Emergency situations, adaptive management and national health strategies

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Madalina-Cristina Gogu
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
National Health ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Health Strategy

Terrible natural disasters or dangerous human activities endanger the life and health of the population. The increased frequency of these events prompts the population to exert greater pressure on public managers to rethink, to innovate, and to adapt management in the field of health to the ever-changing environment. The National Health Strategy and the National Strategy for Preventing Emergency Situations are the instruments that manage the life and health of the population in dangerous situations. Managers in the fields of health and emergency situations could develop new ways to manage strategies and public institutions by applying adaptive management in order to better protect the life and health of the population. The aim of this paper consists in presenting that, by applying strategic and adaptive management in the public sector in the fields of health and emergency situations in Romania, public managers can better serve the needs of the citizens. Keywords: public administration, national health strategy, emergency situations, adaptive management

Moving On Up? Effects of Leadership Training and Intersectoral Mobility on Women’s Advancement in Danish Public Administration Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734371X2110548
Author(s):  
Müge Kökten Finkel ◽  
Caroline Howard Grøn ◽  
Melanie M. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Leadership Training ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Upper Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Public Managers

Women’s underrepresentation in middle and upper management is a well-documented feature of the public sector that threatens performance and legitimacy. Yet, we know far less about the factors most likely to reduce these gender inequalities. In this article, we focus on two well-understood drivers of career advancement in public administration: leadership training and intersectoral mobility. In theory, training in leadership and experience across government levels and policy areas should help both women and men to climb management ranks. We use logistic regression to test this proposition using a representative sample of 1,819 Danish public managers. We find that leadership training disproportionately benefits women, and this helps to level the playing field. However, our analyses show that differences in intersectoral mobility do not explain the gender gap in public sector management.

scholarly journals GESTÃO PÚBLICA EM ACCONTABILITY: ESTUDO COM PREFEITURAS DO ESTADO DO CEARÁ

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Nathaly Maria Martins Freire ◽  
Douglas Willyam Rodrigues Gomes ◽  
Oderlene Vieira de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
External Control ◽  
Public Power ◽  
Fiscal Responsibility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Qualitative Work ◽  
Share Information

No mundo contemporâneo vem se tornando mencionado em maior frequência os controles nas contas públicas. O controle externo, torna-se uma ferramenta que auxilia o controle das despesas e que na Administração pública vem sendo efetivado pelos Tribunais de Contas. Justifica-se esse estudo pela importância do controle externo das contas públicas e o acesso às informações, afim de obter-se accountability fidedigna dos órgãos públicos. Assim, nota-se a utilidade de instituições que repassem as informações para os habitantes, que proporcionem transparência à gestão pública, que correspondam a reais agências de accountability, de transparência, que disponha respostas e realize prestação de contas dos recursos públicos. O presente artigo tem como objetivo geral identificar as contribuições que o Tribunal de Contas dos Municípios (TCM) traz para o processo de prestação de contas nos municípios objeto de pesquisa. No referencial foram abordados conceitos sobre accountability e sobre a Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal (LRF). Metodologicamente é um trabalho de natureza bibliográfica, descritiva e qualitativa. Os resultados encontrados mostram que os TCM é um órgão que executa o processo de accountability nos municípios em que existe. Conclui-se que os TCM’s proporcionam fiscalização dos recursos patrimoniais, direcionados pelos administradores do poder público e controle do mesmo, a fim de facilitar o processo de prestação de contas entre a sociedade e a classe dos governantes municipais. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN ACCOUNTABILITY: A STUDY WITH CITY HALLS FROM CEARÁ STATE ABSTRACT In contemporary world the control of public accounts is being mentioned more frequently. The external control becomes a tool that assists the control of expenses and it is what the public administration has been done by Courts of Accounts. This study is justified by the importance of external control of the public accounts and the access to information, in order to obtain reliable accountability of public institutions. Therefore, it is noticed the usefulness of institutions that share information to the citizens, providing transparency to the public administration, which correspond to real agencies of accountability, of transparency, giving answers and performing accountability of public resources. This paper aims to identify the contributions that the Municipal Courts of Accounts (TCM) brings to the process of accountability in the cities that are object of this research. In the referential were used concepts about accountability and about the Fiscal Responsibility Law (LRF). Methodologically it is a bibliographical, descriptive and qualitative work. The results indicate that the TCM is an institution that executes the accountability process in the cities where it is present. It is concluded that TCMs provide supervision of patrimonial resources, directed and controlled by the administrators of public power, in order to facilitate the process of accountability among society and the class of municipal governors.

scholarly journals "TRUST IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS AND COMPLIANCE WITH MEASURES AGAINST COVID-19 PANDEMIC. CASE STUDY ON METROPOLITAN AREA OF CLUJ, ROMANIA"

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 E ◽  
pp. 128-150
Author(s):  
Bianca RADU
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Policy Compliance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Second Wave

The goal of this article is to analyze the level of citizens’ trust in different public institutions during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, and the influence of citizens’ trust on their compliance with the measures adopted to prevent the spread of the virus. The research was conducted between November and December 2020 on a sample of 700 residents of Metropolitan Area of Cluj, Romania. During the time of data collection, Romania registered the largest number of daily COVID-19 cases, therefore, citizens’ compliance with preventive measures was crucial to contain the spread of the virus. Citizens reported high levels of compliance with preventive measures. However, even though people were recommended to avoid meetings with relatives and friends, and participation to private events with large number of people, respondents reported that did not fully comply with social distancing requirements. Citizens have highest level of trust in the public institutions at local level, medical institutions and County Committees for Emergency Situations. The research found that trust in public institutions influences the compliance with preventive measures; however, the influence is weak and the trust in different institutions influences differently policy compliance.

scholarly journals Democracy, Public Administration, and Public Values in an Era of Estrangement

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis Ventriss ◽  
James L Perry ◽  
Tina Nabatchi ◽  
H Brinton Milward ◽  
Jocelyn M Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Public Values ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cynical View

Abstract This essay responds to the prevailing political environment of estrangement that can be seen in the growing distrust of public institutions, intensifying levels of political polarization, and rising support for populism, particularly in the United States. These trends have contributed to a diminished sense of publicness in public administration, including an erosion of public values and political legitimacy, and an increasingly cynical view of the value, role, and purpose of public service in the modern polity. We argue that public administration must respond actively to this estrangement and seek to repair and strengthen the links between democracy, public administration, and public values through scholarship, connections to practice and the public, and education.

scholarly journals Adaptive management: from ecology to public administration

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Madalina-Cristina Gogu
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Expected Result

Plants, organisms, and the environment in which they live influence one another, and on this relationship depends the survival of a species. Man recently started paying special attention to ecology: this fact has led to the development of adaptive management as an answer to the unpredictable development of the species and has also highlighted the importance of protecting the environment. This paper presents a theoretical and a practical perspective on the adaptive management which is applied in ecosystems and shows the possibilities for implementing adaptive management in public administration, thus transforming it into an adaptive administration with added use of adaptive administration theory. The aim of this work is to approach adaptive management from a historical point of view and to follow its transference from ecology to public administration. The expected result is that public managers will develop new methods to manage public administration for the benefit of the citizens.   Keywords: ecosystems, public administration, adaptive management

scholarly journals Prioritization and transparency in software development: An action research in public administration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Álvaro Pinheiro ◽  
Nilo Martins ◽  
Melina Soares ◽  
Geraldo Neto ◽  
Wylliams Santos
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Development Team ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Prioritization Method ◽  
Critical Activity

The prioritization of requirements is a critical activity in quality assurance. However, in public institutions, prioritization faces conflicts with financial constraints. Problem: Increasing the complexity of requirements. Objective: Proposition of a Kanban method to improve the transparency of activities and facilitate prioritization. Method: An action research carried out in two cycles at the Attorney General's Office of the State of Pernambuco, involving the development team and public managers. Result: The presentation of the method's effectiveness as a mechanism facilitating transparency and as a support to management in prioritization.

scholarly journals Corruption Counteraction in the Mechanism of Federal Public Administration: Federal and Inter-Regional Levels

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-437
Author(s):  
Konstantin Ishekov ◽  
Konstantin Cherkasov ◽  
Yulia Malevanova
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
The State ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
The Public ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Package Principle

Current anti-corruption legislation is characterized by a lack of concentration and unity of legislative acts that regulate the work of public authorities and administration at the federal and inter-regional levels. The Federal Law «On Counteracting Corruption» has a framework nature and does not meet all the challenges of preventing and counteracting corruption that the Russian state now faces. Thus, the relevance of this study is obvious. The goal of the authors is to determine the key trends and means of systematizing legislation that regulates the anti-corruption activities of the state. Having analyzed a vast massive of normative legal acts on counteracting corruption at the federal and inter-regional levels as well as international experience, the authors conclude that it is necessary to amend the Federal Law «On Counteracting Corruption» by, among other things, systematizing the norms that regulate the corresponding sphere of state activities. The authors express their confidence that the effectiveness of legislation on counteracting corruption could considerably improve with the «package» principle of streamlining legislation and the introduction of a basic normative legal act — the Law on Counteracting Corruption, then changing the acts that are not in line with it and developing other normative documents to specify it. The use of a systemic approach to counteracting corruption also requires the revision and improvement of some clauses of the National Strategy of Counteracting Corruption which should incorporate the analysis of the situation with the anti-corruption policy of the state, the assessment of the effectiveness of the existing system, monitoring and audit, as well as the instruments of the anti-corruption policy. The paper also presents the authors’ position on the development and upgrading of the legal basis of organizing the public authorities and administrations at the central and inter-regional levels that regulates the specification and optimization of determining and delimiting jurisdictions in the sphere of counteracting corruption. The authors conclude that at present it is not advisable to organize a separate special corruption counteraction body in Russia because the conditions necessary for its establishment are lacking.

scholarly journals Modern paradigms for evaluation and measurement of public administration performance

2021 ◽  
pp. 126-134
Author(s):  
Tatiana Furculita ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Public Sector Performance ◽  
Sector Performance ◽  
The Way

Performance measurement is a concept whose definition cannot be made precisely because it goes beyond the scope of a particular scientific field. In the public sector, performance is extremely difficult to identify, as no clear and concrete criteria are set to accurately reflect the purpose of the work of public institutions. The concern for measuring performance in public institutions has arisen as a result of the increasing difficulty of solving the increasingly complex problems that citizens face. The relevance of measuring performance in PA is provided by the way in which this process influences the entire activity of an organization, in all internal managerial directions.

scholarly journals Rethinking Public Administration through Managers as Leaders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Romanelli ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Leadership Identity ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Public Organisation ◽  
Democratic Life

Rethinking public administration helps to drive public managers as agents of change who assume behaviours coherently with a leadership identity. Public administration is rediscovering the sustainability as a key source and goal for strategic and organisational change by promoting the organisational dimension that relies on enhancing the quality of people as human resources, strengthening both the public manager as a leader and public servants as employees who are committed and motivated to public service. Managers as leaders help to drive public administration as an organisation which is able to proceed towards future as a sustainable public organisation which develops the quality of human capital and improves performances, supports public trust and enhances democratic life. Rediscovering the organisational dimension helps to develop the leadership as identity and source for ethical and transformational behaviours of a leader, and enables public managers to assume coherent values, attitudes and behaviours developing the leadership as central identity. Today, driving public administration requires effective public managers who are able to behave as ethical and transformational leaders who motivate, support and drive the employees at work.

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