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Enabling Environment (enabling + environment)
Selected AbstractsCorporate,community relations in Nigeria's oil industry: challenges and imperativesCORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, Issue 4 2006Uwafiokun Idemudia Abstract The adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies and corporate,community relation (CCR) strategies by oil companies has failed to reduce the incidence of violent conflict between the host communities and oil companies in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. This paper argues that the failure to seek, understand and integrate community perceptions into CSR policies and practices, the over-emphasis of affirmative duties to the detriment of negative injunction duties and the absence of an enabling environment due to government failure are responsible for the observed problem. The paper concludes that unless these gaps are addressed, CSR by the Nigerian oil industry is likely to continue to fail to achieve its full potential. However, CCR in the Nigerian oil industry will be significantly improved if, and when, the needs and aspirations of the major stakeholders are addressed through a tri-sector partnership approach to development and conflict resolution. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [source] Differences in the Performance of Public Organisations in Ghana: Implications for Public-Sector Reform PolicyDEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, Issue 6 2006Francis Owusu This article uses survey data from Ghana to examine whether there are significant differences in the characteristics of poor and well performing public organisations, and finds that they differ in two respects: remuneration and hiring criteria. It argues that transforming those that perform poorly is, however, more complex than simply addressing these differences: it requires fundamental changes in the cultures of organisations. Recommendations are made for designing comprehensive public-sector reform strategies that focus on both the enabling environment and achieving cultural change in specific organisations, avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. [source] What is the enabling state?JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Issue 6 2004The views of textiles, garments entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe This paper summarizes the approach and findings of a piece of research sponsored by the Department for International Development (DFID) in the UK and carried out in 1998 and 1999 mainly in Harare and Bulawayo. The primary aim of the work was to contribute to an improvement in facilitating an enabling environment for the private sector in Zimbabwe. It aimed to achieve this objective by developing and testing a participative methodology based on the use of historical profiles, checklists, Venn diagrams, master charts, workshops and other participative methodologies. These processes were introduced and developed with a group of 40 entrepreneurs and managers and several representatives from trade unions, government, and agencies. The design aimed to allow participants to express their own agendas, ideas and approaches instead of reacting to a more rigid approach reflecting the agendas of the research team. The research team adopted a broad structure based around three main areas affecting firms: the policy, agency and firm environments. The use of semi-structured interviews and workshops allowed a detailed exploration of these issues and produced a comprehensive list of problems identified and proposed solutions. The importance of the research is in its ability to construct a firm level, rather than government or donor level view of the enabling environment. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Legislative Issues Impacting On The Practice Of The South African Nurse PractitionerJOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS, Issue 1 2002Nelouise Geyer Purpose To present an overview of the impact of the nurse practitioner (NP) on the South African health care arena and describe the legislative framework for NP practice. Data Sources Statutes and laws of the government of South Africa; published professional guidelines; authors' experiences. Conclusions The key challenges for NPs in South Africa lie in lobbying for enabling legislation, obtaining access to education and training opportunities, and managing risks within the rapidly changing environment. Implications for Practice Some aspects of the NP's accountability and responsibilities have as yet not been adequately addressed in the current legislative framework and will certainly increase the risk for malpractice. South African NPs will have to establish partnerships with important role players, not only in South Africa, but also internationally, to ensure that an enabling environment for quality health services is created. [source] Characteristics of High- and Low-performing University Departments as Assessed by the New Zealand Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF) ExerciseAUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW, Issue 1 2010Fiona Edgar This study is concerned with the performance of university academic departments and the different cultures and different management practices, labelled ,human resource management' (HRM), that correlate with this performance. Departments are considered high or low research performers according to their assessment by the external Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF) exercise, and the study aims to see if the practices and culture in high performers differs to those in the low performers. Seven academic departments classified as being high or low performers were examined. In-depth interviews were conducted with heads and faculty from each department. Using content analysis, the features present in successful departments and absent from lesser performing departments were identified. These included a strong culture comprising collegiality and a quality focus, along with an emphasis on recruiting for high performance and fit, as well as an enabling environment promoting autonomous work habits. [source] Web communication services and the PacketIN® application hosting environmentBELL LABS TECHNICAL JOURNAL, Issue 1 2002Yang Chen Large telecommunication customers are migrating their network infrastructure to support new converged services, while containing their operating costs. Deploying converged services on the networks today represents great opportunities to network service providers for new revenue generation. It brings big challenges as well, due to the requirements for a service platform with high capability to deal with the complexity of the network infrastructure, the difficulty of interoperability between different service platforms, and the diversity of signaling protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs). The Lucent PacketIN® application hosting environment (AHE) provides a solution that empowers network service providers to deliver a wide variety of enhanced services over the converged (packet and circuit, wireline and wireless) networks. It enables the creation and deployment of enhanced services on converged networks via the open service platform with interoperability, programmability, scalability, and wide protocol compliance. In particular, a new class of services is presented to demonstrate the transformation of telecommunication services that is enabled through Web presence. This article gives an overview of the PacketIN AHE with the focus on the customer values, the architecture, and enabling capability to deploy advanced applications and services. A new service portal, enterprise communication, is presented as an example of the innovation and implementation enabled by the service enabling environment. The enterprise communication provides Web access to presence information, instant messaging, third-party call management, and location. This convergence of features is enabled by the PacketIN AHE integration of the public switched telephone network (PSTN), session initiation protocol (SIP), and H.323 protocols through standard open APIs. The voice communication protocols are combined with a Web access interface to establish a new Internet presence, while leveraging existing switching products and reusing deployed communication networks and services. © 2002 Lucent Technologies Inc. [source] | ||||||||||