Capability and Potentials of Responsibility Centres Under the Implementation of Decentralisation Policy
The introduction of a decentralised system In a public university In 1995 was geared for capacity· building of Responsibility Centres (RCs) In overcoming some limitations of the centralised administrative system The decentralised system did not seem to achieve Its objectives when several problems...
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| Language: | English English |
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2001
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/10955/1/FPP_2001_13.pdf |
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| Summary: | The introduction of a decentralised system In a public university In 1995 was
geared for capacity· building of Responsibility Centres (RCs) In overcoming some
limitations of the centralised administrative system The decentralised system did not
seem to achieve Its objectives when several problems emerged. The study was an
attempt to examine the capability and potentials of RCs In administering and managing
academic and support functions under the decentralised system In a public university
The model of public policy, administration and finance by Rondinelli et al (1989, 1984)
was used to guide the study process
The study adopted a quantitative and a modified qualitative approach The study
population comprised administrators at the academic RCs A total of 99 respondents
and 16 Informants were Involved the quantitative and qualitative approaches
respectively A self-administered questionnaire was used for the quantitative approach
while the semi-structured Interview was used for the qualitative approach The
quantitative data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciencever 75
while the qualitative data were analysed using the Ethnograph ver 5
Under the decentralised system, the study found that the RCs encountered
several constraints related to bureaucratic, |
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