Corporate and Organizational Bureaucracy
A New Trend in Church Accountability
The AP reports today on several new graduate programs being offered by colleges and universities in church management. Masters’ programs have been launched at Duquesne University and Boston College, and Villanova University will start a program this summer. The programs will cover areas such as management of personnel, finances, and all aspects of church business. [...]
12Feb2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Jennifer Nix: A Little Sunlight Please: The Super-Delegate Transparency Project – Politics on The Huffington Post
Can the Age of Transparency finally be dawning? Welcome the Super-Delegate Transparency Project: From Jennifer Nix: A Little Sunlight Please: The Super-Delegate Transparency Project – Politics on The Huffington Post: Super-delegates should vote according to the will of the people-the popular vote — whether Clinton won that district or state, or whether they fall into the [...]
8Feb2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Greater Transparency in Mental Health Care
Today’s Times Argus has a good story on the ways in which mental health organizations and professionals are insisting on transparency regarding pharmaceutical company money that they accept, and in some cases cutting ties with pharmaceutical reps entirely.
27Jan2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
From ABC News: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
Here’s one of today’s horrendous stories, in which malice ran rampant in the midst of apparently colluding corporate and government bureaucracies. Each points the finger at the other, while no one does anything. It’s a too poignant illustration, thus far, of bureaucracy being “rule by no one.” This will be an important story to [...]
10Dec2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Too Easy to Believe
There is a way in which the country’s getting worse has made things a little easier for me. Back when state bureaucracy first got its hooks into me, average Janes and Joes were much more likely to respond to a story like mine with incredulity. That was a mere five years ago. In that time [...]
26Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Vermont Again: Battles with a Corporate Bureaucracy
I honestly did not set out to dig up more stories from Vermont today–this one about Ben & Jerry’s was just the first one I came across (click here for the story.) The story does at least end on a positive note, with the company saying it will take steps to help its embittered franchisees, [...]
25Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
