How demographic differences influence customer satisfaction with the public service delivery in Fiji

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurmeet Singh ◽  
Mahendra Reddy ◽  
Neelesh Gounder
2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Danson ◽  
Geoffrey Whittam

The devolved governments and parliaments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland increasingly have been adopting different approaches from England to the delivery of public services. With more powers and responsibilities, Scotland has initiated these moves to divergence, not least with respect to the roles of volunteering, the Voluntary and Community Sectors (VCS) in the context of the ‘Big Society’. This article explores how the environment and institutions in Scotland increasingly are generating moves for different relations between the public, private and VCS. With key powers reserved for the Westminster parliament, differences are demonstrated in the position and development of the VCS.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 4181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natacha Klein ◽  
Tomás Ramos ◽  
Pauline Deutz

The concept of the Circular Economy (CE) is an increasingly attractive approach to tackling current sustainability challenges and facilitating a shift away from the linear “take-make-use-dispose” model of production and consumption. The public sector is a major contributor to the CE transition not only as a policy-maker but also as a significant purchaser, consumer, and user of goods and services. The circularization of the public sector itself, however, has received very little attention in CE research. In order to explore the current state of knowledge on the implementation of CE practices and strategies within Public Sector Organizations (PSOs), this research aims to develop an overview of the existing literature. The literature review was designed combining a systematic search with a complementary purposive sampling. Using organizational sustainability as a theoretical perspective, the main results showed a scattered landscape, indicating that the limited research on CE practices and strategies in PSOs has focused so far on the areas of public procurement, internal operations and processes, and public service delivery. As a result of this literature review, an organizational CE framework of a PSO is proposed providing a holistic view of a PSO as a system with organizational dimensions that are relevant for the examination and analysis of the integration process of CE practices and strategies. This innovative framework aims to help further CE research and practice to move beyond current sustainability efforts, highlighting that public procurement, strategy and management, internal processes and operations, assessment and communication, public service delivery, human resources dimensions, collaboration with other organizations, and various external contexts are important public sector areas where the implementation of CE has the potential to bring sustainability benefits.


Author(s):  
Beáta MIKUŠOVÁ ◽  
Nikoleta JAKUŠ ◽  
Marián HOLÚBEK

Most of the developed countries have implemented new principles of public sector reform – new approaches to the management of the public sector. A major feature of the new public management (NPM) is the introduction of market type mechanisms (MTM) to the running of public service organizations: the marketization of the public service. The marketization of public services aims at a continuous increase in public expenditure efficiency, continual improvements in public services quality, the implementation of the professional management tools in the public sector, and last but not least, charge for public services. Price of public services in mainstream economics theory is connected with preference revelation problem. Economic models explain the relationship between consumer behavior (revealed preferences) and the value of public goods, and thus determine the value of the goods themselves. The aim of the paper is to determine the success of the community model of public service delivery based on the demonstrated preferences of individuals in the consumption of public services / public goods. The direct way of determining the preferences of individuals was used in this paper (willigness to pay and willigness to accept). These preferences will be identified based on the crowdfunding campaign as an example of community model of public goods provision by using survey experiment method. The willingness of individuals to pay is dependent on the individual's relationship with the organisation, the organisation's employees, or sympathise with those for whom the collection is, for whom the project is designed.


Humanus ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Muhamad Ali Bin Embi ◽  
Rita Widyasari

AbstractThe effectiveness of public service delivery system is an important aspect to ensure that national development can be implemented effectively. The effectiveness of publicservice delivery system will raise community satisfaction on the services delivered. Thusto improve the public service delivery system from time to time, the study on the existingproblems should be conducted eventually.  Therefore this article articulates the problemsof public service delivery system in Indonesia, especially in Kutai Kartanegara Regency. Key words: Public Service, Effectiveness AbstrakKeefektifan sistem pelayanan pelayanan publik merupakan aspek penting untuk memastikan bahwa pembangunan Negara dapat dilaksanakan dengan efektif. Sistempelayanan yang efektif akan dapat meningkatkan kepuasan masyarakat terhadappelayanan yang diberikan. Bagi memastikan pelaksanaan sistem pelayanan publik inidapat diperbaiki dari masa ke semasa, kajian terhadap permasalahan yang timbulperlulah terlebih dahulu dilaksanakan. Oleh itu artikel ini membincangkan tentangpermasalahan sistem pelayanan publik di Indonesia terutamanya yang dialami olehKabupaten Kutai Kartanegara. Key words: Pelayanan Publik, Efektifitas


Author(s):  
Edephonce N. Nfuka ◽  
Lazar Rusu

This chapter focuses on IT governance in the public sector organizations in a developing country like Tanzania. Today in many organizations in the public sector, the use of IT has become crucial in sustaining and extending the organizations’ strategies and objectives. This pervasive use of technology has caused a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT governance. In this chapter, we provide its overview and, based on the analysis of five case studies indicate the current practices, problems, and consequences in the Tanzanian public sector environment. Moreover, we reveal twelve key issues to consider for effective IT governance together with the trends and future research in improving ICT-enabled transformational government in public service delivery in this environment. In this context, the chapter contributes to an understanding of the IT governance practices and related ICT-enabled transformational government issues and complexities involved in the transformational phase for better public service delivery in a developing country like Tanzania.


2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theophilus Tebetso Tshukudu

The Botswana public Service has been faced with service delivery challenges since independence in 1966. Like other developing and under developed countries, the Botswana government has reviewed its service delivery processes and initiatives with a view to better productivity across the public service sector. Many strategies and initiatives were introduced by the Botswana government over a long period of time to mitigate poor service delivery across the public service sector. One of these initiatives were the decentralization of certain functions from central to local government.However, the implementation of this initiative was not without problems. This paper will highlight the decentralization in general terms will be discussed and the focus will be narrowed to how decentralisation has to improved public service delivery in thepublic service sector. The evaluation of the process will be highlighted; recommendations and closing remarks will be made.


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