Kingdon's multiple streams approach has recently been applied to study implementation across sectors or levels of government. Building on these contributions, we suggest that two streams are especially important in shaping implementation: organizational problem constructions, and political pressure from the centre. These variables produce a four-way typology of implementation modes. We test the...

The main goal of this study was to assess how the millennial generation perceives companies that have different social media policies and how such perception influences key variables for job-seeking behaviors, including perceived person-organization fit (POF), organizational attraction, and job pursuit intention. Results from a univariate general linear model and path analysis supported all of ...

Government agencies globally are facing problems such as illegal immigration, terrorism, and disease diagnosis and control. Solutions to these problems rely heavily on collaborating organizations’ ability to effectively and efficiently share not only data but also knowledge embedded in organizational and interorganizational policies, regulations and constraints. Responding to an emergency often...

BACKGROUND The issue of workplace lactation support has intensified due to the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) amendment of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) obliging employers to provide a reasonable break time for nursing mothers. OBJECTIVES This objective of this study is to examine organizational policies on worksite lactation support as they relate to the new federal standards in sta...

As workers strive to manage multiple roles such as work and family, research has begun to focus on how people manage the boundary between work and nonwork roles. This paper contributes to emerging work on boundary theory by examining the extent to which individuals desire to integrate or segment their work and nonwork lives. This desire is conceptualized and measured on a continuum ranging from...

The Edee system provides a framework through which businesses may store the data pertaining to business events, contracts and organizational policies, within a single repository using the unifying notion of an occurrence. A collection of stored queries (cf. SQL views) is maintained. Each query describes the occurrences promised and prohibited under the provisions of the contracts and policies o...

policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. it stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. by itself, however, policy...

Despite numerous advances in IT security, many computer users are still vulnerable to security-related risks because they do not comply with organizational policies and procedures. In a network setting, individual risk can extend to all networked users. Endpoint security refers to the set of organizational policies, procedures, and practices directed at securing the endpoint of the network conn...

Allowing employees equal access and opportunities and leveling the playing field for individuals from different backgrounds can be a concern for many organizations. Whether organizational leaders are focused on creating a meritocratic work environment because they think it is morally right or whether they are avoiding negative consequences of unfairness such as lower employee motivation (e.g., ...