Worldwide Governance Indicators

Thesis: Foreign aid to Sub- Saharan Africa is/ has been detrimental for its development. Much of Africa has not realized any meaningful development for the last decades in spite of many countries in that region of the global getting substantial foreign aid for their development projects over time. The authors of this article argue that foreign aid to Africa has in fact been detrimental to many countries in their efforts to gain good governance and build strong state institutions. It is undeniable to argue otherwise that poor institutions, lack of accountability and weak rule of law are have contributed to poor development in most countries in Africa. However, other factors such as political instability, civil wars, high debt ratios and the lingering effects of colonialism have negatively impacted the development agenda in sun Saharan…

In Chapter Four: “Public Management’s Backbone: The Rule of Law” (pp. 89-286) of Public Management: A Three-Dimensional Approach, Laurence Lynn and Carolyn Hill have explicitly elaborated on the application of the rule of law on matters associated with the public management. It has been considered as the backbone to the concept of public management in relation to how it is constituted and formalized in ensuring that it is of great significance in the process of its application. The chapter…

accounting and information system used, the level of private sector and civil society involved, and asset utilization policies. However, despite the variance in state asset management practices, there some common challenges were identified as well as lack of accountability and governance…

To ensure a tranquil process to deliver a change project, an important aspect to look at is for an organization to align its business and project strategies to prolong its potential to deliver its promise. “The goals must be clearly linked to the organization’s business strategy otherwise; successful change becomes an even larger challenge” [Cheryl Yaeger, 2006]. Although, no change process is hurdle free, a well-structured governance structure is a major fundamental for successful execution of…

Solomon (2007) defines corporate governance as the practice of supervision and regulation meant to guarantee that the firm’s management actions align with the interests of the stakeholders. There are three core elements of corporate governance, namely transparency, accountability, and participation. According to Weiss and Steiner (2006) transparency entails making all information easily accessible to all stakeholders and relaying the information in a comprehensible manner. Accountability on the…

that management must do (Korhonen et.al., 2009). Researchers who study IT governance as a compliance process would introduce COBIT and ITIL as the standards, providing sets of exhaustive conformance for the quality of IT in an organization (Sallé, 2004). While COBIT provides many beneficial aspects such as a direction, as an overall checklist in an extreme audit styles,…

This is a strategic plan that is geared toward fostering greater integrations which are supposed to usher in authentic discussions between the citizens and the administrators. As said before, this is no simple task to accomplish but in an effort to educate the citizens, public administrators must get people engaged in self- education via participation in the governing process. The city of Brooklyn Park for example uses both traditional and nontraditional strategies such as neighborhood group…

Brian Okello 8 June 2015 Views on the No late work accepted policy Introduction Parents send their children to school to not only become excellent academicians but also to gain useful life skills that will benefit in their future lives. Some of the skills they require include punctuality, organization, self-motivation, self-discipline to mention just a few. It is the role of the teachers, in collaboration with the parents, to ensure that this essential skills are handed over to the students.…

one on one conversation with the Career Services Director, she made realize that Career Services used the CAS materials to conduct their 5-year program review. In this paper, I will not offer recommendations for ways the Career Services office might better meet CAS standards. Instead, I will analyze what CAS Standards I notice or fit within Career Services in the time I intern with them. First, I will briefly talk about the CAS components in place at Career Services and what I think about them.…

Good governance and Indonesian state asset management According to Hughes (2012,) Governance is about framing rules and organizations with the intention of providing accountability. Within the context of Indonesian state asset management, good governance principles are defined based on the list of good governance principles as listed by the National Development Agency, which include principles such as transparency, accountability, regulatory compliance, professionalism and competency, efficiency…