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Analyse politique d'une organisation de services sociaux et de sante de la région-04: la commission administrative régionale des services communautaires

Ce mémoire de maîtrise est une analyse politique d'une organisation devant coordonner les services sociaux et les services de santé dans la région du Centre du Québec. Elle porte sur la Commission des Services Communautaires appelée aussi Commission Administrative Régionale (CAR). Nous étudierons la vie de cette organisation depuis sa fondation en janvier 1978 jusqu'à son avant-dernière réunion inclusivement en juin 1979. Elle y a tenu treize assemblées durant cette période. Pour situer le lecteur, nous précisons les aspects géographiques suivants ainsi que la division territoriale des D.S.C., C.S.S. et C.L.S.C. La région 04 se situe entre la région de Québec (03) à l'est, fa région de Montréal (06A, 068, 06C) à l'ouest et la région de l'Estrie (05) au sud. Le fleuve St-Laurent divise cette région en son milieu et il constitue une barrière psychologique pour les gens de la Mauricie au Nord et les gens du Sud fortement attirés par Sherbrooke, Québec et Montréal. Cette région administrative ne polarise pas facilement les populations et les services socio-sanitaires vers son centre, Trois-Rivières. Unir les gens de La Tuque et de Louiseville aux citadins de Drummondville et de Victoriaville ne va pas de soi. Une certaine rivalité existe même entre ces deux dernières cités. Quinze centres hospitaliers desservent cette région. Trois de ces centres opèrent un Département de Santé Communautaire: deux au nord (Centre Hospitalier Ste-Marie à Trois-Rivières et le Centre Hospitalier Régional de la Mauricie à Shawinigan) et un au sud (le Centre Hospitalier Ste-Croix). Enfin, le territoire est partagé en treize bassins de Centres Locaux de Services Communautaires, sept sur le territoire nord et six au sud. Seulement quatre bassins sont équipés de Centres Locaux de Services Communautaires. Enfin, un seul Centre de Services Sociaux dessert le territoire, ce dernier ayant intégré les succursales de Victoriaville, Drummondville, Nicolet, Trois-Rivières, et Shawinigan. Maintenant que nous sommes situés, nous tenterons de répondre à la question suivante: Pourquoi la C.A.R. s'est-elle soldée par un échec du fait que les acteurs n'ont pas voulu jouer? Cependant, la réponse à cette question nécessite, a priori, une insertion dans l'ensemble du contexte où s'est fait le développement de la C.A.R. En effet, celle-ci se situe dans le cadre de la politique de décentralisation amorcée par le gouvernement du Québec depuis 1977. Les pages suivantes vont nous situer dans le contexte dans un premier temps et situer plus clairement la question dans un deuxième temps.

Projet de développement de services de réadaptation, de logement, de soutien à domicile aux adultes handicapés de la région administrative 05

Depuis dix ans, plusieurs organismes de la région se sont préoccupés du problème des adultes handicapés. Caritas Sherbrooke, dès 1966, met sur pied un comité d'étude pour analyser la situation des handicapés physiques et mentaux. Le rapport de ce comité propose comme solution aux problèmes existants la mise sur pied d'un Centre industriel thérapeutique, d'un atelier protégé et d'une résidence d'hébergement transitoire. Repris sous différentes formes, ce projet finit par s'actualiser en 1970 avec le projet de démonstration "Poly-tek" présenté par la Corporation du Service d'assistance aux handicapés de Sherbrooke et financé par le Ministère de la famille et du Bien-être social du Québec. Poly-tek s'adressant surtout à des adultes légèrement handicapés en vue d'une réadaptation sociale et d'une préparation au marché du travail, une ressource complémentaire est alors développée par la Villa Dufresne (centre d'accueil pour jeunes déficients mentaux): il s'agit d'un atelier tour déficients mentaux moyens et profonds de 18 ans et plus. L'atelier Daisy offre un milieu d'activités occupationnelles à 50 stagiaires ainsi que de l'information et du soutien aux familles de ces handicapés. Financé dans les premières années par un projet de Perspectives-Jeunesse et quatre d'Initiatives locales, Daisy est maintenant soutenu par le Ministère des affaires sociales, depuis 1974 à même le budget global de la Villa Dufresne Inc. et l'Association pour les déficients mentaux. [...]

ADMINISTRATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF LIBRARY OF THE THEOLOGICAL STUDIES CENTER OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD IN PARAÍBA (CETAD/PB): proposal for restructuring

A organização, a gestão e o planejamento de uma unidade de informação compreende várias etapas e envolve os processos e técnicas do campo de pesquisa do profissional do Bibliotecário. Neste estudo pretendemos construir uma proposta de reestruturação da Biblioteca do Centro de Estudos Teológicos das Assembléias de Deus na Paraíba - CETAD/PB. E especificamente: definir um sistema de organização para o acervo que conduza à autonomia do usuário no processo de busca e recuperação da informação; indicar um software de gerenciamento de bibliotecas que supra as necessidades da unidade de informação; conhecer o público alvo, a partir de instrumento de estudo de usuário, a fim de adequar as ferramentas tecnológicas que serão utilizadas; organizar um guia para auxiliar o processo de reestruturação e propor medidas para a regulamentação do funcionamento da biblioteca do CETAD/PB. A metodologia utiliza a abordagem de pesquisa qualitativa, com características do tipo descritiva e exploratória. Adota a pesquisa de campo, para conhecer e detalhar o universo de pesquisa que foi o Centro de Estudos Teológicos das Assembléias de Deus na Paraíba CETAD/PB, bem como os sujeitos da pesquisa, ou seja, os alunos da instituição. O instrumento de coleta dos dados utilizado foi o questionário. Para representar os dados recorre às técnicas e aos recursos estatísticos da pesquisa quantitativa. Com as análises dos dados desvenda o perfil dos seus usuários, constata a insatisfação dos mesmos com relação a organização do acervo, assim como quais ferramentas tecnológicas se adéquam a esse perfil para o aprimoramento nas etapas de tratamento e disseminação dos suportes informacionais, como também no serviços de atendimento ao usuário. Destaca o profissional da informação como gestor nas Unidades de Informação, com atuação que vai além dos procedimentos e técnicas tradicionais da profissão. Palavras-chave: Biblioteca Especializada. Biblioteca – Teologia. Organização de Bibliotecas.

Administrative justice and the control of bureaucratic decision-making: A study investigating how decision-makers in local authority education departments respond to the work of redress mechanisms

This socio-legal thesis has explored the factors responsible for explaining whether and how redress mechanisms control bureaucratic decision-making. The research considered the three principal institutions of administrative justice: courts, tribunals, and ombudsman schemes. The field setting was the local authority education area and the thesis examined bureaucratic decision-making about admissions to school, home-to-school transport, and Special Educational Needs (SEN). The thesis adopted a qualitative approach, using interviews and documentary research, within a multiple embedded case study design. The intellectual foundations of the research were inter-disciplinary, cutting across law, socio-legal studies, public administration, organization studies, and social policy. The thesis drew on these scholarly fields to explore the nature of bureaucratic decision-making, the extent to which it can be controlled and the way that learning occurs in bureaucracies and, finally, the extent to which redress mechanisms might exercise control. The concept of control was studied across all its dimensions – in relation both to ex post control in specific cases and the more challenging notion of ex ante or structuring control. The aim of the thesis was not to measure the prevalence of bureaucratic control by redress mechanisms, but to understand the factors that might explain its presence or absence in a particular area. The findings of the research have allowed for a number of analytical refinements and extensions to be made to existing theoretical and empirical understandings. 14 factors, along with 87 supporting propositions, have been set out with the aim of making empirically derived suggestions which can be followed up in future research. In terms of the thesis’ contribution to existing knowledge, its comparative focus and its emphasis on the broad notion of control offered the potential for new insights to be developed. Overall, the thesis claims to have made three contributions to the conceptual framework for understanding the exercise of control by redress mechanisms: it emphasizes the importance of ‘feedback’ in relation to the nature of the cases referred to redress mechanisms; it calls attention to the structure of bureaucratic decision-making as well as its normative character; and it discusses how the operational modes of redress mechanisms relate to their control functions.

EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL CHARACTERISTICS, TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS, ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT, AND SCHOOL CLIMATE ON VOLUNTARY INTRA-DISTRICT TEACHER MIGRATION

This quantitative research study utilized a binary logistic regression in a block design to investigate exogenous and endogenous factors influencing a teacher’s decision to make an intra-district move. The research focused on the following exogenous factors: classroom characteristics (size of class, percent minority, percent of students with an individualized education plan, and percent of students that are English language learners) and teacher characteristics (experience and gender). The following endogenous factors were examined: direct administrative influence (administrative support, rules enforced, school vision, teacher recognition, and job security) and indirect administrative influence (school climate, student misbehavior, parental support, materials, staff collaboration). The research was conducted by using information available from the National Center for Educational Statistics, the SASS from 2011-2012 and TFS from 2012-2013. The 2012-2013 Teacher Follow-up Survey identified 60 teachers who made a voluntary intra-district move. Results illustrate there is a statistically significant relationship between percentage of English Language Learners and overall job satisfaction and teachers choosing to make an intra-district move.

Studying the Causes and Consequences of Internal Labor Migration Using Survey and Administrative Data Sources

This dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter motivates the use of a novel data set combining survey and administrative sources for the study of internal labor migration. By following a sample of individuals from the American Community Survey (ACS) across their employment outcomes over time according to the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) database, I construct a measure of geographic labor mobility that allows me to exploit information about individuals prior to their move. This enables me to explore aspects of the migration decision, such as homeownership and employment status, in ways that have not previously been possible. In the second chapter, I use this data set to test the theory that falling home prices affect a worker’s propensity to take a job in a different metropolitan area from where he is currently located. Employing a within-CBSA and time estimation that compares homeowners to renters in their propensities to relocate for jobs, I find that homeowners who have experienced declines in the nominal value of their homes are approximately 12% less likely than average to take a new job in a location outside of the metropolitan area where they currently reside. This evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that housing lock-in has contributed to the decline in labor mobility of homeowners during the recent housing bust. The third chapter focuses on a sample of unemployed workers in the same data set, in order to compare the unemployment durations of those who find subsequent employment by relocating to a new metropolitan area, versus those who find employment in their original location. Using an instrumental variables strategy to address the endogeneity of the migration decision, I find that out-migrating for a new job significantly reduces the time to re-employment. These results stand in contrast to OLS estimates, which suggest that those who move have longer unemployment durations. This implies that those who migrate for jobs in the data may be particularly disadvantaged in their ability to find employment, and thus have strong short-term incentives to relocate.

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Two case studies on generating administrative process applications with AdminDSL

Some organizations end up reimplementing the same class of business process over and over: an "administrative process", which consists of managing a form through several states and involving various roles in the organization. This results in wasted time that could be dedicated to better understanding the process or dealing with the fine details that are specific to the process. Existing virtual office solutions require specific training and infrastructure andmay result in vendor lock-in. In this paper, we propose using a high-level domain-specific language (AdminDSL) to describe the administrative process and a separate code generator targeting a standard web framework. We have implemented the approach using Xtext, EGL and the Django web framework, and we illustrate it through two case studies: a synthetic examination process which illustrates the architecture of the generated code, and a real-world workplace survey process that identified several future avenues for improvement.

Reforming the Swedish employment-related social security system:activation, administrative modernization and strengthening local autonomy

The Swedish system of social security has often been regarded as comprehensive and comprehensive and inclusive. During major reforms in the 1990s and 2000s, it has maintained its essential character as a popular and well-endowed provider of social security and stability. Employment-related benefits are generous in financial terms, but come with the need for recipients to remain actively engaged in the economic or educational field. However, Sweden’s geographical and demographic diversity made it necessary to increase the role of local authorities in implementing active labour market policies. This article tracks these developments since the mid-1990s, both with regard to changing the benefits system and with regard to changing local government involvement. It argues that backed by broad political support, the Swedish system has achieved the necessary modernisation and adaptation to remain a viable alternative to more neo-liberal welfare retrenchment projects conducted in other European countries.

Efficiency and advisory skils – contemporary administrative assistance profile

Os EUA e a UE têm vindo a perder sistematicamente capacidade competitiva em relação à China e a outros países, no que se refere ao trabalho no segundo setor da economia. De facto, os países industrializados ocidentais não conseguem competir nos setores profissionais menos qualificados, dada a diferença de custo de trabalho em relação a outras regiões do globo, pelo que terão de apostar na promoção do empreendedorismo e da propriedade intelectual (inovação, IT, patentes, etc.). A crise que iniciou em 2008, e a perda de empregos e redução do crescimento do PIB que lhe estão associados no ocidente, demonstra a necessidade urgente de uma transformação para responder ao desafio do empreendedorismo e do crescimento económico. As Instituições de Ensino Superior têm um papel central a desempenhar nesta área, procurando conceder através da formação ferramentas promotoras de uma formação empreendedora e que apoiem a consolidação de PME. Com este artigo pretendemos desenvolver uma primeira abordagem sobre a forma de apostar na qualificação da assessoria administrativa, nas mais diversas áreas do mercado de trabalho.

Administrative Policies and Procedures Manual

The purpose of the Administrative Policies and Procedures Manual is to furnish guidance to all departments, divisions, sections, and offices of the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission in administering policies of the Commission and of the State of South Carolina. These policies and procedures are offered to provide a method of understanding administrative guidelines of the Commission and a structure for consistent application of rules and regulations to all employees. In addition, the contents of this manual are designed to serve as general guidelines for the proper and efficient conduct of administrative procedures.

L’interface politico-administrative au Québec : champ de bataille? Transmission stratégique de l’information dans les affaires d’État

En vertu de l’expertise qu’il détient, l’agent public contribue à la réflexion du politique. L’acteur public est en quelque sorte un outil d’aide à la décision. Le paradigme classique en théorie des organisations assume que le bureaucrate est un acteur programmé dont les actions sont guidées par la règlementation et la codification juridico-légale entourant sa pratique. Quant à elle, l’École de la nouvelle gestion publique suppose que l’agent public doit opérer librement selon les indicateurs de la sphère privée ; il doit viser l’efficacité au moindre coût et prioriser la culture du résultat. De plus, dans des conditions respectant l’environnement où se dessine le partage de renseignements, les chercheurs ne s’entendent pas sur le principe de l’allié qui postule conventionnellement que des préférences similaires favorisent la transmission optimale de l’information entre le politique et la fonction publique. Quel modèle prévaut au Québec ? Sous quelles formes s’opérationnalise-t-il en contexte de transfert ? La thèse d’une compatibilité préférentielle est-elle garante d’une translation informationnelle améliorée ? En usant du modèle canonique principal-agent, ce mémoire confronte la croyance répandue voulant que l’État québécois soit foncièrement webérien en adressant certaines des plus importantes conclusions théoriques dans la discipline. Les résultats démontrent que l’appareil d’État est issu d’un croisement entre les deux principaux paradigmes reconnus dans la littérature. Aussi, le mémoire fait état d’une similarité entre l’interprétation traditionnelle de l’ally principle et la réalité empirique retrouvée dans la relation entre le haut fonctionnaire et le législateur québécois. Ultimement, l’étude démontre que l’administrateur d’État est stratégique dans certaines situations qu’il sait instrumentaliser et où il peut occuper un espace discrétionnaire suffisant pour valoriser ses intérêts professionnels et ceux de son organisation.

Inequality of income and poverty persistence in the Municipality of Bologna: a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis through administrative data

This work is part of a project promoted by Emilia-Romagna that aims at encouraging research activities in order to support the innovation strategies of the regional economic system through the exploitation of new data sources. To gain this scope, a database containing administrative data is provided by the Municipality of Bologna. This is achieved by linking data from the Register Office of the Municipality and fiscal data coming from the tax returns submitted to the Revenue Agency and released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance for the period 2002-2017. The main purpose of the project is the analysis of the medium term financial and distributional trends of income of the citizens residing in the Municipality of Bologna. Exploiting this innovative source of data allow us to analyse the dynamics of income at municipal level, overcoming the lack of information in official survey-based statistic. We investigate these trends by building inequality indicators and by examining the persistence of in-work poverty. Our results represent an important informative element to improve the effectiveness and equity of welfare policies at the local level, and to guide the distribution of economic and social support and urban redevelopment interventions in different areas of the Municipality.

Construction Of A Manual Of Work Processes And Techniques From Centro De Dispensação De Medicamentos De Alto Custo (cedmac), Hospital De Clínicas, Unicamp.

The Centers for High Cost Medication (Centros de Medicação de Alto Custo, CEDMAC), Health Department, São Paulo were instituted by project in partnership with the Clinical Hospital of the Faculty of Medicine, USP, sponsored by the Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, FAPESP) aimed at the formation of a statewide network for comprehensive care of patients referred for use of immunobiological agents in rheumatological diseases. The CEDMAC of Hospital de Clínicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (HC-Unicamp), implemented by the Division of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, identified the need for standardization of the multidisciplinary team conducts, in face of the specificity of care conducts, verifying the importance of describing, in manual format, their operational and technical processes. The aim of this study is to present the methodology applied to the elaboration of the CEDMAC/HC-Unicamp Manual as an institutional tool, with the aim of offering the best assistance and administrative quality. In the methodology for preparing the manuals at HC-Unicamp since 2008, the premise was to obtain a document that is participatory, multidisciplinary, focused on work processes integrated with institutional rules, with objective and didactic descriptions, in a standardized format and with electronic dissemination. The CEDMAC/HC-Unicamp Manual was elaborated in 10 months, with involvement of the entire multidisciplinary team, with 19 chapters on work processes and techniques, in addition to those concerning the organizational structure and its annexes. Published in the electronic portal of HC Manuals in July 2012 as an e-Book (ISBN 978-85-63274-17-5), the manual has been a valuable instrument in guiding professionals in healthcare, teaching and research activities.