New Public Management and the Police Profession at Play

This article explores the ways in which competing institutional logics influence the knowledge base of the police, ideas about good police practice and organizational identities. A tension between the humanistic professional police logic and the instrumental New Public Management (NPM) logic is discussed in the context of policing. While the humanistic professional police logic gradually emerged in the 1960s and 70s, over the past twenty years the police force has been reformed in line with the NPM logic. Through qualitative interviews and a quantitative study of the police force, the article investigates the ways in which the ideas of what constitutes a normative good practice are shaped in relation to these two, opposing, logics. A central finding is that despite many years of NPM as the dominant steering logic, a humanistic professional logic persists. However, the shift towards the NPM logic transforms the knowledge base in a more evidence-oriented direction and affects the ideas of normative good practice, especially among police management.     

Police Performance As Symbolic Politics? Public Recognition and the Value of Awards

Abstract

What constitutes “good” performance in a law enforcement agency, who decides, and how does public recognition of that performance change how an agency performs? This study uses a quasi-experimental design and propensity-score matching model to assess the impact of a law enforcement agency’s status as a finalist for the annual Cisco/International Chiefs of Police Association (IACP) Community Policing Award on performance in future years, as measured by crime clearance rates. It is found that after comparing the treated group (finalist agencies) with the untreated group (non-finalist nearest-neighbor agencies), there is no meaningful difference in crime clearance rates. This unexpected finding establishes that the public recognition of finalist status by the Department of Justice, which promotes finalist agencies as exemplars of best practices in community policing, does not impact the subsequent performance of those agencies. Additionally, the results of the model suggest that the impact of symbolic politics and social construction on the award finalist selection process and the choice by DOJ to promote the practices of those agencies should be explored. Questions are also raised as to the utility of crime clearance rates as a performance measure, and future avenues for research in each area are proposed.     

新形势下高校招投标工作的实践与探索

目前,高校招投标工作取得了一些成效,内部招投标机构的设置日益合理,招投标管理制度和工作机制不断完善,招投标实践科学管理得到进一步加强。但信息化时代的到来以及高等教育内涵式发展对高校招投标工作提出了更高的要求。在总结现阶段工作经验的基础上,需要针对招投标工作实际运行中存在的诸如机构独立性、评标规范性、监督有效性等问题,结合高校采购工作的特点,从管理模式、程序规范、制度优化以及招标工作信息化建设等方面进行不断探索和提升,以进一步发挥招投标工作节约资金、控制风险的作用。     

浅谈高铁安保工作中保安力量的管理和使用

高速铁路的护路保安队伍是高铁安全保障体系中的一支重要力量。为更好地发挥这支队伍的作用,铁路公安机关应十分注重保安员综合素质的提高,切实加强信息保障和后勤保障,着力完善人员招录机制、奖惩激励机制和日常管理机制。     

坚持“以人为本” 完善高校后勤管理

后勤管理是高校管理工作的重要组成部分,是维系学校正常运行的枢纽,而"以人为本"的服务理念则是高校后勤管理工作的出发点和归宿。实践中,高校后勤管理部门要处理好管理与被管理的关系、服务与被服务的关系、严格与宽容的关系,坚持"以人为本、服务至上"的管理理念,构建人本化后勤服务体系,以期为高校教学、科研工作的顺利开展提供有力保障。     

创新工会工作思路,增强企业工会活力

企业工会是工会的组织基础,处在协调劳动关系、维护职工权益的第一线。随着企业的发展,企业工会工作面临着一系列新情况、新挑战。新的形势和任务,迫切要求企业工会创新工作思路,通过加强工会自身建设以及民主管理、维权工作和工作方法的创新,探索企业工会发展新路子,把企业工会真正建设成为职工信得过的基层工会组织。     

中小民营企业人力资源管理外包问题与对策研究

对于中小民营企业来说，外包既可以节约人力资源成本，降低企业整体的管理成本，又可以利用外部的专业资源对内部进行专业化的管理，指导和帮助民营企业建立和完善人力资源管理体系，提高管理水平和效率，完成人力资源管理职能的转变。因此，进行人力资源管理外包是民营企业发展的优化选择，也是必由之路。目前我国关于人力资源管理外包的理论和实践都比较匮乏，尚未形成统一的认识和管理行为，因此，研究民营企业中人力资源管理外包的应用，为民营企业外包设计一个可行的模式和方案，就具有非常重要的作用和意义。     

新生代民工人文关怀与和谐劳资关系的构建

随着我国经济体制改革的不断深化,劳资冲突已成为影响社会经济发展和稳定的重要社会问题之一,新生代民工在工资增长、体面劳动等方面诉求颇为强烈。对此,不仅国家应予高度重视,企业更须更新管理理念,努力增强人文关怀,以促进劳资关系的和谐建立。     

Termination Theory and National Climate Change Mitigation Programs: The Case of New Zealand

In 2008 New Zealand (NZ) changed from a Labour‐led to a National‐led government, and this resulted in a shift to government's carbon emission mitigation strategy, including the abandonment of the Communities for Climate Protection (CCP) and the Carbon Neutral Public Service (CNPS) programs. Using deLeon's seminal model for program termination, the objective of this research is to determine why NZ's newly elected government discontinued these initiatives. This empirical research is investigative and probing, and comprises a series of semi‐structured interviews with senior managers responsible for the delivery of the respective program within their organization. The architects of each program are also investigated. In the end, this study finds that while economic constraints and programmatic inefficiencies may have played a contributing role, political ideology is the primary rationale for the termination of the CNPS and the CCP‐NZ programs.     

Collecting on their investments,one woman at a time: Economic partnerships among Caribbean immigrant women in the United States

ABSTRACT

This article treats rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) from a constructive cultural perspective. The female-based African-Jamaican tradition of paadna (partnership) is examined within the theoretical scope of womanist (Black feminist) thought, a seminal discourse intersecting both the African diaspora and women's studies. Across the multiple scholarly approaches within women's and African diaspora studies, academic theory acquires cogency through legitimate correspondences with tangible liberating practices and traditions that can be documented and interrogated for conceptual insights. The practice of economic partnering is one such tradition that substantiates the ethical directives and imperatives of womanist theory and practice. A womanist reading of paadnas is proposed, not because the participants have any self-conscious commitment to feminism/womanism, but because of the institution's efficacy in enhancing the socioeconomic standing of Black families through a relatively small-scale capital enterprise. Through paadna networks, Jamaican women have transplanted a flexible self-help tradition to America that is arguably one of the most reliable sources of social and economic mobility among groups of African descent in the United States.