scholarly journals Perception of the profession of provincial administration executives in the 21. century21. yüzyılda mülki idare amirlerinin mülki idare algısı

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 2385
Author(s):  
Selim Çapar ◽  
Şükrü Yıldırım
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Administrative Units

The territorial administration of Turkey is based on provincial administrative system. Within this system, governors in the provinces and sub-governors in the districts are essentially, the representative of the central government in those respective administrative units. They are responsible for public services of mainly carried out by central government in the country such as community safety, education, agriculture, public health, tourism. Their profession has a long historical background in Turkey. In this aspect, their functions and roles have strategic importance in the administrative system. That is why, they have specific in service training period at the beginning of the profession. On the other hand, the changes to the public administration understanding in the world wide have impact on the Turkish Public Administration in functional and organizational aspects of. The study focuses on the perception of the governors and sub-governors, especially over their profession and its changes in the last decades. Regarding the preferences of the executives, they consider the most significant part of their profession was the provision of the public security services. ÖzetTürkiye’de ülke topraklarının yönetimi, mülki idare sistemine dayanmaktadır. Devletin taşradaki temsilcileri konumunda bulunan mülki idare amirleri esas itibarıyla ilde vali, ilçede kaymakam olarak görev yapmaktadır. Mülki idare amirleri, temel olarak merkezi idarenin yürüttüğü toplumsal güvenlik, eğitim, tarım, kamu sağlığı, turizm gibi kamu hizmetlerinin yürütülmesinden sorumludurlar. Bu mesleğin, Türkiye’de köklü bir tarihsel geçmişi bulunmaktadır. Bu bakış açısından, bu meslek mensuplarının işlevleri ve rollerinin idare sistemi içinde stratejik bir önemi vardır. Bu sebeple, mesleğin başında özel bir hizmet içi eğitim sürecinden geçirilirler. Öte yandan,  dünya genelinde kamu yönetimi anlayışında meydana gelen değişimler, mülki idare sistemini de örgütlenme ve işlevsel açılarından etkilemektedir. Bu çalışma, son dönemde mülki idare amirlerinin meslek ile ilgili, özellikle mesleğin işlevleri ile ilgili algılarını ve bu algılardaki değişim üzerine odaklanmaktadır. Mülki idare amirlerinin tercihleri, onların mesleklerinin en önemli tarafı olarak toplumsal güvenliğin sağlanmasını gördükleri anlaşılmaktadır.

scholarly journals Integrity Advisors and the Development of Administrative Communication Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Balázs J.D. Hohmann
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Administrative Authority ◽  
The Public ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Complementary Part ◽  
Integrity Management ◽  
Corruption Prevention

The integrity advisers are the central actors of integrity management systems of the administrative organizational structure, whose main task is to promote the implementation of the integrity approach within state administration institutions. As a complementary part of this task, we can separate the tasks of corruption prevention and the improvement of organizational integrity, of which the latter being discussed in more detail in this research and presentation. Integrity advisers play a key role in the development of organizational culture among public administration bodies, such as bodies exercising administrative authority. Looking at the topic more closely, with regard to the activities of integrity advisers, it can be clearly established that one of the engines of their operation is the proper and deep communication, which is not only necessary within the public administration and inter-agency transactions, but it also means communication activities that can be interpreted in the relationship between the public and clients. Equally important is their training and other activities aimed at developing staff awareness, relationships, situation assessment and action practices, which, in addition to and in part within public service training, provide an opportunity to shape organizational culture. The presentation and the paper aims to show the role of integrity advisors in developing organizational culture and transparency in the administration based on recent research experience about online presence of integrity advisors and in-depth interview surveys.

scholarly journals МODERNIZATION OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM IN THE CONDITIONS OF DECENTRALIZATION OF POWER

2020 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
Olha Rudenko ◽  
Tetiana Shestakovska
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
State Government ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Current System ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Administration System ◽  
The Public

Strategic course of Ukraine towards European integration requires a new conceptual basis for the institutionalization of power, the introduction of a modern model of public administration. In the conditions of democratic transit, Ukraine and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe should use a conservative Neo-Weberian State (NWS) Model. This model is normative in terms of implementation in Ukraine, because our country, first, has accumulated necessary democratic potential of public initiative; secondly, it has a tradition of strong state power, capable of independently performing the functions of public goal-setting and making appropriate organic decisions; third, it is able to ensure the longevity of public policy at all administrative levels; fourth, preserves stable corporate values and rules of the civil service; fifth, seeks to bring the process of modernization of the domestic public administration system closer to European standards and practices. The normative and legal conditions necessary for the modernization of the current system of public administration in Ukraine in the direction of implementation of the principles of public administration have been generalized. In Ukraine, modernization of the public administration system, aimed at forming a new model of public administration, is possible only if the objective and subjective preconditions are taken into account, which are critical for the successful implementation of decentralization. It has been identified the following promising stages of decentralization in Ukraine: 1) deconcentration of powers and resources, their legally justified transfer from central government to regional and local government bodies; 2) compliance with the principles of devolution of power; 3) powers and resources will be distributed between traditional public authorities (state and self-governing) and market and public structures; 4) introduction of the newest models of public management, built on the principles of the New Public Management paradigm. Keywords: public administration, state government, decentralization, modernization, European integration.

Digital transition and public administration in Italy: the experience of the Italian National Social Security Institution − INPS

2021 ◽  
Vol 150 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Bonavolontà ◽  
Massimiliano D’Angelo
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Innovation ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Security Institution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Transition ◽  
Model Of Excellence ◽  
Social Security Institute

The innovation and modernization processes of national public administrations feature prominently in the process of digital transition that the whole Europe is going through. In Italy, the National Institute of Social Security (Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale, INPS) has historically always been at the forefront in terms of digital skills and the use of Information Technology for the provision of social security services, constituting a model of excellence in the landscape of public administrations both in Italy and Europe. INPS is currently facing a strategic challenge: that of constituting the driving force for the digital transition of the Italian public sector. To meet this challenge, the Italian Social Security Institute has equipped itself with an ICT Plan that represents a marked discontinuity with respect to past plans and which deserves, as a result of its innovative character, to be analyzed in detail. In particular, the ICT Strategic Plan of INPS for the three-year period of 2020−2022 aims to introduce a paradigm shift towards the digitization of the public services that the Social Security Institute offers to the whole country, planning a radical technological, organizational and cultural innovation, an enabling prerequisite for creating a new model service for citizens, businesses and other public administrations.

scholarly journals Public Law and Administration under Conditions of Hybrid Warfare (The Experience of Ukraine)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 195-218
Author(s):  
Taras Gurzhii ◽  
Anna Gurzhii ◽  
Adam Jakuszewicz
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
Hybrid Warfare ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
State Of Affairs

Events that took place in Ukraine in 2014 transparently demonstrated the maladjustment of the national legal and administrative system to the challenges of hybrid warfare in times of peace. Although it took into account the possibility of direct military threats, it proved not to be ready for withstanding unconventional pressure. This state of affairs significantly weakened the state’s ability to resist and led to a number of dramatic political miscalculations, organizational failures, and acute social problems. The subsequent update of the national public law and administrative system made it possible to improve the situation, but at the same time it revealed a number of pressing issues related to the need to strike a balance between the state’s commitment to ensure the protection of human rights and the necessity to protect national security. In this sense the experience of Ukraine is instructive for many countries of the world, especially for those that are the target of the geopolitical ambitions of the modern Russia. The paper discusses the public law of Ukraine in recent years with the view of highlighting some key problems of legal regulation, as well as identifying some promising ways to develop public administration so that it is capable of effectively coping with the threats of hybrid warfare.

scholarly journals GOVERNANCE AND TOURISM RESILIENCE DURING THE COVID19 CRISIS. CASE STUDY BUKOVINA, ROMANIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-262
Author(s):  
Daniela MATEI ◽  
◽  
Viorel CHIRIȚĂ ◽  
Maria Magdalena LUPCHIAN ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Administrative Units

The COVID-19 outbreak which pushed the public actors to seek out customized solutions adjusted for local development. The present paper investigates the role played by the public administration in rebuilding and supporting the tourist sector in Bukovina which has been severely affected by the restrictions imposed by pandemic. The study used a mixed research method: quantitative analysis (applied questionnaires) and qualitative research (interviews). Although the local administration has a limited jurisdiction of the territorial-administrative units, the current sanitary crisis along with the economic one have started to affect territories and populations more and more extended, which pushed the public actors to seek out customized solutions adjusted for local development. The results show that the types of governance applied by the county and local administration will have a decisive impact upon the recovery of the tourism sector.

scholarly journals Enhancing the Effectiveness of Training through Information Feedback - The Case of Slovenia's Public Administration

Organizacija ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 211-221
Author(s):  
Blaž Rodič ◽  
Gozdana Miglič ◽  
Goran Vukovič ◽  
Bruno Završnik ◽  
Robert Leskovar
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Training Evaluation ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Information Feedback ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Sound System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Effectiveness Of Training

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Training through Information Feedback - The Case of Slovenia's Public AdministrationAfter the fall of the Berlin wall, the public administrations in Central and Eastern European countries have had to adapt to an enormous number of changes in a relatively short time. Their civil servants are still facing a constantly changing regulatory framework which needs implementation and enforcement, as well as new demands from the growing private sector and the citizens. These challenges can only be met if the civil servants are highly qualified and constantly updating their qualifications. A sound system of in-service training is therefore crucial to keep the public servants on equal footing with the rapidly changing environment. The research presented in this paper analyzed the practices of training evaluation as an information feedback in a branch of Slovene state administration. We analyzed the attitudes of employees towards evaluation with the assumption that there probably are notable differences between the attitudes of public servants depending on their demographic qualities. The results of the research, that 414 public servants have participated in, show that the position in the hierarchy has the strongest influence on their attitude towards evaluation. Empirical data also show that most of the employees are willing to participate in a continuous and objective training evaluation, but the leading public servants are less involved in the evaluation than expected.

Economic Crisis and Public Administration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denita Cepiku ◽  
Filippo Giordano
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Fiscal Stress ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
The Public ◽  
Generic Management

The last global financial and economic crisis started in 2007–2008; it had serious effects on public sectors of OECD countries and was still affecting some of them when the COVID-19 pandemic began. Different streams of literature contribute to understanding the public management and governance challenges emerging from economic crises: the public administration literature on cutback management of the late 1970s and 1980s, the contemporary literature on managing austerity, and the more generic management literature on organizational decline. Although public administrations are reacting to the same global crisis, they are expected to adopt a variety of approaches when designing policy and managerial responses, including strategic approaches, across-the-board approaches (cheese-slicing or piecemeal incremental shifts), or rhetoric and inertia, avoiding real change and manipulating discursive frames. A strategic approach is based on systematic, selective, or targeted measures, and it includes different reactions to the crisis, such as a directive, hollow, or communitarian approach. In light of the different approaches available to public administrations for addressing an economic crisis, attention turns to the factors that determine such a choice. Public administrations’ responses to austerity are shaped by external and internal determinants. The external drivers make the crisis faced by each public administration longer or more severe and shape the way public managers react. External forces include economic and social features of the environment in which the public administration operates as well as national austerity policies. According to the literature, the harsher the fiscal stress, the more likely it is that targeted cuts will be adopted, instead of an across-the-board approach that doesn’t take into account the different levels of efficiency of public administrations or the strategic priority of different policy areas. Internal forces influencing crisis management approaches are financial and fiscal dimensions, such as financial autonomy (reliance on central government for revenue), spending autonomy and flexibility, degree of fiscal stress, and financial vulnerability. All these forces influence a proactive response to the crisis. Another key factor is leadership: the literature is excessively focused on incentives faced by political leaders, and few studies examine the role of administrative leadership. Finally, the crisis management approach matters in terms of impact; the literature developed after the 1970s and 2007–2008 global economic crises all agrees on this. Such a link, however, is difficult to assess. Strategic and longer-term approaches seem to favor the strengthening of trust, resilience, and avoidance of electoral costs, whereas shorter-term changes lower employee morale, create recruitment and retention problems, cause loss of managerial expertise, cause distraction from the core purpose of the service, and increase costs.

scholarly journals An Overview of the Reformed Local Government in Macedonia

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 440
Author(s):  
Mirjana Kraja Sejdini
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Fiscal Decentralisation

<p class="ber"><span lang="EN-GB">Local government in Westerns Balkans has gone through various public administration reforms resulting from the era of New Public Management (NPM) developments that took place in developed countries. However, such reforms have not yet reached their goal of creating more autonomous (especially financially) local government units that would be efficient and effective enough to provide better services to citizens. Macedonia is perceived a country where fiscal decentralisation has not reached its expected outcome reflected mainly in low shares of finances compared to central government finances. This paper aims to elaborate on the reforms that have shaped the management of local government in Macedonia, as well as its financial position. This is an exploratory study of previous writings about decentralization and local government (mainly) in Macedonia. The paper starts with some theoretical background of NPM and decentralisation that have shaped the local government. Then it follows with a review of the public administration reforms, decentralisation process, and local government finances. The paper is expected to contribute modestly in understanding the nature of local government and its finances along the reforms channelled mainly through the decentralization process. </span></p>

Functional Autonomy: The Case of Finland with Some Notes on the Basis of International Human Rights Law and Comparisons with Other Cases

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 195-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markku Suksi
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Line ◽  
Functional Autonomy ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
Function Language

AbstractIt is possible to distinguish functional autonomy, consisting of various administrative arrangement, as a specific form of autonomy on the top of territorial, cultural and personal autonomy. Functional autonomy may be understood as an organizational option for the provision of adequate linguistic services to a minority population in respect of a certain public function (such as education) by means of creating special linguistically identified administrative units at different hierarchical levels inside the general line-organization charged with the national or local administration of the public function. Language (and sometimes even religion) can be used as a divisor by which the principle of ‘separate but equal’ is implemented in ways that defy organizational characterizations commonly found in textbooks of administrative law or public administration. Functional autonomy is a pragmatic approach to the promotion of rights of a minority population and could be more commonly used.

scholarly journals CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT MODEL IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OF REPUBLIC OF SERBIA: CONTEMPORARY TRENDS AND CHALLENGES

2019 ◽  
pp. 033
Author(s):  
Igor Vukonjanski
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
The Status

Human resources management in the public administration of the Republic of Serbia is a combined model of good practices from the European administrative area and the remaining stereotypes from pre-transition period. Introduction of the public servant system with all features of contemporary public servant related legislation was a necessity that accompanied overall reform of the public administration in Serbia. The process of introducing human resources management function in the Serbian public administration has been encumbered with application of two different legal models that define the status of public servants: public servant related legislation is applied to employees in executive branches of the central government (ministries, government departments and offices), and the status of employees in city and municipal administrations is stipulated in obsolete laws, adopted over 20 years ago. It should be noted that employees in public sector are still prone to old habits in their work, which altogether reduces successful reforms in this area. This paper provides a description of the current state of affairs and opens certain questions: whether the modern human resources (HR) management in Serbia’s public sector is understood and accepted in the right way; and whether it is possible, by means of applying specific methods, to strengthen awareness of public employees concerning their actual position and responsibility to establish a new public administration, adjusted to the citizens’ needs, requirements and expectations. Relying on a decade-long personal engagement in this field, the author analyzes the current circumstances and provides critical remarks and recommendations.

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