An examination of dysfunctional behavior in Christian evangelical mission organizations and strategies for managing the consequences of dysfunctional behavior

This thesis presents an analysis of organizational factors influencing Consequence Management of Dysfunctional Behavior and develops a framework for use by organizations regarding how they can more effectively reduce the incidences and manage the consequences of Dysfunctional Behavior. Twenty-five (25) Christian Evangelical Mission Organizations (CEMOs), located in the United States of America, provided substantive resources for this study including: fifteen that provided responses to surveys, four that provided organizational documents for analysis, and forty-four persons from twenty-one organizations were interviewed for the purpose of defining Dysfunctional Behavior, identifying the consequences stemming from that Dysfunctional Behavior, and establishing the extent of strategies for managing the consequences of Dysfunctional Behavior. A Strategic Model Template (SMT) is presented for organizations to use as a means of identifying Dysfunctional Behavior and effectively conducting Consequence Management. To this end, several typologies (Dysfunctional Behavior, Consequences, Sources of Information, Severity of Dysfunctional Behavior, Severity of Consequences, and Rationale for Consequence Management) are presented together with a Consequence Management Matrix as necessary both to the development of the SMT and its implementation with Strategic Integrity. The discovery of The Constraining Triangle identifies the forces unique to CEMOs that work to prevent the effective application of Consequence Management. These forces are a result of CEMO history and traditions and CEMO theology and the theology of CEMO members

Cyber Security Politics

This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation. Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyber space in conflictual settings, while the second focuses on political responses by state and non-state actors in an environment defined by uncertainties. Within this, it highlights four key debates that encapsulate the complexities and paradoxes of cyber security politics from a Western perspective – how much political influence states can achieve via cyber operations and what context factors condition the (limited) strategic utility of such operations; the role of emerging digital technologies and how the dynamics of the tech innovation process reinforce the fragmentation of the governance space; how states attempt to uphold stability in cyberspace and, more generally, in their strategic relations; and how the shared responsibility of state, economy, and society for cyber security continues to be re-negotiated in an increasingly trans-sectoral and transnational governance space. This book will be of much interest to students of cyber security, global governance, technology studies, and international relations

CPA\u27s handbook of fraud and commercial crime prevention

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Hooligans, vandals and the community: a study of social reaction to juvenile delinquency

The thesis consists of three studies on various ways in which society reacts to juvenile delinquency. It is introduced with an account of recent developments in the sociology of deviance which have drawn attention to the nature and effect of the societal reaction to deviance. These developments, termed the "transactional perspective", are put in the context of a "sceptical" reaction against more conventional ways of conceptualizing deviance. The implications of this new perspective for theory and research are indicated. The first study is on vandalism, and starts by attempting to unravel the different definitions of this behaviour as a form of rule-breaking and deviance. It goes on to consider the processes through which vandalism becomes defined as a social problem and then discusses the main images and stereotypes through which society tries to conceptualize this form of delinquency. It finally considers the organized approaches to the prevention and control of vandalism. The second study is a survey of the views about delinquency - its nature, causes and control - and allied topics, held by a selected sample of official and unofficial control agents in a London Borough "Northview". The relevance of these views to understanding the social control of delinquency is considered. The final study is of various types of response to the Mods and Rockers phenomenon. Using mass media and observational sources, an analysis is made of how this form of deviance was reported and conceptualized. The emergent images of the behaviour are related to the ways in which society attempted to control it. The effects of these reactions on the form and development of the phenomenon are suggested