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Publication Workplace Drug Prevention Programs: Does Zero Tolerance Work?(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2005) Mehay, Stephen; Webb, Natalie J.; Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI); Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Defense Resources Management Institute; Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)Publication Evaluating Executive Performance in the Public Sector(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2005) Webb, Natalie J.; Blandin, James S.; Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI); Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)Publication Navy Nurse Corps Manpower Management Model(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2005) Kinstler, Daniel P.; Johnson, Raymond W.; Richter, Anke; Kocher, Kathryn; Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI); Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Defense Resources Management Institute; Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)Publication Community Water System Regionalization and Stakeholder Implications: Estimating Effects to Consumers and Purveyors(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2011) Hansen, Jason K.; Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI); Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Defense Resources Management Institute; Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)Publication Latin America and the Debate Over Environmental Protection and National Security(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2005) McNab, Robert M.; Bailey, Kathleen S.; Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI); Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Defense Resources Management Institute; Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)Publication Strategic Public Investments to Manage Corruption Risks(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2009) Melese, Francois; Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI); Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Defense Resources Management Institute; Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)Publication Diagnosing performance management and performance budgeting systems: A case study of the U.S. Navy
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2009) Webb, Natalie J.; Candreva, Philip J.; Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI); Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)We present here a case study of an organization within the U.S. Navy that created a new organizational construct and performance management system. We explore the issues faced by naval leaders as they attempt to use their performance information to make resource allocation decisions at the sub-organization level, and base budgets at the organization and service (navy) level. We attempt to diagnose many of the practical problems a government organization encounters when implementing a performance management system, to include trying to inform budgets, and make recommendations on actions that would improve the strength of the performance system. We find in the organization a good conceptual framework, organizational enthusiasm, and reasonable attempts to link disparate information systems into a coherent whole. The good intentions are hindered, however, by inadequate accounting systems, a lack of understanding of cost accounting methods, weak use of terminology and longstanding institutional attitudes. This case confirms challenges associated with both performance management systems and performance budgeting found in the literature, and we offer recommendations for public officials considering such endeavors.Publication A Review and Update of Public Budgeting in Defense: Leveraging a New Management Model for Government
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2006) Melese, Francois; Appleby, Christopher; Larsen, Bob; Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI); Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Defense Resources Management Institute; Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)Publication A Brinkmanship Game Theory Model of Terrorism(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2008) Melese, Francois; Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI); Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Defense Resources Management Institute; Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)Publication On the Economics of Optimal Urban Groundwater Management in the Desert Southwest
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2011) Hansen, Jason K.; Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI); Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP); Defense Resources Management Institute; Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)Climate change and population growth anticipate the need for efficient, sustainable, long-term groundwater management. Groundwater serves as the primary water source for approximately 80 percent of public water systems in the United States and for many more as a secondary source. Traditionally management relies on groundwater to meet rising demand by increasing supply, but climate uncertainty and population growth require more judicious management to achieve efficiency and sustainability. Over pumping leads to groundwater overdraft and jeopardizes the ability of future users to depend on the resource. Optimal urban groundwater pumping is a solution to this conundrum. This paper investigates to what extent and under what circumstances optimally controlled groundwater pumping improves social welfare. It considers management in a hydro-economic framework and finds the optimal pumping path and the optimal price path. These enable the paper to identify the social benefit of controlled pumping and the scarcity rent, a tool to sustainably manage groundwater resources. The paper numerically illustrates the model with Albuquerque, New Mexico as the case study. The Albuquerque results indicate that, in the presence of strong demand growth, controlled pumping improves social welfare by 22 percent, lengthens the resource, and provides planners a mechanism to achieve water sustainability.