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Jan L. G. Dietz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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enterprise ontology based splitting and contracting of organizations
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2008Co-Authors: Martin Op T Land, Jan L. G. DietzAbstract:Our research program aims at finding and testing principles for deciding on organization splits and starting cooperation over the split. We tested a method to make underpinned choices on the organization split and to ensure completeness in contracting. Using actors from Enterprise Ontology as organization building blocks of a Dutch Governmental Agency, experts constructed their own gut feeling organization split and systematically listed (a) ownership of assets (b) quality of business and information services and (c) critical chain-dependencies. The proposed organization split is, confirming an earlier experiment, quite close to graph theory based calculated alternatives. The listing of contracting items helped to determine in a fast and shared way subsequent implementation steps, e.g., ensuring mutual information supply and formulating performance indicators.
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SAC - Enterprise ontology based splitting and contracting of organizations
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing - SAC '08, 2008Co-Authors: Martin Op ’t Land, Jan L. G. DietzAbstract:Our research program aims at finding and testing principles for deciding on organization splits and starting cooperation over the split. We tested a method to make underpinned choices on the organization split and to ensure completeness in contracting. Using actors from Enterprise Ontology as organization building blocks of a Dutch Governmental Agency, experts constructed their own gut feeling organization split and systematically listed (a) ownership of assets (b) quality of business and information services and (c) critical chain-dependencies. The proposed organization split is, confirming an earlier experiment, quite close to graph theory based calculated alternatives. The listing of contracting items helped to determine in a fast and shared way subsequent implementation steps, e.g., ensuring mutual information supply and formulating performance indicators.
Sally Johnson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a comprehensive model of information seeking tests focusing on a technical organization
Science Communication, 1995Co-Authors: David J. Johnson, William A Donohue, Charles K Atkin, Sally JohnsonAbstract:Individual information seeking has become increasingly a critical determinant of the success of individual organizational members and of an organization as a whole. This study tests a Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS) that contains three primary classes of variables: Antecedents, which provide the underlying imperatives to seek information; Information Carrier Characteristics, which shape the nature of specific intentions to seek information from particular carriers; and Information Seeking Actions, which reflect the nature of the search itself and are the outcomes of the preceding classes. The CMIS was tested and refined in tests related to the informal channel in a large, technically oriented Governmental Agency (N = 380), then the refined model was confirmed by tests on the formal channel. Both tests of the revised model were supportive, suggesting that the most important variables were those related to an individual's existing information base, those associated with an individual's nee...
Lennart Stigendal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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treatment of haemophilia a and b and von willebrand s disease summary and conclusions of a systematic review as part of a swedish health technology assessment
Haemophilia, 2012Co-Authors: Erik Berntorp, Jan Astermark, Fariba Baghaei, David Bergqvist, M Holmstrom, Bengt Ljungberg, A Norlund, J Palmblad, P Petrini, Lennart StigendalAbstract:In an ongoing health-technology assessment of haemophilia treatment in Sweden, performed by the Governmental Agency Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency (TLV; tandvards-och lakemedelsformansve ...
Josef Pallas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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mediability and public sector organizations a case of swedish Governmental Agency s responses to mediatization
Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2015Co-Authors: Josef PallasAbstract:The aim of the paper is to contribute to our understanding of how organizational members respond to and enact an ambiguous institutional practice. We use a case of mediatization – taken-for-granted values and norms for how to manage, organize and conduct media activities- and the way it gets maintained, challenged and re-constructed within the realm of specific organizational settings. By way of focusing on how mediatization gets contested and negotiated, the paper addresses media activities of organizations as mediability – an active and skillful process through which organizational members translate mediatization rationales into activities of their organizations. In empirical terms, the paper addresses how one of the major Swedish Governmental Agencies reasons about and understands its activities and responsibilities in different contexts where media are brought to fore; and how these understandings of media influence the Agency’s communication. The study rests on observational data collected between April and June 2012 and 19 interviews with representatives from the Agency.The results show that mediability reflects a process that, despite its institutional embeddedness, unfolds unevenly as its different aspects (news products, practices, professional values and organizational structures and forms) are strategically contested and continuously re-negotiated between different professions involved in the media activities of the Agency. Mediatization remains thereby in a constant contestation both at the level of individual organizations as well as in its institutional form. With respect to its uneven influences on different aspects of an organization’s communication activities, the notion of mediability as non-conclusive process paves the way for a more context-sensitive analysis of organizational responses to institutional ambiguity.
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responses to mediatization a case of swedish Governmental Agency
30th European Group of Organizational Studies Colloquium - Reimagining Rethinking Reshaping: Organizational Scholarship in Unsettled Times, 2014Co-Authors: Josef Pallas, Magnus FredrikssonAbstract:The aim of the paper is to contribute to our understanding of how organizational members respond to and enact to an ambiguous and contradictory institutional contexts. We use a case of mediatization –taken-for-granted values and norms for how to manage, organize and conduct media activities- and the way it gets maintained, challenged and re-constructed within the realm of specific organizational settings. By way of focusing on how mediatization get contested and negotiated, the paper addresses media activities of organizations as mediability – an active and skillful process through which organizational members translate mediatization rationales into activities of their organizations. In empirical terms, the paper addresses how one of the major Swedish Governmental Agencies reasons about and understands its activities and responsibilities in different contexts where media are brought to fore; and how these understandings of media influence the Agency’s communication. The study rests on observational data collected between April and June 2012 and 19 interviews with representatives from the Agency. The results show that mediability reflects a process that, despite its institutional embeddedness, unfolds unevenly as its different aspects (news products, practices, professional values and organizational structures and forms) are strategically contested and continuously re-negotiated between different professions involved in the media activities of the Agency. Mediatization remains thereby in a constant contestation both at the level of individual organizations (implementation) as well as in its institutional form (conceptual enactment). With respect to its uneven influences on different aspects of an organization’s communication activities, the notion of mediability as non-conclusive process paves the way for a more context-sensitive analysis of organizational responses to institutional plurality.
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The Expressive Governmental Agency - consequences of marketization on communication in swedish Governmental agencies
2012Co-Authors: Josef Pallas, Magnus FredrikssonAbstract:The Marketization of the Public Sector Governmental agencies in contemporary wealth-fare states face major reforms mainly as a result of changed relationships and dynamics between the public sector, the state, markets and citizens. The agencies have to deal with diversified - and partly new - political, economical and social conditions for their activities. As described and studied in research on New Public Management these changes lead to new principles for coordination, evaluation and control. In this tradition the starting point for analysis has been the increased exposure to and implementation of marketoriented rationales in to the definition of role, responsibilities and character of the public authorities. Such rationales imply that Governmental agencies are governed on a basis of exposure to competition and with clear goal and result orientation where implementation of client/execution models, and co-operation with private actors are some of the key components. Parallel to this the control executed by the state has become more explicitly oriented towards evaluation rather than regulation. Moreover, other actors - such as the media, customers and competitors - play a more central in defining and forming the regulative and normative conditions to which Governmental agencies have to relate to and act upon. As the variety and number of actors being involved in shaping the landscape in which the agencies operate steadily increase, these organizations often meet contradicting and inconsistent requirements and expectations. Increased accessibility and adjustability, clearly and transparent description of own products and services as well as presentation of legitimizing organizational accounts are some of the expectations and demands the Governmental agencies have to relate to and deal with. Four Aims of Communication Parallel to the marketization of the public sector Governmental agencies have come to pay an increased attention to communication as a strategic tool. The agencies - similarly to other types of organizations from the private, public and non-profit sectors - are increasingly involved in communication activities such as creation of communication departments, employment of PR-professionals into senior management positions, strategic enhancement of business and media intelligence, development of strategies for branding, media training of middle and senior management, and hiring PR/Mediaconsultants to support/complement the work of own communication experts. The functions of communication vary but we can - at least for analytical reasons - distinguish between four basic aims of communication.1. The informative function - the mediation of factsIn short, Governmental agencies are assigned to provide public information about political decisions affecting individuals and their ability to act as citizens. It is a rather limited understanding about public information but it has been further developed by also including responsibility to inform about central and current aspects of the society, how it works and how it is organized, the rights and responsibilities of the citizens, or provide specific information related to extraordinary events or situations. Moreover, the agencies also need to report to the state government about their performance and whether they have reached their goals.2. The persuasive function - to influence others in a given directionTo influence, promote but also to reduce certain types of behavior and activities is an extensive part of the assignment of Governmental agencies. Communication campaigns are one of the tools used to achieve these goals. In other cases the communication is used to promote own activities and agendas. In a system where public sector organizations are exposed to competition and other market mechanism the agencies have to persuade existing and future customers that their services or products are competitive.3. The social functionTo interact with others Governmental agencies are also required to build and maintain egalitarian relationship to citizens. With increasing demands on adaptability, influence and deliberative democracy the authorities use interaction-oriented activities. But it is not only citizens the agencies have to interact with. They also have to create cooperations with other societal actors - such as the media, corporations and other business organizations, NGOs and other Governmental agencies.4. The expressive functionTo manifest identity, values and self-conceptualization To ensure legitimacy and trust, agencies express values, self-conceptualization and the way they understand the different social contexts in which they conduct their activities. Here communication is used to answer questions about the Agency's identity, what it is and what it stands for, and how it conceptualizes its current as well future role and responsibility. These messages come to live in core-values, brand policies and corporate identity programs. The expressive communication should also be able to handle the paradox of exclusivity and normality - i.e. a Governmental Agency should distinguish it self from other organizations, at the same time as it need to express that it functions and operates in accordance with common ideas about public sector organizations. The above categorization is a theoretical construction that aims to clarify and emphasize the common and typical communicative activities of Governmental agencies. However, in a given situation a communicative activity aims for all functions. Nevertheless, they can be more or less prominent or emphasized depending on the context. The Hypothesis of the Expressive Governmental Agency Historically the communication of Governmental agencies has been dominated by the informative and the persuasive function. Communication has been seen as a means to reach greater democracy based on the assumption that educated individuals are better equipped to execute their duties as citizens, but also on the assumption that the state has the right to govern the society in line with the public's interest. In the field of political science there are a number of scholars who have pointed out an increasing use of persuasion among Governmental agencies. In some cases it is seen as a consequence of a decreasing scope for regulations. In other cases the voices are more critical pointing out that Governmental agencies to an increasing extension are used as tools promoting ideological interests. In the context of "marketization" of the public sector, there is reason to believe that the aim of communication has changed.However in opposition to others we assume that : 1. Governmental agencies predominantly use communication for expressive means, and 2. that this is a consequence of being exposed to market oriented principles The first hypothesis rests on the fact that the Governmental agencies have increased their use of communication as a strategic resource. We believe here that the informative and persuasive communication is of great importance, but the expressive element gain a central role. Based on the analysis of other types of organizations - mainly companies - it is hypothesized that the authorities ' communications is primary used as a means to manifest the authorities' identity, goals and values - i.e. basis for institutional legitimacy. The second hypothesis rests on an understanding of Governmental agencies as exposed to an increased complexity and uncertainty concerning their primary goal, priorities, and activities as being redefined in an existing marketoriented discourse. We believe - supported by the current research - that such uncertainty leads to an increased need to express and communicate images of the organization as founded in a strong identity, clear goals and unambiguous organizational structures and activities. Empirical study To answer these two hypotheses we have conducted a study including all Swedish Governmental Agencies (N=249). We have used a content analysis categorizing the content of policies and other documents managing the communicative work in each Agency. Apart from the functions and aims of communication we have also categorized the explicit and implicit motives expressed.
Kristine M Gebbie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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public health physicians an endangered species
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2001Co-Authors: Hugh H Tilson, Kristine M GebbieAbstract:Abstract Background: Questions have arisen regarding the competency levels of the various professions within the public health sector, including those of physicians. Protection of the nation’s health requires that physicians on the public health team be competent practitioners of both medicine and public health. Physicians practicing in this arena are required to possess a vast array of knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be effective contributors in the field. Methods: Using focus groups of key informants in public health, the context of practice, inventory of required competencies, current competencies, and identified gaps in these competencies, measures to address the situation were identified and discussed. Results: Recommendations from the focus groups include: use of distance-based learning, development of educational materials and programs, use of the American College of Preventive Medicine as a facilitator, improved remuneration, changes to the certification process, utilization of mentoring programs, introduction of new marketing strategies, use of professional publications, and increased Governmental/Agency support. Contributors to this endeavor are identified. Conclusions: While we strive to improve the physician workforce entering the field, creative strategies for continued lifelong learning are urgently needed to facilitate ongoing development of physicians in the current public health workforce. This situation presents a major research agenda for public health practice. Identification of the essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes for public health physicians is the first step toward narrowing gaps in required competencies.
