Professionalizing Regulatory Practice Within the Public Service: Lessons from the New Zealand G-REG Initiative

2021 ◽  
pp. 761-779
Author(s):  
Pelin Fantham ◽  
Wendy Kale ◽  
Keith Manch ◽  
Nick McGirr ◽  
Peter Mumford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regulatory Practice

Professionalizing Regulatory Practice Within the Public Service: Lessons from the New Zealand G-REG Initiative

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pelin Fantham ◽  
Wendy Kale ◽  
Keith Manch ◽  
Nick McGirr ◽  
Peter Mumford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regulatory Practice

Balancing Narrow and Broad Public Service Professionalism: Experience With the New Zealand G-REG Qualifications Framework

2020 ◽  
pp. 009539972094985
Author(s):  
Jeroen van der Heijden
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Regulatory Practice

For many years, governments around the globe have been called on to increase the professionalism of their public services. The New Zealand Government Regulatory Practice Initiative (G-REG) is an illustrative example of a network of government agencies responding to this call by providing a program of standardized training for public servants. This article maps, explores, and interrogates this example to obtain a better understanding of whether a standardized program can help to nurture and increase the professionalism of a community of public servants. It finds that the main challenge of such an undertaking is finding a balance between narrow professionalism (technical expertise and knowledge) and broad professionalism (acting proficiently and ethically).

scholarly journals Union policies and the structure of part-time employment: the case of registered nursing

1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Dixon
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Employment Patterns ◽  
Registered Nursing ◽  
Full Explanation ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Impact

This paper cosiders the impact of the New Zealand Nurses Association and the Public Service Association upon the development of part-tinze employment patterns in public hospital-based registered nursing. It argues that an understanding of the policies and negotiating strategies of unions and professional associations is required for a full explanation of part-time employment's uneren industrial and occupational distribution.

scholarly journals Can a disabled person be the best person for the job? Disability and the merit principle in the Public Service

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Hunt
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Action Strategies

This paper explores the assumptions underlying the merit principle in relation to disabled people in the New Zealand Public Service. It suggests a view of merit which is more compatible with affirmative action strategies and it discusses some of the implications for EEO disability.

scholarly journals Prison Education in Aotearoa New Zealand: From Justice to Corrections

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nesta Devine
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Prison Education ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Criminal Behaviour ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

This article considers the changes in policy discourse relating to education in prisons, in the New Zealand context, in the period between the 1950s and the early 21st century. The earlier belief in education as a means to rehabilitation has been replaced by a narrow focus on programmes specifically intended to change the criminal behaviour for which the prisoner has been sentenced. But even these programmes are hard to get into, and available only to selected prison inmates after they have served two thirds of their sentences. Informal education, including physical education and vocational education, have been severely retrenched, as have all forms of work and activity. In this paper I argue that this situation is a logical outcome of the neoliberal construction of education as a private rather than a social or public good, of the reconceptualisation of the public service as an agency of its principal, the party or parties in power. The depersonalising of the inmates of prisons as “prisoners” serves to justify this situation at the same time as it validates the “freedom” of those who conform to social and legal expectations.

Extreme Makeover: The Recurring Motif of New Zealand Broadcasting Policy

2005 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Mary Debrett
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
The Public ◽  
Broadcasting Policy ◽  
Television Service ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Radical Transformation

Broadcasting policy in New Zealand has been described as ‘political football’ (Gregory, 1985: 98). Predating the Lange Labour government's radical deregulation of 1989, this metaphor reflects routine restructuring and political disregard for the potential cultural and social merits of state-owned broadcasting. Pragmatic change, masquerading as reform, has left the public increasingly underserved: from the ‘Clayton's’ solution of the monopoly era, non-commercial days, to the radical transformation into a ‘cash cow’ in the 1990s, to the Clark Labour government's CROC — a chartered public service broadcaster with a continuing remit to be profitable. This article explores, for an international audience, the combination of factors — historical predisposition, economics and political ideology — that has denied the New Zealand public a mainstream, non-commercial television service and, with reference to the changing nature of broadcasting, discusses the continuing importance of such a model.

scholarly journals Strained or broken? The future(s) of the public service bargain

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Lodge
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Professor ◽  
The People

Over 60 years ago the first political science professor at Wellington’s Victoria University, Leslie Lipson, noted in his 1948 The Politics of Equality that: With the political parties the modern [New Zealand]civil service has struck a mutually beneficial bargain. By guaranteeing to public servants a life’s career and a pension, parties have foresworn the use of patronage and have guaranteed to the state’s employees their tenure of their jobs. In return the parties expect, and the public servants owe, equal loyalty to any government which the people have placed in office. (Lipson, 1948, p.479)

scholarly journals Public Service Legislation and Public Service Reform

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hughes
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Single System ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
The Public ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
Service Legislation ◽  
Service Employment

Legislation is one important component of the public service reform agenda. Legislative change contributes to both of the objectives of change: strengthening the role of the public service as part of executive government, and ensuring the organisational flexibility and system leadership needed to help meet the challenges New Zealand faces. To this end the Public Service Bill will be designed to reinforce the spirit of service and help build public trust by articulating common purpose, principles and values for the public service. It will formalise the role of the public service in supporting the Mäori–Crown relationship. The legislation will also address building the capacity of the public service to work as a single system by enabling new organisational forms, leadership arrangements, and a modernised framework for public service employment.

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