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167150
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Over the last two decades, both globally and in Israel, civil society and non-profit organisations (NPOs) have become important initiators and providers of social services. The non-profit sector is a major employer in the Israeli labour market. Women comprise 68% of its employees, and many are mid-level managers. The article presents a qualitative study, which examines the employment experience of 25 women working as mid-level managers in Israeli NPOs, and addresses their occupational and personal experience, their challenges and motivations. In addition, the study highlights the employment characteristics of non-profits – a sphere of part-time, temporary and underpaid work.
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167151
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The article examines whether or not senior managers in public administration who belong to the Religious-Zionist community operate as effective Policy Injection Agents – adopting the ‘Influence from within’ ethos that makes them a part of a policy community – or whether they perceive this discourse in another way. Thirty-five interviews with senior public administrators pertaining to the Religious-Zionist community were analysed based on the principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. A number of central themes were identified, the vast majority of which point to the ‘Influence from within’ ethos not becoming a component in the managerial identity of the interviewees and their colleagues. While it served them within their community as legitimation for attending general society to study, live and work outside the base of Religious-Zionism, from the moment they integrated in the public system – their concern became the exact opposite of the ethos: not to be perceived by their secular colleagues as part of a sector but as professional individuals who are exclusively committed to the professional ethos of their managerial community.
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167153
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One of the difficult decisions that a Chief of Information Manager takes is whether to use organisational resources or to contract suppliers, in order to perform information technology (IT) projects. Over the last decade, managers in Israel have moved from insourcing to outsourcing due to different reasons, mainly to reduce costs and focus on their core business. In the last two years, they started to return IT projects, services, and activities back, using new source models. This study examines the tendency of the Israeli IT managers in sourcing decisions in order to understand the problems, application and suitability of various kinds of models.
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167155
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This article discusses the involvement of active service IDF officers in managing central Israeli sport institutions during the early years of the State of Israel. The IDF officers’ activity in sport bodies encouraged the types of sports that served army interests and developed the construction of sport facilities and their maintenance. The involvement of army officers in managing sport institutions in Israel will be explained as part of the military sphere’s penetration to Israel’s managerial sphere in its formative years and as a reflection of the importance given to the IDF as a unifying factor, placed above political considerations.
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167147
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This article describes the origins of socio-management research in Israel, as reflected in the work of Louis Guttman. In a booklet produced during the War of Independence, he developed a model for leadership training in the young army, the transition from an underground militia to a regular army, diversity management in an age of mass immigration, and motivation of individuals in a collectivist society. The circumstances leading to the integration in Israel's Defence Forces (IDF) of a worldwide expert like Guttman, offer a unique opportunity to study a case where socio-management knowledge is embedded in military organisational practices from the outset.
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167148
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This article examines the assertion that in some situations employees do not support a participative management style applied by their managers. The effect of exposure to participation on employees’ attitudes was examined in an Israeli public health organisation, through participation in improvement teams. It was found that employee participation, even if successful, did not imply adoption of positive attitudes towards participation. It was further found that managers hold more positive attitudes towards participation than employees. Finally, ethnic origin was found to have a strong effect on attitudes towards participation.
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ID:
167149
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Recent comparative measures rank Israel very high on the innovation scale and note its preference for informal managerial practices. Based on a principal–agent analysis, this article explains that the economic and administrative systems in Israel have created the basis for the evolution of a managerial culture characterised by constant distortions and the gaming of performance information, lack of truthful reporting and improvisation. On the positive side, this managerial culture encourages innovation; on the negative side, it creates significant problems related to accountability, ethical conduct and overall managerial quality.
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ID:
167154
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This article seeks to shed light onto principals’ leadership perceptions and skills while leading their staff into implementing educational national reforms developed by state authorities in Israel. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with teachers and principals in five schools implementing the National Information and Communication Technologies Plan for the 21st Century. Teachers’ readiness and commitment to the reform were influenced by principals’ enthusiasm towards the reform vision and its potential contributions to the school; their ability to listen, provide support and individual feedback skills. Principals who made efforts to learn and use ICT skills were role models who inspired teachers’ motivation-transformational leadership.
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ID:
167152
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A prison is a unique institution since its environment is founded on a discourse of power between the prison staff, using force under the authority given to them by the state, and the inmate group, using counter-power. This article discusses the unique warden’s role and prison management in Israel with an emphasis on the adoption of rehabilitation approach and defining recidivism prevention as a social target. Such a policy can retain human dignity and human rights in prison, save money and bring significant social benefits to society.
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