Effective Corrections Manager or The Business of Lobbying in China

Effective Corrections Manager: Maximizing Staff Performance in Demanding Times

Author: Richard L Phillips

This authoritative reference covers all the necessary and relevant management areas at a level of detail that will be useful to all those working in prisons. Examples from the real world of contemporary corrections and exercises that parallel real-world situations.

Table of Contents:

1	Evolving in a changing environment	3
2	Is corrections really different?	11
3	The nature of supervision : corrections and everywhere	25
4	Definitions, titles, and other intangibles	37
5	The basic management functions	47
6	Delegation : how to form the habit	63
7	Time management : expanding the day without stretching the clock	85
8	Self-management and personal supervisory effectiveness	103
9	Interviewing : the hazardous hiring process	123
10	The one-to-one relationship	141
11	Leadership : style and substance	155
12	Organizational communication : looking up, down, and laterally	169
13	Motivation : intangible forces working for and against management	181
14	Performance appraisal : cornerstone of employee development	193
15	Criticism and discipline : guts, tact, and justice	219
16	The problem employee and employee problems	235
17	The supervisor and the human resource department	251
18	Ethics and ethical standards	269
19	Decisions, decisions	289
20	Managing change : resistance is where you find it	305
21	Communication : not by spoken word alone	315
22	How to arrange and conduct effective meetings	329
23	Budgeting : annual task and year-long implications	341
24	Quality and productivity : sides of the same coin	359
25	Teams, team building, and teamwork	369
26	Methods improvement : making work - and life - easier	389
27	Reengineering and reduction in force	411
28	Training and continuing education	427
29	The supervisor and the law	439
30	Unions : building constructive relationships	457

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The Business of Lobbying in China

Author: Scott Kennedy

In this timely work, Scott Kennedy documents the rising influence of business, both Chinese and foreign, on national public policy in China.

China's shift to a market economy has made businesses more sensitive to their bottom line and has seen the passage of thousands of laws and regulations that directly affect firms' success. Companies have become involved in a tug of war with the government and with each other to gain national policy advantages, often setting the agenda, providing alternative options, and pressing for a favored outcome.

Kennedy's comparison of lobbying in the steel, consumer electronics, and software industries shows that although companies operate in a common political system, economic circumstances shape the nature and outcome of lobbying. Factors such as private or state ownership, size, industry concentration, and technological sophistication all affect industry activism.

Based on over 300 in-depth interviews with company executives, business association representatives, and government officials, this study identifies a wide range of national economic policies influenced by lobbying, including taxes, technical standards, and intellectual property rights. These findings have significant implications for how we think about Chinese politics and economics, as well as government-business relations in general.

What People Are Saying

Harry Harding
Can Chinese firms promote their interests within what remains an authoritarian political system? Scott Kennedy argues that they can, in some cases through business associations. Based on extensive field research, this is one of the first books to examine the ways in which non-state actors in China pursue their interests through lobbying. It is an invaluable addition to the literature on state-society relations in contemporary China. --(Harry Harding, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University)

Ian Johnson
Scott Kennedy has dissected a complex subject in a lucid work with broad implications. His research, well-illustrated with fascinating examples of behind-the-scenes business lobbying, shows that the old corporatist model for explaining business-government relations is increasingly inadequate as interest groups and organizations compete for the government's ear. He shows us a richly complex country with increasing demands percolating up from below--a country that no longer fits the authoritarian model of popular imagination. Strongly recommended for anyone doing business in China or
interested in questions of civil society and, ultimately, political reform. --(Ian Johnson, author of Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in China)

Margaret M. Pearson
Scott Kennedy, one of today's best young scholars of China's political economy, has written a fascinating book that changes the way we see the world of Chinese business. Contrary to the image of Chinese firms as unable or unwilling to influence policy at the national level, business lobbying of government is alive and well. Clearly written and full of vivid data on multiple industries and issues, this book is a must for anyone interested in business-government relations in China. --(Margaret M. Pearson, author of China's New Business Elite)

Jerome A. Cohen
Business-related lobbying, both domestic and foreign, is an important part of the political, legislative, and administrative process in China, and Scott Kennedy's fresh analysis is the best guide I have seen on the subject. --(Jerome A. Cohen, New York University School of Law)