Purpose. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to investigate the perception of experts of water policy in South Florida. Water conservation has been, and continue to be, an issue for South Florida. ...
Strategic vision and mission statements are key elements of most public agency strategic plans. Yet literature suggests that too often, these statements are out of focus, without coherence, meaningless, forgettable, and ...
Since the invention of social media, politicians have had more opportunities to engage with their constituents through various platforms. Over time, the sophistication of social media tools allowed politicians to increase ...
This qualitative grounded theory study examined the decision-making process of female U.S. military veterans who chose to leave active duty service and who are civilian federal employees with the Department of Defense ...
The purpose of this study was to explore how local government organizations train or prepare raters for their role of serving on a job interview panel and to discover the best practices of this process. A qualitative ...
The state of California is home to 109 federally recognized tribes, 100 tribal reservations, and roughly 12% of the nation’s total Native American/Alaskan Native population, which is approximately 720,000 people (California ...
Fatigue in the transportation industry is a significant threat to the safety of employees and
citizens. Ambulance transportation of the sick and injured is not classified as falling
under the transportation industry; ...
The purpose of the study was to explore entrepreneurial training as a rehabilitation option to reduce recidivism for juvenile offenders. The problem is that juvenile offenders return to incarceration at alarming rates. ...
Street-level public administrators, particularly welfare and social services professionals, working in direct contact with and delivering welfare benefits to the indigent public, expose themselves to chronic poverty daily ...
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to explore police officers’ perceptions of what components within a workplace wellness program (WWP) they perceive to affect their wellness.
Theoretical Model. The theoretical model ...
This exploratory study examined leadership approaches taught in leadership and management training programs attended by police managers and executives within the San Gabriel Valley. Specifically, Los Angeles Police ...
Challenges to accessing mental health care causes a postponement of mental health care for racial and ethnic minorities through stigma, cultural principles, client necessity, and available services. Applying mental health ...
Purpose. The purpose of the study was to reinvigorate the theory of organizational ecology and use the metaphorical relationship between themes in ecology as a way to model structures or reorganizations in the federal ...
Homeland security lacks a consensus definition for the discipline. Government leaders and scholars have proposed a range of definitions that describe the threats, activities, and outcomes of the discipline, but because ...
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to examine whether a Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) sponsored training that matches the employee’s learning style preferences increases the level of understanding FERPA ...
The confluence of an antiquated water rights system, unpredictable supply, and political intervention fostered legislation that became known as the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014. The trio of legislation ...
Purpose. Glass Ceiling barriers have long been thought substantial reasons why women
do not achieve senior-management-level positions. The purpose of this qualitative
research study was to investigate the perceptions of ...
911 Emergency Dispatchers encounter stressful situations and are known to manage life endangering incidents by way of telephone and/or radio. As they are trained to assist the public and the field units, the job they do ...
The Medicare Hospice Benefit (MHB) is a national policy that was enacted in 1982 to reduce end-of-life care expenditures and improve quality end of life. Hospice care is of value to all qualifying individuals who have a ...
Problem: The city of Kigali (CoK), the capital city of the Republic of Rwanda, is fast growing in demography and urbanization amid pronounced fiscal challenges. The city, its districts with the support of the central ...