scholarly journals Public sector employees and the freedom of political communication

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Gray
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Public Comment ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Government Interests

This article considers the Australian Public Service guidelines on public comment on social media in terms of the constitutionally protected freedom of political communication. It argues the guidelines are excessively broad, and go beyond legitimate government interests, significantly affecting the speech of government employees. Such employees have a significant contribution to make to the kind of political debates that are necessary in a functional democracy. It argues there is a real question regarding the compatibility of the guidelines with the constitutionally implied freedom of political communication.

scholarly journals Harnessing Sustainable Motivation: A Grounded Theory Exploration of Public Service Motivation in Local Governments of the State of Oregon, United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sajjad Haider ◽  
Guoxian Bao ◽  
Gary L. Larsen ◽  
Muhammad Umar Draz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
The State ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Public Sector Employees

Employee motivation has always been a matter of concern for both public and private sector organizations. Since the industrial revolution in the late 18th century, organizations have struggled to foster workforce motivation and morale to enhance productivity. While a plethora of literature focuses on private sector motivation research, public sector organizations receive only modest scholarly attention. However, a new concept has emerged in public management literature during the late 1980s and 1990s, later known as public service motivation (PSM). The debate about PSM is premised on the notion that the motivation of public sector employees is quite different from their private sector counterparts because of their orientation to public service. Perry and Wise (1990) expressed this concept in the theory of PSM. Subsequently, a growing stream of scholarship has emerged which explores the many aspects of antecedents and outcomes related to PSM. However, questions remain about how to best keep the motivation of public sector employees sustainably high, and about what factors embolden or enervate the motivation and morale of public sector employees. This study focuses on the sustainable work motivation of local government employees. Its arguments and discussions draw from PSM theory, total quality management (TQM) principles, and inspiration from Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study examines and attempts to uncover the career trajectories of local government employees in the State of Oregon, United States, through a rigorous grounded theory method (GTM) of inquiry. The study reveals a number of factors that facilitate and/or inhibit employees’ PSM. We expect the findings to be useful for both practitioners and government human resource policymakers in understanding the subtlety and vicissitudes of public sector employee careers and motivations.

Reformulating Government-Citizen Relations in a Digitally Connected World

2016 ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Helin Alagöz Gessler
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
The Other ◽  
Security Dilemma ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Type ◽  
The One

This chapter analyses the effects of social media on political communication and the role they play in government-citizen relations by focusing on the Twitter ban phenomenon in Turkey in March 2014. The chapter asks the reasons of government intervention in social media, particularly Twitter. It argues that Twitter makes, on the one hand, a significant contribution to the evolution of political participation as it diversifies the process and methods of political communication. On the other hand, it introduces a new type of security dilemma which encourages governments to consider taking measures against social media to protect their authority.

The blurred line between the professional and the personal: Regulation of teacher behaviour on social media

2020 ◽  
pp. 000494412092488
Author(s):  
Sandra Noakes ◽  
Sarah Hook
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Teacher Behaviour ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
High Court ◽  
Professional Obligations ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Media Reports

As demonstrated by recent media reports concerning the Australian Public Service Social Media Policy and the Australian Rugby Union’s dispute with Israel Folau, social media often blurs the line between our professional and personal lives, and means that employers want to control what we do and say on social media. This is an issue which directly affects Australian teachers, whose professional obligations have always extended beyond their immediate work environments. Does social media mean that teachers are never ‘off the clock’? This article examines the current law relating to control of teacher behaviour and comment on social media. It analyses the implied freedom of political communication discussed in the 2019 High Court decision of Comcare v Banerji, and its ramifications for teachers and their employers. Additionally, using case studies involving social media policies of authorities which control teacher professional conduct, it considers whether such policies constitute lawful and reasonable directions, or whether they could be challenged as infringing teachers’ rights to a personal life.

Higher Public Service Motivation for Accepting Public Sector Pension Reform? Evidence from Korean Government Organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Kim Yunho ◽  
Jung Yunjin ◽  
Seoh Dongwook ◽  
Im Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Pension Reform ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
The Relationship

Organizational reforms that employees do not voluntary accept are likely to negatively affect organizational effectiveness in the long term. We conducted an empirical analysis with survey data by reviewing related studies on public service motivation (PSM) and acceptance of organizational changes, the goal being to verify the relationship between government employees’ PSMand their acceptance of public sector pension reform in Korea. Results show that public servants highly driven by PSM are willing to accept this pension reform even though it reduces their own benefits. This study is distinguished from existing literature of PSM and responses to organizational changes because it reduces the possibility of endogeneity problems.

scholarly journals Appraisal of Human Resource Management in Georgian Public Service: Quantitative Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (28) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Nino Sardlishvili
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Electronic Questionnaires

The ongoing reforms in the Georgian public sector are crucial for the future development of this field, as waves of reforms systematically increase the efficiency of the sector. The attitude of people employed in the public sector is decisive towards the ongoing reforms and is considered to be essential and interesting at the same time. Quantitative research was conducted using electronic questionnaires to examine the position of public sector employees. The research has shown that working in the public sector is very popular and the main reason for this popularity is for stability. Another interesting thing is the fact that public servants are actively involved in activities planned and implemented by their employer. Although despite their readiness, a large number of public servants are skeptical about the ongoing processes.

scholarly journals Public employees in social media communities: Exploring factors for internal collaboration using social network analysis

First Monday ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ignacio Criado ◽  
Julián Villodre
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Public Sector Innovation ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Public Sector Employees

This paper analyzes the interactions that public employees perform in social media communities, providing empirical evidence on the dynamics of internal collaboration. In general terms, this study responds to a rising interest in the study of social media communities as tools for co-production and innovation. In doing so, this paper asks the following research questions: How do interactions among public employees occur within a social media community? What factors determine the number of interactions in a public-sector specific social media community? For this purpose, our study analyzes NovaGob, the most active digital social media community of public sector innovation in Spain and Latin America. By using social network analysis (SNA), we provide evidence on the importance of formal and informal power in stimulating participation. Moreover, we show how interest and will to collaborate influences the number of interactions. Finally, this study uses a gender variable to discuss the possible existence of a second digital gender gap, which affects how public sector employees use these communities. This paper advances some conclusions about the behavior of public employees collaborating in social media communities, suggesting the need for future attention to inter-agency phenomenon.

scholarly journals The Effect of Person-Environment Fit on Public Servant Integrity and Performance: Investigating the Moderating Role of Public Service Motivation

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-199
Author(s):  
Sangeetha Tannimalay ◽  
Noor Fareen Abdul Rahim ◽  
Meen Chee Hong
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Job Fit ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Person Environment Fit ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Person Organization Fit

Individual performance is measured by a person's contribution to attaining this objective, whereas public organisation performance is measured by goals achieved in accordance with its mission statements. Positive individual behaviour is important for positive life outcomes, such as professional ethics. Individuals with strong integrity between their psychological (spiritual) and physical (physical) functions are one of the determinants of individual performance in organisations. Integrity is a promise to do everything in line with right and ethical principles, as well as values and standards, and there is consistency in continuing to make these commitments in every scenario without seeing any chance or coercion to break them. Individual integrity and performance are strongly influenced by the person-environment fit (person-job fit and person-organization fit). Due to the several corruption cases in Malaysia, the impacts of person-environment fit (person-job fit and person-organization fit) on individual integrity and performance of public sector personnel are investigated in this study. The suggested model was tested using partial least squares on a sample of 214 public sector employees in Penang. Integrity and individual performance is positively influenced by both person-job fit and person-organization fit, with person-organization fit having a stronger effect. Furthermore, the moderating effects of Public Service Motivation in the relationship between person-environment fit and the integrity and individual performance are not significant. As a result, it is critical to design strategies and implement suitable organisational environments in order to successfully raise the integrity and performance levels of public sector employees/

scholarly journals Creating content, influencing democracy: situating corporate political communication between marketing and activism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Hill
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Commercial Speech ◽  
The Social ◽  
Consumer Interests ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Content Marketing

This thesis investigates the commercial backlash to a contentious piece of legislation in North Carolina and considers the implications of commercial incorporation of political content on public service communications. Commercial actors have high social standing and a privileged relationship with the social platforms used to disseminate much of commercial speech. In their pursuit of direct relationships with consumers, unmediated by publishers and free of the distrust of advertisement that has often characterized consumer-marketer relations, brands have cultivated content marketing practices based on serving consumer interests. Access to analytical tools allows companies to evaluate the success of content, eventually creating an environment in which most companies feel comfortable taking political stands in a way they did not before the widespread adoption of social media. Closer examination of political speech by commercial entities reveals strategies of communication that undermine avenues for public exchange and short-circuit non-market means of protest.

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