Mindful Management
Results Based Management: An Antidote to Program Management
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Bongs Lainjo
Results-based Management (RBM) is an important and compelling strategy in program management. It encompasses monitoring and evaluation, strategic frameworks, and data management. This paper explores RBM as a strategic system approach required in achieving effective results. The logical framework (LFW) and the theory of change are also discussed. The LFW is structured around five components: assess, think, plan, do, and review. The philosophical assumptions underlying this study are based on critical realism. It also identifies the mechanisms applied in RBM and the structures that are required via a life case study of the United Nations (UN) Organizations. To understand the application of RBM in the case study, this paper combines all the three aspects – real, actual empirical - of an insightful analysis. Lessons learned in the implementation of RBM are highlighted. A key finding of the study is the existence of RBM on policy papers with minimum implementation impetus by a significant number of stakeholders. In occasional cases where the framework is implemented, there exists an inadequate degree of inclusiveness, participatory and enabling environment. In conclusion, this work has explored the concept of results-based management as a management approach that primarily serves as a catalyst at the improving results in a three-thronged model constituted of Short-, medium-, and long-term types of results, output, outcome, sustainability, and impact.
The Effect of Environmental Management on Human Capital Development and Sustainability of Global Work Ethics
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Abiola Waliyu Aiyeola
The connecting string between environmental management and human capital development has been subjected to discussion when issues of sustaining work ethic in organization development are being discussed. Globally, scholars’ dwell more on work ethics as one of the critical factors that determine performance and retaining quality workforce while sustainable environment which is sine qua non to increase output is hardly considered. Based on the trend in global sustainability process, human capital development cannot stand alone without considering the role of other factors which are critical to it development and one of these factors is the environment in which humans operate from. There is need to have a better understanding of the multidisciplinary interrelationships between environmental management, human capital development, and sustainable work ethic with in a nation and the world at large. The aim of this paper therefore is to provide an overview of how sustainable development, environmental management, and sustaining work ethics are interconnected, with an emphasis on their effect on human capital development.
Organisations within Organisations: An Inquiry into EU's Membership in International Organisations
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Madalin Blidaru
Since the European Economy Community, the European project has been at the forefront of participation in the initiatives developed by other international organizations. In this paper, the author, through a descriptive-exploratory approach focused on the case study of the European Union, provides an updated account of EU’s participation in different categories of international organizations. In the first part of the paper, European involvement in other international organizations is assessed from a political and legal standpoint, including the treaty-based normative prescriptions. The second part looks into the membership and observer status in regional and global organizations, highlighting the differences in the patterns across continents. The study is limited at Asia, Africa, and Europe. Lastly, the paper concludes with a discussion on EU’s participation in these international organizations through an examination of the aims of participation in organizations, how the joint positions of EU member states are developed, programmes and projects supported by the European parts and how the financial support is disbursed in a variety of formats of participation in other international organisations. The paper provides input in the debate on how regional organisations contribute to global governance and shape it.
