scholarly journals Purpose of social protection of civil servants

Social Law ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
V. Bezusyy
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Social State ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Labor Potential

In the article, the goal of social protection of civil servants is defined as the desired state of their social protection, which corresponds to the essence of the social state and the content of its social policy. The content of the goal of social protection of public servants concerns the provision of their basic socio-economic rights, as well as the promotion of their development and the realization of their abilities as an integral part of the formation of the social and labor potential of the public service.

PROBLEM OF FORMATION OF QUALIFICATION-PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS AS THE BASIS OF SELECTION OF PUBLIC SERVICE PERSONS IN UKRAINE: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Vasyl Nikolayevich Andreev
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Professional Requirements ◽  
Compe Tence

The article analyzed regulatory documents of Ukraine, which reg- ulate the issues of determining the professional qualification requirements for employees, and find out that these documents establish requirements that are non-systemic and can be applied to any managerial position. The author propos- es, taking into account the tendencies of the development of the public service system, to identify seven types of competencies of public servants: political, legal, economic, social, psychological, managerial, moral and ethical. Political compe- tence and moral legitimacy implies an understanding of the nature of the basic so- cial functions and organizational structure of the modern state, the principles and forms of democracy, the nature of the interaction between different branches of government, the role of political parties in the life of society. Legal (legal) compe- tence of civil servants is formed in the course of basic vocational training, which relates to the main branches of law and is based on the skills of its professional application in various spheres of activity. Economic competence is differentiated depending on the specialization of civil servants and within the framework of a general for all level should include an assessment of the ability to apply a com- parative analysis of key economic concepts. Sociological competence is related to the awareness of civil servants of the concept of the social structure of modern so- ciety, its dynamics and its impact on political and socio-economic processes. Psy- chological competence is the basis for effective communication contacts, when it is necessary to understand people, their interests, motives and intentions, to find an individual approach to them. Management competence includes knowledge of management methods, value-orientation regulation, integrated management of labor motivation, development of creative potential, etc.

scholarly journals Researching the Dynamics of National Social Policy in a Globalized Society. A Proposal for a De-Nationalized Analytical Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-155
Author(s):  
Erica Righard
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social

Abstract Epistemological hierarchies in the social sciences stipulate that sedentarism is naturalised as a normality, and that mobility is viewed as a deviation. This article sets out to propose an analytical framework that takes the analysis beyond this kind of nationalized knowledge production, and to empirically show the gains of de-nationalized frameworks for analysis of social protection and dynamics of in-/equality in the globalised society. I will do this relying on the empirical example of the public old-age pension scheme in Sweden.

Politicised Public Service and Corruption in Lesotho

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamello Rakolobe
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
High Magnitude ◽  
The Social ◽  
Parliamentary Committee ◽  
The Government

Countries across the world are faced with high levels of corruption. In an effort to combat the threat, governments have declared war on corruption and have consequently put in place some anti-corruption institutions. The causes of corruption are numerous and the consequences are devastating for the social, political and economic development of nations. The perpetrators of corruption are in most cases the public servants as they are charged with the day-to-day administration of the government. This means that the caliber of public servants; which is determined by their recruitment inter alia will influence their practices and conduct. Lesotho has adopted a Westminster model of public administration in which recruitment to the public service is supposed to be merit-based. However, the recruitment of top officers such as Principal Secretaries is politically motivated and this has consequently resulted into a highly politicised public service; literature points that there is a relationship between politicisation of the public service and corruption. In this paper, I scrutinize and explain the effect of a politicised public service on the high magnitude of corruption in Lesotho. This study is based on secondary data such as official government reports, newspapers and research reports. I argue that the highly politicised public service in Lesotho contributes to the corruptionscourge that is besieging the country. I therefore recommend administrative reforms in view of depoliticizing the public service by removing the authority to appoint, promote and dismiss high-ranking public officers from the Prime Minister to a special Parliamentary committee that is inclusive of members from the ruling and opposition parties.

Choice and Voice – A Review

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Greener
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Service Users ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

‘Choice’ and ‘voice’ are two of the most significant means through which the public are able to participate in public services. Choice agendas position public service users as consumers, driving improvements by choosing good providers over bad, which then thrive through greater allocations of funds as money follows their selections (Le Grand, 2007). Choice-driven reforms tend to be about trying to make public services more locally responsive (Ferlie, Freeman, McDonnell, Petsoulas and Rundle-Smith, 2006). Voice-driven reforms, on the other hand, tend to position public service users as citizens, suggesting an emphasis on accountability mechanisms to drive service improvements through elections, with the possible removal of low regarded officials, or a greater involvement of local people in the running of services (Jenkins, 2006). Voice implies that citizens hold the right to participate in public services either through the political process, or through their direct involvement in the running or delivery of the services themselves. Of course, it is also possible to combine choice and voice mechanisms to try and achieve greater service responsiveness and accountability. In this review, choice reforms will be treated as those which are based upon consumer literature, and voice reforms those based upon attempting to achieve greater citizenship.Citizenship and consumption are two areas with significant literatures in their own right, but whereas the citizenship literature is widely cited in the social policy literature, the consumption literature appears rather more selectively. This review examines each area in turn in terms of its application to social policy, and then presents a synthesis of commonalties in the two literatures, which represent particularly promising avenues for exploring the relationship between public services and their users.

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 MOTIVAÇÃO DOS SERVIDORES DA PREVIDÊNCIA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (207) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Bruna Serafim Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Career Progression ◽  
The State ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ultimate Objective

The motivation for the public service of civil servants is an essential factor for the pursuit of public ends with a view to guaranteeing social welfare, the ultimate objective of the State. In this context, public servants are inserted as guarantors of this purpose, and the motivating factors and those that generate dissatisfaction must be constantly analyzed by the decisionmaking managers of the Administration bodies. Based on the study by Perry (1996), adapted for the Brazilian scenario in an unprecedented study carried out by Moraes (2017), the Public Service Motivation (PSM) scale was used to measure the motivation for the public service of the civil servants of the social security agency of the State of São Paulo, as well as analyzing, by the quantitative method, motivating factors, as well as causes of dissatisfaction, relevant to the provision of public service. It was found that factors such as salary and difficulty in career progression are causes that, in addition to generating dissatisfaction, are capable of affecting motivation, which prevails among civil servants at the beginning of their careers and in technical positions, with less autonomy, responsibility and education level. In this sense, it is necessary to adopt measures capable of supplying or minimizing such effects in order to increase the levels of motivation and satisfaction for the public service, which are able to increase the effectiveness and productivity in the provision of the public service. Measures such as a fairer and more attractive career progression plan, greater autonomy and power to participate in decision-making can favor this scenario.

scholarly journals PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL PROTECTION OF CIVIL SERVANTS

Social Law ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Bezusiy
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Starting Position ◽  
Social Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
Main Thing ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Management

In the article the principles of social protection of civil servants are defined as the basic provisions stipulated in the rules of social law, which underlie the formation of activities to ensure the social rights of civil servants and which should be guided in determining the ways, methods of exercising their social protection. It is stated that these principles form a system (general and special principles) that helps to form a proper basis for the social protection of civil servants. The author notes that similar in meaning and, as a rule, often used as a synonym for the word "principle" is the concept of "foundation", which has the meaning "basis of something; the main thing that is based on is something; starting position, principle, principle, basis of outlook, rule of behavior; way, method of doing something. " It is noted that the system of social protection of the population should be built both on the general principles of social management, acting on the system itself, and on the individual, which have a specific orientation. The article covers different views of scientists on the principles of social policy, one of these positions is the view regarding the following characteristics of the basic principles - it is rationality (achieving the optimum balance between the purpose of social policy and its means of implementation), social justice (recognition of equal opportunities for all members of society) and social security (the possibility of predictability of certain life risks). The author defines the concept of "principle of social protection of civil servants", and the proper implementation of the theoretical provisions and practical ways of realizing the goal and principles of social protection of civil servants will provide for the formation of functioning of a really effective mechanism for securing and protecting social rights of this special category of working citizens of Ukraine.

scholarly journals PENGARUH BUDAYA KERJA PEGAWAI NEGERI SIPIL TERHADAP PELAYANAN PUBLIK DI DINAS CATATAN SIPIL DAN KEPENDUDUKAN KOTA PAYAKUMBUH

Humanus ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aldri Frinaldi
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civil Registration ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
The Government ◽  
Positive Work Culture ◽  
The Many

The many negative assessments of the work culture of civil servants in public service is an issue that must be addressed by the government and local government. This research was conducted by formulating the problem of how culture influences the work of civil servants in the public service in the Payakumbuh Civil Registry Office in order to analyze the work culture of civil servants in an effort to improve the quality of human resources in public services. This study used a descriptive quantitative approach. The population is all employees in the Payakumbuh’s Department of Population and Civil Registration amounting 30 people based on the data in the month of December 2013. Due to the small number of population in this study, total sampling is applied. The data is collected by spreading questionnaires to all respondents and then returned after some time, whose whole process took place from October to December 2013. The questionnaire was scaled based on Likert scale that is made in a positive statement. The result of the study shows that in general the work culture of civil servants in the Payakumbuh’s Department of Population and Civil Registration are very good, although two indicators are still mediocre. The effort to improve these two indicators are suggested by training programs based on local wisdom and the involvement of stakeholders who are experts in the field by the Payakumbuh administration in building and cultivating a positive work culture based on local wisdom. Keywords: work culture, public servants, public service

scholarly journals Equipping Public Servants with Accrual Accounting for Transparency, Accountability and Efficiency – Evidence from Nigeria and Ghana

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-10
Author(s):  
Shakirat Adepeju Babatunde ◽  
Opoku Fofie
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Accrual Accounting ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Sectors

Objective - This study is based on the social welfare viewpoint of accounting. It examines the benefits of accrual accounting as a replacement for cash accounting as a measure to enhance public service transparency, accountability, and efficiency in the public sectors of Nigeria and Ghana. Methodology/Technique - This study is based on a sample of 375 respondents from the accounting, auditing and budgeting cadres and legislatives of the public sector in Nigeria. In the Ghana perspective, 25 high-ranking public servants in the accounting, auditing and budgeting cadres were interviewed for the study. Three hundred and twenty-six valid responses representing 87% of the samples in Nigeria and the Ghana context were retrieved for analysed via descriptive statistics. Findings - Findings indicate that there is a significant association between accrual accounting and transparency, accountability, and efficiency in the public sectors of Nigeria and Ghana. Novelty - This study has the potential for improving financial reporting in the public sector. It is useful to researchers and academics because its focus on societal accounting is of current interest to accounting professionals and researchers. Type of Paper: Empirical Keywords: Accountability; Accrual accounting; Public servants; Efficiency; Transparency. JEL Classification: H83, M41.

scholarly journals Information & Analytical Support of Archetypal Methodology Application for Research of Identity Dynamics of Public Servants of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduard Afonin ◽  
Tetiana Novachenko ◽  
Andrii Martynov ◽  
Serhii Teleshun ◽  
Vitaliy Omelyanenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Synthetic Model ◽  
The Social

In the article the results of the analysis of the transformational dynamics of the identity of public servants in Ukraine in the context of the archetypal methodology are presented. The article is based on the ideas of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung on the archetypes of the collective unconscious, the works of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud, English historian Arnold Toynbee and the American psychologist Erich Erickson. At the same time, the toolkit of the author's archetypal methodology was used, including the analytical-synthetic model of the «universal epochal cycle» and the psychodiagnostic methodology «BAD». The article substantiates the application of archetypal methodology to establish, through psychosocial differences, the dynamics of the process of identification of public servants of Ukraine within the framework of the socio-historical cycle «Modern-Postmodern». A retrospective historical analysis using the author's analytical and synthetic model of «universal epochal cycle» and the psychodiagnostic methodology «BAD» made it possible to identify the framework of the socio-historical cycle «Modern-Postmodern» in Ukraine, which consists of two normatively stable historical periods – involution / evolution and two transitional states – revolution / co-evolution. The psychosocial characteristics of Ukrainian society and public service as a social institution within the socio-historical epochs of «Modern» and «Postmodern» were established. The author's archetypal methodology in monitoring studies of the public service of Ukraine made it possible to reveal in the new postmodern conditions a tendency towards the dominance in its public administration of the social modus of identity, which is the guarantor of morality in the national policy and public administration of Ukraine.

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