Budgeting, the Individual and the Capital Markets: A Case of Fiscal Stress?

Budgetary control is a major aspect of management control and one that has undergone major shifts of emphasis in both the literature and practice in much of the later part of the 20th century. At the same time the movement from a manufacturing to a knowledge or service type environment has also been accompanied by an increasing acknowledgement of individual contribution to organisation performance. This has happened in a business context where the influence of the capital markets has impacted on the budget and other control practices of organisations. This paper draws on a detailed field study focusing on the individual and the problematic nature of budgetary control in a changing operational environment that acknowledges both the importance, internally, of the organisation members and externally, the growing influence of shareholders on business operations. From an operations viewpoint, control and accountability for results continues to move down the organisation to the level of the individual in a manner that could be said to lead to a 'performative contradiction' running counter to the ideal of a individual participatory budgeting style

Bill Ryan

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Perceptions of Career and Technical Education in Montana: How Did A Nation at Risk Effect Workforce Education in the Late 20th Century and Now?

Career and Technical Education provides students of all ages with the academic and technical skills, knowledge, and training necessary to succeed in future careers and to become lifelong learners. It marries educational objectives and workforce skill sets identified by industry as critical and in high demand. Demand for employees with these skill sets are critical, yet employers are having an increasingly hard time filling these positions.  Have stigmas and biases created by education policy such as A Nation At Risk, as well as, the resulting education shift from Career and Technical Education as a part of a well-rounded public education to College Preparatory curriculum in high schools created a “four-year or bust” societal norm

PERCEPTIONS OF CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN MONTANA: A SURVEY MILLENNIALS AND GENERATION X

This thesis and research are intended identify how the Millennial and the tail-end of Generation X perceive Career Technical Education (CTE) courses as a part of their secondary education. Then, how these respondents perceive careers commonly associated with CTE, and if or how societal, peer, and parental pressures influence perceptions of CTE, especially when compared to the common educational structure which actively advocates 4-year education as the only way to a successful career and good life. This thesis will also quantify how freshman and sophomore college students perceive CTE courses after high school, and if exposure to CTE influenced their post-secondary educational and career choices. In addition, perceptions of high school and college students who did not have CTE education courses offered in high school will have their perceptions of CTE compared against students who did have CTE courses offered in high school

Travel Industry Management Program: Concord College

This article tells this story of this initiation of an educational program and defines its role in the future development of the profession

Crop-Share Leasing Arrangements For Irrigated Land in Kansas

Crop Production/Industries, Farm Management,

Bacterial Removal Efficiency of a Bioswale Located in Lockwood Folly, a Coastal Watershed in North Carolina

NC Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has obtained, through partnerships with private sector, an engineered soil to enhance removal of fecal bacteria when used in conjunction with stormwater Best Management Practices, such as bioretention cells. The efficacy of this media is being tested at a site in Lockwood Folly, NC where a TMDL for fecal coliforms was approved by the NC Department of Natural Resources in 2010 to address shellfish harvesting impairments in the nearby estuary. Mechanisms for bacterial removal are a\ributed to: (1) retention of particles to which microbes adsorb and (2) mortality due to grazing by protozoans harbored by the soils. Funding is being provided by NC DOT as part of a program to evaluate pollutant removal efficiencies of various BMPs for road runoff treatment. NCDOT’s NPDES permit requires the retrofit of 50 stormwater BMPs in each 5 year cycle; they optimize their retrofits through results of research. The results of this assessment work are of much interest to South Carolina due to the large number of monitoring sites with fecal bacteria impairments that are located in settings similar to the Lockwood Folly watershed, the relatively low cost of the media, and the option of retrofitting existing BMP\u27s to enhance bacteria removal

INDOT Network Pavement Data Collection Status

INDOT has significantly altered its corporate intent relative to the usage of pavement condition data, and that alteration is resulting in changes in how we collect, process, and use this data. This session will briefly present those changes, including the different distresses collected, data process changes, the effects of various data aggregation lengths, and the pavement-roadway program decision-support information derived from the data. These changes are ongoing

Curriculum Review: A Model

Hospitality programs in the United States are continually undergoing curriculum review to stay current and to produce graduates who will excel in the industry. This article describes the revision process used by one university