Hornqvægets Opdræt, Røgt og Pleie paa Vestkanten af Jylland. (Redigeret af en Comitee, udvalgt blandt Medlemmerne i Holstebroe Omegns landoeconomiske Selskab.)

Hornqvægets Opdræt, Røgt og Pleie paa Vestkanten af Jylland. (Redigeret af en Comitee, udvalgt blandt Medlemmerne i Holstebroe Omegns landoeconomiske Selskab.

Den offentlige mellemleders lederskab under og efter en krisetid

Offentlig ledelse har længe været en kompleks opgave, men kompleksitetens karakter ændrer sig under og efter en krise. Artiklen tegner et billede af den aktuelle krisehåndtering i en dansk kontekst, der som udgangspunkt er præget af centralisering. Den viser, at det tilsyneladende ikke er blevet sværere at opnå legitimitet til nødvendige tiltag, og at der er specifikke kontekster, hvor krisen har været en anledning til forandring og kontekster, hvor der er behov for yderligere forandring

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Chapter 11: Framing Network Style Interactions in Local Governance: Three Narratives, co-authored by Gary S. Marshall, UNO faculty member. Public administration has changed radically over the last 30 years in organizational forms, role perceptions, practice, and the relevant research questions. Skillfully mastered public administration makes a difference in resolving conflicts, providing predictability, ensuring rights, and coping with problems of inclusiveness. This festchrift provides necessary information about public administration theory and practice, adding critical value to theoretical and methodological knowledge. The book demonstrates how a transformed public administration in practice makes a difference. It shows — through examination from various angles — how previous understandings of public administration have become obsolete. These changes are analyzed with a specific focus on four major research themes: (1) post-modern public administration, (2) neo-institutionalism, (3) fragmented local governance, and (4) method and methodology. The future prospects of public administration seem most promising if administrators are able to create ongoing dialogue with many parties. The book includes intriguing cases from the US and several European countries in order to illustrate how the theoretical and methodological approaches work in practice.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/facultybooks/1252/thumbnail.jp

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Motives for leisure-time physical activity participation: an analysis of their prevalence, consistency and associations with activity type and social background.

BACKGROUND Studies argue that knowledge about motives for physical activity participation can inform activities, initiatives and interventions to promote physical activity. However, most of these studies are based on small sample sizes and only include participants within a few selected types of PA. Further, they have not examined the consistency of individuals' motives across different activity types. As a result, this article examines RQ1: the most prevalent motives, RQ2: the association of motives with activity type and social background characteristics, and RQ3: the consistency of motives across different activity types. METHODS We utilised data from a survey of physical activity participation among 163,000 adult Danes (aged 15 + years). In the survey, the participants were asked about their participation in thirteen activity types and about their motives for practising the activity types they reported to do at least weekly. The motive items were operationalised based on the eight dimensions in the Physical Activity and Leisure Motivation Scale (PALMS). We conducted analyses of mean values and standard deviations as well as multilevel regression analyses. RESULTS We identified large differences in the importance of different motives for physical activity participation. The three most important motives were psychological condition (M = 4.54), physical condition (M = 4.48) and enjoyment (M = 4.36). We also found significant associations between motives and activity types in particular, but also between motives and social background characteristics (gender, age and educational level). For instance, we found that compared to running, physical condition was a much less important motive in outdoor activities (b = -3.01), activities on water (b = -2.44) and street sports (b = -2.38). Finally, our analysis showed how individuals' motives are not consistent across different activity types. CONCLUSIONS Our study contributes to the literature on motives for physical activity participation by using a large sample of individuals and by differentiating motives according to a wide range of activity types. The results underline the need to study motives in relation to activity types, as there are large differences in the prevalence of different motives. Our findings suggest that motives are not consistent across activity types, but rather they develop in an interplay between the individual and the activity type practised