, the analysis revealed five main themes: wide-ranging policy aims, combined public and private funding, complex governance and management systems with mixed national and state involvement, persistent fragmented structural and organisational aspects between ECCE and primary schooling, and varied ECCE service regulation and quality assurance. Thus, future research is necessary to bridge the knowledge gap to examine policy implementation of structural quality, specifically in individual country settings.

The Impact of Self-discipline on Classroom Management in Casablanca-Settat Middle/ High Schools

This paper examined the effect of self-discipline on classroom management in Casablanca-Settat private and public high/middle schools. The major purpose was to see the extent to which self-discipline is taught in these schools, to find out if Moroccan middle/high school teachers have received any training concerning the subject matter, and explore the importance of the latter in relation to classroom management. The single most important instrument used to conduct this study was an online questionnaire. A sample of 100 Moroccan EFL teachers participated in this survey. The findings revealed that self-discipline is not taught in Moroccan middle/high schools, and the results also showed that teachers did not receive any training with regard to self-discipline. The results further indicated that most teachers stressed the significance of self-discipline in enhancing classroom management. Various ways of how to implement self-discipline in the classroom are also discussed in this paper.

Barriers to Prescribed Fire in the US Great Plains, Part I: Systematic Review of Socio-Ecological Research

Prescribed fire is increasingly being considered as a viable management tool by public and private land managers. Fully expanding prescribed fire use in a land management context, where it is an ecologically effective but not commonly applied tool, requires a comprehensive understanding of barriers that limit prescribed fire, especially in working rangelands of the North American Great Plains. While there is an emerging body of work on the perceptions of prescribed fire, there has yet to be a compilation of the research. We present a systematic review of the published literature on the perceptions and attitudes of land managers towards prescribed fire in the Great Plains in an effort to provide a social-ecological perspective on the issue. The aim is to share the methods used to assess social perceptions of prescribed fire in the Great Plains and regional distribution of these studies as well as to identify perceived barriers and limitations that restrict the use of prescribed fire by reviewing studies primarily located in the Great Plains ecoregion and focused on perceptions of fire. Surveys were the most commonly used method to assess social perceptions, with most research concentrated in the southern Great Plains. Barriers included a range of social, informational, practical, and regulatory concerns. This compilation of research synthesizes the current knowledge regarding social perceptions of and potential barriers to prescribed fire use so that fire practitioners and communities considering prescribed fire use for rangeland management have the most current information to make sound decisions.

On the choice of public or private management models in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS)

Different research studies about healthcare organizations in the public and private sectors display several opposite values. Therefore, there are several gaps that make consensual generalizations over the best management model as the only choice for the entire sector unlikely. Considering the importance and complexity of the Brazilian Unified Health System – SUS, the objective of this research study is to propose a framework to aid the choice between public and/or private management models for SUS using a benchmarking of multicriteria methods. Fuzzy TOPSIS, Fuzzy VIKOR, and a group method based on Game Theory were applied to a group of regional experts with different qualifications and perspectives concerning the management models to be selected as alternatives for the city of Ribeirão Preto. Two decision matrices were constructed for that complex problem, one for Primary Care and another for Secondary Care, considering criteria from four dimensions. The alternatives were assessed through sensibility and robustness analysis. Ranking reversal, the perceptions of experts as decision-makers, and similarities to the reality of the city were also evaluated. It has been demonstrated that the framework shows potential in aiding group decision analysis, involving the public agents of each geographical territory covered by the healthcare management models, to endorse the use of proper methods that promote transparency and the use of scientific arguments.

Wind erosion potential from stover harvest in the Central Plains: Measurements and simulations

Removal of crop residues for biofuel production can potentially increase the erodibility of a soil by not only exposing the soil surface to winds but also affecting changes in soil aggregation and roughness. Field studies at both Colby and Ottawa, Kansas were conducted to determine the effects of long-term residue removal on soil wind erodibility. Corn residue was removed from plots at 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% levels beginning in 2009. Soil aggregate status and random roughness were measured in both the spring and fall from 2017 through 2020. As removal levels increased, the soils studied tended to have smaller aggregates and less rough surfaces, both of which increase soil erodibility. For many spring measurements, significant differences were found between the 0% removal levels and the 100% removal levels for soil erodible fraction (EF) and geometric mean diameter (GMD). We also used measured soil properties, weather, and yields as inputs into the WEPS and SWEEP models to simulate potential wind erosion at the study sites. Simulation results indicate that wind erosion can occur whenever soil cover falls below 50% with removal levels of 25% showing wind erosion loss in one case. Results of this study provide general guidance for regional and private sector land managers regarding levels of corn biomass that can be sustainably harvested and still control soil wind erosion.

Impact of project management courses offered by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) on public and private project management sector in Malawi

Impact of project management courses offered by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) on public and private project management sector in Malawi

Public and private management: Now, is there a difference? A systematic review

What is the difference between public and private management? This contested question has implications for why and how to study public management and for how to manage public organizations. Therefore, we conduct the first systematic review of the empirical literature of perceptual and behavioral differences between public and private managers since Boyne (2002a). We review 41 studies related to five theoretical expectations: Public managers experience a more complex stakeholder environment, stricter accountability demands, more ambiguous goals, less autonomy, and different values than their private sector counterparts do. The findings from the reviewed studies provide evidence of differences related to all five themes. However, as a field, we need a more refined understanding and operationalization of what it means to be a public versus a private organization. Additionally, we argue it is time to move beyond the dichotomous difference/no-difference discussion and focus on substantive, contextual factors and behavioral effects.

Second Acts: Giving Back through Social and Serial Entrepreneurship

The last two decades have seen increasing calls for commercial enterprises to create value beyond that which can be captured by their shareholders. While effective approaches to generating stakeholder value at the organization level are increasingly well-understood, relatively little empirical research examines the factors that influence how direct social impact can be generated at the individual level, i.e., by private sector founders, managers, and employees acting outside their corporate affiliations. The papers in this symposium address this gap through two lenses. First, they explore how individual-level characteristics, either formed in early life or developed through earlier career experiences, shape entrepreneurs’ choices about how to create public and/or private value at a later stage in their careers. Second, they focus on critical events in the entrepreneurial process and examine how they facilitate action-taking by individuals with philanthropic preferences to make social impact. Collectively, the papers in this symposium highlight different pathways on which entrepreneurs might embark at an advanced stage in their careers to create value beyond their current for-profit entrepreneurial endeavors, including engaging in philanthropy, and supporting the larger entrepreneurial ecosystem as experienced founders, joiners, and impact investors. Who Gives Back? Evidence from India on Successful Entrepreneurial Exit & Involvement in Philanthropy Presenter: Leena Kinger Hans; Indian School of Business Presenter: Balagopal Vissa; INSEAD Spinning an Entrepreneurial Career: The Role of Motivation & Attribution in Entrepreneurial Careers Presenter: Hyeonsuh Lee; West Virginia U. Presenter: Sonali Shah; U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Forming Ties for Impact: Cognitive and Emotional Resonance between Entrepreneurs and Investors Presenter: Esther Leibel; Boston U. Presenter: Denise Falchetti; George Washington U. The Making of Social Entrepreneurs: Big Tech Acquisitions & Founder Mobility into Social Initiatives Presenter: Ming zhu Wang; Washington U. in St. Louis, Olin Business School Presenter: Daniel Walter Elfenbein; Washington U. in St. Louis