Public Service in "Greeneland"

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Louis C Gawthrop
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organizational Environments

The essay examines four of Graham Greene's "administrative" novels.The focus of the article is on three basic perspectives that characterizeGreene's treatment of bureaucratic systems, in general, andpublic sector careerists, in particular. The central theme that Greeneseems to pursue in all of his novels-the persistent human struggle inthe attempt to attain a sense of authentic being-is developed withparticular effectiveness when he focuses on career civil servants andtheir organizational environments. His treatment of the public sectorserves to inform us of the ever-present danger of pursuing aninauthentic career in the service of democracy.

Public service motivation and organizational performance in Chinese provincial governments

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 770-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunkui Zhu ◽  
Chen Wu
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Hunan Province ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government

Purpose This paper aims to examine different hypotheses concerning the effects of public service motivation (PSM) and other attitudinal or institutional dimensions on organizational performance (OP). Specifically, based on the experience of Chinese provincial governments, this study provides new evidence about how PSM may affect OP. Design/methodology/approach This study collected data from a survey of different provincial government departments in Sichuan Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province and Chongqing Municipality in 2011. Using data from 761 respondents, Pearson correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to explore the relationships between related factors. Findings PSM, job satisfaction, affective commitment and job involvement have statistically significant effects on OP, and these results are consistent with the findings of previous researches that PSM positively affected OP at a significant level. The results suggest that, if civil servants have a strong PSM, the performance of their organizations will be high. Research limitations/implications Future research should look for additional factors that affect OP, comparing employees’ perceptions of an organization’s performance with objective data to determine whether, and to what degree, subjective measures of performance are valid measures of OP in the public sector. Practical implications In the process of improving government performance, it is significant to give attention to the government employees’ mentality. The government training and promotion system should encourage civil servants to care about the public interest. A more flattened organization should be considered as part of the next steps in government reform, and more opportunities should be provided to involve more government employees in policy making. Originality/value This study helps to clarify the effects of individual factors of PSM on OP in China in a tightly controlled bureaucratic environment, where related data are hardly accessible.

scholarly journals Public Service Motivation: A Rationalist Critique

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Bureaucratic Behavior

There has been a significant and growing interest, and growing empirical research, around Public Service Motivation (PSM) in recent years. There are few critiques of the construct, and none from a rationalist perspective. Given that the origins of PSM lie in attempts by public administration scholars to counter rationalist explanations of bureaucratic behavior, this lack of countercriticism is surprising. This article provides a rationalist critique of PSM. It argues that PSM is consistent with, and not an alternative to, rationalist understandings of what motivates individuals. It also argues that a significant gap in the PSM literature is around how civil servants and others make decisions; decisions about the public interest, and thus how and when to allocate public resources. It concludes that seeing PSM as consistent with rationality, and specifically as a form of expressive interests, answers many of the remaining questions about PSM and addresses the substantive gaps in the construct.

scholarly journals Reducing Corruption through Enhancing Public Service Ethics in Bangladesh

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fakhrul Islam ◽  
Anindyta Deb Ananya
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Ethical Code ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
People’S Perception

Corruption exists within and between government organizations as the form of bribing, swindling, favoritism and many other forms which destroys the public morale. It spreads its greedy clutches all over the country; Government officials are engaged in corruption for greed for power, selfishness, wealth and money. This paper is an attempt to identify the forms of corruption in civil service and how ethical code of behavior to reduce the level of malfunctions. Social survey method has been followed for this study where the factor has been explained to know the perception of general people. The study finds that lack of accountability and transparency, dishonesty, nepotism and favoritism are also responsible for corruption and made suggestions to combat corruption in Bangladesh based on the perception of civil servants and the general people.Keywords: corruption, public service, ethics, people’s perception

scholarly journals Pedagogical basis of personnel training for the public service

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
М.М. Владимирова ◽  
Ф.Г. Мухаметзянова ◽  
А.Ш. Яруллина
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Additional Education ◽  
Oriented Approach

В статье рассматриваются вопросы, связанные с педагогическими основами подготовки кадров для гражданской службы на примере Республики Татарстан (РТ) в контексте их профессионального становления и развития. Тенденции развития современного российского общества, как глобализация и цифровизация, повышают требования не только к интенсивности работы государственных служащих, но и развитию их как субъектов профессиональной деятельности. Ведущая идея статьи заключается в том, педагогическими основами профессионального развития молодых госслужащих является не только система основного и дополнительного образования, но и институт наставничества, что актуализирует вопросы субъектно-ориентированного подхода и развитие госслужащих как субъектов профессиональной деятельности через различные системы их подготовки и переподготовки. В этой системе подготовки и переподготовки госслужащих особое внимание уделяется институту наставничества на основе теоретического анализа изучаемой проблемы и результатов пилотного исследования. The article examines issues related to the pedagogical foundations of training personnel for the civil service on the example of the Republic of Tatarstan (RT) in the context of their professional formation and development. The development trends of modern Russian society, such as globalization and digitalization, increase the requirements for not only the intensity of the work of civil servants, but also their development as subjects of professional activity. The leading idea of the article is that the pedagogical foundations of the professional development of young civil servants are not only the system of basic and additional education, but also the institute of mentoring, which actualizes the issues of the subject-oriented approach and the development of civil servants as subjects of professional activity through various systems of their training and retraining. In this system of training and retraining of civil servants, special attention is paid to the institution of mentoring on the basis of a theoretical analysis of the problem under study and the results of a pilot study.

scholarly journals Public Service Motivation Measurement: A Test of Perry's Scale in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Hety Budiyanti ◽  
Shine Pintor siolemba Patiro ◽  
Akhmat Yamin
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
City Government ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Item Scale

This article proposes and tests a ‘shorter version of the instrument for public service motivation based on Perry’s (1996) exploratory 24-item scale for Indonesia civil servants in five big cities, inter alia, Jakarta, Surabaya, Semarang, Makassar, and Medan. Of 1200 respondents, 904 completed the questionnaire, and 800 questionnaires were determined to be feasible for further analysis. Thus, the response rate was 88.50% the results indicated support for the shortened scale of Perry’s original work on investigating the Public Service Motivation (PSM) of Indonesia civil servants in sample cities. The 10-item scale was based on four factors PSM, inter alia Attraction to Policy Making (APM), Commitment to the Public Interest (CPI), Compassion (COM), Self-Sacrifice (SS). Results also showed that, generally PSM for civil servant with basic positions in city government offices, in five cities tends to vary. The research results are expected to enhance our understanding about the importance of factors that influence the motivation of civil servants in providing public services to the general public. However, the limitation of the study lies in the small sample which is drawn from only five large cities in Indonesia.

scholarly journals legal basis of formation of piblic service institution in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
S. О. Nishchymna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Service Institution ◽  
The Law

The article analyzes the approaches to the civil service organization in Ukraine and examines the regulations of the civil service establishment since independence time. The attention is payed to the regulatory uncertainty of the separation of civil and public service in Ukraine. It is emphasized that the legal basis of the civil service in Ukraine is determined by the Law of Ukraine “On Civil Service”, which was adopted in 2015. The first such laws were adopted in 1993 and 2011. The Law of Ukraine “On Civil Service” of 1993 for the first time established a special legal status of civil servants – persons authorized to perform state functions. The Civil Service recognized the professional activity of persons holding positions in state bodies and their staff for the practical performance of tasks and functions of the state, receiving salaries at the expense of state funds. The Main Department of the Civil Service under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine was designated as the civil service government body in the state bodies. At that time, the procedure for serving in local self-government bodies was not legally regulated in Ukraine, which hampered the establishment of the public service institution in Ukraine. With the adoption of the Constitution of Ukraine, there was a division of public service into civil service and service in local self-governments. The Laws of Ukraine “On Local Self-Government in Ukraine” and “On Service in Local Self-Government Bodies” became an additional basis for distinguishing types of public service. In 2011, a new Law of Ukraine “On Civil Service” was adopted, which provided for changes in the legal regulation of the civil service in Ukraine. Civil service was recognized as a professional activity of civil servants in preparing proposals for the civil policy formation, ensuring its implementation and provision of administrative services, ie the categories of political positions and positions of civil servants were distinguished. The current legislation defines the role of the civil service and its features, as well as the conditions of service in local governments, which is actually the basis for the public service system formation in Ukraine. Key words: civil service, public service, service in local self-government bodies.

scholarly journals Appraisal in the Public Service, Instrument of Human Resource Management

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Claude Barreix
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Appraisal Process ◽  
Staff Appraisal ◽  
Different Characteristics

The purpose of this article was to put forward staff appraisal process in the Public Service of advanced countries. Even if British and French Civil Services have different characteristics coming from their specific cultures, even if staff appraisal development has followed different rhythms, they meet together to consider that appraisal is a key instrument to improve public performance and Human Resource Management.Pay related to performance (PRP) triggers international debates because some consider it as ineffective and a source of discord inside a working team. But the two countries have to address the problem to find how to motivate their staff. The British civil servants seem less reluctant to PRP than their French homologues who feel more comfortable with a collective approach of appraisal, even if this system is criticized because some poor contributors may hide themselves behind good performers. The solution that could be prescribed would consist in using a collective approach of appraisal in combination of a system rewarding individual performers, in order to motivate staff individually and collectively as well.

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.

scholarly journals Particularities of the Exercise of the Public Service by the Military

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-135
Author(s):  
Alexandru Stoian
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Public Office ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Rules ◽  
Administrative Code ◽  
The Military ◽  
General Perspective

Abstract The achievement of the public interest by the state implies the enduing with public prerogatives of certain persons, who, in the exercise of the public function and by fulfilling the conditions provided by law, acquire the quality of civil servants. The regulation of the public office in Romania offers both a general perspective, through the Statute of the Civil Servants, which since the adoption of the Administrative Code in 2019 is an integral part of it, and a particular perspective, embodied by the special statutes of certain professional categories that exercise the public office in a specific regime, derogating from the general rules. Law no. 80/1995 regulates the Statute of Military Personnel and, through the conditions of exercising the stipulated duties and rights, confers a special indisputable status to military personnel. However, the provisions of the same law do not establish the quality of civil servants of the military, this quality being established by juridical interpretation.

scholarly journals The Problems of Functioning of the Public Service as a Social Institution in the Russian Federation

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 374-379
Author(s):  
Evgeniya E. Nemeryuk ◽  
◽  
Olga A. Romanovskaia ◽  
Galina A. Kantemirova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Municipal Employees ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Administrative Ethics ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article examines the main problems of such a social institution`s functioning in the Russian state as a public service. The particular attention is paid to the ethical principles of the state and municipal employees in the context of the administrative ethics. It is noted that one of the problems of the civil service as a social institution in the country is the lack of citizens` awareness of the civil servants` activities results as well as the excessive bureaucratization of the internal activities of public authorities in the country.

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