Strategic Intervention (L4)
The Core: Community-centred Principles
Government and the economic condition of its society interact powerfully because:
- Economic hardship is blamed on the government and affects re-election of politicians (in democracies) or provokes turmoil (in authoritarian regimes)
- Any government, via its routine activities such as taxation, laws, public expenditure, military adventures and foreign policy, impacts heavily on individuals and their wealth-generating activities.
Governmental community-centred principles are required. So this is where:
should aim to benefit the community as a whole, which explains the « » qualifier. This is also why- verbal backing for commerce and enterprise at L1 is actually provided
- regulations and laws enforced at L2 are devised and introduced
- ideological requirements promoted at L3 are given state backing
Tensions generated by commerce often need something more than words. So inequalities may be targeted through «affirmative action», and social suffering may be addressed by redistribution measures.
Examples ►
The notion of «stakeholding» may be given prominence. Interventions may be directed at ensuring that all involved get a fair deal from commercial enterprise. «All» includes: ●employees, ●directors, ●customers, ●the wider community, ●investors.
Other Community-centred notions include giving priority to cooperation between management and unions; making intervention dependent on a consensus around painful choices; and setting up public-private partnerships.
Intervention Marks a Watershed
Many interventions link to other levels.
To this point, there has been government work on next three Levels remedy this deficiency by their orientation to the quality of any intervention.
, and , but no engagement at all with economic realities. The-
Continue to getting better government interventions.
Originally posted: Q3-2009