scholarly journals Risk management in the public sector: challenges in its adoption by Brazilian federal universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (86) ◽  
pp. 241-254
Author(s):  
Artur Araújo ◽  
Anailson Marcio Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Dispersion Measures ◽  
And Control ◽  
Governance Risk ◽  
Staff Engagement ◽  
And Training

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to analyze the perception of the members of the risk committees of federal universities in Brazil regarding the challenges in the adoption of risk management in those institutions. Currently, federal universities are obliged by law to manage their risks. This is a recent process that presents them with considerable challenges, which have scarcely been explored. Studying the challenges in adopting risk management enables federal universities to gradually improve their overall management, with the aim of adopting the process in the best way possible. This study contributes to the professional and academic areas by proposing a set of actions within the operational context of the universities to improve the maturity level of the risk management of those institutions. The procedure adopted was a survey covering 68 federal universities in operation in 2019. The quantitative study was based on a questionnaire sent to the public servants on their governance, risk, and control committees, which had a 73% response rate. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and position and dispersion measures. Perception was analyzed regarding the challenges arising from the adoption of risk management, in which a lack of process mapping, the need for staff engagement and training, the emergence of divergences concerning the treatment of risk, and excess demands on staff were highlighted. The evidence indicated that risk management can guarantee and facilitate compliance with laws, regulations, norms, and standards, as well as the identification of external scenarios that can influence the occurrence of events that negatively impact not only the universities but the whole community.

Internal Control Frameworks and Its Relation with Governance and Risk Management: An Analytical Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahammed Adil Mohammed ◽  
Thamer Kadhim Al-Abedi ◽  
Hakeem Hammood Flayyih ◽  
Hussein Ali Mohaisen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Risk Management Framework ◽  
Control Framework ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Control ◽  
Governance Risk

This study aims at searching in different editions of internal control frameworks and its relation with governance and risk management by dividing the study into three themes. The first one includes studying each framework in terms of the concept of internal control, elements and goals and what makes it different form the latter. The second concerns the relation of internal control with governance and the importance of what it provides to economic unity. The third one and the last regards the relation of internal control to risk management framework and what economic unity will achieve if it managed its risks properly through presenting a number of academic studies that dealt with the subject of the study. The design of this paper depends on reviewing literature during the period (2012-2019) and analyzing results concluded by these literatures concerning the study of internal control framework and its relation with governance and risk management. The study concluded that economic unity cannot achieve its goals and maintain success without an effective management of risks, control and governance. Board of directors and administration both need each other to apply governance, risk management and control effectively.

scholarly journals Gestão de risco: estudo de caso sobre os desafios na implantação e implementação

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. e18818
Author(s):  
Loana De Moura Furlan ◽  
Anderson Sasaki Vasques Pacheco
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Implementation Stages ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Internal And External Factors

Objective: The Public Administration faces the influence of internal and external factors that bring uncertainty regarding the achievement of its objectives. These uncertainties can be called organizational risks, which can be analyzed by the Implementation and its processes. However, these phases have been approached as synonymous, making it difficult to measure the results desired by Risk Management. Thus, this article aims to highlight the difference in implementation and implementation in risk management, as well as to elucidate the challenges faced by the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina in the Risk Management process.Methodology/Approach: This research is classified as a qualitative case study, with information analysis through interviews with the organization's employees and participant observation over three years.Originality/Relevance: The study provides empirical evidence on the distinction between the implementation and implementation stages, as well as their challenges, to improve the studies and execution of Risk Management. Main results: The implementation and its phases were identified, with challenges occurring in both, especially regarding the difficulty of public servants in understanding risk management and its context, the preparation of risk maps, the assignment of roles outside the committee, and the creation of indicators concise.Theoretical-methodological contributions: Institutions need to go beyond standardization and regulation, completing all the steps established in the implementation of Risk Management, subsequently introducing implementation, and institutionalizing their practices in the management processes.

scholarly journals The Public Servants’ Response When Facing Pandemic: The Role of Public Service Motivation, Accountability Pressure, and Emergency Response Capacity

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 529
Author(s):  
Yong Ye ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Xiaojun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Response Capacity ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
And Control

(1) Background: Public servants are regarded as guardians of the public interest, and their pandemic response played a vital role in controlling the spread of the epidemic. However, there is limited knowledge of the factors that influence public servants’ response (PSR) when facing pandemic prevention and control tasks. (2) Methods: Based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), models were constructed and a regression method was employed with Chinese civil servant data to investigate how PSR is influenced by public service motivation (PSM), accountability pressure (AP), and emergency response capacity (ERC). (3) Results and discussion: PSM, AP, and ERC all have a positive effect on PSR, with AP having the greatest influence, followed by PSM and ERC. The effects of PSM, AP, and ERC on PSR have group heterogeneity, which had little effect on civil servants with very low levels of PSR and the greatest impact on civil servants with medium-level PSR. Job categories of civil servants also are a factor related to PSR; PSM and AP have the strongest effects on civil servants in professional technology, and ERC has the greatest influence on administrative law enforcement. Moreover, gender, administrative level, and leadership positions also have an impact on PSR. (4) Conclusions: Based on the factors of PSR, we found at least three important aspects that governments need to consider in encouraging PSR when facing a pandemic.

Risk management systems for prevention and control of contaminants in animal feed

2021 ◽  
pp. 187-212
Author(s):  
Regiane R. Santos ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Feed Production ◽  
Feed Safety ◽  
Food Safety Risk ◽  
And Control

Feed safety remains an issue for both the health of livestock and as a prerequisite for food safety. Risk assessment plays a role in identifying and determining potential risks of contaminants. When contaminants limits are defined, risk management systems can be designed for prevention and control. Finally, risk communication covers the technical information shared between governments, academia, the different players involved in feed production, and the public. This chapter focuses on management systems used to prevent and control contaminants in animal feed. A brief introduction to feed contaminants and new feed ingredients is given, followed by a description of the main risk management systems applied in Europe and the US.

scholarly journals Ethical Regulation of the Public Servants Conduct

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
A.A. Samorukov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
And Control

The concept of “ethics of public service” is specified. Moral principles of public servants’ activities are considered. A mechanism for effective support and control of ethical principles, as well as an ethical infrastructure of public administration is proposed.

E-Government as Collaborative Governance

2005 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Allen ◽  
Luc Juillet ◽  
Gilles Paquet ◽  
Jeffrey Roy
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Effective Performance ◽  
Internal Integration ◽  
And Control ◽  
Critical Link

In discussions on e-government, terms such as “seamless” and “joined-up” are often deployed in reference to restructuring the public sector for more effective performance. There is a critical link between delivering services online in a more client-centric fashion and government organization. This critical link often involves new coordinating mechanisms (i.e., new forms of governance) that are more collaborative than before — thus, e-government becomes collaborative government — and as such, many challenges present themselves. In government, however, collaborating is both complex and contentious, as much of public management has traditionally been premised on a command and control regime, where clear structures and rules dictate the behavior of public servants. The contentious nature of collaboration is also amplified by the political nature of government activity, and the difficulties in coordinating activities horizontally across traditional organizational units: there are structural, accountability and cultural dimensions of such coordination. E-government must be built on a fluid and constantly adapting of collaborative governance systems that respond to the twin challenges of external alignment and internal integration and cooperation.

scholarly journals Surveillance and Control of Threats in the Public Health System in Brazil: Mapping Managers’ Competencies

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. s37-s37
Author(s):  
Marcio Haubert Da Silva ◽  
Alessandro Albini ◽  
Regina Rigatto Witt
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Health System ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
And Control

Introduction:With the increase in the number and intensity of disasters, integrated risk management has been a subject of discussion in Brazilian health system, in which the local level plays an important role. Competency Mapping of Managers working at a Municipal Health Office from a Metropolitan Area of Curitiba, Southern Brazil was developed.Aim:To describe gaps in core competencies identified for Surveillance and Control of Risks and Threats.Methods:The Public Health Core Competencies contained in the booklet: A Regional Framework for the Americas, of the Pan American Health Organization, originated a semi-structured self-assessment questionnaire. A Likert scale with levels of proficiency (from one to five) was aggregated to the 56 specific core competencies. It was applied to a sample of 78 managers between the months of October 2017 and January 2018. The data obtained were submitted to quantitative analysis. Gaps (Training Priority Degree) were defined according to the grade of importance and expression by means of a arithmetic mean and standard deviation.Results:Gaps were identified for the competencies: Design disaster risk management plans for natural, technological and biological threats so as to mitigate their impact on health (2.82 ± 1.16); Design investment projects for reducing the health risks of disasters (2.8 ±1.07); Provide an immediate response to threats, risks and damage from disasters based on the risk assessment, in order to protect health (2.89 ± 1.13); Plan and execute post-disaster reconstruction, based on the damage identified for the immediate restoration and protection of the population’s health (2.81 ± 1.11).Discussion:The degree of expression for these competencies indicate the need of preparing public health managers for surveillance, by monitoring the exposure of people or population groups to environmental agents, or their effects with an integrated approach to injuries and the etiology of emergencies and disasters.

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