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Policy & Society, 2019 Care realities are characterised by important differences between men and women. At the end of the 1990s, women were overrepresented among the oldest sections of the French population, as well as among their unpaid and paid helpers.
Annie Dussuet, Clémence Ledoux
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Fighting a New Enemy: How the Pandemic Changed the Role of Firefighters
RAC: Revista de Administração ContemporâneaObjective: this study aimed to examine the influence of the pandemic on the work performance of firefighters in a state in the southeast region of Brazil, considering perceived discretion, individual aspects, and institutional factors.
Carlos Eduardo Guilarducci Fonseca +3 more
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Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2021 This article concerns the role of teachers as street level bureaucrats in Swedish vocational healthcare education for adult students. At the centre of the analysis are the challenges related to policy implementation when many of the students are second ...
Sara Hultqvist, Katarina Hollertz
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Representation of Lesbian and Gay Men in Federal, State, and Local Bureaucracies [PDF]
, 2008 Americans increasingly view lesbians and gay men as a legitimate minority, entitled to equal employment opportunities and perhaps to adequate representation in government.
David W. Pitts, Gregory B. Lewis
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Prison staff and the health promoting prison. [PDF]
, 2011 Purpose – This paper aims to discuss some of the obstacles to implementing policy and strategy related to health promoting prisons. It focuses on the role of prison officers and raises issues concerning their conditions of service, training and ...
Dixey, R, Woodall, J
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Social Inclusion, 2021 Migration-induced diversity has led to the global emergence of multilingual life worlds in which language regimes are particularly intertwined with labour markets. Thus, state institutions such as national unemployment services must fulfil a special role
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer +2 more
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Ethnic Diversity and Organizational Performance: Assessing Diversity Effects at the Managerial and Street Levels [PDF]
, 2003 As the public sector workforce becomes more ethnically diverse and as government agencies make attempts to "manage" that diversity, the importance of understanding how diversity affects workplace interactions and work-related outcomes increases.
David W. Pitts, Elizabeth M. Jarry
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The Bureaucratic Ethos in Street-Level Work: Revitalizing Weber’s Ethics of Office
Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 2022 AbstractDespite the centrality of bureaucracy to both the theory and the realities of street-level bureaucracy, street-level scholars have rarely engaged with the concept of bureaucracy as such. We argue that Weber’s perspective on bureaucracy represents an indispensable source that may help us align the theoretical foundation of street-level ...
Anne Mette Møller +2 more
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Social Agencies for Children and Families as Street Level Bureaucracies. A Case Study.
Social Work and Society, 2011 Social workers in public welfare services can be considered, according to Michael Lipsky theorization, street level bureaucrats. Lipsky (1980) defines as street level bureaucrats all public service workers who interact directly with citizens and have ...
Fabio Cappello
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Nordisk VälfärdsforskningThis article investigates the broader landscape of trust in institutional encounters between forced migrants and the welfare state. It foregrounds different actors who are positioned at differing proximities to the actual encounter and have more direct ...
Liselott Sundbäck, Camilla Nordberg
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