scholarly journals Vers une bureaucratie représentative. La promotion de la représentation et de la diversité linguistiques dans l'administration fédérale en Suisse et au Canada

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 903-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Kübler ◽  
Émilienne Kobelt ◽  
Stephanie Andrey
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Consociational Democracy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Groupes Minoritaires ◽  
Adequate Representation ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
Fonction Publique ◽  
Linguistic Communities

Résumé. Sous l'angle du concept de bureaucratie représentative, le présent article compare la gestion des enjeux liés à la participation des différentes communautés linguistiques dans l'administration publique de deux États multilingues : le Canada et la Suisse. À la suite de la mobilisation politique autour du clivage linguistique, des stratégies de promotion du plurilinguisme ont été adoptées dans les deux pays. La stratégie canadienne mise sur l'égalité de traitement des fonctionnaires anglophones et francophones. La Suisse poursuit quant à elle l'objectif de la représentation des différentes communautés linguistiques dans la fonction publique. Ces différences de fond s'expliquent, entre autres, par la nature du régime linguistique en place et par le contexte de démocratie consociationnelle en Suisse. La participation proportionnelle des communautés linguistiques au sein de l'administration fédérale est globalement atteinte dans les deux pays. Cependant, au niveau du fonctionnement interne, une logique de rationalité linguistique exerce une pression sur les groupes minoritaires pour qu'ils adoptent la langue majoritaire.Abstract. Drawing on the concept of representative bureaucracy, this article examines how two multi-lingual states—Canada and Switzerland—deal with issues related to the participation of different linguistic communities in the federal public service. Following a political mobilisation of the linguistic cleavage, strategies to promote multilingualism in the public service have been adopted in both countries. The Canadian strategy focuses on equal treatment of Anglophones and Francophones in the public service. In Switzerland, adequate representation of the linguistic communities is the primary goal. These differences are explained by the characteristics of the linguistic regimes in each of the two countries, as well as by the peculiarities of consociational democracy in Switzerland. In both countries, the linguistic origins of public administration staff, overall, mirrors the proportions of the linguistic communities in the wider society. Within administrative units, however, linguistic diversity is hampered by the logics of language rationality, where minorities are under pressure to communicate in the language of the majority.

scholarly journals Towards a Representative Bureaucracy: Promoting Linguistic Representation and Diversity in the Swiss and Canadian Federal Public Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Kübler ◽  
Émilienne Kobelt ◽  
Stephanie Andrey
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Representative Bureaucracy ◽  
Consociational Democracy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Adequate Representation ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
Federal Public Service ◽  
Linguistic Communities

AbstractDrawing on the concept of representative bureaucracy, this article examines how two multilingual states – Canada and Switzerland – deal with issues related to the participation of different linguistic communities in the federal public service. Following a political mobilization of the linguistic cleavage, strategies to promote multilingualism in the public service have been adopted in both countries. The Canadian strategy focuses on equal treatment of Anglophones and Francophones in the public service. In Switzerland, adequate representation of the linguistic communities is the primary goal. These differences are explained by the characteristics of the linguistic regimes in each of the two countries as well as by the peculiarities of consociational democracy in Switzerland. In both countries, the linguistic origins of public administration staff, overall, mirrors the proportions of the linguistic communities in the wider society. Within administrative units, however, linguistic diversity is hampered by the logics of language rationalization, where minorities are under pressure to communicate in the language of the majority.

scholarly journals Instruction in a holistic approach to discrimination

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nándor Makkos
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Physical Assault ◽  
Psychosocial Risks ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Authority

Administrative activity is present in all walks of life and it has a universal character nowadays. This article has been tabled to draw attention to the discriminatory erosions that sometimes appear as a hiding place in public administration, which may appear as minor deviations in childhood, but may lead to disintegration of organizational unit in adulthood. On the other hand, however, the quality of life of workers is impaired because workers exposed to psychosocial risks show significantly higher levels of health risk than those who are not. The most common symptoms are stress, sleep problems, fatigue and depression (URL1). I have tried to approach the relationship between instruction and discrimination holistically, from the slightest socialization error of man to the most serious crime. I believe that a person's discriminatory behavior is characterized by the inclusion of the milder deviations of a person to the more serious ones. Genocide certainly involves its four milder stages, the physical assault transmission, discrimination, verbal expression, and discriminatory thought. We have drawn attention to the harmful effects of ’invisible’ in its form, but abnormal in its content. Perhaps avoidance is one of the most insidious behaviors of our time, which, by distorting personality in childhood, can put its mark on the daily life and public service of an adult. In the case of discrimination, sanctions of a non-legal nature which undermine the offender's social authority may also be significant, e.g. mocking, exasperation, appearance, speaking, which are more common than legal sanctions and can cause a great deal of torment to the perpetrator and his environment, we need anti-instructional discrimination in the public sector to ensure good public services and well-being of public service employees. In the bureaucratic system, it is precise regulation that can be used to combat discrimination by instruction, because it not only serves to coordinate and fix the best method, but also ensures standardized, equal treatment of individual cases (Gajduschek, 2000, 44.). It is also worth noting that enforcing the prohibition of discrimination, its principles, its loyalty, impartiality, responsibility or professionalism, and the confidence of users of public services in the public service is in the interests of professional administration.

A Unified Foreign Service

1922 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 600-611
Author(s):  
Samuel MacClintock
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Foreign Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Adequate Representation ◽  
The One ◽  
Almost All

Our government maintains a large and expensive foreign service. The business interests of the country recognize the value of adequate representation abroad and support vigorously measures intended to improve and expand this field. For the fiscal year 1922–23 Congress has increased the appropriations for this branch of the public service while cutting down almost all domestic expenditures.Our service in the foreign field has only one rival in its completeness and effectiveness, and that naturally is Great Britain's. Before the war comparison was often made with Germany, France, Japan and other nations, and critics could point to individual excellencies in all of these; but they in turn were generous in praise of our service and generally accorded it first rank, especially on its promotional side. The one outstanding weakness of this service at the present time is its lack of unity, resulting in duplicate activities, rivalries, uncertainties to those using the service and needless expense to the taxpayers.

scholarly journals Contraintes Organisationnelles Et Resilience Chez Le Fonctionnaire Du Ministere Ivoirien De La Fonction Publique

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Gacha Franck-Gautier ◽  
Assouman Ahou Mélissa Estelle
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Level Of Service ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Performance Information ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Administrative Organization ◽  
The Public ◽  
Evaluation Of Performance ◽  
Fonction Publique

Ivorian public Service is subject to criticism. To overcome this, reforms are undertaken to enhance its level of service. However, they apply at the expense of the human factor, which is essential to motivate. This communication builds on previous work, supplemented by semi-structured interviews with Ivorian officials. A content analysis of the discourse of actors was performed. It appears that the delay, corruption and absenteeism resulting from low wages as a source of motivation, as well as the lack of transparency on the decisions of the administrative organization and the small delegation of responsibilities. In a word, the administrative staff is always underway in the Public Service Ivorian. However, the human factor needs to trade, listening, evaluation of performance, information, motivation, mobilization.

scholarly journals Accessibility to public institution facilities for people with disabilities in Novi Sad - European capital of culture 2021

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Ksenija Radakovic ◽  
Mica Radakovic ◽  
Branka Protic-Gava
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Visual Assessment ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Novi Sad

Persons with disabilities and reduced ability to move need to be provided with unimpeded access, movement, staying and working in all buildings with equal treatment as the rest of the people. The objective of this paper was to determine accessibility to public service institutions and educational institutions, as well as possible statistically significant differences in the presence of elements of accessibility between such institutions. The total of 154 buildings in Novi Sad was processed (70 educational institutions and 84 public service institutions). Measuring lists were composed for the purpose of collecting data based on the Rulebook on Technical Standards of Accessibility RS 2013, with the additional use of a meter and subjective visual assessment of a measuring entity. The obtained data were processed in the programme SPSS for Windows, version 20. For the purpose of determining differences among the parametric variables, a T-test for independent samples was used, and in order to determine the differences among the non-parametric variables, a ?2- test was used, at the deduction level of p?0,05. The obtained results indicate the existence of statistically significant differences in the elements of accessibility among the public service and educational institutions in the territory of the City of Novi Sad, especially with respect to the following variables: type of entrance doors (p=0.027) and opening side of the entrance doors (p=0.000).

scholarly journals La réforme de la fonction publique en Afrique subsaharienne : cas de la République Démocratique du Congo

Afrika Focus ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Tshienda Muambi
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Afrique Subsaharienne ◽  
The Public ◽  
République Démocratique Du Congo ◽  
Tension Management ◽  
Administrative Structures ◽  
Fonction Publique

Many reforms of the public service took place during the last thirty years on the African continent. Different strategies have been implemented to modernize and improve the functioning of administrative structures. The objective pursued by this paper is to understand the strategies of reform of the public service applied by the Democratic Republic of Congo and to try to evaluate the results. Key words : reform of the public service, institutional tension, management tension and legitimation tension 

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