Case study: the Government sector

2007 ◽  
pp. 225-241
Author(s):  
D. A. Everest
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Kamalludin Bilal ◽  
Siti Noraza Ali ◽  
Abg Sulaiman Abg Naim ◽  
Nurlaila Ali ◽  
Ismail Ashmat

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 350-353
Author(s):  
Kamalludin Bilal ◽  
Siti Noraza Ali ◽  
Abg Sulaiman Abg Naim ◽  
Nurlaila Ali ◽  
Ismail Ashmat

Stress is a reaction to excessive pressure or harassment at work.  It is a physical, mental, or emotional response to events that cause bodily or mental tension.  People in stress conditions may find it is hard to concentrate on any task and cannot be relied on to do their share.  Some employers assume that stressful working conditions turns up the pressure on workers.  A set aside health concerns; it will affect the productivity and profitability in today’s economy.  This paper purposely to identify the level of job stress among government staffs.  This study was carried out using a set of questionnaire and survey method.  The questionnaire was distributed to 150 staffs of Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) Kuching as representative of government sector and was analysed using SPSS version 19.  The study had shown that most of the respondents were moderately stressful.  It is very important that the organisations understands the needs of its employees and provide what is best for the employees.


Author(s):  
Bijaya Krushna Mangaraj ◽  
Upali Aparajita

In the era of economic liberalisation, institutions of higher education in the government sector, particularly universities, are facing tremendous challenges in terms of academic, general, and financial administration, which need effective governance. Recently, some of the universities are trying to adopt e-governance as a platform for such a purpose. However, the design of such a system is very much important, as it has to cater to the needs of various stakeholders in the public system. In this context, the effectiveness measurement of such an e-governance system is really necessary either to improve its performance level by re-aligning its organisational culture or by providing inputs for re-designing the system in order to make it more effective. Hence, the performance of such a system can be known if a human-centric approach with multiple criteria of evaluation is considered in the governance environment. This chapter attempts to determine those criteria by multiple factor analyses carried out for the purpose of considering multiple stakeholders. Analytic hierarchical processes as well as fuzzy analytic hierarchical processes have been then employed to measure the effectiveness of e-governance systems along those criteria, taking an Indian university as a case study.


2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Shoemaker ◽  
Richard A. Reid

In the past, the TOC Thinking Process (TP) has been primarily applied to address managerial challenges in private sector manufacturing, logistics, and project-oriented organizations. The purpose of this paper is to present an application of the TOC TP in a public sector service organization, namely, the Water Utility Division Maintenance System (WUDMS) within the Albuquerque Public Works Department. The two necessary conditions for meeting the WUDMS's goal of effective management are (1) completing work in a waste-free manner and (2) responding promptly to customer requests for service. Although seven undesirable effects (UDEs) were identified by the improvement team, UDEs from three diverse areas were selected for creating the requisite conflict clouds, namely, (1) much repair work is not completed promptly, (2) WUDMS has some wasteful practices, and (3) managers are unable to schedule repair work effectively. Entities from these conflict clouds were synthesized into a core conflict cloud that revolved around the issue of dedicating more human resources to repair work or improvement efforts and that formed the base of the Current Reality Tree. By surfacing assumptions underlying entity pair relationships within the core conflict, a strategic direction for change was identified as: expansion of WUDMS capacity through the use of non-traditional resources. This injection was logically validated via a Future Reality Tree. Initial results from its implementation demonstrate that the direction of the solution is correct.


2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Lee Hee Sun ◽  
Park Soon Ae

Due to rapid social change, the government does not have enough resources to manage urgent situations such as natural disasters. Recently, research on cooperative disaster management systems has increased, making it possible to respond to disasters more effectively. A "policy network" model is utilized to analyze the relationships among actors, with a particular focus on actors' behavior and network structure. Key findings are as follows: First, the participants in a disaster response network include the government sector as mandated by law, and the nongovernmental sector, which represents various interest groups. Second, the interactions especially among government departments or among NGOs, are dynamic as participations frequently engage and work with each other. Interaction between other sectors, however, is relatively low. Third, the policy network tends to form conflict-ridden relationships with low credibility. The low level of credibility among other sectors created obstacles to cooperative partnership and can increase the costs of disaster management in the long term.


Author(s):  
Thomas Jalin

This research survey was done in relation to my studies at University Technology Malaysia (UTM) specialising in Management and Administration in Education. The main aim and objective of my study is to critically analyse women transformational leadership issues in the Government Sectors and Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs), as well the chances of women to be appointed as District Officer and Assistant District Officer in the State Administration of Sabah. Thirty (30) Sabahan women leaders are randomly selected as respondents from the five (5) Organisations in the Government Sector and (5) five NGOs for this study. The survey questionnaires were distributed to the targeted respondents to find out their needs and expectations, if any, for their views, opinions and recommendations on how to improve women opportunities for career advancement within their respective organisations and workplace in Sabah.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 95-99
Author(s):  
Ogerta Elezaj ◽  
Dhimitri Tole

The data explosion called “data deluge”, is already starting to transform public institutions redefining their way of producing statistics in response to Big Data. The use of Big Data is considered as an innovation in the production of official statistics facing a range of opportunities, challenges and risks. This “data deluge” requires a number of challenges to be addressed in various domains: technological, legal, methodological, and statistical. Even though big data is changing the paradigm of producing statistics in many public organizations, an open debate still exists involving both IT specialists and statisticians of national statistical institutions.  In this paper we will provide an overview regarding the concepts of Big Data as a data source in production of official statistics by government institutions with the main focus on providing a synoptic overview of opportunities, challenges and risks. Following this, in the next section we will analyse a case study related to the potential use of mobile positing data, and how this data could be used to produce national statistical indicators in the country. This study serves as an example to identify some critical issues on challenges and risks, draw conclusions and give recommendations on the proper ways to shift to Big Data paradigm usage in the government sector in Albania.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Mohammed Al-Dossary

الملخص: هدفت هذه الدراسة لبيان أثر سياسة الخصخصة على التدفقات النقدية في القطاع الحكومي السعودي، حيث تم استخدام المنهج الوصفي التحليلي من أجل تحقيق الهدف من الدراسة، كما أن الدراسة حاولت اختبار فرضيتين تشير الأولى إلى أن للخصخصة أثر إيجابي على التدفقات النقدية في القطاع الحكومي السعودي، أما الفرضية الثانية فتشير الى أن للخصخصة أثر سلبي على التدفقات النقدية في القطاع الحكومي السعودي، وقد تكون مجتمع الدراسة من جميع المؤسسات الحكومية السعودية التي تم خصخصتها في الفترة الماضية، وتم أخذ عمليات الخصخصة التي تمت في وزارة البيئة والمياه كعينة لهذا المجتمع. وقد توصلت الدراسة الى أن لتطبيق سياسة الخصخصة أثر إيجابي على التدفقات الحكومية، حيث ساهمت هذه السياسة في خفض الانفاق الحكومي وزيادة الإيرادات الحكومية، وقد أوصت الدراسة بضرورة تركيز الحكومة السعودية على أساليب الخصخصة التي لا تسند لعمليات البيع بل احتفاظ الحكومة بملكية المشاريع وإدارتها بأسلوب القطاع الخاص، مع ضرورة إبراز الجوانب الإيجابية لهذه السياسة للمجتمع من أجل كسب التأييد المجتمعي لهذه السياسة. الكلمات المفتاحية: الخصخصة، التدفقات النقدية، القطاع الحكومي، وزارة البيئة والمياة، السعودية RESEARCH ARTICLE The Impact of Privatization on Cash Flows in the Saudi Government Sector: A Case Study of the Ministry of Environment and Water Mohammed Marzouq Mefleh Al-Dossary Researcher - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Abstract This study aimed to demonstrate the impact of the privatization policy on the cash flows in the Saudi government sector, where the descriptive analytical approach was used in order to achieve the objective of the study. The study tested two hypotheses, the first indicating that privatization has a positive impact on the cash flows in the Saudi government sector, while the second hypothesis indicates that privatization has a negative impact on the cash flows in the Saudi government sector. The study community consisted of all Saudi government institutions that have been privatized in the past period, and the privatization processes that took place in the Ministry of Environment and Water were taken as a sample for this community. The study concluded that the application of the privatization policy has a positive impact on government flows, as this policy contributed to reducing government spending and increasing government revenue, and the study recommended that the Saudi government should focus on privatization methods that are not assigned to sales operations but the government retains ownership and management of projects in the private sector style. The study stressed that there is a need to highlight the positive aspects of this policy to society in order to gain societal support for this policy. Keywords: privatization, cash flow, government sector, Ministry of Environment and Water, Saudi Arabia


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