Bureaucratic Culture Research Articles

Bureaucratic Culture and Innovation

AbstractThis study explores the effects of bureaucratic culture on innovation. We define bureaucratic culture as a culture in which power and officials are held in the highest regard. Using panel data of publicly listed Chinese manufacturing firms from 2007 to 2015, we found that bureaucratic culture negatively correlated with firms' patent output. A mechanism analysis shows that bureaucratic culture hindered corporate innovation by reducing firms' research and development inputs and decreasing innovation efficiency. Furthermore, we provided evidence that anti‐corruption campaigns and the development of formal institutions could neutralize the negative impact of bureaucratic culture on corporate innovation. This study is the first to investigate quantitatively the causal effect of bureaucratic culture on corporate innovation and it can deepen the understanding of the relationship between culture and innovation in China. We speculate that promoting a creative culture, particularly one that fosters entrepreneurial spirit, is of utmost importance.

Role of local government officers in the implementation of national health insurance for poor peoples

This study explains the performance of the local government in implementing the Indonesian national health insurance policy model for the poor. This study used qualitative research methods. In addition, in-depth interviews, observations, and document studies were used for data collection. The data analysis consisted of data reduction, display, conclusion drawing, and verification. The study results revealed the performance patterns of local government officials, such as local government officials' capabilities, bureaucratic culture, political interests, principles of universality, and financing of health coverage. Implementing a national health insurance policy for the poor people in Bandung City, West Java, Indonesia, has implications for a broader dimension, such as political, legal, economic, social, and cultural research, which has implications for the development of health resources, improvement of the population administration system, financing and quality, and cost control.

Conveying gendered power through bureaucratic websites: A symbolic analysis of mediated child welfare culture

Child welfare organizations work directly with families to intervene in response to community concerns about child abuse and neglect. Other aspects of their services are symbolically conveyed through online presence. This paper explores the mediated culture of state-operated child protective services agencies with a focus on bureaucracy and gendered power. Our findings reveal alignment between mediated cultures that signify rigid, penalty-oriented bureaucratic cultures and those states with the highest substantiated rates of child maltreatment. Similarly, this content analysis indicated alignment between more family-oriented collaborative bureaucratic cultures of online websites for states with the lowest rates of substantiated child maltreatment.

Patologi Birokrasi Pelayanan Bansos Di Bagian Kesra Kantor Sekretariat Daerah Kabupaten Pekalongan

The Pekalongan Regency Regional Secretariat Office is a very vital government agency because it has the task of assisting the Regent in formulating policies and administrative coordination for the implementation of regional apparatus duties and administrative services. With this task, SETDA is the "Qibla" for other regional apparatus organizations in the Pekalongan Regency Government. However, what happened was that several employees at the Regional Secretariat Office actually committed violations that today are called bureaucratic pathologies. This research uses a qualitative descriptive research type. Descriptive understanding is a discussion in the form of exposure to words and language, in a special natural context and by utilizing various natural methods. Qualitative research is research that intends to understand the phenomenon of what is experienced by research subjects. The purpose of this study was to find out about the procedures for providing grants and social assistance sourced from the Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget of Pekalongan Regency, namely to find out the procedures or stages of applying for grants and social assistance, knowing local government policies and regulations and their implementation The results of this study indicate the existence of bureaucratic pathology in the activities of grant services and social assistance in the welfare division of the Pekalongan regional secretariat. Guidelines for the management of grants and social assistance sourced from the regional income and expenditure budget as outlined in the district head's regulations seem to have been ignored. In this study, the types of pathology that occur are explained. Most types of pathology that occur are caused by the bureaucracy itself. Bureaucratic culture since ancient times has not been able to be changed by the bureaucracy itself. In carrying out daily tasks, many of the bureaucracy have not been maximal in carrying it out, especially bureaucracy related to service. A paradigm shift is still very much needed within the bureaucracy itself. Efforts to overcome it are still not optimal, the support and commitment of the leadership is the main thing to change the existing bureaucratic paradigm.

The URGENSI KEPAMONGPRAJAAN DALAM PREVENSI MUNCULNYA PATOLOGI BIROKRASI


 The important role of bureaucratic culture in shaping leadership mindset and character is in line with the reduction in the number of bureaucratic pathologies that occur in Indonesia. Corruption practices appear to be a major contributor to the construction of bureaucratic pathology which is long-lasting, because in principle bureaucratic pathology arises as a result of an unhealthy bureaucratic culture which is characterized by long hierarchical chains, bureaucratic specialization and formalization as well as non-linear bureaucratic performance which has an impact on bureaucratic patterns. which is paternalistic, wasteful and loses money, budgeting that is not on target, a procedural system that tends to be complicated, and biased exercise of authority. Referring to the first element that builds a corrupt bureaucratic culture, namely "intention or motive" or mens rea, improvement actions focus on controlling human resources. Transformation of unhealthy bureaucratic patterns and systems can actually be realized through a mental revolution movement and the character of human resources or bureaucrats. Civil service education and training can be a solution in optimizing the mental revolution movement through character building and basic government ethics as well as developing competencies and skills. This research was conducted to find out and understand how big the urgency of civil service or civil service education is in preventing bureaucratic pathology. Based on research results, civil service or civil service education can be an effective solution in forming the character and mentality of prospective bureaucrats. This is shown by the pattern of education and teaching from an early age on how a prospective leader understands and appreciates his duties and responsibilities as a public servant through character education, mental revolution education, substantial deepening of bureaucratic ethics and government materials.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL SILENCE EDUCATION EXPERIENCED IN SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AND SCHOOL CULTURE

Organizations can be thought of as small social examples created by people. In order for the organization to make progress in the rapidly changing and developing world, it may be necessary for the members of the organization to be in effective communication and to express their opinions without hesitation on every issue that concerns the organization. Silence is one of the most important factors preventing the development and change of the organization. Organizational silence may occur in organizations where there are members who cannot express their opinions and where effective communication is not dominant. However, just as different societies around the world have different cultures, each organization has its own unique culture. Culture is the most important organizational element that enables the organization to survive and maintain its existence against various changes in its environment. The cultures of organizations whose ultimate aim is to survive and adapt to every development can be affected by situations such as organizational silence and this effect can be reflected in the development of the organization. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between organizational silence in secondary education institutions and school culture according to teachers' opinions. The relationship between organizational silence and school culture was examined according to the variables of gender, type of school they work and professional seniority of teachers working in secondary education institutions. The population of the research consists of 859 teachers working in secondary education institutions in the Central district of Düzce, and the sample consists of 402 teachers working in 23 public schools in the Central district of Düzce. All of the general high schools in the central district of Düzce were included in the study, and the teachers to whom the measurement tool was applied were determined by easy sampling method. In the study, Organizational Silence scale and School Culture scale were used to collect data. The collected data were analyzed in the SPSS program. The role and relationship of organizational silence on school culture; independent samples t-test, one-way analysis of variance and kruskal wallis tests were applied to determine whether teachers differ according to gender, type of school and professional seniority. Pearson Correlation analysis was conducted to determine whether there is a significant relationship between organizational silence and school culture. The results obtained as a result of the research can be summarized as follows: According to the opinions of teachers working in secondary education institutions in the central district of Düzce, a low-level negative significant relationship was found between organizational silence and school culture. There is no significant difference between the views of teachers on organizational silence and its sub-dimensions and their gender. There was no significant difference between organizational silence and its sub-dimensions and school type. A significant relationship was found between organizational silence sub-dimensions, silence for the benefit of the organization and professional seniority. There is no significant difference between the views of teachers on school culture and all its sub-dimensions, and their gender. A significant difference was found between all sub-dimensions of school culture and the school type variable. A significant difference was determined between the other sub-dimensions of the school culture variable except the support culture sub-dimension and the professional seniority variable. Organizational silence and sub-dimensions were found to have a moderately significant negative relationship with success culture and support culture. A low-level significant positive correlation was found between organizational silence and sub-dimensions and bureaucratic culture. Organizational silence is not a significant predictor of task culture.

Collaborative Approach on Digital Government Transformation in West Java.

The world is witnessing exponential growth and rapid change brought about by the advent of the digitalisation era. This change offers an opportunity to revisit the strategic approach on using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improve the delivery of public value. Considering that governments around the world are now facing declining levels of public trust. Using so-called digital transformation, governments adapt the wide use of ICTs to better support government functions, services, and citizens, encouraging their participation in policy-making processes. Successful government digital transformation often depends on the ability of multiple government or non-government organisations to collaborate towards shared objectives. However, most governments are far from fully exploiting the benefits of ICTs, and often forget that in some social groups, access to ICTs is limited at the point of digital inequality. This article provides an overview of how the Indonesian local government implements its digital-based policy, which is centered on an electronic-based government system in Indonesia (SPBE), linking cross-sectoral central government agencies. In recent years, government organisations have spent a large part of their budgets on information and communication systems and rely on these systems for their functioning. However, the complexity of the digital transformation still requires considerable effort, especially when it comes to a lack of ICT infrastructure, human resources, and bureaucratic culture. By using qualitative methods, knowledge is formed through the perspective and way of interpretation that comes from the participants included in the research, not limited to the research implementer. The data will be collected through literature study, in-depth interviews, and observations. The aim of the research is to describe how collaborative governance contributes to the policy process of using ICTs to deliver inclusive policies by local governments.

Policy Implementation: Challenges in Developing Countries like Nepal

Policy formulation is directly associated to policy implementation. Policy implementation is action of plan, program, rules and regulation into real ground. Policy implementation in developing countries is weak policy due to poverty, pseudo agenda, weak state, incomplete cycle, unethical behavior, bureaucratic culture, foreign influence, feudal culture and party conflict. Thus, policy implementation is complex task in developing country like Nepal. There are many issues being raised in developing countries like Nepal for policy implementation. Some people blame the government for not implementing policies whereas government blame opposition parties for blocking the policy implementation.

Penguatan Etika Pemerintahan sebagai Upaya Meningkatkan Kinerja Aparatur Pemerintahan

Accelerating government ethics in bureaucracy is a very important thing for every government apparatus to realize. As a government administrator, you must be able to actualize ethical values in providing services to the community. The aim of this research is to examine and explain how to strengthe government ethical values as an effort to improve the performance of government officials. The method used in this writing is a qualitative method with a literature review study approach. The results of the discussion in this paper show that strengthening government ethics can be realized by internalizing Pancasila values for government officials. Pancasila, as a state ideology and also as a guideline for attitudes and behavior, needs to be synergized by the apparatus in the form of services to the community. Apart from that, it is urgent to implement bureaucratic culture reform by the government as the embodiment of professional and qualified bureaucrats.

Organizational Culture and Resulting Leadership Behaviors: Empirical Evidence from Social Workers in Kuwait

ABSTRACTThis study investigates the influence of Bureaucratic, Supportive, and Innovative organizational structures on Consideration and Initiating Structure leadership behaviors. The study comprised survey of 261 purposively sampled social workers employed in Kuwaiti governmental social organizations. The Organizational Culture Index (OCI) and the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) were used for data collection, and Structural Equation Modeling was used to examine these relationships. The results of this study demonstrate that Bureaucratic cultures significantly affect both the Consideration and Initiating Structure behaviors. Moreover, Supportive organizational culture predicts Consideration, whereas little evidence is found to support if Innovative Culture has any impact on Consideration or Initiating Structure.

The role of historical legacies in the process of decentralisation in Russia: compliant activism in the context of the crises of the 2020s

ABSTRACT This study explores the case of recent trends in Russian centre–periphery decentralisation under Vladimir Putin: increasing regional rhetoric (2018) and delegating authority to the administrative regions (in 2020 and 2022). Why and how in the last six years (2018–23) have there been recurrent instances when Russia’s government has delegated authority to subnational regions? Why does the central government perceive the risk associated with distributed power as acceptable? We hypothesise that this outcome is driven by the existence of a specific bureaucratic culture of compliant activism inherited from the Soviet past. The existence of this culture makes decentralisation less risky for the centre. We provide some empirical evidence in support of this hypothesis. The article develops the theory of compliant activism and the role that the Communist legacy played in modern decentralisation in the prewar period (pension reforms in 2018), the COVID-19 pandemic (confinement restrictions in 2020) and during the invasion of Ukraine (military mobilisation in 2022). The article offers an empirical test for the case of pension reforms and lays the ground for future research on the impact of crises on decentralisation in non-democratic regimes.

The Mediating Role of Innovative School Characteristics in the Relationship Between School Culture and School Effectiveness

In this study, which was conducted to examine the role of school innovation characteristics in the relationship between the dominant culture type characteristics in the school and the effectiveness of the school, the School Culture, School Effectiveness, and Innovative School Characteristics scales were collected from 386 teachers working in public schools in the province of Kütahya via an online form. The data obtained from the participants was evaluated using measurement models and mediation analyses in line with the hypotheses, as well as the validity and reliability analyses and the prerequisite evaluations of the analyses to be made. According to the results obtained, while the innovative features of the schools have a full mediating role in the relationship with school effectiveness between support culture and success culture, a partial mediation effect was observed in the task culture type. In the bureaucratic culture type, no mediation effect of the innovativeness feature was detected.

Fraudulent Families? Investigating the Role of Paperwork in the Assessment of Refugees’ Family Reunification in Belgium

Current European directives indicate that refugees must be afforded more leniency when certifying the family relationships in family visa applications. However, our research—based on an in-depth thematic analysis of a sample of proceedings of the Belgian Council for Alien Law Litigation (2015–2019)—shows that even when refugee families provide documentary evidence about family ties and identity, this is often used against them. Building on studies on the bureaucratic culture of disbelief/suspicion, we illustrate that refusals are often based on discretionary decisions not to further investigate the application, as families allegedly committed fraud by presenting fake or discrepant proofs, while discrepancies may well emerge from the complexity of refugees’ transnational lives and bureaucratic experiences.

School Culture Types as Predictors of School Leadership Capacity

The purpose of this study is to determine the role of school culture types on perceived school leadership capacity. The study group of this research, consisted of 483 teachers. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data and Pearson Correlation Coefficients were calculated to determine the relationships between variables. Hierarchical regression analysis was performed to determine how administrative experience and each of the school culture types played a role on school leadership capacity. Findings showed that the most dominant culture type in schools was task culture and the least dominant culture type was bureaucratic culture. The hierarchical regression results showed that the status of having been a manager was a significant predictor of the perception of school leadership capacity. However, it was concluded that achievement culture and support culture were significant predictors of school leadership capacity perception, but task and bureaucratic cultures were not significant predictors. Moreover, it was found that support culture alone and together with achievement culture played a positive role on school leadership capacity, but with the addition of task and bureaucratic culture characteristics to the regression analysis, the effect of support culture on leadership capacity lost its meaning. Based on the results, various suggestions were developed.

Implementasi Kebijakan Pembangunan Zona Integritas Menuju Wilayah Bebas Korupsi dan Wilayah Birokrasi Bersih Melayani di Pengadilan Negeri Manokwari

Government bureaucracy plays a crucial role in supporting the national administrative system as it is responsible for performing public service functions, empowering communities, and contributing to national development. The bureaucracy in Indonesia currently faces several issues, such as administrative personnel not being entirely clean and accountable, administrative inefficiency, poor quality public services, and quantity falling short of expectations. The objective of this research is to identify and analyze the implementation of the policy on developing integrity zones towards corruption-free areas and clean-serving bureaucracies in the Manokwari District Court. This study utilizes a qualitative method with a descriptive approach. Data collection methods include observation, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis techniques involve data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The theory used in this research is Edward III's policy implementation model, consisting of four variables: communication, resources, disposition, and bureaucratic structure. The research findings indicate that the development of integrity zones has been implemented in the Manokwari District Court but has not yet received the predicates of a Clean and Serving Bureaucracy (WBK/WBBM). This is due to several obstacles, such as bureaucratic culture and mindset, insufficient human resources, budget limitations, and facilities. Based on these findings, it is recommended that all employees participate in the implementation of bureaucratic reform towards WBK/WBBM and integrity zones in the Manokwari District Court. This effort should be continually maximized, not only to obtain the WBK/WBBM predicates but also as a means to enhance services to justice seekers and eliminate corrupt behavior.

Corruption Prevention Strategies in Government Institutions: A Case Study of Anti-Corruption Policies Implementation in the Public Sector

The increasing corruption of public services is fueled by system weakness and the need to prevent the country's existing moral endemption. The study was intended to outline the prevention of public service corruption in criminal optics. The method of studies USES normative legal research, through constitutional and conceptual approaches. Studies suggest that governments must pursue policies to prevent the corruption of public services, which is: Adopting crime-prevention theories, such as situational crime prevention, strengthening bureaucratic ethics and governance through good corporate governance, highly sanctioning bureaucrats who receive gratuities in their performance, reward honest bureaucrats, socializing the massive and systematic impact of corruption of sda in society, forming integrated online licensing systems, organizing bureaucratic cultures, And improved licensing process time limits.

The impact of intellectual capital-enhancing HR practices and culture on innovativeness—mediating role of knowledge management processes

PurposeThe study examines the effect of human and social capital-supporting human resource (HR) practices and structural capital-supporting culture on innovativeness and the mediating role of knowledge management (KM) processes in the knowledge-intensive Indian IT sector.Design/methodology/approachUsing a quantitative approach, the authors collected data from 387 employees in 30 IT organizations via a questionnaire survey. The authors analyzed data using structural equational modeling using AMOS 26.FindingsThe results indicate complete mediation of KM processes between human capital-HR (HCHRP), social capital HR (SCHRP), bureaucratic culture (BOC) space and innovativeness. KM processes partially mediated the effect of innovative-competitive culture (IOC) on innovativeness. KM processes have a robust predictive capacity for innovativeness, suggesting that human capital-supporting HR and innovative-competitive culture significantly contribute to KM Processes and innovativeness, respectively.Practical implicationsThis study provides practical insights to HR and knowledge managers to leverage their HR practices and organizational culture for improving innovation performance in KISO.Originality/valueThe paper adds to the intellectual capital and KM literature by exploring the mediating role of the KM process in the underlying mechanism suggesting that intellectual capital can enhance HR and culture, leveraging a firm's knowledge resources for innovativeness. It fills a research gap by providing original evidence based on primary data collected from India's IT sector.

Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide

ABSTRACT The introduction of computers in Indian schools runs parallel with the development of a digital divide in the country. In addition to the formal ways in which government policies shape access to computers in schools, deeper informal cultures of the state and schools shape opinion about these technologies. In this paper, we examine three levels of these informal cultures: political cultures and their perceptions of technology; bureaucratic cultures, which are distanced from schooling realities; and classroom teaching-learning practices, where digital inequalities add to pre-existing educational inequalities. For examining the interplay of the informal cultures, we scale down from the national level to examine the case of West Bengal, a state in eastern India. The state has been one of the strongholds of Left politics in India. Drawing upon its experiences, we explore the linkage between political ideology and the social embedding of resistance to computers.

Are polarised elections the hardest to deliver? Explaining global variations in electoral management body performance

ABSTRACT Electoral management, understood as the application and implementation of electoral rules, is a critical part of democratic governance. But there are often concerns about the quality of electoral management and the performance of electoral management bodies around the world. Despite recent advances, there remains a need for new systematic evidence on the quality of electoral management and analysis of the factors that lead to poorly- or well- run elections. This article therefore maps out global variations in the quality of the public management of elections using a new cross-national dataset and measure. It then explains variations by evaluating the relative importance of bureaucratic culture, the autonomy of electoral authorities, political polarisation in the electorate and the capacity of electoral management bodies. The results provide support for the importance of each of these factors. The effect of political polarisation is an important finding as it is a new threat to elections.

Manage and make productive: The New Zealand National Party’s social investment policy

New Zealand National Party’s 2022–2023 policy of Social Investment, which if adopted, will legitimise the management of young unemployed in the name of correcting and helping them. Zygmunt Bauman’s (1989) concept of ‘rational bureaucratic culture’ is used to examine the aims to bring the ‘abnormal’ citizen into the tax-paying fold. The policy will ‘manage and make productive’ young welfare recipients to avoid them ‘bludging’ and encourage them into ‘productive work’, no matter how menial. Using philanthropic monies alongside funding through Vote : Social Development is a new development which removes the state’s sole financing of its safety-net responsibility. It will see a new interpretation of Principal: Agency policy.