scholarly journals Manurau: A conceptual framework of Māori leadership practice in the New Zealand public sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Daryn Bean
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Kaupapa Māori ◽  
The Right

<p>This kaupapa Māori examination of Māori leadership in the New Zealand public sector reveals that the experience of Māori working in government agencies is neither well understood nor specifically addressed in the fields of public administration and public-sector leadership. The study found that a key leadership practice of Māori public servants is to position themselves strategically and thoughtfully to advance mātauranga Māori and kaupapa Māori. They are public servants who are cognisant of the Crown–Māori spaces in which they occupy. They are careful in their assumptions and views about the underlying forces at play and the responsibility they have in working for government. They are concerned about the legitimate place of mātauranga Māori and kaupapa Māori in kāwanatanga spaces and work to alleviate and mitigate bureaucratic pressures imposed by the dominant Westminster model of governance. Māori leadership practices are designed and constructed through personal models of leadership shaped by Māori values, legacies, whakapapa, and whānau upbringing. Māori leadership practice has influence beyond the hierarchical structures of kāwanatanga. Metaphorically, Māori public servants are manu kōrero (literally, knowledge birds) who, given the right conditions, would not operate alone singularly, but operate as many birds, as Manurau (literally, one hundred birds). They work inside kāwanatanga – empowering and leading others, expressing rangatiratanga from a position of personal integrity, humility, and authority. This study applied critical theoretical tools for research and analysis and found answers that are rooted in kaupapa and mātauranga Māori methodologies. Te Arawatanga, as a tribal framework, positions the insider Māori researcher into a safe cultural space to be courageous about expressing rangatiratanga in a kāwanatanga context. Whakapapa analysis grounds the research within a Māori ontology. Whakataukī emphasises the Māori voices and narratives framed within the wisdom of ancestors. This study can be said to rest on the shoulders of those with lived experience who see with Māori eyes, hear with Māori ears and feel with a Māori heart. The significance of this thesis therefore provides a ‘starting point’ that seeks to legitimate the Māori leadership contribution to New Zealand’s public service and advocates for greater recognition and validation of Māori leadership practice and indigenous leadership in public administration globally.</p>

scholarly journals Manurau: A conceptual framework of Māori leadership practice in the New Zealand public sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Daryn Bean
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Kaupapa Māori ◽  
The Right

<p>This kaupapa Māori examination of Māori leadership in the New Zealand public sector reveals that the experience of Māori working in government agencies is neither well understood nor specifically addressed in the fields of public administration and public-sector leadership. The study found that a key leadership practice of Māori public servants is to position themselves strategically and thoughtfully to advance mātauranga Māori and kaupapa Māori. They are public servants who are cognisant of the Crown–Māori spaces in which they occupy. They are careful in their assumptions and views about the underlying forces at play and the responsibility they have in working for government. They are concerned about the legitimate place of mātauranga Māori and kaupapa Māori in kāwanatanga spaces and work to alleviate and mitigate bureaucratic pressures imposed by the dominant Westminster model of governance. Māori leadership practices are designed and constructed through personal models of leadership shaped by Māori values, legacies, whakapapa, and whānau upbringing. Māori leadership practice has influence beyond the hierarchical structures of kāwanatanga. Metaphorically, Māori public servants are manu kōrero (literally, knowledge birds) who, given the right conditions, would not operate alone singularly, but operate as many birds, as Manurau (literally, one hundred birds). They work inside kāwanatanga – empowering and leading others, expressing rangatiratanga from a position of personal integrity, humility, and authority. This study applied critical theoretical tools for research and analysis and found answers that are rooted in kaupapa and mātauranga Māori methodologies. Te Arawatanga, as a tribal framework, positions the insider Māori researcher into a safe cultural space to be courageous about expressing rangatiratanga in a kāwanatanga context. Whakapapa analysis grounds the research within a Māori ontology. Whakataukī emphasises the Māori voices and narratives framed within the wisdom of ancestors. This study can be said to rest on the shoulders of those with lived experience who see with Māori eyes, hear with Māori ears and feel with a Māori heart. The significance of this thesis therefore provides a ‘starting point’ that seeks to legitimate the Māori leadership contribution to New Zealand’s public service and advocates for greater recognition and validation of Māori leadership practice and indigenous leadership in public administration globally.</p>

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 BRINGING THE HORIZON BACK IN: THE MID-RANGE APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Peter Spink
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Getulio Vargas ◽  
A Current

In recent years there has been a growing discussion of the lack of impact of organizational studies and, amongst other comments, on a drift away from the public sector agenda. Taking as a starting point two recent key addresses by James March and Jean-Claude Thoenig, both directed to organizational studies scholars, this paper seeks to contribute to this debate both in terms of focus and in terms of methodological approach. It argues in favor of a mid-range territorial focus on organizational affairs and to a place based action-investigation approach to methodology. In doing so it draws on the experience of the Center for Public Administration and Government of the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo with local level innovation during 1995 – 2008 and on a current project on urban vulnerabilities which has been largely shaped by these conclusions.

scholarly journals Tiếp cận dịch vụ hành chính công đối với người khuyết tật - Hướng đến sự thiết kế dung hợp

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phan Luan
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

The research applied quantitative and qualitative methods to measure satisfaction and analyze possible barriers in accessing public administration services for people with disabilities. By using field trials, the study involves people with disabilities throughout the entire research process to ensure the voice from insiders has been brought out. The results presented that the levels of satisfaction of people with disabilities can be influenced by their perceptions of their rights, local culture, or the urbanization pressure. Notably, the higher the awareness of the right to independent living of people with disabilities is, the lower their satisfaction level is, regardless of receiving support from their relatives or public servants. In surveyed sites, the accessibility of people living with disabilities depends heavily on the political leaders' awareness of the rights of persons with disabilities. Several recommendations for people with disabilities, caregivers, organizations working on disability, and government agencies have been proposed to ensure a favorable environment for people with disabilities to actively exercise their right to access public administration services.

scholarly journals Rules, Prudence and Public Value: Public Servants and Social Media in Comparative Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis C. Grube
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Service Departments ◽  
The Uk

The reach of social media is prodigious. Its ubiquitous nature has reshaped the ways in which government agencies can communicate with citizens. But amidst the rush to embrace the opportunities of Twitter, Facebook and other platforms, governments have had to lay down rules to govern how and when public service departments should use social media. This article undertakes a comparative analysis of the formal rules and guidelines in place across four Westminster jurisdictions – Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK – to identify the types of behaviours and activities that are seen as desirable when public servants are reaching out to the wider public through social media. The article argues that the horizontal communication patterns associated with social media are fundamentally at odds with the hierarchical structures of the Westminster system of government.

scholarly journals The Status of e-Administration in Hungary – Are We on the Right Track?

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-59
Author(s):  
Bernadett Veszprémi
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Entire Process ◽  
The Status ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public Sectors ◽  
The Right

The goal of this study is to define (or find out) where Hungary currently stands in the development of e-Administration solutions. The issue is more topical than ever, as infocommunications became an integral part of our daily lives, affecting both the private and public sectors, and changing our ways of working – thus, it requires our understanding. When it comes to the public sector, however, striking changes can only be achieved if the entire process of public administration is (or would be) changed. The goals are clear: work should be faster, as it would result in satisfied clients, cut costs and more efficient procedures. The question to ask now is where Hungary stands in this endeavour. Are we on the right track?

scholarly journals Discrimination Against Roma Employees in the Public Administration in the Republic of North Macedonia

SEEU Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
David Berat ◽  
Agush Demirovski
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
The State ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Indirect Discrimination ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Masters Degree

AbstractThis article is about the rights of the Roma in North Macedonia and the level of discrimination that Roma are facing while employed in the public sector in the Republic of North Macedonia. The aims and objectives of the article are theoretical and practical understanding of the situation of Roma and the violation of their rights through direct and indirect discrimination at work. The data was collected during the period from May-July 2019 via 52 collected questionaries from a total of 70 public servants who were asked to be a part of the research.The article shows new data we have collected from employed Roma as public servants in different institutions in the state. The surveyed public servants were 52 in total, from which 34 are employees with secondary education, 17 are with university education and only 1 has a masters degree.The questionnaire is composed out of 17 questions about the forms of discrimination, feeling or witnesing discrimination at their workplace, who caused the discrimination, witnessing the spread of prejudices and stereotypes about the Roma, rejection of colleagues to share an office with Roma, and who caused the discrimination. One of the results shows that 55% of the surveyed Roma did not have a single training from their employer in the last 12 months and that 69% of those surveyed stated that they felt discrimination in the last 12 months on everyday basis.

scholarly journals Direito à informação governamental: questões acerca da positividade e legitimação de um direito fundamental │ The right to governmental information: on the enforcement and legitimation of a fundamental right

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emília Barroso Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Federal Constitution ◽  
The Right

Resumo Neste artigo discutimos o direito à informação governamental como um direito fundamental, e seu processo de positivação no Brasil. O exercício do direito não está ligado apenas à promulgação de normas jurídicas, mas também ao reconhecimento ético do seu valor, por meio do debate público. No Brasil, onde este direito está positivado pela Constituição Federal desde 1988, não há indícios de percepção de legitimidade e validade dessas normas jurídicas pelos servidores Federais, de acordo com pesquisa realizada pela CGU/UNESCO[1].Concluímos que as discussões sobre a implementação da Lei de Acesso à Informação podem possibilitar o debate e validação ética faltantes.Palavras-chave Lei de Acesso à Informação; Direito à informação; Informação governamental; Legitimidade e validade do direito; Administração pública.Abstract This article discusses the right to government information as a fundamental right, and its enforcement by Brazilian law. This right is not just linked to the enactment of legal norms, but also to the ethical recognition of its value, through public debate. In Brazil, where this right is enforced by the Federal Constitution since 1988, there is no evidence of perceived legitimacy and validity of these legal norms by Federal public servants, according to research conducted by CGU/ UNESCO. We conclude that the discussions about the implementation of the Information Access Act will enable the missed debate and ensuing validation.Keywords Information Access Act, Information Right, Government Information, Legitimacy and validity of law; Public administration. 

Ethics, Corruption, and Integrity of Governance: What It Is and What Helps

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Huberts ◽  
André van Montfort
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Administrative Behavior ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Integrity Management ◽  
The Many ◽  
Empirical Turn

Ethics, corruption, and integrity do matter for society and are relevant topics to take into account in the research (and practice) of public administration and governance. The many views, perspectives, and interpretations that are available with respect to these issues can be integrated in a challenging framework. This framework takes the concept of integrity of governance as a starting point, with a focus on relevant moral values and norms for political and administrative behavior and a discussion of various forms of integrity violations in the public sector. Based on a large amount of research on “what helps to protect integrity and prevent integrity violations,” it specially pays attention to integrity management and integrity systems. The framework concerning ethics, corruption, and integrity of governance offers starting points for formulating an agenda for the future. This agenda should express the desirability of both an “integrity turn” in public administration and political science and an “empirical turn” in integrity research.

Reforms and identities

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beata Glinka ◽  
Przemyslaw G. Hensel
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Data Coding ◽  
New Public

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how the identities of the employees of Polish public administration are shaped in the process of public system reforms. Design/methodology/approach The findings are based on interviews with 40 employees of the Polish public administration. The authors have used open interviews as well as projective methods to discover and explore beliefs and attitudes of bureaucrats towards their work and the system of public administration. The selected sample was diversified both spatially and systematically to reflect the diversity of organisations that constitute the Polish public administration system. Grounded theory was used for data coding and interpretation. Findings The study indicates that organisational change initiatives designed to enhance the quality and efficiency of public administration may have negative impacts on the identities of public servants and may lead to their increased incapacity. Rather than sparking entrepreneurial behaviours and transforming bureaucrats into managers, introduction of the rhetoric of New Public Management and New Public Governance in the Polish public administration has contributed to strengthening of classical dysfunctions of bureaucracy. Research limitations/implications The results imply that the understanding of organisational changes in the Eastern European public sector – which are usually studied through the lenses of regulation and economy – would benefit from more sociologically and historically oriented studies. The limitations of our results are associated with the adopted qualitative subjective methodology. Practical implications Foreign-born templates of reforms may appear to be logical and coherent but they rest on certain assumptions about identities and value structures that are not necessarily congruent with the identities at the adoption site. For that reason, successful reform projects need to consider and problematise the content and shape of culturally conditioned identities. Social implications Understanding of public sector reforms’ implication should lead to the improvement of change programmes as well as to the evolution of public administration towards a form more desired by the society. It is especially important as Polish society considers public administration as one of factors influencing (in a negative way) the quality of life. Originality/value The paper provides insight into public administration reforms in Poland and their impact on public servants’ identities.

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