Traditionally, bureaucrats are viewed as a stereotypical example of employees with flat pay schedules and low-powered incentive schemes. This paper challenges this view by providing evidence that wages of a particular group of senior bureaucrats city managers are tightly connected to their performance. In particular, salaries of city managers are strongly linked to city growth. Additional tests...

There are many companies that in the next few years will find they need to start internationalizing. There are also many that are currently involved in the first stages of internationalization and yet most of their general managers do not have enough experience in this. It might be useful for them to know how some general managers, who have successfully transformed a local company into an inter...

Abstract Highly sophisticated capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have skyrocketed its popularity across many industry sectors globally. The public sector is one these. Many cities around the world are trying to position themselves as leaders urban innovation through development and deployment AI systems. Likewise, increasing numbers local government agencies attempting utilise technol...

We content analyzed CEO communications of a large MNC to examine the values that constitute its organizational identity and surveyed 4530 stakeholders to identify global and local managerial roles. Findings suggest that MNC CEO endorsed global culture values integrating local culture with company values that manifest in mid-level managers’ roles.

OBJECTIVES To use a quality improvement approach to improve access to and quality of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and care in Cape Town. METHODS Five HIV/AIDS/sexually transmitted infections/TB (HAST) evaluations were conducted from 2008 to 2010, with interviews with 99 facility managers and a folder review of over 850 client records per evaluation cycle. The data were used in a local quality ...