scholarly journals ENCOURAGING ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION BY HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzana Dvoráková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Public

The public administration reform in the Czech Republic set off with a reform of the territorial public administration at the end of the 90s. The reform established a joint public administration model in the territories, power decentralization, and de‐concentration of operative functions from ministries to regions and municipalities. The reform outcomes largely depend on the quality of human resources in public administration, their ethical values, and status in the society. The public sector always needs to solve a traditional ethics dilemma whether public officials serve citizen or politician purposes. The paper is aimed at ethical values in the Czech public administration, ethics dilemmas in the public sector, and human resource management in territorial self‐governments supporting ethical behaviour. An abnormal situation comes into being in the Czech Republic as public officials incline to serving neither citizens nor politicians. Some municipal authorities strive to improve public administration ethics by designing and implementing new HR practices, codes of ethics and anticorruption programmes.

scholarly journals El desempeño adaptativo: implicaciones para la gestión de recursos humanos en el sector público

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-29
Author(s):  
Alexander RODRÍGUEZ LÓPEZ ◽  
Nekane BALLUERKA LASA ◽  
Arantxa GOROSTIAGA MANTEROLA ◽  
Imanol ULACIA ARAMENDI
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Career Management ◽  
Adaptive Performance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Recursos Humanos

Laburpena: Jardun moldagarria funtsezkoa da erakundeentzat, inguruneko eskaeretara egokitzeko gaitasuna ezinbestekoa delako, batez ere krisi-garaian edo aldaketa teknologiko, ekonomiko edo laboralen garaian. Artikulu honek jardun moldagarria kontzeptuaren berrikuspen teorikoa ematen du, bai eta beste konstruktuekin eta antolaketa-elementuekin duen harremanarena ere, Ployhart eta Bliese-ren (2006) eta Park eta Park-en (2019) ereduetan oinarrituta, bai eta konstruktu hori ebaluatzen duten tresnena ere. Eremu publikoan giza baliabideak kudeatzean jardun moldagarriak dituen inplikazioak aztertzen dira, bereziki hautaketaren, prestakuntzaren, karrera-kudeaketaren eta lanpostuen diseinuaren arloan. Resumen: El desempeño adaptativo es un constructo clave para las organizaciones porque la capacidad de adaptación a las demandas del entorno es vital, especialmente en tiempos de crisis o cambios tecnológicos, económicos o laborales. Este artículo aporta una revisión teórica del concepto de desempeño adaptativo, de su relación con otros constructos y elementos organizacionales en base a los modelos de Ployhart y Bliese (2006) y Park y Park (2019), así como de los instrumentos que evalúan dicho constructo. Se analizan las implicaciones que tiene el desempeño adaptativo para la gestión de recursos humanos en el ámbito público, especialmente en materia de selección, formación, gestión de carrera y diseño de puestos de trabajo. Abstract: Adaptive performance is a key construct for organizations because the ability to adapt to the demands of the environment is vital, especially in times of crisis or technological, economic or labor changes. This paper provides a theoretical review of the concept of adaptive performance, its relationship with other constructs and organizational elements based on the models of Ployhart and Bliese (2006) and Park and Park (2019), as well as the instruments that evaluate the construct. The implications of adaptive performance for human resource management in the public sector are analyzed, especially in terms of selection, training, career management and job design.

scholarly journals Citizens local political participation in the Czech Republic: rural-urban comparison

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
J. Cmejrek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Public

The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 in the former Czechoslovakia opened the way to the renewal of the democratic political system. One of the most visible aspects of the Czech political development consisted in the renewal of the essential functions of elections and political parties. On the local level, however, the political process - as well as in other post-communist countries - continued to be for a long time influenced by the remains of the former centralized system wherein the local administration used to be subjected to the central state power. Municipal elections took hold in these countries, however, the local government remained in the embryonic state and a certain absence of real political and economic decision-making mechanism on the local level continued to show. The public administration in the Czech Republic had to deal with the changes in the administrative division of the state, the split of the Czechoslovak federation as well as the fragmentation of municipalities whose number increased by 50 percent. Decision making mechanisms on the local and regional level were suffering from the incomplete territorial hierarchy of public administration and from the unclear division of power between the state administration and local administration bodies. Only at the end of the 1990s, the public administration in the Czech Republic started to get a more integrated and specific shape. Citizens participation in the political process represents one of the key issues of representative democracy. The contemporary democracy has to face the decrease in voter turnout and the low interest of citizens to assume responsibility within the political process. The spread of democratising process following the fall of the iron curtain should not overshadow the risk of internal weakness of democracy. The solution should be looked for in more responsible citizenship and citizens’ political participation. The degree of political participation is considered (together with political pluralism) to be the key element of representative democracy in general terms, as well as of democratic process on the local and regional level. The objective of this paper is to describe the specifics of citizens local political participation in the Czech Republic and to show the differences between rural and urban areas. The paper concentrates on voting and voter turnout but deals also with other forms of citizens political participation.

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