A framework for engaging leadership in higher education quality systems
- Authors: Bennett, Lorraine
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Leadership and management of quality in higher education p. 55-70
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Out in the regions : queer film festivals, community-building and the cultivation of creative talent in regional Victoria
- Authors: Benson, Chloe
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges p. 351-368
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- Description: Queer Film Festivals (QFFs) have tended to be linked with major capital cities in Australia. This reflects wider global trends, as well as the symbolic metropolitan/nonmetropolitan divide that has long-permeated the queer imaginary (Weston, K., GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 2:253-277, 1995; Halberstam, J., In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York University Press, New York, 2005). Yet, events like Bendigo Queer Film Festival and Geelong Pride Film Festival are demonstrating that QFFs are not only viable in regional areas, but that their various initiatives and activities also foster important benefits for regional LGBTI+ wellbeing. Examining these events and their contributions to community-building, networking and the cultivation of creative talent, this chapter demonstrates that the tendency to overlook regional areas in the study of queer cinema and film festivals risks reifying limiting narratives that dichotomise regional and urban queer experiences.
- Description: Queer Film Festivals (QFFs) have tended to be linked with major capital cities in Australia. This reflects wider global trends, as well as the symbolic metropolitan/nonmetropolitan divide that has long-permeated the queer imaginary (Weston, K., GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 2:253-277, 1995; Halberstam, J., In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York University Press, New York, 2005). Yet, events like Bendigo Queer Film Festival and Geelong Pride Film Festival are demonstrating that QFFs are not only viable in regional areas, but that their various initiatives and activities also foster important benefits for regional LGBTI+ wellbeing. Examining these events and their contributions to community-building, networking and the cultivation of creative talent, this chapter demonstrates that the tendency to overlook regional areas in the study of queer cinema and film festivals risks reifying limiting narratives that dichotomise regional and urban queer experiences. © The Author(s) 2020.
Taxpayer rights and protections in a digital global environment
- Authors: Bentley, Duncan
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Ethics and Taxation p. 251-294
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- Description: This chapter explores the impact on taxpayer rights of digital developments in electronics and systems, artificial intelligence, and security.Using an integrated rights framework comprising principles of tax administration and compliance, together with legal rights, it sets out the challenges and opportunities offered by digital disruption. It addresses issues such as proportionality, discrimination, equity and fairness, transparency and bias in legal and administrative decision-making, security, privacy and confidentiality. The chapter takes a global and comparative perspective in addressing significant legal issues that require detailed research and debate. It emphasises the opportunities for government service obligations to taxpayers, using artificial intelligence and secure systems, to provide advanced assistance to taxpayers and businesses and boost economic growth and trade. The chapter concludes that the opportunities are available to enable global implementation of an integrated rights framework to protect taxpayers even more effectively through digital disruption. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.
Being a global leader : challenges of internationalisation
- Authors: Bentley, Duncan
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encounters with Constitutional interpretation and legal education: Essays in honour of Michael Coper p. 167-173
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Academic job satisfaction from an international comparative perspective
- Authors: Bentley, Peter , Coates, Hamish , Dobson, Ian , Goedegebuure, Leo , Meek, Lynn
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Forming, Recruiting and Managing the Academic Profession p. 187-209
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- Description: This chapter examines academic job satisfaction and factors associated with higher levels of satisfaction in the 19 CAP countries. Job satisfaction varies considerably across countries, both in term of overall satisfaction and its components. Academics tend to be most positive regarding their career choice, whilst holding negative views on the current prospects for newer entrants. Utilising Hagedorn's (Conceptualizing faculty job satisfaction: components, theories, and outcomes. In: Hagedorn LS (ed) New directions for institutional research, vol 2000. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, pp 5-20, 2000) Conceptual Framework for Academic Job Satisfaction, we find job satisfaction is related most strongly to perceptions of adequate institutional resources, supportive administrative processes and perceived departmental influence. However, the relative strength of the independent variables varies considerably across countries. The proportion of variance in job satisfaction explained by the model also varies, with greater explanatory value in the English-speaking countries. Although the diversity in job satisfaction and its correlates may be an accurate reflection of cross-national and intercultural differences, one must be cautious about measurement error associated with the translation and interpretation of terms in different contexts. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
Self and community: The impact of ISATT on the professional learning: Teaching and research of members in the Asia-Pacific Region
- Authors: Berry, Amanda , McGraw, Amanda , Ying, Issa Danjun
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: From teacher thinking to teachers and teaching: The evolution of a research community p. 669-701
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Water activity in food processing and preservation
- Authors: Bhandari, Bhesh , Adhikari, Benu
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Drying Technologies in Food Processing Chapter p. 55-89
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Glass-transition based approach in drying of foods
- Authors: Bhandari, Bhesh , Adhikari, Benu
- Date: 2009
- Type: Book chapter
- Relation: Advances in Food Dehydration Chapter p. 37-62
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Review of Nepal's protected area laws in relation to human wildlife conflict
- Authors: Bhattarai, Babu , Wright, Wendy , Morgan, Damian
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Protected Areas: Management, Benefits and Social Impacts p. 167-198
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- Description: Laws and policies are critical in facilitating positive or negative outcomes where humans and wildlife have potential to interact. This chapter provides a historical overview of Nepal's protected areas and reviews the Nepalese conservation laws to explore whether they, through enactment, have the capacity to reduce the frequency and consequently the impact of human wildlife conflict (HWC). This chapter also provides useful insights for the formulation of new conservation laws, or the revision of existing conservation laws, to prevent and mitigate HWC. Nepal's conservation laws were formulated in the early 1970s, when modern protected areas were first being established in the country. Initially, Nepal followed the Yellowstone Model, an exclusionary approach involving the removal of local people from areas within the boundaries of the new National Parks. The intent was to separate humans and protected areas, measures that are often commended as effective in reducing interactions between humans and wildlife. Over time, the gradual relaxation of strict rules of exclusion, including the granting of rights to local people to access resources inside protected areas, have encouraged a move towards a coexistence approach. This later approach (coexistence) condoned, or at least allowed for, more contact between humans and wildlife, and may have increased the potential for HWC. Subsequent amendments to the conservation laws-including provisions for wildlife population management-may have gone some way toward reducing HWC; however, these amendments lack clarity and have been poorly implemented. This article recommends active implementation of laws that may reduce interactions between humans and wildlife and suggests improved compensation policies for wildlife damage. © 2021 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
A history of Australia's riverine habitats and vegetation
- Authors: Bickford, Sophie , Reid, Michael , Gell, Peter , Kenyon, Christine
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Vegetation of Australian riverine landscapes : biology, ecology and management Chapter 4 p. 45-58
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- Description: Vegetation communities in Australia's riverine landscapes are ecologically, economically and culturally significant. They are also among the most threatened ecosystems on the continent and have been dramatically altered as a result of human activities and climate change. Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes brings together, for the first time, the results of the substantial amount of research that has been conducted over the last few decades into the biology, ecology and management of these important plant communities in Australia.
Auxiliary Ventilation Practice
- Authors: Biffi, M , Tuck, Michael
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Ventilation and Occupational Environment Engineering in Mines p. 197-216
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Critical is something others (don't) do : Mapping the imaginative of educational technology
- Authors: Bigum, Chris , Bulfin, Scott , Johnson, Nicola
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Critical perspectives on technology and educaiton p. 1-14
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- Description: This book is an outcome of a provocation paper prepared by Neil Selwyn (2012) for a conference concerned with critical perspectives on learning with new media.
Doing difference with graduate management students: methods used to develop inclusive practices
- Authors: Billard, Sandra
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Making inclusion work: Experiences from academia around the world p. 78-92
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Privatization, corporatization, bureaucracies, and change
- Authors: Bilney, Chris , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Public sector organizations and cultural change p. 15-58
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- Description: Public sector organizations have existed for thousands of years and have long been equated with bureaucracy. Andreski (1984, p.104) cites the Chinese and Roman empires as classic examples of bureaucracy, describing them as "administrative machines," while Gaebler (1996) states that bureaucratic structure originated with the Roman army around 2,500 years ago. This gave rise to the concept of a bureaucracy based on traditional military ideals and "good administration" (Hood 1991) and paved the way for the modernist concept of the bureaucracy. Traditional organizations depended on bureaucratic structures to ensure that work was completed efficiently by removing error and idosyncrasy and reinforcing conformity and obedience. Bureau-cratic, or mechanized, structures rely upon centralized decision-making, formalized rules, and highly specialized tasks (Taylor 1911, 1913 and Weber 1947, cited in Sadler 1999)
Perspectives on Institutional theory
- Authors: Bilney, Chris , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Public sector organizations and cultural change p. 59-81
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Stress and coping during change
- Authors: Bilney, Chris , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Public sector organizations and cultural change p. 125-142
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- Description: Stress has been defined as a relationship between a person and the environment in which the factors within that environment exceed the person's abilities, thus putting his or her health or well-being at risk (Lazarus & Folkman 1984). Lazarus and Folkman (1984) emphasize the interplay between the person and his personal charcteristices and events occuring within the environment, recognizing the degree to which an event or events are described as stressful depend on the person's cognition of those events and how he evaluates them relative to his abilities to cope with the situation. Stress occurs when competing demands leads to overload (Lazarus & Folkman 1984)
Conclusion
- Authors: Bilney, Chris , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Public sector organizations and cultural change p. 142-164
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- Description: This chapter synthesizes the argument discussed in previous chapters into a holistic account of the context wherein many public sector organizations in this country have moved toward a private sector model of operation. It addresses the concept of institutional isomorphism within the context of institutional theory and describes how many organizations struggle to relinquish the rsisk-averse behaviours and cultures that impede their adoption of mandated private sector practices. "From conclusion"
The historical context of the public sector culture
- Authors: Bilney, Chris , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Public sector organizations and cultural change p. 1-14
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- Description: This chapter begins by describing the purpose, aim and scope of the book. It describes the historical context of the public sector culture, the change resulting from the introduction of the philosophies of New Public Mangaement (NPM) and managerialism, and the effects that these changes have had on public sector employees, particularly those employed in the sector prior to the introduction of NPM. The book analyzes institutional theory and examines the effects that attempting to conform to the mandated NPM philosophy while retaining traditional bureaucratic methodologies has had on those affected organizations and their staff members.
Psychological contract, organizational citizenship, and double bind
- Authors: Bilney, Chris , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Public sector organizations and cultural change p. 101-127
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- Description: The previous chapter charted the exposition of my journey from hope to despair during my long career in the public sector. I articulated the pressure placed on men resulting from the organizational injunction of expecting me to conform to two contradictory paradigms- those of traditional bureaucracy with its attendant emphasis on process and procedure and NPM with its customer-centric and efficiency focus. The public sector workplace of today is very different from the one of several decades ago. While some change must be expected within any environment I have found that the changes to which I have been exposed as a result of the government's NPM policy represent a considerable departure from the conditions of old.
Hope, frustration, and despair: Some reflections
- Authors: Bilney, Chris , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Public sector organizations and cultural change p. 81-101
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- Description: During the early days in the public service, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) were in the form of charts and graphs. This was to be my first experience with performance measurement and, although the use of performance indicators was confined to more senior management and did not affect me personally at the time, they were to be at the vanguard of a culture change that would eventually permeate the entire organization and the public sector in general. Experience with performance measure was, to me, the first evidence of aculture of continuous improvement and hinted at what I viewed as an attempt at a marked departure from the bureaucratic past.