scholarly journals Advancing a Behavioral Approach for Studying Public Administration

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Tomo
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Behavioral Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Change

This paper aims at providing a conceptual framework to analyze the public sector through a behavioral approach.The paper relies on the framework provided by Huse (2007) to study the behavioral approach in the private sector and employs a systematic literature review to adapt this framework to the public sector.The findings enable the application of the behavioral approach to the public sector through four main areas of discussion: human resource management, interactions, organizational climate, and culture leadership and structure.Literature on public sector has less regarded this dimension despite behaviors may affect both individual and organizational performance. Thus, this paper has manifold interesting implications, especially with reference to an effective change management in the public sector.

scholarly journals Managerial Characteristics and its Impact on Organizational Performance: Evidence from Syria

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Milana ◽  
Issa Maldaon
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Public Organization ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Effective Change ◽  
Effect Of Age

This study aims to explore impact of managerial human capital in performance of a Syrian public organization, Directorate of Finance of province of Damascus, through use some of managerial characteristics are age, level of education, tenure and functional track. This study applied on a sample of 12 managers and 138 employees. The study reveals that there are no significant effect of age, level of education and functional track in performance of Directorate of Finance of province of Damascus, while there is a positive, strong and significant effect of tenure manager in organizational performance, which indicates that managerial characteristics almost irrelevant with performance of Directorate of Finance of the province of Damascus, and the public sector in general. Such results appear a need for efforts are invested in the formulation and implementation of human resource procedures and policies which can bring about effective change in behaviours and roles of the public managers and employees.

scholarly journals Living Labs for Public Sector Innovation: An Integrative Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Lars Fuglsang ◽  
Anne Vorre Hansen ◽  
Ines Mergel ◽  
Maria Taivalsaari Røhnebæk
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Innovation ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
Elusive Concept

The public administration literature and adjacent fields have devoted increasing attention to living labs as environments and structures enabling the co-creation of public sector innovation. However, living labs remain a somewhat elusive concept and phenomenon, and there is a lack of understanding of its versatile nature. To gain a deeper understanding of the multiple dimensions of living labs, this article provides a review assessing how the environments, methods and outcomes of living labs are addressed in the extant research literature. The findings are drawn together in a model synthesizing how living labs link to public sector innovation, followed by an outline of knowledge gaps and future research avenues.

Blockchain informative infrastructure: a conceptual reflection on public administrative procedures and a citizen-centred view

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Rainero ◽  
Giuseppe Modarelli
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Procedures ◽  
Synthesis Methodology

PurposeThis work highlights the potential of blockchain from a public management (PM) angle. Given the limited presence of blockchain's broad-spectrum, empirical-applicative evidence in the public sector, as well as theoretical systematisations that can exemplify its potential within this scope, the authors have concentrated their efforts on structuring a referring model.Design/methodology/approachAfter identifying a gap and conducting a preliminary literature review related to public administration (PA), the authors propose a paradigm focused on a conceptual synthesis methodology, starting from a longitudinal analysis and a coding activity that are able to structure a clear framework of theoretical parallelism regarding blockchain's main functionalities, as well as future perspectives in the public sector.FindingsThe main results yielded a specific longitudinal literature review and constitute a referring model of blockchain's systematised functionalities through a conceptualised matrix. The outcome of the conceptualisation process frames and systematises a rapidly growing controversial phenomenon, furnishing a specific referring paradigm for the issue as it relates to policymakers.Originality/valueThe study's originality resides in the two views the authors created, both from the literature review and from the conceptual synthesis for public sector operative practice via an anthropocentric lens, conveyed by a three-year range of analysis.

scholarly journals Goal Ambiguity in Public Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Antonio Botti ◽  
Antonella Monda
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goal Ambiguity ◽  
And Performance

In the literature on the public-private organizations is well known that public organizations have more ambiguous elements than private ones, such as ideology and objectives, that negatively influence the enthusiasm (Brunsson, 1986), motivation and performance of public employees (Pandey & Raney, 2006), as well as organizational performance (Chun & Raney, 2005). The close relationship with performance led many public administration scholars to deepen the concept of goal ambiguity in public management. However, given the lack of a univocal conceptualization of the phenomenon, the present work aims to contextualize goal ambiguity in the public administration, carrying out a systematic literature review. The results bring out goal ambiguity methods of measurement, its antecedents and consequences and the relationship between goal ambiguity and performance. From a theoretical point of view, the study allows systematizing the contributions on goal ambiguity, while from a practical point of view, a thorough knowledge of the concept allows public managers and policy-makers to obtain valuable information for the achievement of good organizational performance.

The Impact of Leadership Practices on Total Quality Management and Organizational Performance in the UAE Interior Ministry

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Abdulla Salem Ahmed Alnuaimi ◽  
Kamarul Bahari Yaakub
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Total Quality Management ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Leadership Practices ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the moderating impact of leadership practices (LP) in TQM and organizational performance (OP). Through literature review, four hypotheses were derived which are tested in the UAE to better understand the nature of the relationship between TQM and LP as well as the impact of TQM on OP in the public sector departments in the UAE. Data were collected by distributing questionnaire to 230, data we analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The research showed the impact of LP on TQM and OP.

scholarly journals Development of Human Resources to Increase Policy Capacity in Public Sector

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Kaleem
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Policy Cycle ◽  
The Public

This research paper is based on the correlation between HRM practice and organizational performances. The influence of HRM practices on organizational performance has significant effects. The main objective of this paper is to explore the general practice of HRM programs and establish the influences of properly managing the human resources for better development of selected organizations. This study had surveyed four leading organizations with 300 total respondents, in which 80 workers are working on top managerial positions and the remaining 220 staff members are working on the core non-managerial position. The response rate was 97.98% that signifies the interest rate of staff in the development of effective HRM policies in their organizations.Targeted and convenience sampling techniques are used to drive the results for this study. The results of the survey showed that in those organizations where human resource management practices are poorly planned and implemented and managed by non-experts so called managers, programs and policies of these organizations are perceived poorly by their employees. The study also showed that the enormous benefits of sound human resource management which were highly appreciated by their employees. It was proposed that the organizations should devote a proper human resources management department through which competitive advantages could be created.This paper emphases the development of human resources to increase the capability of policy in the public sector. Therefor the main attention together with to encounter the challenges which are the great hurdles in the communal development and develop a mechanism for the improvement the public sector staff’s competency throughout the policy cycle. Psychological treatments and different physical training segments are adopted in three stages for improvement of staff’s competency. The first one is focusing on the individual’s competency development policy, and that people-oriented approach is crucial factor for achieving successful reforms. In the second stage, conventional means i.e. customary orthodox trainings and development methodologies are adopted for the development of staff’s competency in the ever changing environments.

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.

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