scholarly journals Actualization Of Human Rights Values Through Bureaucratic Reform Towards Justice Bureaucratic Governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Nurul Edy
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Regional Autonomy ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Strategic Position ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
Professional Bureaucracy ◽  
Bureaucratic Reform

Before entering the reform era, bureaucratic governance in Indonesia was characterized by the practice of collusion and nepotism in which the bureaucracy could not carry out its duties and obligations professionally and they could not achieve their careers fairly and sustainably. Therefore, the aim of bureaucratic reform is to realize fair bureaucratic governance in which bureaucratic apparatus can carry out their duties and obligations professionally and the bureaucracy can reach career paths as a state apparatus fairly and professionally. So far, bureaucratic reform has not yet reached its objectives, where bureaucratic governance, especially in the context of the promotion of the position of state civil apparatus (ASN), is still colored by the practice of collusion and nepotism caused by high political intervention in ASN promotion. Regional autonomy and regional head elections are wrong which causes bureaucratic reform to not work effectively. The regional head who is the result of the regional election places ASN in the strategic position of regional apparatus according to their political interests, not based on the potential possessed by the ASN. For this reason, the design of bureaucratic reforms needs to be reorganized so that the gap of political intervention in bureaucratic governance can be minimized in order to realize a professional bureaucracy. Keywords: Bureaucracy, Bureaucratic Reform, Human Rights 

Jacksonian Consular Reform and the Forging of America’s First Global Bureaucracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-428
Author(s):  
SIMEON ANDONOV SIMEONOV
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
South America ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
National Character ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
The Us ◽  
Professional Bureaucracy

AbstractAs revolutions swept across Central and South America in the 1820s and 1830s, Andrew Jackson’s administration undertook a landmark reform that transformed the US foreign policy apparatus into the nation’s first global bureaucracy. With the introduction of Edward Livingston’s 1833 consular reform bill to Congress, the nation embarked on a long path toward the modernization of its consular service in line with the powers of Europe and the new American republics. Despite the popularity of Livingston’s plan to turn a dated US consular service comprised of mercantile elites into a salaried professional bureaucracy, the Jacksonian consular reform dragged on for more than two decades before the passing of a consular bill in 1856. Contrary to Weberian models positing a straightforward path toward bureaucratization, the trajectory of Jacksonian consular reform demonstrates the power of mercantile elites to resist central government regulation just as much as it highlights how petty partisans—the protégé consuls appointed via the Jacksonian “spoils system”—powerfully shaped government policy to achieve personal advantages. In the constant tug-of-war between merchant-consuls and Jacksonian protégés, both groups mobilized competing visions of the “national character” in their correspondence with the Department of State and in the national press. Ultimately, the Jacksonian reform vision of an egalitarian and loyal consular officialdom prevailed over the old mercantile model of consulship as a promoter of national prestige and commercial expertise, but only after protégé consuls successfully exploited merchant-consuls’ perceived inability to compete with the salaried European officials across the sister-republics of the southwestern hemisphere.

scholarly journals Files Circulation and the Forms of Legal Experts

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leticia Barrera
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Gift Exchange ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Rational Basis ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Professional Bureaucracy ◽  
Law Making

A common assumption in Western legal cultures is that judicial law-making is materialised in practices that resemble the operation of a professional bureaucracy, practices that are also central to the construction of knowledge in other systems, such as accounting, audit, science, and even ethnography (Dauber 1995; Strathern 2000; Riles 2000, 2004, 2006; Maurer 2002; Yngvesson and Coutin 2006). This argument situates the judiciary as a formalistic organization that builds its ambition of universality on the procurement and dissemination of knowledge on a rational basis. Drawing on ethnographic research in the Argentine Supreme Court, this paper seeks to unpack this assumption through a detailed look at how the figures of legal bureaucrats, in particular law clerks, become visible through the documentary practices they perform within the judicial apparatus. As these practices unfold, they render visible these subjects in different forms, though not always accessible to outsiders. Persons are displayed through a bureaucratic circuit of files that simultaneously furthers and denies human agency while reinforcing the division of labour within the institution. This dynamic, I argue, can be understood in light of Marilyn Strathern’s (1988) insights about the forms of objectification and personification that operate in two “ethnographically conceived” social domains (Pottage 2001:113): a Euro-American commodity-driven economy, and Melanesia’s economy based on gift-exchange.

Organizational Structure

2011 ◽  
pp. 749-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul H.J. Hendriks
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Organization Structure ◽  
Modular Organization ◽  
Organic Form ◽  
Organization Structures ◽  
N Form ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Professional Bureaucracy ◽  
The Brain

For many decades, organization scientists have paid considerable attention to the link between knowledge and organization structure. An early contributor to these discussions was Max Weber (1922), who elaborated his concepts of professional bureaucracy. History shows a multitude of other descriptions and propositions which depict knowledge-friendly organization structures such as the ‘organic form’ for knowledge-intensive innovation promoted by Burns and Stalker (1961), professional bureaucracies and adhocracies described by Mintzberg (1983), and the brain metaphor for organization structure (Morgan, 1986). Discussions on such knowledge­friendly organization structures led to many neologisms including the flexible, intelligent, smart, hypertext, N-form, inverted, network, cellular, or modular organization.

scholarly journals The Dedication of English Educator’s Career in Inspiring Language Skills among the Engineering Pupils

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S4) ◽  
pp. 15-17
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Critical Part ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
Professional Bureaucracy

Communication infers the interchange of musings and thoughts with the aim of passing the information from the sender to receiver. In this 21st century era, procuring fundamental skills of communication has turned out to be basic for individual and expert development and achievement. Consequently, a student of Engineering and Technology can't bear to overlook the basics of communication. In the worldwide senerio, pupils of Engineering and Technology are in need of language skills for their prosperity both in the avenue of Education and Career. Fluency in the skill of communication is a basic needful to climb on the professional bureaucracy. Having this as a primary concern, the English language instructor needs to assume a critical part by assuming a liability to support the pupils in building up their skills in communication. This research paper endeavours to feature the indispensable prominent part of the English language tutor in building up the vital skills to survive.

Re-thinking induction in practice: profession, peer group and organization in contention

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Gherardi ◽  
Manuela Perrotta
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Large Network ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Private Organization ◽  
Induction Process ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Professional Bureaucracy ◽  
Larger Sample ◽  
Interpretative Framework

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an interpretative framework of induction as a social practice to examine the ecology of the human and non-human actors involved in the production of induction as a social effect. Design/methodology/approach Three case studies are conducted in different types of organizations (private, public and network) to analyse the relation between the induction process and the actors that influence it. Findings Three different models of induction are described: in a professional bureaucracy, socialization precedes selections and the key actor is the profession; in a small private organization, induction is almost exclusively managed by the peer group in the form of seduction by the profession; in a large network of organizations, induction is explicitly managed by the organization and becomes a means to transmit the organizational culture. Research limitations/implications In the description of the empirical data, it is shown how an individual undergoes induction into the organization when he/she undergoes seduction (by the profession). Nevertheless, the models could be improved by the study of a larger sample of organizations. Originality/value This paper shows that induction is not the effect of solely the encounter between individual and organization, because two other agents are involved in the process, namely the profession and the peer group.

Team Work in Context: Institutional Mediation in the Public-service Professional Bureaucracy

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 1069-1097 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Finn ◽  
Graeme Currie ◽  
Graham Martin
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Service Professional ◽  
Context Shapes ◽  
Professional Bureaucracy

This paper examines how context shapes team work within the public-service professional bureaucracy. We examine the effects of an interaction between both macro-institutional and local-organizational context upon the micro-negotiation of team work. Specifically, we consider how features of local context mediate professional-institutional effects. Drawing upon neo-institutionalism (Lawrence and Suddaby 2006; Powell and DiMaggio 1991), we view team members as ‘institutional agents’ (Scott 2008), shaping team work in ways that either reproduce or transform professional structures within particular local conditions. Exemplary of international government transformative efforts for public-service enhancement (Newman 2001; Osborne and Gaebler 1992), we focus upon a UK government initiative to reconfigure professional relationships through introducing team work in National Health Service genetic care. Findings from two qualitative, comparative case studies reveal contrasting outcomes: reproduction or transformation of the professional institution, respectively. Specific local conditions — organizational, and human and social in particular — combine to produce these divergent mediating effects towards inertia or change. This highlights the importance of antecedents to team work and taking a historical perspective to understand the influence of context. While the challenges of reconfiguring professional structures through team work are shown, our analysis also suggests optimism regarding possibilities for change, albeit within certain local conditions. The challenge for management and policy-makers becomes the extent to which — and indeed, if at all — such facilitative local environments might be supported.

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