Field Of Public Management Research Articles

Intersecting public management and social equity Introduction to the special issue of Public Management Review

ABSTRACT This introduction to the special issue stems from the assumption that the field of public management is the necessary, missing catalyst to make tangible progress towards social equity. We begin by outlining the concept of social equity and highlighting the value of improving the field’s understanding of how we can use the foundations of public management to advance social equity principles, practices, and theories, across all forms of oppression. A brief overview of the papers in the special issue follows and we draw out key themes, which hopefully will inspire public management scholars to engage with social equity research.

The Relationship between Integrated Development Planning and Water Demand Planning

The correlation between integrated development planning and water demand planning represents innovative and noteworthy concepts within the field of public administration. In recent years, a significant number of researchers have focused their investigations on elucidating the connection between integrated development planning and water demand Planning, offering a fresh perspective on public management. These processes constitute vital elements of contemporary public management within governmental sectors. This study employs a mixed-method research approach, incorporating both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Secondary data, obtained through a systematic review of literature comprising 237 documents from Scopus-indexed journals spanning the years 2019 to 2024, provides insights into the extensive body of literature concerning the relationship between integrated development planning and water demand planning. Primary data was collected from five interviews conducted with managers from the Vhembe District Municipality. The literature review analysis reveals that the research based on the relationship between integrated development planning and water demand planning is fragmented, with different subsets of documents focusing on distinct aspects or methodologies without much overlap or integration between them. The abundance of literature on the relationship between integrated development planning and water demand planning underscores its significance in the field of public management. Insights from interviews indicate a lack of clarity regarding roles and responsibilities concerning the connection between integrated development planning and water demand planning. In conclusion, this study emphasises the emerging importance of the relationship between Integrated Development Planning and Water Demand Planning within the realm of public administration. Keywords: Integrated, Development, Planning, Water, Demand

Review of Human Resource Management in the Field of Public Management and Public Administration

The goal of this research is to elevate the importance of Human Resources Management within public management and administration. Many empirical studies published in academic journals between 2000 and 2019 corroborate this aim. The study's outcomes underscore variations among different disciplines and pinpoint shortcomings in particular nations. Furthermore, the findings provide directions for future research endeavors, proposing alternative theories, frameworks, research methodologies, and approaches to enhance the pertinence of Human Resources Management research in public sector contexts.

Управление конкурентоспособностью и экспортом образования в России

Education is an integral part of the country's social infrastructure and includes the intellectual potential of the state as a whole. The quality of education determines the prospects for development and basic principles that make it possible to predict the conditions of the country's functioning in the long term. Considering education as an exported commodity, the importance of promoting knowledge along with the transmitted national values and attitudes should be noted. That is why many countries use exported educational product as a "soft power" to strengthen their influence under modern geopolitical conditions. The purpose of the study is to develop theoretical and methodological provisions and substantiate recommendations on updating approaches to management of Russian education competitiveness and enhancing export of educational services. As a results of the research the relevance of increasing national education export as a tool of "soft power" under modern geopolitical conditions was established. The reasons preventing educational services export from Russia and the role of managerial contribution to the development of education system at the federal and regional levels are substantiated. Importance of national project "Education" for modernization of the structure, institutions and mechanisms of Russian education and its impact on preferences in choosing specialties by school graduates is clarified. The role of analysis and assessment of export education quality is shown. The potential of educational services, its legal support; positive and negative characteristics of increasing commercialization of universities of scientific and educational components in higher education are systematized. Russian experience of training personnel reserve for public authorities is analyzed and its key disadvantages as a social elevator are formulated. Approaches to training personnel for public authorities and mechanisms for making managerial decisions in the field of public management in China based on "holistic knowledge" are systematized with clarification of disadvantages and advantages of brain centres practices. Recommendations are proposed for gradual transition to new education model based on combination of anthropology, attitude to activity and social factors in a particular country. On the basis of constructive adaptation of Chinese and Soviet experience, proposals are formulated to increase the attractiveness of Russian education for foreign students and improvement of its effectiveness.

Practical Application of Intelligent Technology in Grassroots Public Governance and Its Enhancement of Governance Effectiveness

Abstract The application and development of intelligent technology in the field of public management has accelerated the governance mode change and process evolution. As a new mode and direction of governance system and technological innovation in the new era, holistic smart governance has a high theoretical coupling with grassroots public governance. Based on the transformation path of grassroots public governance, the study designs a holistic smart governance model for the application of intelligent technology in grassroots public governance and then measures the effectiveness of grassroots public holistic smart governance using the static DEA model and the dynamic Malmquist index model. Subsequently, data from 16 regions in Province M are taken as examples for empirical analysis, and the augmented regression number model is utilized to explore the relative strengths of the influencing factors and the ways of influencing them. The results show that M4, M7, M9, M12, M13 and M15, six regions realize DEA effective, but the average value of the annual technology change index is greater than 1 only in M7, M12 and M15, some regions have poor technological innovation capacity, production technology is difficult to innovate, and the innovation capacity and grassroots public governance are not coordinated with the input governance. M = 3055 under the augmented regression tree in the ratio of housing expenditure to per capita disposable income has the greatest impact on grassroots public governance in society (27.54%), which needs to be focused on. The study concludes that governance effectiveness can be realized in five areas: governance philosophy, governance objectives, governance approach, governance structure, and governance path.

Стан та проблеми в реалізації комунікаційних стратегій органів публічного управлінні

The article examines the state and identifies systemic problems in the implementation of communication strategies by public authorities in Ukraine, which do not allow to increase the efficiency of their work. The positive sides and shortcomings in the development and implementation of communication strategies in the field of public management and administration are analyzed; the requirements and factors that most significantly influence the content of communication processes in the public sphere are determined. It has been proven that the positive perception of the activities of public authorities is influenced not only by the information field formed by the Ukrainian mass media and interested parties, but also by informational messages of Russian propaganda, countering which should be the task of the structural units of public authorities responsible for communication. Suggestions for improving communication activities in the public sphere are provided. It is substantiated that when developing a communication strategy, public authorities should ensure the reduction of uncertainty and the risk of failure when making strategic management decisions. The essence of the interaction of public authorities with target audiences is determined, which consists in ensuring effective state policy, adapting state reforms to possible future changes in the external environment. It is emphasized that the achievement of these tasks is impossible without increasing the level of trust and image of public authorities among citizens; raising citizens’ awareness of the processes taking place in them; ensuring active participation of the public in the process of making management decisions and establishing feedback; improving cooperation with national and international mass media; strengthening the presence of public authorities at the international level; optimization of internal communications and information exchange in public authorities. Keywords: information, communications in public administration, strategic communications, communication risks, target audiences, communication channels.

THE PERSPECTIVES OF THE PUBLIC POLICIES AND PROGRAMS EVALUATION SYSTEM IN ROMANIA IN THE CONTEXT OF IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE PLAN

The implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility boosts the EU's power to transform Member States, especially in the field of public management. The conditioning of the Member States to link proposed investments in their plans in order to overcome the effects of the crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, but also to boost the implementation of the Green Pact on structural reforms transforms this temporary instrument in the main driver for deepening European integration. In the case of Romania, one of the important results pursued as part of the reforms related to the public administration sector, correlated with those related to the reform of public finances, refers to the improvement of the planning system of public policies and programs in accordance with budgetary scheduling. In this context, it is expected that following the implementation of these structural reforms, the national system for public policies and programs evaluation will strengthen significantly. The article aims to discuss certain aspects related to the dynamics of the use of public policies and programs evaluations in various stakes specific to the public management sector. Thus, in the first part of the article, the dynamics of the institutionalization of the national system for public policies and programs evaluation is described and analysed. In the second part, the strengthening premises of the national evaluation system for public intervention are analysed as a result of the implementation of a package of structural reforms which are specific to strategic planning and public management.

Influence of blockchain technology on improving the electronic governance in Ukraine

The article examines the features of the influence of technical and technological tools on improving the quality of electronic governance in the field of public management and administration, in particular blockchain technology. These technologies have certain positive applied results, implemented on the basis of theoretical and methodological research by domestic and foreign scientists. In the future, they will become one of the basic technological resources using the e-government mechanism in Ukraine for the development of the entire sphere of public management and administration.
 To make appropriate decisions on the implementation of blockchain technology as part of the implementation of projects based on e-governance in Ukraine, it is advisable to analyze at the proper scientific level the principles of functioning of blockchain technology in the field of public administration, to identify the corresponding advantages and disadvantages of their use in the context of global challenges and threats, and also in the context of Ukraine’s integration processes in the EU; carry out assessment and forecasting of risks associated with their future use in the field of activity indicated by the author.
 The article discusses the features of building blockchain technology (hereinafter referred to as blockchain) in e-governance, the essence of which is the accounting and exchange of ownership rights to digital assets (structured data) in the form of a distributed registry of a peer-to-peer network (Distributed Ledger).
 An analysis of the term «blockchain» in scientific domestic and foreign literature is presented. The technological advantages of using blockchain technology in e-government are identified to ensure interoperability of the activities of public administration bodies. The essence of blockchain models is revealed by subjects of administration and by the method of access to data, operations and transactions; their classification of organizations according to four typical patterns: inclusive exclusive, public, closed.

Readiness for management in crisis situations in the sphere of public administration

The article examines the phenomenon of readiness to manage in crisis situations in the field of public administration. The multifacetedness of this concept is emphasized, which is manifested in the combination of approaches to the study of the activation of its potential both in the conditions of a certain situation (crisis conditions) and in the conditions of a certain activity (public administration). It is noted that a crisis situation is a situation of human activity, and therefore a condition for realizing readiness for management. The definition of preparedness for management in crisis situations in the field of public administration is given as the level of preparation and ability of public servants to effectively respond to unforeseen and extraordinary circumstances that may arise in the course of their professional activities. It is noted that when studying the readiness for management, we study the potential of the internal resources of the individual, the activation and implementation of which are facilitated by the developed components of readiness: motivational and valuable; personal; cognitive; activity; reflexive; creative It is noted that the implementation of readiness for management involves overcoming the barrier between the actual and potential resources of the individual. It is emphasized that the readiness to manage complex social systems in crisis situations is correlated with the readiness for changes in these systems. Four systemic components of the phenomenon of readiness to manage in the field of public management in crisis situations were studied: situational, subject (reactive), organizational-professional and effective. It was concluded that the readiness of public servants to manage in crisis situations expresses the general orientation of the subject of management to a certain activity, reflecting his active and creative relationship to the surrounding reality and to himself.

Study on the Problems and Strategies Facing the Development of Governmental Media based on the New Media Environment

Time has changed, and at the beginning of the 21st century, information and communication technology has exploded, and new media technology has stood at the front end of leading information dissemination in the era after continuous updating and iteration. With the development of new media technology, new media has the characteristics of timeliness, feedback and plurality, making all kinds of information spread in cyberspace in an uncontrollable way, which makes the government's task of guiding public opinion more and more heavy. However, the development of new media also provides the government with new governance methods in the field of public management. Based on the new media technology platform, various kinds of governmental media, such as WeChat, Weibo and Sina Weibo, have been built up, which provide the government with a lot of convenient ways to collect public opinion, publicize policies and guide public opinion. Based on the above, this paper will analysis the characteristics of new media and governmental media and identify the commonalities between new media and governmental media based on the connotation of new media and governmental media. Explore the combination road of new media and governmental media.

Dilemma and countermeasures of community sports center governance under the background of big data and Internet of Things

My country is currently in a new era of industrial revolution and technological development, among which the most representative is the rapid development of information technology. And the action plan has been formulated, and it is pointed out that it is necessary to deeply integrate the real economy and artificial intelligence, the Internet and digital China, as well as the smart society and big data. As the most critical part of community governance, the complexity and difficulty of community sports center governance is relatively high. Therefore, one of the key goals that all sectors of society are currently concerned about is how to build and develop community sports through more advanced technical means center. The innovative governance community sports center must effectively combine and integrate the current advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things and big data, so that the level of community governance can be effectively improved. This paper draws on the academic background of “governance” in the field of public management. Different from social management, “governance” mainly reflects the administrative aspect, the cooperation between the government and all sectors of society, while the traditional social management mainly highlights the state’s administrative management. It reflects the concept that the government’s management power is inviolable and unshareable, which is also very different from the development direction of the gradual liberalization of the administrative power advocated by the Chinese government. Therefore, the effective way to solve various social problems at this stage is to change the concept of social management to community governance, and this approach has also been supported and valued by the government in recent years. The research shows that the management efficiency of community sports facilities can be effectively improved by optimizing the community sports governance system, making full use of the convenience brought by information resources, and using its own advanced technology.

A study on the internal logic of local government emergency response capacity indicators based on the G-Dematel-Aism model

The local government's handling of emergencies has a bearing on the lives of local people, property safety and a series of rights. Therefore, how to build the emergency response capacity of local governments has become an important topic in the field of public management. In this paper, we study the important indexes of local government's emergency management and combine them with the algorithm of systematics to construct the matrix and topological map, and finally calculate the degree of importance and the logic relationship between the indexes The calculation results provide ideas for the focus and logic of local government's emergency response capacity building.

New development: Improving accident compensation for public officials

IMPACT Public officials undertake challenging tasks to ensure safety and order in society; however, accidents can still occur at their workplace. In the event of an occupational accident, compensation is often dealt with as a labour, welfare, or legal issue in many countries; as such, there is little discussion on accident compensation in the public management field. In this context, the South Korean government’s accident compensation experience will be a useful reference for public management to improve accident compensation systems in other countries. The South Korean government implemented compensation reforms for public officials’ accidents in 2018 and enacted the Public Officials’ Accident Compensation Act to address the various identified problems. Consequently, after 2018, the Ministry of Personnel Management took charge of accident compensation for public officials and delivered the relevant services in a more transparent and accountable manner. Thus, the overall quality of public officials’ accident compensation has improved. In addition to providing examples and lessons for other jurisdictions, this study makes recommendations for improvements in South Korea.

Organizational Justice and Employee Voluntary Absenteeism in Public Sector Organizations: Disentangling the Moderating Roles of Work Motivation

Although the relationships between fair treatment by the organization and work-related outcomes are contingent on motivational traits, little scholarly attention has been paid to how extrinsic and intrinsic work motivation shape the influence of organizational justice on employee voluntary absence in the field of public management. In this context, our study aims to explore the direct effect of organizational justice on voluntary absence based on social exchange theory, as well as the moderating roles of extrinsic and intrinsic work motivation in the relationship, building on the equity sensitivity theory. Using National Administrative Studies Project–III (NASP III) survey data from a sample of 709 public employees from two state governments (i.e., Georgia and Illinois) in the U.S. and negative binomial regression models, we found that organizational justice is positively associated with employee voluntary absence. Further analysis showed that while extrinsic work motivation mitigates the positive relationship between organizational justice and voluntary absence, intrinsic work motivation enhances the positive relationship between organizational justice and voluntary absence. Accordingly, our study offers meaningful implications that are essential for public management scholars and organizations to consider in order to develop effective managerial practices based on the fitness between organizational justice and employees’ motivational traits, thus reducing employee voluntary absence and improving organizational performance and sustainability.

Facilitating inter-municipal collaboration through mandated collaborative platform: evidence from regional environmental protection in China

ABSTRACT This article argues for the need to go beyond appreciating hierarchy and network as separate coordination processes. Rather it conceptualizes a mandated platform approach to facilitate inter-municipal collaboration with little collaboration experience and diverse interests. Based on a mandated regional platform in China, this article examines what an appropriate mandate is, and how network coordination evolves on this mandated platform. Practically, this study provides a potentially new coordination approach that integrates hierarchy and network. It also has important theoretical implications to enhance our understanding of hybrid coordination and collaborative governance in the public management field.

A Novel Psychological Decision-Making Approach for Healthcare Digital Transformation Benchmarking in ASEAN

In recent years, digital transformation is seen as a mandatory and urgent requirement in the process of modernizing countries. The effectiveness of the digital transformation process in the field of public management directly affects the social life and operations of businesses. This study aims to paint an overall picture of the healthcare digital transformation of a rapidly growing region, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), through a bounded rational multi-criteria assessment method. The novel proposed method is developed in light of the psychological behavior theories and the strengths of multi-criteria decision-making methods, which are based on distance computation and statistical parameters. Therefore, it can not only determine the weight of the criteria objectively through distance correlations, but also deeply describe the subjective psychology of the decision maker. In addition to theoretical contributions with a novel approach, the findings in the benchmarking process reveal important indicators and practical lessons from the digital transformation successes in ASEAN.

Designing Internal Relationships Between Causes and Strategies of Political Behavior in the Public Sector Using Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM)

Objective: The main goal of this research is to design the internal relationships between the causes and strategies of political behavior in the public sector using Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM). Method: In this study, through the review of previous research literature and using the opinions of experts in the field of public management and organizational behavior, six causal and strategic variables affecting political behavior in the public sector were identified. These variables were classified using Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM), which includes six steps, and through the use of a questionnaire. Findings: The research findings indicated that the environmental factors variable serves as the basis of the model, influencing all other variables. At the next level, individual and structural factors are positioned, which affect freedom of speech and adherence to the law, and in turn, these factors influence meritocracy. Conclusion: Managers should create a suitable environment for guiding public sector units with inhibitory organizational structures towards empowered organizational structures, fostering freedom of speech, adherence to the law, and meritocracy.

Dynamic Simulation Study on Evolution Law and Intervention Strategy of Public Opinion Information of Major Public Health Events

Compared with the traditional media era, the network information production and dissemination mode in the new media era has undergone essential changes. Especially after the outbreak of major public health events of public concern, a variety of public opinion information spread together, and the evolution law of network public opinion becomes more complex, which easily leads to the outbreak of a public opinion crisis. Therefore, it is of great significance to master the evolution law of public opinion information about major public health events and scientifically intervene and guide public opinion for event handling and maintaining social stability, and it is also a crucial part of the field of public management at present. Based on SEIR infectious disease model, this paper analyzed the dynamic characteristics of dissemination of network public opinion information and built a simulation model using the dynamic simulation method on the NetLogo simulation platform to simulate the evolution law of network public opinion of major public health events, analyzed the expected effect of public opinion intervention and public opinion guidance strategies, and put forward a more scientific idea of public opinion intervention and public opinion guidance.

Innovative Public Governance. The Finnish Welfare State Model

Background: The rationality of developing citizen-friendly solutions is demonstrated by the state helping citizens, Finland has own pattern of public governance based inter alia on the ideals of New Public Management. As a peripheral country quite remote from the largest European centres of power such as Germany or France, it represents unique way of innovation in the welfare state model.
 Research objectives: The paper discusses the specifics of Finnish solutions in the field of public management. The present analysis was carried out based on the dependence of those solutions on cultural conditions.
 Research design and methods: The choice of Finland is justified by its leading position in various world rankings regarding its commitment to traditional regional values related to open public administration, the transparency of its operations, and public participation in governance processes, the social welfare state. The study uses secondary sources and applies systematic analysis.
 Results: Finland is seen as a latecomer in developing a welfare state, in part because of its rural and agrarian social structure. This process was strengthened by Finland’s special position between East and West during the Cold War.
 Conclusions: Finnish administrative culture stems directly from the innovative forms of public management developed among the Nordic countries. Finland is a model example of a country exhibiting rational, knowledge-driven progress and maintaining simplicity in developing citizen-friendly solutions

Correlation of procedural and procedural forms of activity of public administration in the context of the Law of Ukraine «On administrative procedure»

The article examines the essence of the legal procedural and legal proceedings form of public administration activity in the context of the adoption of the Law of Ukraine «On Administrative Procedure». The main differences of legal procedural and legal proceedings forms are revealed. The latter, due to the presence of stages, can cause the onset of a legal consequence even before the final resolution of the case, for example, after the completion of a specific stage of the case. While the procedural form can cause a legal consequence only at the final stage of its implementation. It is noted that a mandatory element of the legal proceedings form is the stage of proving the circumstances of the case. Based on the analysis of the features and correlation of the procedural and legal proceedings form, the thesis is substantiated that in the field of public management and administration there are two independent varieties of the legal proceedings form: administrative justice and administrative proceedings. Administrative procedure is a branch type of procedural form in administrative law. The impracticality of distinguishing between the concepts of administrative procedure and administrative proceedings on the basis of statics and dynamics has been proven. As branch varieties of higher-order categories (procedural and legal proceedings, respectively), these concepts can and should be distinguished precisely by generic features. It is emphasized that administrative procedure and administrative proceedings are specific concepts of different content categories, and attempts to establish generic-specific connections between these concepts lead to a number of logical contradictions. These contradictions are analyzed on the example of the Law of Ukraine «On Administrative Procedure». The main problematic issues, the solution of which is necessary before the entry into force of this law, are indicated. The circle of relations that should receive the legal proceedings form in administrative law has been clarified. At the same time, it was emphasized that administrative justice is an independent type of legal proceedings form of court activity and should not be considered part of the theory of procedural forms of public administration activity. Differences between theoretical and normative constructions of procedural and legal proceedings forms are emphasized. It is noted that their mistaken identification hinders the construction of the theory of administrative-procedural law, causes discussions about the relationship between the categories «administrative process», «administrative proceedings», «administrative procedure».