Civil participation in decision-making on waste management at the local authorities level
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Author(s)Andrius StasiukynasLink to ORCID Index: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2937-241X
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Vainius SmalskysLink to ORCID Index: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2980-792X
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Arvydas Survila
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Volodimyr YermachenkoLink to ORCID Index: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5779-3967
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Nataliia GavkalovaLink to ORCID Index: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1208-9607
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DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.18(1).2020.38
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Civil participation is the main component of effective governance. The topicality of this paper lies in civil participation in decision-making defined by the principles of “new public governance” of the 21st century. This study aims to analyze the impact of civil participation in decision-making on waste management at the municipal level. In this work, the following aspects were considered: theoretical assumptions of civil participation; civil participation in the activities of institutions responsible for environmental protection; issues regarding the development of opportunities of citizens’ involvement in municipal waste management. The article is devoted to the theoretical assumptions about civil participation, theoretical model of analysis, and activity of institutions. To develop a theoretical model of analysis, a classification of civil participation was carried out. Among the methods used, one can mention the questionnaire. The analysis was focused on a legal basis for the activity of institutions; the actual activity of institutions and survey of representatives of the national environmental authorities in Lithuania. The results showed that currently there is no mechanism in Lithuania to ensure civil participation in municipal waste management. Civil participation is still formal and limited. Overall, citizens are informed about the decisions made, but they do not participate actively in decision-making. The analysis of civil participation capacity in waste management leads to the conclusion that Lithuania has no single mechanism to ensure civil participation in waste management. To enhance civil participation in decision-making on waste management, it is suggested to set up a council where the representatives of civil population are delegated.
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JEL Classification (Paper profile tab)O13, H70, K10
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- Figure 1. Capacity of civil participation in the activities of national public governance institutions of environmental protection in the field of municipal waste management
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- Table 1. Stages of public participation
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Retraction: Leaders and decision making: a study of the drivers of courage
Rasoava Rijamampianina
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.16(1).2018.31
Problems and Perspectives in Management Volume 16, 2018 Issue #1 pp. 320-329 Views: 2099 Downloads: 197 TO CITE АНОТАЦІЯRetracted on the 15th of October, 2020 by the Journal’s Editor-in-Chief request dated October 12, 2020. The type of retraction – plagiarism.
The journal was asked to retract this article because of plagiarism. The request came from the author of the article. The author informed the journal that original idea published in this paper wasn’t his and asked to remove the article. -
Role of leaders in building organizational readiness to change – case study at public health centers in Indonesia
Ratna Dwi Wulandari ,
Stefanus Supriyanto ,
Mochammad Bagus Qomaruddin ,
Nyoman Anita Damayanti ,
Agung Dwi Laksono
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.18(3).2020.01
Problems and Perspectives in Management Volume 18, 2020 Issue #3 pp. 1-10 Views: 2025 Downloads: 687 TO CITE АНОТАЦІЯLeaders play a strategic role in the process of organizational change. Various studies were conducted to show the role of leaders in succeeding change. One famous concept of leaders’ role was the Mintzberg managerial role, which divides the role of the leader into three main roles: interpersonal, informational, and decisional. This research was conducted to explore the leaders’ role in creating organizational readiness to change. The study was conducted at 40 government-owned public health centers in Indonesia, involving 190 midwives as respondents. The study results show that all three leader’s roles were well implemented by the head of the public health center with the best score in the informational role. However, organizational readiness to change at public health centers is not on the same level. The linear regression test indicates that the decisional role has the largest contribution in building the organizational readiness to change. The successfully implemented role of entrepreneurs, disturbance handlers, resource allocators, and negotiators was the key to the successful implementation of changes. Therefore, the advice given was the need for leaders to improve their decision abilities so that the organizational readiness to change becomes better.
Acknowledgment
The researcher thanked the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education, Republic of Indonesia, for funding this research. -
The impact of artificial intelligence on commercial management
Renato Costa ,
Álvaro Dias ,
Leandro Pereira ,
José Santos ,
André Capelo
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.17(4).2019.36
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