THE IMPORTANCE OF INTRODUCING ELECTRONIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE TRAINING OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS: EXPERIENCES IN THE DEGREE OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNIVERSITY JAUME I

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the overarching lessons to be gleaned from 30 years of public management literature. Design/methodology/approach The methodology was simple: review the professional literature generated during that time period. Findings Despite important contributions to our understanding of everything from bureaucratic motivation, public budgeting processes, the promises and pitfalls of contracting out and identification of the skills needed to be an effective public manager, to the scientific arcana of sustainability and the respective responsibilities of public administrators and elected officials, the profession would benefit greatly from more sustained emphasis upon the history and philosophy of the constitutional choices made by those who framed America’s original approach to governance. Originality/value The lack of a common understanding of America’s legal culture, or even a common vocabulary for exploring our differences poses immense challenges to public administrators, whose effectiveness requires a widely shared, if necessarily superficial, agreement on the purposes of America’s governing institutions and an ability to recognize the bases of government legitimacy. In the past 30 years, however, literature that addresses the important connections between constitutional theory and management practice, between the rule of law and the exercise of public power and discretion, has been all too rare. Let us hope that the next 30 years corrects that deficiency.

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INTEGRATION OF SELF-STUDYING SKILLS INTO TEACHING SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE: A CASE STUDY OF SCHOOL OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT, OFFICE ADMINISTRATION AND TOURISM, TRA VINH UNIVERSITY

Scientific Journal of Tra Vinh University ◽

10.35382/18594816.1.2.2019.172 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 203-211

Author(s):

Thu Anh Nguyen ◽

Nhung Thi Cam Phan

Keyword(s):

Study Skills ◽

Public Management ◽

Soft Skills ◽

Specialized Knowledge ◽

University Environment ◽

Department Of State ◽

State Management ◽

Self Study ◽

The University

Self-study skills are one of the soft skills that play an extremely important role for students in the university environment. However, some universities in Vietnam, at present, have not introduced this skill into teaching soft skills, including Tra Vinh University. Self-study skills determine the majority of students’ learning outcomes, but in fact, not many students are aware of this. By questionnaires and in-depth interviews conducted in May 2019, the authors wish to present the current situation of self-study skills of students of the Department of State Management, Office Administration and Tourism, thereby proposing solutions of integrating self-study skills into specialized knowledge teaching in order to improve the learning quality of students of the Faculty in particular and Tra Vinh University in general.

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Using Web Sites to Improve Fiscal Transparency

Cases on Public Information Management and E-Government Adoption ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-0981-5.ch010 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 232-260

Author(s):

Tolga Demirbas

Keyword(s):

Web Sites ◽

Public Management ◽

New Public Management ◽

Good Governance ◽

Essential Element ◽

Public Administrators ◽

Governance System ◽

The Public ◽

Fiscal Transparency ◽

New Public

Fiscal transparency today is considered as an essential element of both good governance and e-governance. Therefore, in the new public management and budgeting reforms made by governments, it is clearly observed that fiscal transparency is one of the key elements. E-government technologies, and especially the internet, are supportive to the efforts on the part of governments offering unprecedented opportunities to public administrations enabling the dissemination of fiscal information and improving the e-governance system. In Turkey, where there is the tradition of Continental Europe, the reforms made through new laws in early 2000 contain various legal and institutional regulations to improve fiscal transparency and encourage the public administrators to use websites in an attempt to enhance fiscal transparency. This chapter, within the context of evaluating the endeavors in question, examines the websites of municipalities in Turkey in terms of fiscal transparency and eventually presents some suggestions for the improvement of the e-governance system.

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Crowdsourcing in Local Public Administration

Civic Engagement and Politics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7669-3.ch031 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 624-640 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kalsoom BeBe Sumra ◽

Wang Bing

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Public Administration ◽

Community Involvement ◽

Public Management ◽

Online Community ◽

User Participation ◽

Public Administrators ◽

Services Delivery ◽

Online Platforms ◽

Online Sources

Social networks have become very popular online sources of participation in crowdsourcing. This article examines the antecedents of user participation in crowdsourcing and importance of online community involvement in local public administration. Based on data collected from local public administrators and local public through survey, the results produce evidence that importance of online platforms in crowdsourcing can have a consistent impact on services delivery system in local public administration and importance of online open sources have significantly higher level in crowdsourcing on the whole, while importance of social media have significantly lower level overall. The paper contributes with potential implications and recommendations for local public management to achieve effective services delivery in developing countries through crowdsourced work. The present study is the first study that not only shows the effect of online platforms in local public administration, but also analyses the antecedents of crowdsourcing for participation (knowledge sharing, consultation, innovative ideation and reporting).

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The Anglo-American Tradition

Administrative Traditions ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198297253.003.0006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 116-138

Author(s):

B. Guy Peters

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Management ◽

New Public Management ◽

The United States ◽

Public Administrators ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

New Public ◽

American Tradition ◽

Anglo American ◽

Definition Of

The Anglo-American tradition is perhaps the most difficult to characterize. Although there are common roots, there has been a divergence between the United Kingdom and other Westminster systems and the United States. There are common roots among these cases, including a contractarian conception of the state, an emphasis on the separation of politics and administration, an emphasis on management rather than law in the role definition of public administrators, and less commitment to uniformity. But these common values are interpreted and implemented differently in the different countries. For example, the United States has a more developed system of administrative law than do most of the Westminster systems. All these administrative systems, however, have been more receptive to the ideas of New Public Management (NPM) than have other governments, although the United States and Canada had implemented many of those ideas long before NPM was developed.

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A Place at the Table: Organization Theory and Public Management

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance ◽

10.1093/ppmgov/gvaa008 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 77-82

Author(s):

Andrew B Whitford ◽

H Brinton Milward ◽

Joseph Galaskiewicz ◽

Anne M Khademian

Keyword(s):

Organizational Behavior ◽

Public Administration ◽

Organization Theory ◽

Public Management ◽

International Workshop ◽

Public Organizations ◽

Recent Emergence ◽

The 1960S ◽

The University

Abstract In November 2018, the University of Arizona’s School of Government and Public Policy hosted an international workshop on the role of organization theory in public management. The intention was to renew interest in organization theory in public management research. Scholars such as Herbert Simon, Herbert Kaufman, and Richard Selznick made seminal contributions to organization theory through the study of public organizations from the 1940s through the 1960s. In our estimation, organization theory is underrepresented in public administration scholarship for the last several decades. There are natural reasons for this trend, including the discipline’s turn towards organizational behavior and the ascendancy of techniques that advance the study of large datasets and those that allow for experimental control. The recent emergence of “behavioral public administration” is a prominent example of this evolution. This symposium is an attempt to make a place at the table of public management for organization theory. The articles in this symposium contain articles from scholars who operate in the tradition of classic organization theory in new and innovative ways to lend intellectual purchase to studies of public organizations and public organizational networks.

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Guidelines for assessing the knowledge management maturity of organizations

SA Journal of Information Management ◽

10.4102/sajim.v9i3.34 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

C. J. Kruger ◽

M. M.M. Snyman

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Public Management ◽

Management Service ◽

The Public ◽

University Of Pretoria ◽

The Matrix ◽

Speed Up ◽

Level Of Knowledge ◽

Strategic Perspective ◽

The University

In a recent article Kruger and Snyman hypothesized that progressions in knowledge management maturity (from a strategic perspective) are directly related to an increased ability to speed up the strategic cycle of imitation, consolidation and innovation. The arguments proposed, however, neglected to supply the reader with a practical toolkit or even a roadmap (a time-related matrix, or questionnaire) to successfully measure succession in knowledge management maturity. This article builds on the previous one and proposes a questionnaire consisting of six sections, containing 101 descriptive questions, to enable organizations to test and assess their knowledge management maturity empirically. The development of an instrument to measure knowledge management maturity required adhering to a research design that combined theoretical propositions with practical experimentation. As a point of departure, a knowledge management maturity matrix consisting of seven maturity levels was formulated. All questions contained within the matrix were benchmarked against a survey questionnaire developed by the public management service of the OECD (PUMA) and were also pre-tested and validated. This process of refinement led to the formulation of the Knowledge Management Maturity Questionnaire. To avoid any taint of this research being based only on theoretical propositions, the questionnaire was tested by 178 master students of the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in nine different industries. The proposed questionnaire provides a bridge between theoretical propositions and practical usability, not only enabling knowledge management practitioners to assess the level of knowledge management maturity reached successfully but, more importantly, also serving as a guideline to institutionalize further and future knowledge management endeavours.

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Bürgermeisterinnen und Bürgermeister in Baden-Württemberg

10.5771/9783748903536 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Vinzenz Huzel

Keyword(s):

Applied Sciences ◽

Political Science ◽

Empirical Data ◽

Public Management ◽

The State ◽

Comprehensive Overview ◽

Universities Of Applied Sciences ◽

The Media ◽

The University ◽

High Degree

Experts from politics, the media and science have stated for years that the number of suitable candidates for the position of mayor in the state of Baden-Württemberg has been declining steadily. This volume examines whether this is really the case and what the reasons for the seemingly dwindling attractiveness of this position are. Based on empirical data, an up-to-date stocktaking survey is conducted among mayors and possible mayoral candidates. The study provides a comprehensive overview of the job, revealing mechanisms of selective recruitment and its conditional factors. Its concentration on the aspects mentioned gives this investigation a high degree of relevance for public and academic discussions beyond the debates on the office of mayor in Baden-Württemberg. Vinzenz Huzel studied political science at the University of Augsburg, public management at the HVF in Ludwigsburg and did his doctorate at the TU in Darmstadt. He works for the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation and is a lecturer at the Universities of Applied Sciences for Administration in Ludwigsburg and Kehl.

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The Center Page

Political Science and Politics ◽

10.1017/s1049096513000917 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 46 (03) ◽

pp. 698-699

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Public Administration ◽

Public Management ◽

University Of Southern California ◽

Department Of Health ◽

Take Back ◽

Hands On ◽

Faculty Positions ◽

The Us ◽

The University

Based on a generous future bequest by the 2013 APSA Gaus Lecturer Beryl A. Radin, APSA announced the creation of the APSA Pracademic Program supported by the Beryl Radin Fund. Professor Radin described herself as a “pracademic” because she has moved back and forth between the world of the practitioner and that of the academic. Beryl A. Radin's government service included an assignment as a special advisor to the assistant secretary for management and budget of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as well as other experiences in the Office of Management and Budget and HHS. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, editor of the book series “Public Management and Change” at Georgetown University Press, past president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, former head of the APSA public administration section, and has held faculty positions at the University of Southern California, the University of Albany, and American and Georgetown universities. As the title suggests, this will be a fellowship aimed at providing APSA member academics in the fields of public policy and public administration with practical, hands-on experience that the recipients can take back to their institutions and classrooms to help build bridges between the worlds of academe and applied politics.

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