scholarly journals How ‘smart’ is Public Administration in the Eyes of European Students? - Examining Behaviour Models in the Public Administration

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-126
Author(s):  
Marcin Stasz
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Classic Approach ◽  
Behaviour Models ◽  
Behaviour Changes

AbstractFollowing study focussed on the perception of the public administration by the international students in the context of implementation of the concept of smart administration. New administrative reality requires that public administration should not only adapt to new conditions, but should also introduce complex plans of change, which in consequence should lead to the creation of a new type of smart administration, which adequately answers the needs and expectations of contemporary and future citizens.Smart administration should be understood as an effective, well managed organisation with reasonably simplified structure and conduct oriented primarily towards serenity, comfort and well-being of the recipient of its service. Important feature is easy, two-way communication, which is a gateway for active participation of citizens in public affairs in both local and nationwide level.For the purpose of this study, various dispositions expressed towards public administration were classified into the three categories of behaviour models. Models of behaviour in public administration presented in the paper are meritoric-despotism behaviour, efficient-democratic behaviour and anarchist-informal behaviour and were created for this study on the basis of approaches already present in the field.Main objective of the paper is to provide preliminary analysis of how the international students perceive changes in the behaviour models in public administration and what is the role of smart administration in this. This paper is based on the data collected during the interviews, conducted face to face, with four students from different part of Europe and who are following exchange programmes. Questions concerned the experience in contact with public administration, its role, performance and how should it be changed. Research results showed that regarding behaviour changes in public administration, interlocutors speak in favour of a centralised model of public administration rather than decentralised, which is interesting in the context of smart administration, because this mean that there is still a common perception that the base of classic approach to public administration should be maintained even if modified by new concepts.

The Public Poems of Howard Nemerov

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Ronald Q. Frederickson ◽  
H. George Frederickson
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Public

The authors have selected a few Nemerov poems they judge to be "public"--poems that will interest persons in public affairs-government, politics, and public administration.

scholarly journals Who wants to work in bureaucracy? Career intentions of post-millennial students

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Jäkel ◽  
George Alexander Borshchevskiy
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Millennial Students ◽  
The Public ◽  
Career Plans

This article investigates who wants, or does not want to work in Russian public administration, and why. A majority of Russians believe that public servants are concerned with improving their personal well-being rather than serving the public interest. Understanding working sector choices is thus the first step to attract talent into the civil service. We study public employment intention among a group of students of public administration in two elite Moscow universities who are relatively early undergraduates. Parents working in the civil service are the most important public sector career motivators of students in Russia, more important than positive perceptions of public sector compensation and its impact on society. Our findings imply that early-stage career plans are shaped outside university lecture rooms. We conclude that teaching public administration in Russia will have to focus on drawing a line between behavior that falls below standards of the profession and efforts to contribute to the well-being of citizens.

scholarly journals The Public Affairs Faculty Manual: A Guide to the Effective Management of Public Affairs Programs Edited by Bruce McDonald III and William Hatcher

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-296
Author(s):  
Michael Overton
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Academic Administrators ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fundamental Knowledge ◽  
Broad Overview

In The Public Affairs Faculty Manual: A Guide to the Effective Management of Public Affairs Programs, editors Bruce McDonald III and William Hatcher, provide a broad overview on designing, leading, and managing a public affairs (PA) program. The edited volume is explicitly written for PA faculty in new leadership roles in higher education, though it is a useful reference for administrators of all levels and even useful for regular faculty. Despite excellent journals focused on PA education, such as Journal of Public Affairs Education, and Teaching Public Administration, there is a clear need for a focused cultivation of fundamental knowledge, research, and experience-informed advice for academic administrators in PA programs.

scholarly journals Shaken But Unruffled: Stories of Psychologically Distressed Public Secondary School Teachers

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 762-795
Author(s):  
Armando Mazo Olmedo ◽  
Gloria Pacifico Gempes
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Secondary School ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Cross Case Analysis

Psychological distress is a global phenomenon that affects not only the psychological and physical well-being but also the profession of  teachers  around the world. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the experiences of psychologically distressed public secondary school teachers, their coping strategies, and insights they can share to their peers and to the academe in general. The participants of this inquiry were five female teachers from the public secondary schools of Davao del Norte division of Davao region, Philippines who experienced distress caused by school and personal stressors. Furthermore, informants  underwent face-to-face in-depth interview. After a thorough analysis of the data using thematic, numeration and cross-case analysis procedures, it was found out that students’ misbehavior was the most common cause of teachers’ distress. On the coping strategies employed by them, it also came out that controlling the emotion was their most usual coping strategy against their distressful experiences. Moreover, teaching as both profession and ministry was the strongest insight. Finally, this study has provided some important implications on how to address the said phenomenon, suggested relevant insights for meaningful learning, and considered vital related topics which  necessitate future undertakings.

The Educational Quality of the Doctoral Programs in Public Affairs

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Tiangeng Lu ◽  
Göktuğ Morçöl
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Educational Quality ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Disciplines

Public affairs scholars have been concerned about the quality of education in their field for some decades. To assess the program quality, the authors analyzed the National Research Council's most recent data. In the comparative analyses between the public affairs programs and the programs in other social science disciplines, they found that public affairs doctoral programs were behind their peer fields on most of the input-based metrics (students fully funded in their first year of education, median quantitative GRE scores, and percentage of international students in programs) but ahead of them in student-faculty ratios. The results of the outcome-based metrics were mixed. Public affairs students graduated earlier on average, but smaller percentages of them had plans for employment in academic positions. Also, the faculty productivity was lower in public affairs programs compared to the other social science disciplines. Among the subfields of public affairs, public management and public policy had more favorable input- and outcome-based results compared to public administration.

A Politics Worthy of the Name

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Orr
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Decay ◽  
The Rich ◽  
To Receive

Relative to the problems we face, our politics are about the most miserable that can be imagined. Those who purport to represent us and who on rare occasions try to lead us have been unable to take even the smallest steps to promote energy efficiency to avoid possibly catastrophic climatic change a few decades from now. They have failed to stop the hemorrhaging of life and protect biological diversity, soils, and forests. They ignore problems of urban decay, suburban sprawl, the poisoning of our children by persistent toxins, the destruction of rural communities, and the growing disparity between the rich and the poor. They cannot find the wherewithal to defend the public interest in matters of global trade or even in the financing of public elections. Indeed, the more potentially catastrophic the issue, the less likely it is to receive serious and sustained attention from political leaders at any level. Our public priorities, in other words, are upside down. Issues that will seem trivial or even nonsensical to our progeny are given great attention, while problems crucial to their well-being are ignored and allowed to grow into global catastrophes. At best they will regard us with pity, at worst as derelict and perhaps criminally so. The situation was not always this way. The leadership of this country was once capable of responding to threats to our security and health with alacrity and sometimes with intelligence. In light of the dismal performance of the U.S. political system relative to the large environmental and social issues looming ahead, we have, broadly speaking, three possible courses of action (assuming that we choose to act). The first is to turn the management of our environmental affairs over to a kind of permanent technocracy—a priesthood of global managers. The idea that experts ought to manage public affairs is at least as old as Plato. In its current incarnation, some propose to turn the management of the earth over to a group of global experts. Stripped to its essentials, this means smarter exploitation of nature culminating in the global administration of the planet with lots of satellites, remote sensing, and geographic information systems experts mapping one thing or another.

THE ESSENCE OF THE PUBLIC LAW ENTITIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-272
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Chochowski
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Administration System ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Supervision ◽  
Public Rights ◽  
Over Time

Public law entities play a significant role in a democratic legal state and its public administration system. They enable the active participation of an individual in the exercise of public authority and involvement in public affairs. They help to build a civil society and protect against the phenomenon of a crisis of democracy. Above all, however, they serve to protect human dignity as a source of freedom and human and civil rights. For this reason, the issue of determining their essence is important. It is not easy because it has undergone a metamorphosis over time and it is not one category. This article presents considerations regarding the essence of public law entities. It pointed to the necessity of: possession of public rights by entities; recognition of their public-law subjectivity; granting them public authority; owning own cases carried out independently; being subject to state supervision.

scholarly journals La regulación de conflictos en la Administración Pública como una oportunidad para la innovación pública: una propuesta aplicada

2019 ◽  
pp. 86-101
Author(s):  
Asier GALLASTEGI FULLAONDO ◽  
Maider GOROSTIDI GARCÍA
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Public ◽  
Efficient Approach ◽  
Quality Of Relationships ◽  
Balanced Network

Laburpena: Testu honekin garrantzitsua iruditzen zaigun ideia bat eskaini nahi dizuegu: "Gatazka" deitzen dugun hori kontzeptualizatzeko eta hurbiltzeko modua bera aldaketarako palanka bat izan daiteke. Ikuspegi eta ekintza hori bi ikuspegitatik arakatu nahi dugu: bata, Administrazio Publikotik kokatutako hausnarketa batekin, testuinguruaren berezitasun eta gaitasun batzuk azaltzen saiatzeaz gain, ikuspegi sistemikoa eredu gisa erabili nai du, konplexutasunarekin konprometitutako begirada, fenomenoen izaera zirkularra harreman-sarearen baitan eta orekan ulertzea bilatzen duena. Artikuluan zehar, harremanen kalitatea osatzen duten zirkulu maltzur eta birtuosoen aurrean gure ekarpenaren berri izatera gonbidatu nahi zaituztegu, izan ere, zirkulu horiek eginkizunaren ikuspegi eraginkorragoa ahalbidetzen dute, pertsona- eta antolakuntza-ongizateaz gain. Resumen: Con este texto nos gustaría ofrecer una idea que consideramos importante: la propia manera de conceptualizar y acercarnos a eso que llamamos “conflicto” puede ser palanca de cambio. Queremos explorar esta mirada y acción desde dos focos: uno con una reflexión situada desde la Administración Pública, intentando esbozar algunas de las particularidades y potencialidades del contexto, y además utilizar como modelo la perspectiva sistémica, una mirada comprometida con la complejidad, que busca comprender la naturaleza circular de los fenómenos dentro de una red relacional y en equilibrio. Durante el artículo queremos invitar a tomar mayor consciencia de nuestra contribución a los círculos viciosos y virtuosos que conforman la calidad de las relaciones, y que permiten un enfoque a la tarea más eficiente además del bienestar personal y organizacional. Abstract: The very way of conceptualizing and approaching what we call "conflict" can be a lever for change. We want to explore this gaze and action from two focuses: first, with a reflection situated from the Public Administration, trying to outline some of the particularities and potentials of the context, and second, using the systemic perspective as a model, a gaze committed to complexity, which seeks to understand the circular nature of phenomena within a relational and balanced network. In this article we would like to invite others to become more aware of our contribution to the vicious and virtuous circles that shape the quality of relationships, enabling a more efficient approach to task as well as personal and organizational well-being.

scholarly journals The Examination of Organizational Commitment and Interaction of Cyberslacking for Employees in the Public Sector

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
Nilay Köleoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Public Sphere

Internet has been an important factor in our experience about ‘Information Age’ and it has been the hallmark of the current era. As in all fields, in the public sphere the usage of the internet is gradually increasing. It is easier to overcome the bureaucratic obstacles thanks to the use of the internet in the public domain. Nearly 3,5 million public employees are on duty in Turkey from 2016. Public employees in Turkey is an important channel in terms of internet usage. Internet usage has resulted the formation of new concepts. One of this new concepts is the concept of ‘cyberslacking’. The concept of cyberslacking defined as employees wasting their time while work in their workplace, appeared as if doing business in computers that used for business purposes, via the internet and computer. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between cyberslacking with organizational commitment. For this purpose data collection methods was used two different scales including the scale of organizational commitment and the scale of cyberslacking. Face to face survey was conducted for 254 public employees who are working in the city of Canakkale in Turkey by using Judgemental Sampling.

Teaching curiosity in public affairs programs

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-375
Author(s):  
William Hatcher
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Asking Questions

Through practicing curiosity by asking questions in the hopes of seeking answers, public administrators may practice empathy, build knowledge about how the world works, and in doing so, dispel ignorance in public agencies. By valuing curiosity, or dispelling ignorance about how the world works, public administrators may help create bureaucracies that are effective, democratic, and trustworthy. Thus, curiosity is a concept that can help public administrators improve the delivery of public services and better serve their communities. However, public affairs curriculum rarely addresses the topic. This article discusses the importance of curiosity in public administration, examines how public affairs programs can teach the concept, and concludes with advice on incorporating the exercises teaching curiosity in the public administration classroom.

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