The Application of the Downsizing Method Based on Employee Attendance Data in Oversized Public Utility Companies Founded by the Republic of Serbia Local Self-Government Units

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1023-1051
Author(s):  
Stefan Komazec ◽  
Jovan Krivokapić ◽  
Ivan Todorović
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
New Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
Utility Companies ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Employee Attendance

The aim of this paper has two directions. The first one is our attempt to define new method and procedure for estimating surplus of employees in the public sector, as one of the tools for public sector control. The second direction is the analysis of the public sector at the local level in Serbia, where overstaffing in public utility companies, founded and owned by Local Self-Government Units in Serbia, was analyzed using specific methods. The conclusions have been made on the basis of the restructuring projects carried out in over 20 public utility companies, which included over 20,000 employees.

Implementation of the Tender by the Municipal Service Administration from the Aspect of Management in the Municipalities of the Republic of Serbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-486
Author(s):  
Jelena Vitomir ◽  
Sonja Tomaš-Miskin ◽  
Mladen Ivić ◽  
Slobodan Popović
Keyword(s):  
Public Utility ◽  
Municipal Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Utility Companies ◽  
The Republic

al Affairs Administration established by local self-governments in the 2016-2019period calls for tenders more and more frequently. Beside public utility companies founded by local self-government units there is an increasing number of the so called “other enterprises” taking part in the bidding. The aim of the authors was to determine at what prices the Local Affairs Administration concluded agreements with the said enterprises that participated in the public bidding. The authors came to relevant findings as they had an insight in the agreements concluded between the Local Affairs Administration and the bidders in the 2017-2019 period. Accordingly, the authors` contribution is in finding that following calling for tenders and tender procedures agreements between the Local Affairs Administration and bidders are concluded at prices that are lower than in case of direct bargaining between the Local Affairs Administration and public utility companies. That is, conducting tender procedures is beneficial to the Local Affairs Administration as less money of taxpayers is spent on the same public utility service.

scholarly journals Performance Measurement in Public Sector of Transition Countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benina Veledar ◽  
Meliha Bašić ◽  
Jadranka Kapić
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Transition Countries ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Utility Companies ◽  
Valid Instrument

AbstractBackground: For many years, performance indicators have served as a valid instrument for the evaluation of the public sector quality and efficiency in the majority of developed countries. Such measurements allow internal and external evaluation of the efficiency of the budget and public companies. Objectives: The aim of the paper is to determine to what extent public sector entities in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FB&H), as a representative of transition countries, measure and report performance indicators. Methods/Approach: An electronic survey has been conducted among representatives of cantons in FB&H and public utility companies in the Canton of Sarajevo. The Mann-Whitney test was applied in order to test differences between public sector entities according to their performance. Results: The Mann-Whitney non-parametric tests show that the degree of measuring and reporting performance indicators in the public sector in FB&H has a direct impact on the operational results shown in financial statements. Conclusions: EU legislation encourages the development of competition between different programs, products and services in the public sector. This paper sheds light on the causes and consequences of the absence of valid performance measurement in the public sector of FB&H and provides possible solutions to overcome identified problems within measurement, reporting and monitoring of performance indicators.

SISTEM OBJEDINjENE NAPLATE KOMUNALNIH USLUGA U VELIKIM GRADOVIMA U SRBIJI

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ratomir Antonović ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Public Utility ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Utility Company ◽  
Utility Companies ◽  
System Of Cities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Novi Sad

The provision of communal services and their timely execution is one of the vital issues of importance for the functioning of large cities. The paper pays special attention to the provision of communal services in larger cities in the Republic of Serbia. Payment for these services is a particularly important segment in the functioning of the municipal system of cities, and the collection is entrusted to specially formed public utility companies, as is the case with Belgrade, for example in which the public utility company "Infostan - Technologies" has primary jurisdiction. payment of all communal services provided to the residents of Belgrade. The same principle of unified collection has been applied in some other cities in Serbia, such as Subotica, Nis, Kragujevac, Novi Sad and others

scholarly journals GIS application in the spatial analysis of illegal landfills in big cities: A case study of Belgrade

2014 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Paunovic ◽  
Filip Krstic
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Geospatial Database ◽  
Utility Companies ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The City ◽  
Cover Up

This paper represents the attempt to map and analyze spatial distribution of illegal landfills in the City of Belgrade. To make this happen the main tasks were to form the geospatial database of illegal landfills in the study area and to analyze the patterns in their spatial distribution. The data on the landfill locations were obtained from the Agency of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Serbia, while the ArcGIS software was used for their spatial analysis. The City of Belgrade, respectively the public utility companies use five landfills, which cover up the area of 89 ha. On the other hand, in the study area there are 223 illegal landfills. The spatial analysis showed two patterns: (1) increasing of the number of illegal landfills with distancing from the city urban center, and (2) increasing of their number with distancing from the municipal centers. This paper also showed that there is landfill clustering, or that their spatial distribution is not random.

scholarly journals The role of the public sector and business tourist associations in the urban tourism development of the Republic of Serbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Milena Podovac
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Urban Tourism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Important State

In this paper, it was given an overview of the most important state authorities, organizations and associations in terms of their importance and role in the urban tourism development in the Republic of Serbia. The Ministry of Commerce, Tourism and Telecommunications, the Tourist Organization of Serbia, tourist organizations at the local level and various business and other associations in the field of tourism play an important role in the development and promotion of the urban tourism offer of the Republic of Serbia. The paper presents the results of an empirical study of the attitudes of respondents employed in the tourism sector on the development of urban tourism in the Republic of Serbia.

MEASURES FOR PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN R. MACEDONIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1919-1923
Author(s):  
Tatijana Ashtalkoska-Baloska ◽  
Aleksandra Srbinovska-Doncevsk
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The Public ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
Modest Contribution ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Main Motive ◽  
The Republic

A number of abuses of power and position, daily committed for acquisition of unlawful profit, beyond of permitted and envisaged legal jobs, starting from the lowest level, to the so-called, daily corruption, which most often is related to existential needs and it acts harmless, not even grow into another form, to one that uses such profits as the main motive for generating huge illegal gains for a longer period of time, by exploiting and abusing high social position, corruption in public sector, but today already in private sector too, are part of corruption in the broadest sense, embracing all its forms, those who do not enter in zone of punishment and those who means committing of serious crime. It has many forms, but due to focusing on a particular problem, as a better way to contribute a solution, this paper will focus on the analysis of corruption in the public administration in the Republic of Macedonia, and finding measures for its prevention and reduction, which we hope will give a modest contribution to its real legal protection, not only in declarative efforts in some new strategy for its prevention and suppression.

scholarly journals VALUE FOR MONEY IN PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS IN THE FIELD OF STREET LIGHTING IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejan Milenković ◽  
Vladimir Đurić
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Street Lighting ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
The Republic

Public administration reform, better known as the New Public Management - NPM, which began in the mid-1970s, had a key impact on the development of modern public administration. The NPM emphasizes the economic values of public administration, to the detriment of its other values. Public Private Partnership- PPP is one of the basic elements of NPM doctrine. PPP is a partnership between the public and private sector that aims to provide a service traditionally provided by the public sector. An integral part of every PPP is the Value for Money methodology. The “Value for money”- VfM method emerged in this process of public administration reform, first in the UK. The document of the British Government Private Finance Initiative (PFI) from the year 1992, presented the basis for the creation of a new so-called “Venture”, which at that time was called a joint venture, and which is today known as PPP. PPP is a relatively new institute that has existed in the Republic of Serbia since 2011. In this paper, we will deal with the application of the VfM methodology in PPP projects related to street lighting in the Republic of Serbia, and try to give answer about social and economic justification of PPP and potential economic savings that can be achieved in the public sector through the implementation of PPP. At the present time, when there is more and more talk about the need for environmental protection, sustainable development and energy efficiency, PPP projects can have an increasing importance in this area. For this reason, we have limited the application of VfM methods in PPP projects in the Republic of Serbia only to street lighting projects which provide the mentioned goals.

scholarly journals Javnopravno uređenje zvanične toponimije - od državnog nivoa do nivoa lokalne samouprave / The Public Law Regulation of the Official Toponymy From State’s To Local Level

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Vladimir Đurić ◽  
Nevenko Vranješ
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Place Names ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Procedure ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Domestic Law ◽  
Law Regulation

It is the purpose of this paper to highlight the relation between official toponymy in comparative and domestic law. Toponymy is legally regulated. After the analyzing of the position of official toponymy in the comparative law, selected legal aspects of its regulation in the Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Srpska legal systems are presented: the constitutional regulation of the names of country, constitutive unites and capitals, the constitutional and law regulation of the official use of language and script, the legal regulation of the local-self-government unit names and official place names, as well as the administrative procedure of the place names change.

M-Government Initiatives at the Local Level

2007 ◽  
pp. 233-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis V. Casaló ◽  
Carlos Flavián ◽  
Miguel Guinalíu
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Level ◽  
City Council ◽  
Mobile Telephone ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Good Number ◽  
Government Level

This chapter introduces the concept of m-government and its implications for both citizens and public institutions. Although m-government is currently in an initial phase of development, its potential in the relationship between the public sector and the citizen is obvious because of, for example, the large number of mobile phone users among the public. In addition, the development of m-government initiatives generates a good number of bene?ts for the public sector that operates it as well as for the public, who experience improved accessibility to electronic public services. Because of this, this chapter analyses m-government initiatives developed by the Zaragoza City Council (Spain) in order to describe its bene?ts, implications for the relationship between the City Council and the citizen, and the future perspectives of these initiatives. We have speci?cally chosen a country like Spain due to the fact that mobile telephone usage is widespread and, at the same time, local government level has been chosen as the citizen participates more in the relationship with the public sector when it is at the local level.

scholarly journals En domänteori för organisering av socialt arbete i offentlig sektor

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Morén ◽  
Marek Perlinski ◽  
Björn Blom
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Domain Theory ◽  
International Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Policy Domain

A domain theory for the organization of social work in the public sector The article presents outlines of a domain theory for the organization of social work in the public sector. e aim is to describe – from a Nordic perspective – how social workers’ professional prac- tice is shaped by local level politics and administration, and how such shaping processes at the local level are conditioned and controlled by general structural and institutional conditions at the national and international level. We argue that public sector arenas for social work are constituted by three domains with different tasks and logics, yet interconnected and interdependent: the policy domain, the domain of administration and the profession’s domain. Organizations at the local level – constituted by the three domains and their respective logics – are, in turn, conditioned by a fourth domain: the domain of institutional conditions. The latter domain is about control ideals, norms, knowledge, epistemological approaches and technologies prevailing in society, legitimized and disseminated by central institutions that affect how local level organizations operate.

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