scholarly journals ¿Cambio cultural, posible o imposible? Orientaciones para el estudio de la Cultura Organizacional en la Administración Pública Mexicana

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Individual Behavior ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
General Frames

Keywords: organizational culture, cultural change, general frames of reference, civil service, public administrationAbstract: This paper outlines the study of organizational culture and its changes in a context of public administration through the analysis of the implementation of civil service in the Mexican Public Administration. This conceptual development is elaborated to establish some explanations about the link between organizational culture and public administration. By analyzing this link, we establish the relevance of a theoretical approach to study organizational culture and its changes; thus, the influence of organizational culture on individual behavior in the organization is identified.Palabras clave: cultura organizacional, cambio cultural, marcos generales de referencia, servicio profesional de carrera, administración públicaResumen: En este artículo se plantea el estudio de la modificación de la cultura organizacional en un contexto de gestión pública en México. Mediante el análisis de la implantación del servicio profesional de carrera se elabora un desarrollo conceptual que establece algunas explicaciones de la mencionada relación entre cultura organizacional y administración pública mediante las cuales se busca establecer la importancia del enfoque teórico para estudiar la culturaorganizacional y su cambio. Se identifica la influencia de la cultura en el comportamiento de los individuos.

Evolution of public administration in the post-Soviet. Turkmenistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 98-118
Author(s):  
ALYM K. ANNAMURADOV ◽  
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OVEZDURDY B. MUKHAMMETBERDIEV ◽  
MURAD O. HAITOV ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
The State ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Historical Changes ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Independent States ◽  
World Class ◽  
New Independent States

The article examines the formation of the statehood of modern Turkmenistan through the prism of historical changes that have occurred in the post-Soviet countries. It is noted that after 1991 all former republics of the USSR built new independent states on a fundamentally different basis – interaction between government and society. The authors emphasize that the establishment of trust between the state as an institution and citizens is possible under certain conditions, among which a special place is occupied by a clear organization of civil service and the professionalism of civil servants. The measures that have already been implemented and are being taken by the leadership of Turkmenistan at the present time to solve these problems are considered. It is noted that Turkmenistan acts within the framework and in accordance with the key world-class standards regarding the requirements for the organization of civil service. The measures taken in the country to combat corruption are analyzed.

Contesting the dominant narrative: expanding the multistory cultural change approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-228
Author(s):  
Martijn van Ooijen ◽  
Antonie van Nistelrooij ◽  
Marcel Veenswijk
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Organizational Field ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to expand the theory on multistory cultural change by showing how a dominant narrative on construction safety dynamically interrelates and is contested on multiple intertextual levels in an organizational field of organizations contributing to the recovery of houses in an earthquake region.Design/methodology/approachAn ethnoventionist research approach was adopted in which interpretation of data to find narratives and designing interventions went hand-in-hand.FindingsWe found four distinctive composite narratives besides the dominant narrative to which five actors refer in their accounts, thereby contributing to three types of story patterns. These narratives disclose the taken-for-granted ideas and beliefs that characterize the challenge of changing organizational culture. One intervention, which intended multiple stories to touch the surface, was highlighted as a multistory intervention.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research could extend the knowledge on other change interventions that contribute to multistory cultural change processes.Originality/valueAdopting an ethnoventionist approach to provide deep insights on an unfolding cultural change process for both scholars and practitioners.

Attitudes and Observations about Nonverbal Communication in the Psychotherapeutic Greeting Situation

1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 407-418
Author(s):  
D. D. Flemmer ◽  
Steven Sobelman ◽  
Michele L. Flemmer ◽  
Jan Åström
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
Background Factors ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Practice ◽  
Active Observation ◽  
Reference Situation ◽  
First Time

A survey of 209 licensed psychotherapists was conducted to investigate attitudes towards and observations of nonverbal communication in a reference situation. Background factors such as gender, years of psychotherapeutic experience, hours of therapy practiced each month, and theoretical approach were used to examine relationships. The psychotherapeutic greeting situation, i.e., the first time a therapist and patient meet in a waiting room, was chosen as the reference situation. Female psychotherapists believed that nonverbal communication was more important than male psychotherapists. Psychotherapists with 16 years or more experience supported items that constitute the greeting phase and items on active observation significantly more often than psychotherapists with less experience. Hours of psychotherapeutic practice and frames of reference were not significantly related to any item within the questionnaire. Belief in nonverbal communication was not significantly related to items that involve preparing to meet a patient for the first time.

scholarly journals Sustaining organizational culture change in health systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron David Willis ◽  
Jessie Saul ◽  
Helen Bevan ◽  
Mary Ann Scheirer ◽  
Allan Best ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Realist Review ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Culture Change ◽  
Contextual Elements ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Guiding Principles

Purpose – The questions addressed by this review are: first, what are the guiding principles underlying efforts to stimulate sustained cultural change; second, what are the mechanisms by which these principles operate; and, finally, what are the contextual factors that influence the likelihood of these principles being effective? The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a literature review informed by rapid realist review methodology that examined how interventions interact with contexts and mechanisms to influence the sustainability of cultural change. Reference and expert panelists assisted in refining the research questions, systematically searching published and grey literature, and helping to identify interactions between interventions, mechanisms and contexts. Findings – Six guiding principles were identified: align vision and action; make incremental changes within a comprehensive transformation strategy; foster distributed leadership; promote staff engagement; create collaborative relationships; and continuously assess and learn from change. These principles interact with contextual elements such as local power distributions, pre-existing values and beliefs and readiness to engage. Mechanisms influencing how these principles sustain cultural change include activation of a shared sense of urgency and fostering flexible levels of engagement. Practical implications – The principles identified in this review, along with the contexts and mechanisms that influence their effectiveness, are useful domains for policy and practice leaders to explore when grappling with cultural change. These principles are sufficiently broad to allow local flexibilities in adoption and application. Originality/value – This is the first study to adopt a realist approach for understanding how changes in organizational culture may be sustained. Through doing so, this review highlights the broad principles by which organizational action may be organized within enabling contextual settings.

Administrative elites and the crisis: what lies ahead for the senior civil service in Greece?

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calliope Spanou
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Elites ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The nature of the relationship between the public administration and politics and the subsequent role of the administration appear to be incompatible with the emergence of an administrative elite. After analysing the reasons for this incompatibility, the article explores the impact of the measures taken in the wake of the economic crisis on the civil service and its reform, and also the prospects for the development of a senior civil service. The key, and also the challenge, to any change in this direction remains the rebalancing of the relationship between the public administration and politics. Points for practitioners What might interest practitioners is the issue of the conditions of effectiveness of civil service reform in times of economic crisis and significant pressure.

CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE OF UKRAINE: REALITIES AND TRENDS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iryna Pashko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Quantitative Characteristics ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Characteristics

The complex structure of the institution of public service is defined as a set of individual institutions, which organizationally and conceptually determine its qualitative and quantitative characteristics. It is shown that the nature of the processes taking place in the institute of civil service of Ukraine is determined by external volitional management decisions, the purpose of which is the implementation of urgent socially significant goals, which do not have a direct impact on the institute of civil service. The indirect influence of public administration on the institution of public service is indicated. In particular, the author emphasizes the decisive role of political processes that form the conceptual directions of the state's development and determine the priorities of management activities. The influence of actions on the Ukraine-EU association on the processes of institutionalization of the civil service is shown. A striking example of the synergistic effect of complex management decisions is actions aimed at eliminating the informal destructive institution of corruption. This prompts the search for and application of a new scientific and theoretical toolkit and methodological apparatus for studying the processes of institutionalization in the postmodern synergetic paradigm. In turn, this contributes to the qualitative analysis and forecasting of the prospects for the development of the civil service; will provide a scientifically grounded choice from among possible alternatives to modernize the research institute and will guide the practical development of targeted comprehensive programs and strategies for managing changes in its structure. Thus, taking into account the influence of complex bifurcation processes in public administration at the present stage will make it possible to identify trends in the institutionalization of public service in new qualitative and quantitative characteristics.

scholarly journals Kleinstaaterei im Dienstrecht der deutschen Bundesländer

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolai Dose ◽  
Felix Wolfes ◽  
Carolin Burmester
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Human Resource Managers ◽  
Federal States ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
German Federal States

With the federalism reform of 2006, the German federal states gained legislative power over their civil servants. This did not only lead to a substantial difference in pay levels but also to fragmented civil service regulations with different degrees of attractiveness. Requests to move to another state have created various problems in the different areas of the civil service. They are partly caused by the fragmented regulations and partly by an informal agreement between the states. By making use of an online survey among human resource managers in the different areas of public administration and 32 case studies of civil servants who either aspire to move to or have moved to another state, this book systematically identifies and analyses civil servants’ motivations for and hindrances to doing so. In this way, it reveals both obstructive and conducive factors which explain mobility. Moreover, the authors put forward some reform proposals.

scholarly journals Structuring the civil service in the context of intergenerational transformation

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Nurgissa KUSHEROV
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Staff Turnover ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Republic

The article highlights the problems of deep intergenerational transformation in the civil service of the Republic of Kazakhstan over the past decade, offers a new approach to public administration in accordance with the theory of generations, formulating solutions based on the value of each generation. At the same time, frequent staff turnover, self-determination of civil servants, efficiency of civil service and other issues are analyzed in accordance with the concepts of the theory of generations. The article developed empirical recommendations that will serve as the basis for improving some functions of the civil service.

scholarly journals Integrity Advisors and the Development of Administrative Communication Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Balázs J.D. Hohmann
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Administrative Authority ◽  
The Public ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Complementary Part ◽  
Integrity Management ◽  
Corruption Prevention

The integrity advisers are the central actors of integrity management systems of the administrative organizational structure, whose main task is to promote the implementation of the integrity approach within state administration institutions. As a complementary part of this task, we can separate the tasks of corruption prevention and the improvement of organizational integrity, of which the latter being discussed in more detail in this research and presentation. Integrity advisers play a key role in the development of organizational culture among public administration bodies, such as bodies exercising administrative authority. Looking at the topic more closely, with regard to the activities of integrity advisers, it can be clearly established that one of the engines of their operation is the proper and deep communication, which is not only necessary within the public administration and inter-agency transactions, but it also means communication activities that can be interpreted in the relationship between the public and clients. Equally important is their training and other activities aimed at developing staff awareness, relationships, situation assessment and action practices, which, in addition to and in part within public service training, provide an opportunity to shape organizational culture. The presentation and the paper aims to show the role of integrity advisors in developing organizational culture and transparency in the administration based on recent research experience about online presence of integrity advisors and in-depth interview surveys.

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