scholarly journals The Constitutional and Legal Basis of the Decision-Making Processes Applied by Public Administration Bodies in the Slovak Republic

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Teaching Biopolitics in a Professional Curriculum

1986 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick G. O'Hara
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Graduate Study ◽  
Graduate Teaching ◽  
Decision Making Processes

This article considers the ways in which teachers of public administration can address biopolitical issues within an established professional curriculum. The author distinguishes between the teleological and instrumental aspects of a belief system, holding that biobehavioral explanation can be pedagogically useful and can provide public administrators with a model for assessing and responding to workplace phenomena. The article proposes that undergraduate and graduate teaching impose different standards on an instructor seeking to introduce biobehavioral and biostructural concepts. The different standards arise out of the explicit and focused career instrumentality of graduate study in public administration, as well as age graded differences in receptivity to particular propositions about human nature. Finally, this article details some ways in which biobehavioral explanation can be introduced in organizational behavior classes and in classes that consider the structure of public organizations and their decision-making processes.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES

10.23856/4618 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Olha Buhai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Empirical Application ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The purpose of this article is to substantiate the theoretical foundations of using information and communication technologies (hereinafter – ICT) in public administration decision-making processes using the framework of categories and concepts proposed by New Public Management, Joined-up government, Public Value Рaradigm, Actor Network Theory and Socio-Technical Systems. The research task is to comprehensively consider the methods, approaches and foundations of using ICT in public administration through these theories. General scientific methods (analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction) as well as the comparative-historical method have been used. Such an approach allows to generalize and comprehend the role and impact of ICT in public administration within the framework of different theories and to offer an empirical application of the developed concepts. Correlation of the considered concepts' theoretical principles with the criteria for public services delivery, the role of citizens, approaches to measuring the performance of public servants makes it possible to conclude the information about the attitudes and requirements for innovations in public administration from the perspective of each of the theories. It can contribute to further study of the ICT's impact on the public administration decision-making processes, predicting the transformational impact of e-governance and theoretical advances empirical application by both public servants and those who hold political positions.

An Expertise as a Part of Decision-making Training for Educational Management

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
М.В. Гончар ◽  
С.В. Усков
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Educational Management ◽  
Separate Type ◽  
Master's Degree Programs ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Master’S Degree

в меняющихся условиях экспертиза на всех уровнях управления образованием становится компонентом процессов принятия решений, все более определяющим их качество. В этой связи экспертная деятельность в образовании получает развитие и обосабливается в отдельный тип профессиональных задач, требующий от субъектов экспертной деятельности овладения специальными компетенциями. Успешная подготовка руководителей и организаторов образования к экспертной деятельности может быть реализована в магистратуре по направлению «Педагогическое образование», а также в рамках направления «Государственное и муниципальное управление» с опорой на андрагогический подход и встраивание экспертных технологий в учебную и исследовательскую работу обучающихся. while uncertainty at all levels of educational management, the expertise increases its influence on the quality of decision-making processes and results. Therefore, the educational expert activity is developing and completed as a separate type of professional tasks. It requires subjects of expertise to master special competencies. Successful training for educational managers to expert activities can be implemented through the master’s degree programs on pedagogy and public administration if it bases on andragogical approach and uses expertise as a part of studying and research.

With a little help from my friends

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (10) ◽  
pp. 2562-2586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Intindola ◽  
Judith Weisinger ◽  
Claudia Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Shed Light

Purpose Studies of multi-sector collaborations have increased in recent years. However, the topic is still complex and lacks synthesis. Toward that end, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how collaboration is addressed in the public administration and nonprofit sector journals, and applies well-established strategic decision-making theories to shed light on possible research directions that would provide rigor to the field of collaboration. Design/methodology/approach The authors conduct a literature review of the top nonprofit and public administration journals, believing these most likely to contain articles on the topic of multi-sector collaboration. Findings The authors identify a number of themes, including need for clarity, temporality, call to collaborate, funding, partnering issues and processes, benefits of collaboration across three different collaborative types. Originality/value The authors embed well-known strategic decision-making theories into the themes emergent from this review and offer suggestions as to how future researchers may test strategic decision-making processes within multi-sector collaborations.

scholarly journals Analýza volieb do orgánov samosprávnych krajov v Slovenskej republike

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukáš Ivančík
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Regional Elections ◽  
Democratic Country ◽  
Independent Candidates

Elections are an essential part of any democratic country. With the establishment of self-governing regions, the first elections to the bodies of higher territorial units took place in Slovakia in 2001. Through them, voters can influence decisions at the regional level and be fully involved in decision-making processes. Only through elections is it possible to ensure the full participation of the population in decision-making on regional policy, which is ensured by the second level of regional self-government. The aim of the article is to analyze the constitutional regulation of regional elections in the Slovak Republic, to analyze all regional elections held since 2001 with a focus on voters participation, causes of non-participation and certain specifics that result from individual elections. Last but not least, the aim is to assess the participation of independent candidates and their growing popularity among voters. URL: https://vsas.fvs.upjs.sk/

scholarly journals Decision-making in the public administration: a dialogue of rationalities

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabete De Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Theoretical Modelling ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Models ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The Science of Public Administration has been the stage for a heated debate on thesearch for the management models and organisational designs that best suit asystem which will simultaneously achieve the goals that are set for it and make appropriateuse of the resources at its disposal. The desired end is an instrumental,managerial rationale derived from a theoretical modelling of the decision-makingprocess that is widely adopted in both management and economic fields: the rationaldecision-making model. However, it is not entirely clear that this model matcheswhat actually happens in the reality it seeks to describe and explain. There areother models, born out of studies of an inductive, pragmatic nature, that providedifferent visions of and explanations for decision-making processes, particularlywhen two variables are introduced: the political context; and when decisions concernambiguous problems that tend to be complex. The author synthetically systematisesome of these models, in the hope that considering them may provide valuable assistance in the process of transforming the administrative systemeffectively.

E-State

2020 ◽  
pp. 1556-1578
Author(s):  
Nnanyelugo McAnthony Aham-Anyanwu ◽  
Honglei Li
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Governmental Institutions

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is known to facilitate governance and citizen participation in States' decision making processes. However, e-governance researchers have argued that beyond the current use of ICT to facilitate already existing means of governance lays the possibility of its use to fundamentally revolutionise public administration. There is the ideation and aspiration for ICT-based States (E-states) which exist without governments, and whose citizens can self-organise and self-govern without the need for institutions. This is a conceptual paper which discusses the viability and prospects of this aspiration. The study reviews literature in the areas of politics, public administration and Information Technology in the context of governance and public administration. This study ultimately argues that the possibility of establishing an E-state will be dependent on changing existing political ideologies and systems of governance to anarchism. As it is, ICT cannot be a substitute for governments and certain governmental institutions but can only help them.

scholarly journals "Is That Your Final Decision? Multi-Stage Profiling, Selective Effects, and Article 22 of the GDPR"

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reuben Binns ◽  
Michael Veale
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
The Status ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Selective Effects ◽  
Multiple Stages

•Provisions in many data protection laws require a legal basis, or at the very least safeguards, for significant, solely automated decisions; Article 22 of the GDPR is the most notable. •Little attention has been paid to Article 22 in light of decision-making processes with multiple stages, potentially both manual and automated, and which together might impact upon decision subjects in different ways. •Using stylised examples grounded in real-world systems, we raise five distinct complications relating to interpreting Article 22 in the context of such multi-stage profiling systems. •These are: the potential for selective automation on subsets of data subjects despite generally adequate human input; the ambiguity around where to locate the decision itself; whether ‘significance’ should be interpreted in terms of any potential effects or only selectively in terms of realised effects; the potential for upstream automation processes to foreclose downstream outcomes despite human input; and that a focus on the final step may distract from the status and importance of upstream processes. •We argue that the nature of these challenges will make it difficult for courts or regulators to distil a set of clear, fair and consistent interpretations for many realistic contexts.

scholarly journals E-State

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nnanyelugo McAnthony Aham-Anyanwu ◽  
Honglei Li
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Governmental Institutions

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is known to facilitate governance and citizen participation in States' decision making processes. However, e-governance researchers have argued that beyond the current use of ICT to facilitate already existing means of governance lays the possibility of its use to fundamentally revolutionise public administration. There is the ideation and aspiration for ICT-based States (E-states) which exist without governments, and whose citizens can self-organise and self-govern without the need for institutions. This is a conceptual paper which discusses the viability and prospects of this aspiration. The study reviews literature in the areas of politics, public administration and Information Technology in the context of governance and public administration. This study ultimately argues that the possibility of establishing an E-state will be dependent on changing existing political ideologies and systems of governance to anarchism. As it is, ICT cannot be a substitute for governments and certain governmental institutions but can only help them.

Cognitive Processing of Miscommunication in Interactive Listening: An Evaluation of Listener Indecision and Cognitive Effort

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Roche ◽  
Arkady Zgonnikov ◽  
Laura M. Morett
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
Mouse Tracking ◽  
Computer Mouse ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Computer Mouse Tracking ◽  
Listening Task ◽  
Processing Effort

Purpose The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the social and cognitive underpinnings of miscommunication during an interactive listening task. Method An eye and computer mouse–tracking visual-world paradigm was used to investigate how a listener's cognitive effort (local and global) and decision-making processes were affected by a speaker's use of ambiguity that led to a miscommunication. Results Experiments 1 and 2 found that an environmental cue that made a miscommunication more or less salient impacted listener language processing effort (eye-tracking). Experiment 2 also indicated that listeners may develop different processing heuristics dependent upon the speaker's use of ambiguity that led to a miscommunication, exerting a significant impact on cognition and decision making. We also found that perspective-taking effort and decision-making complexity metrics (computer mouse tracking) predict language processing effort, indicating that instances of miscommunication produced cognitive consequences of indecision, thinking, and cognitive pull. Conclusion Together, these results indicate that listeners behave both reciprocally and adaptively when miscommunications occur, but the way they respond is largely dependent upon the type of ambiguity and how often it is produced by the speaker.

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