Accountability Work

Author : Burt Perrin,Jeremy Lonsdale,Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412809399

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Making Accountability Work by Burt Perrin,Jeremy Lonsdale,Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc Pdf

Like honesty and clean water, "accountability" is invariably seen as a good thing. Conversely, the absence of accountability is associated with most of the greatest abuses in human history. Accountability is thus closely linked with the exercise of power and the legitimacy of policies and those pursuing them. This book looks at the role of evaluation and of audit as key elements in democratic accountability processes. The contributors explore the apparent paradox of there being more accountability-related activities today than ever before, at the same time as much public debate laments what is seen as a lack of actual accountability. Such a situation raises a number of questions: Is there a need for different approaches to establishing accountability or can current arrangements be modified to make them more effective? Are present practices part of the problem and are they preventing a mature debate about performance improvement taking place? How can systems awash with performance information ensure that at least some of it makes sense to a wide range of potential users? How is it that greater accountability and transparency can so quickly have become associated with concerns about perverse incentives and be seen by some as a costly burden? The volume includes detailed case studies and synthesizes up-to-date research evidence drawn from very different governmental systems, ending with practical advice for those involved in the accountability processes. In doing so, it attempts to address both conceptual ambiguities about the notion of "accountability" and the practical uncertainties over its implications for democratic government. This book is aimed at serious people who think about trends in the use of evaluation and audit in seeking to hold governments accountable for their actions and performance.

Author : Peter Koestenbaum,Peter Block
Publisher : Pfeiffer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0787955949

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Freedom and Accountability at Work by Peter Koestenbaum,Peter Block Pdf

Peter Koestenbaum and Peter Block offer you a new perspective forviewing the workplace through the lens of philosophy so that youmay have a better understanding of how to reclaim your freedom andaccountability and encourage the same in others. They provide aradical new approach to your work-a-day life that will bring truemeaning and power to your work. Freedom and Accountability at Work offers you the information youneed to: * Gain strength and meaning by transforming your thinking on howyou view anxiety, doubt, death, and guilt * Find new ways to bring spiritual and ethical values into yourworkplace * Engage in profound change that will help you overcome cynicismthat comes from superficial change * Replace your loss of organizational loyalty and safety with asense of freedom and accountability "Both Koestenbaum and Block are such passionate men who bringtogether what we all seek in our work life-meaning, insight, andhumanness. Bless them for this book." --Joyce DeShano, board chair, Ascension Health

Author : Carolyn Taylor
Publisher : Walking Your Talk Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1838329609

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Accountability@work by Carolyn Taylor Pdf

Putting accountability at the heart of any business can be transformational. This step-by-step guide shows you why and how to achieve lasting cultural change.

Author : Carolyn Taylor
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781473535855

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Walking the Talk by Carolyn Taylor Pdf

A new, fully revised edition. The culture of an organisation can mean the difference between success and failure. Leaders cast long shadows, and if you want to change the culture you have to walk the talk. This book shows you how. Walking the Talk covers everything from measuring corporate culture to changing people's behaviour (including your own) and describes in detail six archetypes of company culture: Achievement, Customer-Centric, One-Team, Innovative, People-First and Greater-Good. Packed with fascinating examples and case histories, and drawing extensively on Carolyn Taylor's twenty years' experience of building great cultures, it will give you the confidence to build a culture of success in your own organisation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781422333334

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Mom, apple pie, and working for America : accountability and rewards for the federal workforce by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helen Caulfield
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118305966

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Vital Notes for Nurses: Accountability by Helen Caulfield Pdf

Vital Notes on Accountability is a concise, accessible guidewhich provides students and newly qualified staff with anunderstanding of key issues in professional practice. Nurses areaccountable for their own practice and require a thoroughunderstanding of their core responsibilities which underpineveryday practice in the health service today. This introductory text in the ‘Vital Notes forNurses’ series sets out a framework for accountability whichconsists of four ‘pillars’ - legal, ethical, employmentand professional accountability - against which clinical issues canbe considered. * Presents legal, ethical, employment and professional issues inan accessible way * Explores accountability, professional regulation, sources offunding and treatment in the health service * Examines complaints, human rights, negligence, consent, andconfidentiality * Explores further applications in accountability * Each chapter includes learning objectives, scenarios and casestudies

Author : Robert D. Behn
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815708629

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Rethinking Democratic Accountability by Robert D. Behn Pdf

Behn examines the weaknesses in our current systems of accountability for finances, fairness, and performance, and suggests a new model of accountablity for public management.

Author : Gisela Hirschmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192605474

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Accountability in Global Governance by Gisela Hirschmann Pdf

How can international organizations (IOs) like the United Nations (UN) and their implementing partners be held accountable if their actions and policies violate fundamental human rights? This book provides a new conceptual framework to study pluralist accountability, whereby third parties hold IOs and their implementing partners accountable for human rights violations. Based on a rich study of UN-mandated operations in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Kosovo, the EU Troika's austerity policy, and Global Public-Private Health Partnerships in India, this book analyzes how competition and human rights vulnerability shape the evolution of pluralist accountability in response to diverse human rights violations, such as human trafficking, the violation of the rights of detainees, economic rights, and the right to consent in clinical trials. While highlighting the importance of alternative accountability mechanisms for legitimacy of IOs, this book also argues that pluralist accountability should not be regarded as a panacea for IOs' legitimacy problems, as it is often less legalized and might cause multiple accountability disorder.

Author : Paul Stephenson,María-Luisa Sánchez-Barrueco,Hartmut Aden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000223576

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Financial Accountability in the European Union by Paul Stephenson,María-Luisa Sánchez-Barrueco,Hartmut Aden Pdf

This book offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of financial accountability around the EU budget – how it is spent via policies, how institutions engage in checking policy performance (what taxpayers’ money actually delivers), and therein, the issues of monitoring, controlling, auditing, scrutinising and communicating budgetary expenditure. Presenting conceptual and theoretical approaches including financial accountability, learning, multi-level governance, implementation and throughput legitimacy, it looks at EU institutions (European Parliament, European Court of Auditors, European Ombudsman, European Public Prosecutor’s Office) and national bodies (supreme audit institutions at the national level), examining their contact with the EU budget. It details the historical development of accountability mechanisms (the ‘statement of assurance’, financial corrections, and parliamentary oversight by the Budgetary Control Committee (CONT)), and examines policy areas such as those of agriculture, social policy and cohesion (including Structural Funds and the Common Agricultural Policy), exploring the challenges of financial accountability in practice. Given the recent introduction of non-budgetary financial instruments and tools only partly financed by the EU budget, it sheds light on new burgeoning areas such as the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) and the challenges they bring for ensuring the accountability of public money. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of audit and evaluation, budgetary spending and financial control and, more broadly, public administration, public policy and EU institutions and politics.

Author : Michael Timms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103910228X

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How Leaders Can Inspire Accountability by Michael Timms Pdf

Leadership development consultant Michael Timms has discovered three powerful habits that not only make one a better leader, but also encourage those they lead to take greater accountability themselves. Using a compelling combination of teaching principles and illustrations backed by loads of scientific studies, Timms reveals three habits of personal accountability that are easy to implement and which can instantly begin transforming positional leaders into true leaders who inspire everyone to take more accountability for results.

Author : Oswald R. Viva
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781480877917

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The Accountability Factor by Oswald R. Viva Pdf

Without personal accountability, there is no organizational accountability, and without that, businesses and organizations fail to reach their ultimate potential. The flip side is when accountability is prevalent, employees stop blaming each other, departments get along, and organizations become more productive. Oswald R. Viva, the founder and president of V&A Management, LLC, a consulting company dedicated to helping small- and mid-size businesses, explores how to establish accountability at your organization in this business guide. Learn how to: discern the difference between accountability and responsibility; pinpoint why things are not working as well as they should; and create an environment where accountability is implemented and demanded of all members. When employees take ownership of tasks and an action plan is clear, personal accountability emerges, lowering stress, increasing productivity, influencing job satisfaction, and propelling the organization forward. Transform the way employees think about accountability and improve business culture and performance with the lessons in The Accountability Factor.

Author : Zehava Rosenblatt,Theo Wubbels
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351024099

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Accountability and Culture of School Teachers and Principals by Zehava Rosenblatt,Theo Wubbels Pdf

Accountability and Culture of School Teachers and Principals studies the degree to which teachers and principals in eight countries view themselves as taking responsibility, working by clear standards, reporting transparently, and accepting feedback at work. The book focuses on cultural values that explain variation in accountability levels of school educators, drawing on data from Canada, China, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It addresses the question of whether cultural values, specifically collectivism and individualism, are related to teachers’ and principals’ external and internal accountability dispositions. It also explores the intriguing role of organizational support and key school personnel in school reforms across the world, providing a new way to understand school accountability. The book will be of great interest for academics, post-graduate students, and scholars in the field of education policy and international and comparative studies in education.

Author : Henry Browning
Publisher : Center for Creative Leadership
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781604916591

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Accountability: Taking Ownership of Your Responsibility by Henry Browning Pdf

More and more managerial challenges require leaders to be accountable-to take initiative without having full authority for the process or the outcomes. Accountability goes beyond responsibility. Whereas responsibility is generally delegated by the boss, the organization, or by virtue of position, accountability is having an intrinsic sense of ownership of the task and the willingness to face the consequences that come with success or failure. Through this guidebook you will learn how your organization and its leaders can create a culture that fosters accountability by focusing on five areas: support, freedom, information, resources, and goal and role clarity.

Author : Roger Kline,Michael Preston-Shoot
Publisher : Learning Matters
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857256904

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Professional Accountability in Social Care and Health by Roger Kline,Michael Preston-Shoot Pdf

Many social workers, health care staff and teachers maintain high standards of professionalism, often in stressful and challenging circumstances. However, research also reveals instances where individual practitioners and managers, or whole organisations, fail to act lawfully, ethically and/or carefully. This book addresses just those instances by providing guidance on how to maintain accountable professionalism in tricky "what if?" situations. Dilemmas are explored using case studies and the mosaic of legal rules and regulatory body requirements for accountable professionalism are also laid out. The book will appeal to students and newly qualified practitioners in teaching, health and social work and their managers.

Author : Lee Del Col,Garth Stahl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000879995

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Working in a Survival School by Lee Del Col,Garth Stahl Pdf

Working in a Survival School documents how global educational policies trickle down and influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational leaders. The research traces the everyday work and experience of educators within an all-boys Catholic college suffering an unprecedented decline in enrolment numbers. In short, it was a school in ‘survival mode.’ Drawing on Dorothy Smith’s scholarship on Institutional Ethnography, the authors document how the school operated and how its efforts to survive influenced the daily work of educators.Institutional ethnography reveals the school as a bounded space subject to a variety of competing local and translocal forces that are historical, political and economic in nature. Exploring the discursive and material effects of policy on both the work and identities of educators, the authors illustrate how the everyday experience of being an educator is shaped by marketisation and how leaders engage in stratagems to promote the school as a vehicle of educational excellence and quality to lure clientele. Building on existing scholarship in educational policy studies and new public management, Working in a Survival School considers how the global marketisation of education systems is experienced in one school fighting to survive. This book is of interest to educators, school leaders and academics interested in policy enactment.