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    Organizing Successful Democracies
    Organizing Successful Democracies
    Organizing Successful Democracies
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    Organizing Successful Democracies

    By Joseph W. Jacob

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    Democracy for the people, and by the people, can produce successful organizational results. Participative planning of important objectives, timing, procedures, costs, and revenues are described and approved for achieving expected results. Consensus decision making, and accurately recording intended descriptions are initial key elements, in democratic planning and policy making. Related preparation of prioritization reports, along with specific resource requirements, anticipated real costs, and anticipated real revenues, are other significant features of successful democratic planning and policy making.

    Formal approval of all proposed policy packages is another prominent step towards democratic organizational development. Implementation, or putting into action, all approved policy objectives and procedures dominates the next phase of favourable progress.

    Accurately monitoring subsequent operational performance is another impressive principle of successful democratic development. Approvals may involve revisions, including additions, or deletions, to proposed policy statements. Similarly, proposed performance indicators are designed and approved to accurately measure operational results, in terms of accurate resources used, actual costs incurred, and actual revenues received.

    When each approved time frame reaches its conclusions, evaluation of overall performance may occur, to determine if each procedure achieved its expected results. Did expected costs equal actual costs? If not, what was the amount of the difference; and, specifically why did the difference occur? Were the expected resources used for each procedure? If not, why not? Were expected revenues the same as actual revenues, for each approved procedure? If not, an explanation of the difference(s) will be expected in the next evaluation phase of democratic development.

    Organizational planning, implementing, and evaluating are pivotal points on the strong, steady and balanced wheel of successful democratic progress.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateAug 6, 2008
    ISBN9781426988110
    Organizing Successful Democracies
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    Joseph W. Jacob

    Joseph W. Jacob earned a master’s degree in public administration.

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      Organizing Successful Democracies - Joseph W. Jacob

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      CHAPTER ONE

      CHAPTER TWO

      CHAPTER THREE

      CHAPTER FOUR

      CHAPTER FIVE

      CHAPTER SIX

      CONCLUSION

      FOOTNOTES

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      INTRODUCTION

      Government for the people, by the people, and of the people create the essence of successful and enduring democracies. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln presented similar words as part of his profound expression of free enterprise democracy.¹ Desires, plans and intentions of obtaining the largest amount of good for the largest amount of people, while maximizing constructive individual freedoms and initiatives, and maintaining peace, order and good goverance, are driving forces behind successful democracies. Similar words are typically stated in constitutions of popular free enterprise democracies.

      Successful democratic organization begins with sequential inclusion of all the subjects previously listed in this book’s Table of Contents. In addition, an initial priority is: who is permitted to be involved in a democratic process; and, in what role(s)? For governmental entities, the most influential officials are elected by individual persons who participate in secret ballot democratic voting. Majority-vote elected representatives, including their relevant administrative personnel, are typically expected to become involved in the planning and written descriptions of organizational objectives and procedures. With business entities, managers from different departments, as well as owner(s) or their representatives, usually participate in democratic planning and organizational development. Important participative roles of representatives, along with communications and recording personnel, are clearly explained. In addition, procedures relating to describing correct and complete information, as well as consensus approval of this recorded and revised information, are among the most essential elements necessary for developing fair, effective, and efficient democracies.

      The first output responsibility, when designing democratic plans and policies, is to precisely determine the different time frames involved (e.g. short term, medium term, and long term) with specific starting and finishing dates for each of these terms. The next output required from a successful democratic planning and policy making process is a precise and complete description of all intended organizational objectives and related procedures. (Objectives describe what the organization intends to do; and, procedures describe how these objectives are intended to be achieved, within the identified time frames.) Specific written statements of objectives and procedures are then arranged, in and order of expected priority (or comparative importance) for each particular time frame; once again, using participative designing and decision making for obtaining accountable democratic actions. This is followed with a description of all expected resource requirements needed to successfully implement each of these democratic procedures, within each stated time frame. Statements of anticipated real costs, and anticipated real revenues are then prepared for every procedure described, in the proposed democratic plan.

      Here, specific production resources are identified, as well as, their expected related costs and revenues. Formal approval is finally sought for each of these proposed time frames, objectives* procedures, costs and revenues. The organization’s senior officials, who are ultimately responsible for economic, political, social, and safety successes of the organization, then participatively review, revise (if necessary) and finally approve its objectives, procedures, and time frames, along with expected related resources, costs and revenues. Such a package describes ‘policies’ of a democratic organization; and, may also be called an organization’s budget. Formally approved objectives and procedures (i.e. policies including expected costs and revenues) then become implemented, or put into effect, using the resources, time frames, and all other specifications described in the approved policy plans, or budget. Both general and specific written statements, including corresponding mathematical descriptions then exist; upon which, orderly, democratic, and accountable actions may reliably proceed.

      Next, as part of the evaluation process, related objective achievements, or production output, is carefully monitored; to see, if expected outputs (plans) are equal to actual outputs (production). This production, or ‘actual results’ information is typically used for evaluating how effectively procedures were implemented, in comparison to their plans. Evaluation information also becomes important input for the next planning process; as democratic planning, and policy making begins its orderly circuit, once again. Participative planning, implementing, and evaluating are primary pivotal points on the strong, steady and balanced wheel of successful democratic progression.

      In terms of ongoing accountability and predictability, this type of comprehensive democratic process

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