Government Personnel Research Articles

Improvement of Government Leadership for Climate Crisis Response: Focusing on New Media Communication

This study aims to enhance government leadership in responding to the climate crisis by strengthening the application of new media communication. In the era of new media, we can get climate information quickly and easily, which brings new opportunities and challenges for the government to deal with the climate crisis. There are many deficiencies in the government's new media services in response to the climate crisis. The content and ways of communication are relatively simple, and the ability to interact with the public is insufficient; failure to establish cooperation mechanisms with multiple organizations; the ability and quality of the government to make use of new media to publicize the climate crisis should be improved; government needs to improve its level of political inquiry and handling through new media. Therefore, we suggest that the government should make reasonable use of new media to increase the publicity of the climate crisis, leverage external forces to diversify the response to the climate crisis, establish a new media public communication platform, and improve the awareness and ability of government personnel to use new media.

Human resources development strategy use Backpropagation Artificial Neural Networks

The strategy for developing human resources for recruitment so that at the same time becoming a reliable workforce as expected is the goal of personnel in certain offices or agencies. This step must be taken by the management of companies or institutions, both public and private, in order to improve human resources (HR). Until now, there has never been any research on the conventional acceptance of prospective employees to test how accurate their performance is. In this study the conventional selection system for prospective employees will be used as a basic concept to find methods for analyzing the performance of prospective employees using computer media with an artificial neural network system approach with the backpropagation method. So that the accuracy of the predictive patterns of prospective new employees is obtained. So that finally the personnel of government and private agencies obtain actual information about the performance of prospective employees who will be accepted as workers. The results of the study using hidden layers and learning constants obtained the fastest convergent value at 3377, and the final results of this study will be published in a national journal accredited SINTA 4 or better.

머신러닝을 활용한 테러리즘 빅데이터 분석

The purpose of this study is to analyze terrorism-related structured and unstructured big data using machine learning techniques for big data analysis to confirm the predictability of terrorism and derive implications. To this end, big data on terrorism was obtained from research institutes specializing in terrorism, articles and documents posted on various portals and SNS were collected, put into machine learning, and analyzed and learned, and the results were confirmed. The analysis results are as follows. First, as a result of conducting K-Means Clustering, a representative unsupervised learning among machine learning techniques, eight regional clusters of terrorism occurred around the world in 2021 (near Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Iraq, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Somalia). Next, as a result of clustering by type of terrorism, assassination using weapons excluding explosives, kidnapping or kidnapping targeting key facilities were identified. In addition, as a result of clustering around the means used in terrorism, it was confirmed that there were many explosives ahead, but there were differences according to the cluster. Finally, clusters of military, police, government personnel, civilians, and private property were identified as a result of clustering centered on targets of terrorism. Second, as a result of sentiment analysis by setting unstructured texts on terrorism events as research subjects, it was confirmed that there were differences in views on terrorism between terrorism researchers and the general public. Based on these research results, policy suggestions were made on ways to prevent terrorism.

Pelatihan Desain Kreatif Canva dalam Sosial Media di Lingkup Kelurahan Se-Kecamatan Pangkajene

The creativity training program in sub-district units of Pangkajene District is an effort to strengthen the competency of government personnel in accelerating delivery of attractive and technology-based information. Social media is an important component of any instances to raise consumer’s awareness. It is hoped that by offering useful and attractive digital contents, sub-district units of Pangkajene District will be able to minimize the spread of fake news and many other useful information for citizen. With this program, our teams demonstrated various materials and cases using Canva application to generate an attractive and informative digital content, specifically by utilize Canva’s features and template.

Daycare shooting in Thailand: Time to address firearm violence as a global health issue

AbstractOn 6 October 2022, a daycare shooting incident happened in Thailand. It is the deadliest mass shooting in Southeast Asian (SEA) countries and one of the many incidents contributing to the global epidemic of firearm‐related preventable violence. Although firearm violence is commonly associated with the United States, it is also a problem worldwide, causing long‐lasting health issues and huge economic burden. This is due to the root causes of firearm violence transcending national boundaries, including socioeconomic landscape, political dynamics, and globalization. Considering these and the major public health impacts of firearm violence, firearm violence should be prioritized as a global health issue. We identified public health challenges related to global firearm violence management: inadequate regulation, lack of official firearm surveillance, and inadequate access to mental health care. In Thailand, there is a gap in gun ownership policies for the civilian and government personnel and a relatively less strict background check compared to other SEA countries. It is crucial for the governments to strengthen their firearm regulations and invest in appropriate public health interventions, including improving access to mental health services and conducting firearm‐related surveillance and culturally sensitive awareness programs. Various public health stakeholders, including healthcare workers and local communities, should be engaged to effectively mitigate future firearm violence.

Visualizing Contemporary Factors Affecting the Adoption of E-learning: A PRISMA Approach

This study investigated the effects of factors that influence users' perceptions to adopt digital transformation. Eight hypotheses were proposed and tested employing the Structural Equation Modeling. 248 government personnel, instructors, and students were recruited to answer the questionnaires through Google Form. The experimental results indicated that facilitating conditions, policy, social influence, and knowledge all had a positive and significant impact on digital transformation adoption. Meanwhile, policy was found to have a positive effect on social influence. In turn, social influence positively affected knowledge. In addition, awareness was verified to be a reliable predictor of knowledge. The notable exception was that the awareness factor was shown to have no effect on digital transformation adoption. Thus, traditional reaching to citizens via television, news, broadcast needed to be re-examined. Overall, the model accounts for 52.5 percent of the variation in the data. Four recommendations were proposed for practitioners, and limitations were roughly discussed. Future study is called to reexamine the unexpected effect of awareness on digital transformation adoption.

Media Kompas TV dalam Mempengaruhi Pola Pikir Masyarakat pada Penanganan Covid -19 di Medan

The purpose of this research is to find out how the community's mindset is in handling Covid-19 in Medan, North Sumatra, as well as to find out some of the obstacles and obstacles faced by Kompas TV as well as how Kompas TV deals with these obstacles. This research was conducted at the Kompas TV Medan office, Jalan K.H. Wahid Hasyim No. 37, Babura, Medan Baru District, North Sumatra 20153. In this study using qualitative research methods with a descriptive approach, namely a study that seeks to collect data, process, analyze and interpret qualitatively and describe or describe a number of variables related to problems and units researched. Data collection techniques are used with observation, interviews, and documentation. Then the results of this study are 1. Media Kompas TV in influencing the mindset of the people is trying several ways so that people believe in the Covid-19 virus which is currently spreading in the world including, the Indonesian terrain. Efforts are being made as routinely reporting the number of deaths, positives and also the number of those who have recovered because of this virus. Kompas TV also provides education on how to handle it through its publications. Of course, the appeal that Kompas is making to the public is in accordance with the recommendations of the government and medical personnel. 2. The obstacle faced by Kompas TV in influencing people's mindset in handling Covid-19 in the city of Medan is the difficulty of finding sources who want to meet in person to conduct interviews with Kompas TV. Officials are often opaque in conveying bed inventory data, available vaccine doses. 3. Kompas TV's way of dealing with obstacles that occur in influencing people's mindsets in handling Covid-19 is to look for other sources who are equally competent in the health sector. If there are obstacles such as officials who are not clear in conveying information, Kompas TV will re-check with the party concerned.

PERAN BADAN KEPEGAWAIAN NEGARA (BKN) DI DALAM UPAYA PENCEGAHAN KORUPSI UNTUK PEGAWAI NEGERI SIPIL

The purpose of writing the article is to analyze the functions and roles of BKN, the role of BKN in preventing corruption for civil servants, and the implementation of corruption prevention policies or programs in the field by BKN in efforts to prevent civil servant corruption. Employees are workers both physically and mentally and their presence is needed because they are one of the most important means of effort to achieve certain goals. The writing method that we use in writing this paper is normative juridical, namely an approach through researching doctrinal laws using secondary data sources. The BKN as an institution of the Government of the Republic of Indonesia to better manage government personnel. The BKN was established to function not only to collect administrative data, but to develop the competence of civil servants in a more effective way so that they can provide support for development missions, governance, and public services. Corruption is the root of the country's problems and is the most important cause of poverty, therefore it must be dealt with. The causes of corruption very often occur such as the absence of strict sanctions, weak religious and ethical education, lack of education, bad environment, radical change, poverty, and the state of society. BKN is an institution that has the authority and controls the implementation of ASN administration standards, norms, procedures and criteria, staffing employees, organizing training and developing the field of HR management as well as conducting inspections. official duties, etc.
 
 Keywords : Corruption, Government institutions, Civil Servants.

South African government personnel expenditure 2006–2021: Methodological considerations in using remuneration data

ABSTRACT The level of detail, coverage, accuracy, completeness and time range of personnel expenditure data available in the transversal payroll system used by South African national and provincial government departments, PERSAL, offers opportunities for wage bill analysis that is not possible with the more common and well-known approaches of using either highly summarised tabled data, reported data or survey data. This paper describes a methodology that was developed to extract trends in the wage bill and personnel numbers. The key drivers of total wage bill growth have been identified as personnel growth and salary growth and this paper demonstrates how to disaggregate total growth into these two key drivers. The full-time equivalent is proposed as a measure for annual headcounts, as it provides an accurate summary. Appropriate stratification when analysing the impact of remuneration policies is highlighted. The structuring of payroll data as employees’ career trajectories enables the analysis of changes at the personal level, adding insight to into personnel movements and improvements in salaries.

Infertility services integrated within the maternal health department of a public hospital in a low-income country, Rwanda

To describe the initiation, integration, and costs of reduced-cost infertility services within the maternal health department of a public hospital in a low-income country. Retrospective review of the clinical and laboratory components of patients undergoing invitro fertilization (IVF) treatment in Rwanda from 2018 to2020. Academic tertiary referral hospital in Rwanda. Patients seeking infertility services beyond the primary gynecological options. The national government furnished facilities and personnel, and the Rwanda Infertility Initiative, an international nongovernmental organization, provided training, equipment, and materials. The incidence of retrieval, fertilization, embryo cleavage, transfer, and conception (observed until ultrasound verification of intrauterine pregnancy with fetal heartbeat) were analyzed. Cost calculations used the government-issued tariff specifying insurers' payments and patients' copayments with projected delivery rates using early literature. Assessment of functional clinical and laboratory infertility services and costs. A total of 207 IVF cycles were initiated, 60 of which led to transfer of ≥1 high-grade embryo and 5 to ongoing pregnancies. The projected average cost per cycle was 1,521 USD. Using optimistic and conservative assumptions, the estimated costs per delivery for women <35 years were 4,540 and 5,156 USD, respectively. Reduced-cost infertility services were initiated and integrated within a maternal health department of a public hospital in a low-income country. This integration required commitment, collaboration, leadership, and a universal health financing system. Low-income countries, such as Rwanda, might consider infertility treatment and IVF for younger patients as part of an equitable and affordable health care benefit.

E-Commerce Security and Customer’s Use of E-Commerce Platforms among Federal Government Personnel in Ibadan, Nigeria

Advancement in internet infrastructure has aided the rise of online businesses called electronic commerce (e-commerce). However, the security of e-commerce has assumed heightened dimensions in recent times as news of security threats on popular websites abounds in literature and the media. This study seeks to investigate e-commerce security and use among personnel of federal ministries and agencies in Ibadan, Oyo State and provide answers to three research questions. Survey design was adopted and data were collected using a questionnaire. The study employed stratified random sampling technique to select the ministries and agencies, while convenience sampling technique was used to select 262 respondents. Data were analysed with SPSS version 26 using descriptive statistics and Spearman rank correlation. The findings revealed that both the frequency of use and perception of e-commerce among personnel in federal ministries and agencies in Ibadan, Oyo State, are moderately high. There exists a significant positive relationship between e-commerce security and the use of e-commerce among personnel in federal ministries and agencies in Ibadan. Among others, it was recommended that e-commerce vendors should endeavour to take the security of their platform seriously and invest in it. Keywords: E-security, Electronic commerce, E-business, Government personnel, Online marketing Ogunsola, K. &amp; Enwerem, P.E. (2023): E-Commerce Security and Customer’s Use of E-Commerce Platforms among Federal Government Personnel in Ibadan, Nigeria. Journal of Advances in Mathematical &amp; Computational Science. Vol. 11, No. 1. Pp 27-44 dx.doi.org/10.22624/AIMS/MATHS/V11N1P3. Available online at www.isteams.net/mathematics-computationaljournal.

Determinant Factors of Village-Owned Enterprise Best Practice in Indonesia

The enactment of the Village Law marks the beginning of the rural development transformation through Village Owned Enterprise (VOE) implementation. In Indonesia, 45,549 VOEs have been established in 83,931 villages. VOEs are developed with a social business model to provide economic and social benefits to the community. Unfortunately, VOEs demonstrating satisfying performance in Indonesia have not reached 600. This research focused on discovering significant factors influencing VOEs’ ability to accomplish their best economic and social performance and proposed a success pattern that other VOEs could adapt to their natural and human assets. This study adopted a qualitative mono-method with 24 sources, varying from village government officers, directors and personnel of VOEs, academicians, and other parties, focusing on exploring three VOEs with accomplishments. The findings uncovered six propositions that must be fulfilled for VOEs to attain the necessary success concerning social and economic performance. These results suggested that the village government’s commitment, the VOEs’ management professionalism, and the village community’s involvement must cooperate to produce a balanced social and economic performance. This discovery also suggested VOEs to reflect and reproduce local knowledge trough take an advantage of their distinctive natural and human resources.

Development of the Engage with Impact Toolkit: A comprehensive resource to support the evaluation of patient, family and caregiver engagement in health systems.

Recent shifts in the patient, family and caregiver engagement field have focused greater attention on measurement and evaluation, including the impacts of engagement efforts. Current evaluation tools offer limited support to organizations seeking to reorient their efforts in this way. We addressed this gap through the development of an impact measurement framework and accompanying evaluation toolkit-the Engage with Impact Toolkit. The measurement framework and toolkit were co-designed with the Evaluating Patient Engagement Working Group, a multidisciplinary group of patient, family and caregiver partners, engagement specialists, researchers and government personnel. Project activities occurred over four phases: (1) project scoping and literature review; (2) modified concept mapping; (3) working group deliberationsand (4) toolkit web design. The project scope was to develop a measurement framework and an evaluation toolkit for patient engagement in health systems that were practical, accessible, menu-driven and aligned with current system priorities. Concept mapping yielded 237 impact statements that were sorted, discussed and combined into 81 unique items. A shorter list of 50 items (rated 8.0 or higher out of 10) was further consolidated to generate a final list of 35 items mapped across 8 conceptual domains of impact: (1) knowledge and skills; (2) confidence and trust; (3) equity and inclusivity; (4) priorities and decisions; (5) effectiveness and efficiency; (6) patient-centredness; (7) culture changeand (8) patient outcomes and experience. Working Group members rated the final list for importance (1-5) and identified a core set of 33 items (one for each of the 8 domains and 25 supplementary items). Two domains (priorities and decisions; and culture change) yielded the highest overall importance ratings (4.8). A web-based toolkit (www.evaluateengagement.ca) hosts the measurement framework and related evaluation supports. The Engage with Impact Toolkit builds on existing engagement evaluation tools but brings a more explicit focus to supporting organizations to assess the impacts of their engagement work. Patient, family and caregiver partners led the early conceptualization of this work and were involved at all stages and in all aspects of the work. As end-users of the toolkit, their perspectives, knowledge and opinions were critical.

The relevance of communication for the well-being of public personnel in local government: does it have an impact on citizen satisfaction?

PurposeCommunication within a public organization is a fundamental aspect considering its contribution both to organizational well-being and – as highlighted by recent literature – to the improvement of relations with external users. This paper aims at analyzing the relevance of different dimensions of communication and the relationship between communication and citizens' satisfaction.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on data collected through questionnaires (303; 86%) filled in by the public personnel of an Italian local government to verify the communication dimensions relevance. The authors applied the OLS method to test the relationship between communication dimensions and citizens' satisfaction (deriving from the municipality's customer satisfaction survey system, which collected 3,708 questionnaires).FindingsThe authors show that four of the five communication dimensions considered are particularly relevant and that two of them (“interpersonal communication” and “organizational communication”) positively influence the level of satisfaction of users of local public services (citizens' satisfaction), also countering the negative perception of certain sectors (e.g. taxes and local taxation, traffic police). The conclusion also highlights some limitations of the work.Originality/valueThe study brings new insights into the impact of communication (as an element of public employee well-being) on citizen satisfaction, leading to some useful implications for public managers.

The Perceptions of Prospective Digital Transformation Adopters: An Extended Diffusion of Innovations Theory

This study investigated the effects of factors that influence users' perceptions to adopt digital transformation. Eight hypotheses were proposed and tested employing the Structural Equation Modeling. 248 government personnel, instructors, and students were recruited to answer the questionnaires through Google Form. The experimental results indicated that facilitating conditions, policy, social influence, and knowledge all had a positive and significant impact on digital transformation adoption. Meanwhile, policy was found to have a positive effect on social influence. In turn, social influence positively affected knowledge. In addition, awareness was verified to be a reliable predictor of knowledge. The notable exception was that the awareness factor was shown to have no effect on digital transformation adoption. Thus, traditional reaching to citizens via television, news, broadcast needed to re-examined. Overall, the model accounts for 52.5 percentage of the variation in the data. Four recommendations were proposed for practitioners, and limitations were roughly discussed. Future study is needed to re-examine the unexpected effect of awareness on digital transformation adoption.

The Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit (MSSU) Bridge Process: An Integrated Knowledge Translation Approach to Address Priority Health Issues and Increase Collaborative Research in Nova Scotia, Canada.

There is evidence of the benefits of integrated knowledge translation (IKT), yet there is limited research outlining the purpose of a knowledge broker (KB) within this approach. The Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit (MSSU) acts as a KB to support patient-oriented research across the Maritime provinces in Canada. The "Bridge Process" was developed by the Nova Scotia (NS) site as a strategy that involves work leading up to and following the Bridge Event. The process supports research addressing priority health topics discussed at the event by stakeholder groups. The objectives of this paper were to (1) describe the outputs/outcomes of this IKT approach; and (2) examine the role of the KB. Quantitative data were collected from registration and evaluation surveys. Outputs are described with descriptive statistics. Qualitative data were collected through evaluation surveys and internal documents. Data related to KB tasks were categorized into three domains: (1) Knowledge Manager, (2) Linkage and Exchange Agent, and (3) Capacity Developer. The Bridge Process was implemented four times. A total of 314 participants including government, health, patient/citizen, community, and research personnel attended the events. We identified 24 priority topics, with 7 led by teams receiving support to complete related projects. Participants reported improved understanding of the research gaps and policy needs and engaged with individuals they would not have otherwise. Although patients/citizens attended each Bridge Event, only 61% of participants who completed an evaluation survey indicated that they were 'actively engaged in group discussion.' The KB's role was identified in all three domains including Knowledge Manager (eg, defining questions), Linkage and Exchange Agent (eg, engaging stakeholders), and Capacity Builder (eg, research interpretation). The MSSU facilitated an IKT approach by acting as a KB throughout the Bridge Process. This deliberative and sequential process served as an effective strategy to increase collaborative health research in the province.

Do FDI Inflows into African Countries Impact Their CO2 Emission Levels?

The emitted levels of CO2 continue to be a striking topic. These emissions have been growing over the years, thus, making them a predicament to be reckoned with. Eradicating such a predicament has not been easy because finding an optimal determinant has not been achieved by scholars; however, foreign direct investment inflows are known to play a role in such varying instances. Therefore, to analyze the impact that such inflows have on CO2 emissions, this study employs data from 41 African countries from 2005 to 2019 and aims to assess how foreign direct investment and other variables influence CO2 emitted levels. Moreover, this study tests the validity of the pollution haven and halo hypotheses on the employed African countries as its two main objectives. After applying the pooled least squares, fixed and random effects models, and the generalized method of moments, the findings revealed that per the adopted African countries, the pollution haven and halo hypotheses do not hold; however, foreign direct investment inflows contribute to the rising and falling levels of CO2 emissions. In addition, the financial structure and per capita GDP increase the African countries’ CO2 emitted levels, while trade openness causes a reduction. Based on the aforementioned findings, this study recommends that the government, policy-makers, industries, and interested personnel of this study’s employed countries should: apply and execute policies, laws, and regulations that will deter or punish polluting foreign investment and encourage clean ones; since green finance is making waves but is not well established in most African countries, green financing systems should be initiated and implemented; establish preferential trading policies that will highlight an addition of value via clean technology; and practice carbon capture, usage, and storage.

Manajemen Implementasi Standar Isi untuk Peningkatan Mutu Pembelajaran pada MTsN 4 Tabalong Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan

Basically all madrasas are obliged to make quality assurance efforts to meet and even exceed national education standards. To guarantee and control the quality of education, evaluation, accreditation, and certification are carried out. However, in reality there are still many madrasas that have not made serious efforts to carry out these obligations. Efforts that need to be made by madrasas to meet national education standards which include content standards, process standards, graduate competency standards, facilities and infrastructure standards, management standards, financing standards, educators and education personnel standards, and assessment standards. Strategies that need to be implemented by madrasas to meet national education standards, especially by utilizing all potential, compiling work plans and programs as needed, encouraging all components of madrasas to improve their performance, forming a quality assurance team, fixing learning tools, enforcing madrasa rules, expanding cooperation with the business world and industry, madrasa committees, supervisors, and the government, facilitate teachers and education personnel to improve competence, evaluate every activity that has been carried out, and document all evidence of madrasa activities.&#x0D; Keywords: Content Standards, Education Quality Assurance

Conceptual analysis of the combined effects of vaccination, therapeutic actions, and human subjection to physical constraint in reducing the prevalence of COVID-19 using the homotopy perturbation method

BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has put the world's survival in jeopardy. Although the virus has been contained in certain parts of the world after causing so much grief, the risk of it emerging in the future should not be overlooked because its existence cannot be shown to be completely eradicated.ResultsThis study investigates the impact of vaccination, therapeutic actions, and compliance rate of individuals to physical limitations in a newly developed SEIQR mathematical model of COVID-19. A qualitative investigation was conducted on the mathematical model, which included validating its positivity, existence, uniqueness, and boundedness. The disease-free and endemic equilibria were found, and the basic reproduction number was derived and utilized to examine the mathematical model's local and global stability. The mathematical model's sensitivity index was calculated equally, and the homotopy perturbation method was utilized to derive the estimated result of each compartment of the model. Numerical simulation carried out using Maple 18 software reveals that the COVID-19 virus's prevalence might be lowered if the actions proposed in this study are applied.ConclusionIt is the collective responsibility of all individuals to fight for the survival of the human race against COVID-19. We urged that all persons, including the government, researchers, and health-care personnel, use the findings of this research to remove the presence of the dangerous COVID-19 virus.

National pedagogical museums in Brazil and France in the 19th century

This article analyzes the creation and the first years of the Pedagogical Museum in France and the Pedagogium of Brazil. Both experiences took part in the international foundation movement of national pedagogical museums which were conceived as a tool to improve public schools at the end of the 19th century. A transnational approach of this museum project and the Brazilian and French practices allowed to analyze similarities and differences of both institutions. One of their main goals was to collect national and foreign materials in a library and in a permanent exhibition to present what was expected to improve teachers’ and the government personnel’s work.