The Process and Analysis of the National Civil Service Reform in Japan

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-73
Author(s):  
Yaskuyuki Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Service System ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Japanese Government ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Process ◽  
The Relationship

The Japanese civil service system was reformed in 2014 by the amendment of the National Public Service Act. The amended act covers a wide range of areas, but the key point is the new appointment process for executive officials. The introduction of this new process changed the relationship between the Prime Minister and executive officials drastically. This article first describe the reason why the Japanese government had to undertake the civil service reform. This article will then analyze the content and process of this reform in two dimensions (i.e., transformational factors and transactional factors) by applying Burke-Litwin Model, after which it will explain how the reform changed the relationship between the Prime Minister and executive officials.

Radical reform of UK civil service is very unlikely

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Radical Reform ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
The Uk

Subject Civil service reform. Significance Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s chief strategist, Dominic Cummings, has declared that the main priority in the new parliament will be fixing the machinery of the UK government. Cummings believes the public administration is not fit for purpose in dealing with post-Brexit challenges: cabinet has too many ministers, which makes it impossible to take rational decisions; the civil service lacks delivery expertise and is weak at getting things done; there are too few genuine experts; and the centre of government is brittle and struggles to enforce decisions. Impacts Uncertainty in the civil service will undermine the government’s efforts to negotiate an EU-UK trade deal. Expected initial conflict between civil servants and ministers will result in greater incidence of policy blunders. Cummings will likely leave government sooner than expected, exasperated by the impediments to change within the public service bureaucracy. Cummings's departure would raise questions about Johnson’s strategy and durability as prime minister.

Administrative elites and the crisis: what lies ahead for the senior civil service in Greece?

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calliope Spanou
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Elites ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The nature of the relationship between the public administration and politics and the subsequent role of the administration appear to be incompatible with the emergence of an administrative elite. After analysing the reasons for this incompatibility, the article explores the impact of the measures taken in the wake of the economic crisis on the civil service and its reform, and also the prospects for the development of a senior civil service. The key, and also the challenge, to any change in this direction remains the rebalancing of the relationship between the public administration and politics. Points for practitioners What might interest practitioners is the issue of the conditions of effectiveness of civil service reform in times of economic crisis and significant pressure.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Public and Private Sector Wages in Alberta

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-227
Author(s):  
Gene Swimmer ◽  
C. B. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Employment Sectors ◽  
Leader Role ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to determine the nature and magnitude of any relationship between wage and salary changes in specified occupational classifications within the Alberta Civil Service and wage and salary changes in similar occupational classes in Alberta industry. In particular, the possibility of the « leader » role that public service wage and salary changes may play in the determination of occupational wage and salaries in other employment sectors within the Province of Alberta will be articulated.

The Changing Face of Georgia's Merit System: Results from an Employee Attitude Survey in the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W. Gossett
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Service System ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Merit System ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Will

In 1996, the state of Georgia passed a radical civil service reform law that, in effect, removed all new employees from the traditional civil service system and made them “at-will” employees. Additionally, many functions, such as recruitment and classification, were decentralized to the operating agencies. This study attempts to review the impact of these changes on employees in one of the agencies, the Department of Juvenile Justice. A comparison is made of the attitudes of employees who are covered by civil service regulations and those who are not, principally with respect to organizational commitment and loyalty. The results of the survey suggest that, to date, the impact of these reforms on commitment and loyalty is not significant.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PROSES PROMOSI JABATAN APARATUR SIPIL NEGARA Studi Kasus: Proses Promosi Jabatan Stuktural Eselon II di Pemerintah Daerah Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Tahun 2014

ARISTO ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Muhammad Eko Atmojo
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Service System ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Assessment Center ◽  
Governance System ◽  
The Government ◽  
Special Region

Government implementation system should support by apparatus resources with professional competence. Think to create the good governance system as well as clean and good then need the resources of the competent apparatus. To creating the resources of the competent apparatus needs to reforming the bureaucracy in civil service sectoral. Government should give the special attention toward the civil service system in Indonesia. Especially in regeneration of structural functionary or functionary promote. The government of Yogyakarta Special Region had been used the different method to implementation the functionary promotion, such as used a few level with between administration selection, assessment center, and fit and proper test. The method had been used by the government of Yogyakarta Special Region with prospect it can be created the resources of the competent apparatus by professional, with the result that created the good governance and good public service.

scholarly journals Towards a Managerial Public Service Bargain: The Estonian Civil Service Reform

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cerlin Pesti ◽  
Tiina Randma-Liiv
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Civil Service Reform

Abstract The aim of this article is to explore and explain the 2012 civil service reform in Estonia. The study builds on the concept of public service bargain, which facilitates the operationalization of changes in the civil service system. Although public service bargain has attracted a lot of interest of public administration scholars, it has not been previously applied in the civil service research in Central and Eastern Europe. The theoretical part synthesizes previous literature on typologies of public service bargain, thus elaborating an analytical framework for the empirical study. The empirical study addresses the following research question: did the civil service reform change the public service bargain in Estonia and if so, how ? The empirical research was carried out by relying on desk research, secondary literature on Estonian administrative reforms and participant observation. The study builds partly on the materials collected for the EUPACK case study on Estonia. The analysis shows that the civil service reform brought along changes in all three components of public service bargain: reward, competency and loyalty, although the agency-type bargain was retained. The shift towards the managerial public service bargain is evidenced in the greater emphasis on flexibility in employment relations, the use of fixed-term contracts, increased private-sector-style practices at all levels of the civil service, an emphasis on performance management, and the reduction of job security. Despite the widespread criticism of NPM, the Estonian civil service reform presents a “textbook case” of managerial NPM-oriented reform. It is argued that substantially diminished rewards may contribute to a vicious circle of temporary civil servants, including problems with recruiting new officials and a further increase in their turnover, ultimately leading to a “temporary state”. The loyalty of civil servants may in turn shift towards instrumental, short-term and easily influenced or changing loyalty, thus challenging the fundamental values of democratic governance.

scholarly journals The Reform of the Civil Service System in China 1993–2009

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Guzel Vasilevna Rakhimova ◽  
Dmitry Evgenyevich Martynov ◽  
Yulia Aleksandrovna Martynova ◽  
Glushkova Svetlana Yurievna
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Service System ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
The People ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Moral Standards

The paper is devoted to the analysis of public service reforms in China in the period of 1993 - 2009. The reforms, in part, took advantage of the positive experience of the Chinese past. They were aimed at improving the efficiency of civil servants by introducing more competitive selection processes, incentives to encourage activities and tightening control and supervision. The processes of selection, appointment, training, dismissal and retirement of civil servants were also streamlined. The chronological scope of the study is determined by the dates when the Interim Regulation on Civil Servants (1993) was adopted, and up to the date of adoption and implementation of the full-fledged Law on Civil Servants (2006). Then the first consequences of the reforms began to be felt: the legalization and normalization of the personnel system, the motivation to show high moral standards for civil servants who could gain respect from the people, and the activation of their high moral and business qualities. In part, the adoption of these laws was accompanied by the coming to power of the fourth generation of leadership of the CPC and PRC.

scholarly journals The Causes and Status of Civil Service Reforms in Korea

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Geunjoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Service System ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Environmental Causes ◽  
Major Factors

This paper seeks to evaluate the status of civil service reform, which followed the prescription of the so-called neo-liberalism and new public management. The first part of the paper explores the environmental causes that brought about the recent civil service system reform in Korea. Major factors that shape the details of civil service reform are examined. The second part of the paper reviews the reform effort and assesses the outcomes of the reform programs. The tentative evaluation shows that some civil service reform programs produced noticeable achievement while others are in need of continouos attention.

scholarly journals Государственная служба в судебных органах Европы и Украины: сравнительный анализ

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Елена Гладунова ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
State Research ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Relationship

Goal – to carry out a comparative analysis of civil service in the judiciary of Europe and Ukraine and highlight the positive foreign experience for the possibility of borrowing it in the Ukrainian state. Research methodology – the article uses the method of system analysis, an integrated approach, a comparative method, as well as analysis and generalization of practical activities. Score/results – the article analyses the organization and functioning of the civil service on the example of some foreign countries. The main similarities and differences in the relationship between the institution of public service and the judicial authorities of Ukraine are highlighted. Ways of functional optimization and problem solution based on borrowing foreign experience are proposed. Originality/value – the work was performed by the author independently, without outside help. The article contains links to quotes, as well as links to legislation. In essence, the article is an overview report.

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