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Record W2165611515 · doi:10.1108/02580541311311311

Saying good‐bye to Mr Magoo

2013· article· en· W2165611515 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueStrategic Direction · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicAccounting and Organizational Management
Canadian institutionsKwantlen Polytechnic University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAccountabilityCLARITYPublic relationsPublic sectorValue (mathematics)OriginalityGovernment (linguistics)IncentivePrivate sectorSociologyLegislaturePolitical scienceLawEconomicsQualitative researchComputer scienceSocial science

Abstract

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a first person account of the differences in organizational vision within the public and private sectors. Design/methodology/approach This essay is based on the author's personal experiences and although it may not be generalizable, based on criteria of methodological rigor, it is nevertheless true … it happened! The author's experience was derived from working for two different legislatures and included about a dozen government departments. The observations made were based on interactions with numerous public sector employees, including staff, peers and superiors. Findings The concept of “vision” is critical to the successful execution of organizational strategy. For this reason, it requires clarity of purpose and a careful articulation of goals and objectives. Public and private sector firms differ in the way in which they develop this vision and as a result they achieve different outcomes. The failings typically afflicting the civil service can be addressed by changing attitudes and behaviors in such a way that they are better aligned with organizational vision. This includes creating appropriate incentives and making accountability more than just a token notion. Originality/value The paper is written by a management practitioner and is meant to generate discussion. It is based on a field study (i.e. “I was there”) and is intended to capture what was viewed through the eyes of a “native”. Consider it an organizational ethnography – it is an honest portrayal of events that were experienced. The essay should strike many who have worked in government as “true”.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.646
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.206
Teacher spread0.190 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it