Local Government Employees Research Articles

Assessment of the Contributions of Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (Nulge) to Conflict Resolution in Ibaji Local Government Area, Kogi State. Nigeria

Assessment of the Contributions of Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (Nulge) to Conflict Resolution in Ibaji Local Government Area, Kogi State. Nigeria

Asian American Burnout Experiences in Local Government

How the Paradoxical Treatment of Asian Americans as Model Minorities and Perpetual Foreigners Shape Their Burnout Experiences in Local Government Abstract: Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the United States. This trend signals a need for greater representation and retention of Asian American employees in local government to ensure this growing population is well-represented in bureaucratic decision-making processes and public service provisions. In our study, we examine burnout and emotional labor among Asian Americans in local government through a mixed-methods approach. Our sample consists of local government workers from a large and diverse county in California. We surveyed participants in 2018 and surveyed and interviewed a subset in 2020. We find that Asian Americans in the public sector are dealing with emotional stressors from multiple sides: internal expectations and collectivist values, external pressures from interpersonal relationships at work and from residents, and racialized collective trauma from the public display of anti-Asian acts that only heighten feelings of being perpetually foreign. The interaction of these stressors is leading Asian Americans in the public sector to experience burnout and its many dimensions in greater intensity than non-Asians employees in general.

Pengaruh Budgetary Goal Characteristics Terhadap Kinerja Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten Muara Enim

The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the Effect of Budgetary Goal Characteristics (Budget Goal Setting, Clarity of Budget Objectives, and Budget Evaluation) on the Performance of the Muara Enim Regency Government. The number of samples taken is 50 local government employees who have activities in budgeting and at the same time as budget implementers who handle budget preparation at the Muara Enim Regency government office as respondents. The data used is primary data, namely data taken from a questionnaire (questionnaire). The data analysis method used is a simple linear regression analysis method. The analysis data was processed using the SPSS (Sold Product Solution Statistics) computer program version 23. The results of this study stated that participation in budget preparation and budget evaluation had a significant positive effect, while the clarity of budget objectives had no significant effect on the performance of the local government of Muara Enim Regency.

The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform

A prominent argument holds that the chief purpose of municipal civil service reform in the United States was to dislodge the overrepresentation of recent immigrants in city government. Using new data on all municipal employees from 1850 to 1940 and employing three research designs, we detect no evidence that the share of local government jobs held by foreign-born whites decreased following the introduction of reforms. Instead, we show that foreign-born whites—Irish immigrants in particular—experienced substantial gains in local government employment, concentrated in blue-collar occupations in small- and medium-sized municipalities. Our results call for a revisionist interpretation of Progressive Era reforms by questioning generalizations drawn from the experience of the largest cities in the United States. For most municipalities, instead, civil service reform in fact opened avenues to representation for members of foreign-born constituencies who had previously been locked out of government jobs.

The Emotional Toll of the COVID-19 Crisis on Local Government Workers

Despite the emotional intensity that accompanies crises, rarely is emotional labor explicitly discussed as a required aspect of crisis response work. We explore the emotional toll of COVID-19 crisis on local government employees. We introduce a dynamic mixed-methods approach to the study of emotional labor during times of crisis and highlight the utility of diary research designs in public human resource management scholarship. By combining waves of survey data, semi-structured interviews, and daily diary prompts, we provide evidence of how changes in workload, exogenously imposed fears, and emotional spillover blur the work-home boundaries of local government officials during the pandemic. We also show how isolation from peers and the public can lead to conflict and search for social support from both external and internal sources. We highlight how the application of the job demands-resources (JD-R) theory gives insight to the burnout and disengagement faced by local government employees during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order.

Work-Family Conflict and Burnout Amid COVID-19: Exploring the Mitigating Effects of Instrumental Leadership and Social Belonging

The COVID-19 pandemic brought disruptions to government workplaces, including abrupt transitions to remote work for many employees. Remote work can offer a physically distant environment and greater flexibility for individual employees and organizations; remote work also creates or exacerbates potential work-life balance tensions. Drawing on Job-Demands Resources theory, we propose that two organizational resources, instrumental leadership (a vertical organizational resource) and a sense of social belonging (a horizontal organizational resource), help prevent burnout by alleviating conflict between work- and family-life activities. Using survey responses from local government employees collected during the COVID-19 pandemic (May 2020), we show that employees with a strong sense of social belonging experience less work-family conflict and, in turn, report lower levels of burnout. We also find that social belonging, as a horizontal organizational resource, appears more important for reducing burnout in a period characterized by disruption than the more formal, vertical resource of instrumental leadership.

Age, job involvement and job satisfaction as predictors of job performance among local government employees in Uganda

PurposeThe purpose of the study is to establish the relationship between age, job involvement, job satisfaction and job performance of sub-county chiefs in the Ugandan local government.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional survey design was used to obtain a total sample of 320 sub-county chiefs who were selected to participate in the study using multi-stage stratified random sampling. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data that were entered into the computer using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 23 (IBM SPSS-AMOS). Path analysis results were used to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results indicated significant positive relationships between: age and job involvement, job involvement and job satisfaction, and job involvement and job performance. Non-significant relationships were between age and job satisfaction, age and job performance, and job satisfaction and job performance. A reconstructed model was presented.Practical implicationsEmployees’ participation in decisions that affect their work brings positive behavioral outcomes. Job involvement makes workers feel as part of the organization and contributes significantly to organizational effectiveness and morale of workers. Managers are encouraged to pay much attention to the requirements of their staff so as to increase their job involvement, which can ultimately lead to high levels of job satisfaction and improved job performance.Originality/valueThis study proposes that older employees who highly participate in organizational activities are likely to be satisfied and outstanding performers. Strategic recruitment agencies are very important in ensuring “quality at the gate” because they focus on the work attitudes and can attract and retain a satisfied and competent workforce.

How the Paradoxical Treatment of Asian Americans as Model Minorities and Perpetual Foreigners Shape Their Burnout Experiences in Local Government

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. This trend signals a need for greater representation and retention of Asian American employees in local government to ensure this growing population is well-represented in bureaucratic decision-making processes and public service provisions. In our study, we examine burnout and emotional labor among Asian Americans in local government through a mixed-methods approach. Our sample consists of local government workers from a large and diverse county in California. We initially surveyed over 6,000 participants in 2018 with nearly 3,200 fully completed and included in our statistical analyses, 16% of whom self-identified as Asian. We subsequently surveyed and interviewed a subset of 181 participants in 2020 with 7% who self-identified as Asian. We find that Asian Americans in the public sector are dealing with emotional stressors from multiple sides: internal expectations and collectivist values, external pressures from interpersonal relationships at work and from residents, and racialized collective trauma from the public display of anti-Asian acts that only heighten feelings of being perpetually foreign. The interaction of these stressors is leading Asian Americans in the public sector to experience burnout and its many dimensions in greater intensity than non-Asian employees in general.

Reviewing the Performance Of Local Governments In Managing Corporate Social Responsibility Program

Regional governments are obliged to provide welfare for their people, either through the original regional budget, the central transfer budget, or the CSR budget of companies in their area. In Kolaka Regency, there are many mining companies. It is the company's obligation to contribute to the community through CSR funds, and the party most authorized to deal with these problems is the local government, whose funds can then be channeled to the community through community programs. This research was conducted to review how the local government of Kolaka district can collect CSR funds from companies and distribute them to the community through regional development programs, such as health, education, social, religious programs, environmental assistance and so on. This research is qualitative, case study research, and survey method. The data analysis technique used was descriptive based on SWOT analysis. The object of research is the local government of Kolaka, with correspondents consisting of local government employees, community leaders, and communities around the mine. The results of the study indicate that the local government of Kolaka is in a weak position towards the utilization of CSR opportunities. Although local governments have the power in the form of regulations to be able to demand CSR funds from companies, the fact is that the relevant agencies have not been able to collect as much CSR funds as possible to be channeled to the community in development and community welfare programs.

Rule Formalization, Bureaucratic Red Tape, and Prosocial Rule Breaking Among Street-Level Bureaucrats: A Citizen-Centered Perspective

Past research indicates that rules can prevent unbureaucratic behaviors among street-level bureaucrats (SLBs). In this research, I draw upon the citizen-agent narrative to propose that when formalized rules are perceived as red tape that negatively affects citizens, SLBs will be more likely to engage in prosocial rule breaking (PSRB) due to their sympathy for citizens in such a situation. I further propose that this effect will be more pronounced among SLBs who interact more frequently with citizens. Data from a sample of local government employees in Thailand were collected to test these hypotheses. Results from latent moderated mediation structural equation modeling analyses revealed that, while rule formalization has a direct negative effect on PSRB, it leads to an increase in PSRB via red tape perceptions and feelings of sympathy for citizens who suffer from red tape. Contact with citizens was also found to amplify the effect of rule formalization on red tape perceptions, such that rule formalization has a stronger indirect influence on PSRB among SLBs who have more frequent contact with citizens. These results point to the importance of maintaining the “optimal” level of rules in citizen-state interactions to ensure that SLBs can perform their public service work effectively.

Pengaruh Penerapan Good Governance, Pengawasan Intern Dan Disiplin Kerja Terhadap Kinerja Pemerintah Daerah Kota Pekanbaru

that affect the performance of local governments. The method used in this research is a questionnaire. The population used in this study were local government employees of the city of Pekanbaru and 395 samples. The data analysis technique used is the test instrument, namely validity, 
 This study aims to examine the implementation of good governance, internal supervision, and reliability, classical assumption test, namely normality, heteroscedasticity and multicollinearity, f test, t test, multiple linear regression analysis and coefficient of determination test. The types and techniques of data collection used are primary data obtained directly from respondents. The results of the study simultaneously see the application of good governance, internal supervision and work discipline simultaneously affect the performance of local governments. the implementation of good governance, internal supervision and work discipline are one of the indicators that affect the performance of local governments
 Keywords: Implementation of good work discipline governance ; internal supervision ; work discipline

Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government

AbstractIn recent years, there have been multiple calls for public administration scholars to adopt an intersectional approach to the study of diversity within public organizations. This paper empirically examines the simultaneous influence of multiple dimensions of individual identity on employee burnout. We advance a better understanding of disparities in individual well-being outcomes for public servants. Using conservation of resource (COR) theory and applied intersectionality, we systematically measure and model differential vulnerabilities to emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and loss of personal accomplishment for individuals at the intersection of gender, racial, and generational identities. Using survey data on local government employees across two neighboring large cities in California, we use ordinary least squares and ordered logit models to estimate the impact of intersectional identities on different dimensions of burnout. Our results show that younger generations of women of color are particularly vulnerable to burnout, but the experience of burnout is not uniform across groups, with each dimension of burnout revealing different vulnerable groups. These findings highlight the importance of deconstructing burnout into its discrete dimensions to better understand the experience of different socio-demographic groups of employees and develop culturally competent strategies to better support an increasingly diverse public workforce.

Occupational Difficulties of Disaster-Affected Local Government Employees in the Long-Term Recovery Phase after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Modeling Analysis.

Local government officials play a central role in post-disaster community reconstruction. However, few studies have reported on the actual difficulties during a complex disaster involving a nuclear accident. A self-rated questionnaire survey was administered to a total of 583 public employees in four municipalities around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The relationship between universal occupational factors and radiation disaster-specific factors on job satisfaction and intention to leave the job due to radiation anxiety was evaluated using structural equation modeling. The results showed that interpersonal problems (β = −0.246) and service years (β = −0.127) were related to job satisfaction, whereas radiation-specific factors were not related to job satisfaction, and only to the intention to leave work due to radiation anxiety. A sense of coherence was associated with job satisfaction (β = 0.373) and intention to leave work due to radiation anxiety (β = −0.182), and it served as a moderator of the universal occupational factors and the radiation disaster-specific factors. Therefore, it is suggested that outcomes could be improved through increased stress coping capacity by providing support for relationships and radiation risk communication to public employees during the disaster recovery period.

A Hydric Outbreak in a Municipal Drinking – Water Supply in Kruja, Albania

BACKGROUND: Contaminated drinking water causes extensive outbreaks of illness because of the large number of people served by water supply facility. AIM: The present study describes a community epidemic outbreak of infection with multiple pathogens in Kruja city, Albania, in October 2021. METHODS: This descriptive study presents a case of epidemic outbreak caused by the hydric system in the inhabitants of the Kruja city from October 23, 2021 to October 29, 2021. A standard questionnaire was used for interview that addressed clinical symptoms, food consumption, and environmental exposures. Clinical specimens were cultured using standard microbiological methods for bacterial and viral pathogens. During 6 days of epidemy, 690 patients were treated to the emergency room of Kruje hospital. RESULTS: Day 3 presented the highest number of patients 39.1% (270/690) and the last day of epidemy presented the lowest number of patients 1.4% (10/690). Abdominal pain continuing with vomiting was more frequently clinical sign among patients. The most affected age group is 15–44 years old, which is also the most active age group. Salmonella Gr. B and Norovirus G2 were the results taken from the examination of stool samples. Analysis of a water sample resulted in Enterococcus faecalis contamination. CONCLUSION: Problems with drinking water are still present in our country. The latest outbreak shows the special care and importance of safe storage and distribution of drinking water. Investments in water supply as well as rigorous monitoring of drinking water should be an absolute priority of both public health and local government employees.

Local public health projectification in practice: a qualitative study of facilitators and barriers to a public health plan implementation.

To identify factors perceived by local government employees to affect the implementation of a municipal public health plan. Qualitative individual interviews (n=13) were carried out. Participants were sampled from three districts in Oslo municipality, Norway, and asked about their experiences with an ongoing implementation of the Oslo Public Health Plan (2017-2020). The conceptual framework of public sector projectification - a growing reliance on project organisation of policies - informed the study. The consolidated framework for implementation research was used to aid data coding and subsequent thematic analysis. Implementation facilitators included factors perceived to support flexibility, including plan adaptability to the local setting, and factors perceived to enable structure and control during the implementation process, such as the articulation of specific goals and a shared understanding of public health work. Barriers were mainly related to complex aspects of the plan, such as the need to involve multiple stakeholders and levels of governance, and to tensions between the time-limited implementation process and the permanent organisational structures. This study has demonstrated how research-based methods can be used for the evaluation of a local community implementation process. It has identified implementation determinants using a predetermined taxonomy of operationally defined factors that are likely to influence implementation. However, while implementing a time-limited public health plan can be seen as 'taking action' in relation to multidimensional and complex problems, further research is needed to investigate whether plan implementation has a long-term impact on the surrounding organisation and, eventually, on public health outcomes.

A cofinancing model for disability insurance and local government employers

AbstractEmployer cofinancing in disability insurance (DI) systems aims to reduce the inflow to DI by making employers internalise their DI costs. We evaluate a cofinancing system for the local government sector in Sweden inspired by the literature on yardstick competition. In the system, local governments are responsible for the DI of their employees, while being compensated by the central government for their expected DI payments. The arrangement essentially eliminates the large fiscal externalities associated with DI. Also, the arrangement can be implemented within current administrative setups, and the design credibly ensures that no extra costs are imposed on the local government sector in the aggregate. Drawing on Swedish employer‐employee matched data, we show that the net transfers implied by the scheme are quite large as a share of DI payments, but sufficiently small as a share of tax payments to not be onerous, and that they only marginally increase regional inequality.

The effect of work-life balance and work satisfaction on work productivity of employees of the Special Capital Region of Jakarta

There are thousands of studies that study the factors that affect work productivity. Most studies take private companies as the research context. In this study, the researchers conducted a study on government employees who are generally considered to have lower productivity than the private sector. The question is, does this assumption apply to local governments that provide high welfare to their employees? To answer this question, the researchers deliberately selected as many as 144 local government employees specifically for the capital city of Jakarta. Data were collected using a questionnaire distributed through electronic media. The dependent variable is work productivity, and the independent variable is work-life balance and job satisfaction. SEM analysis using SmartPLS 3.0 shows that work-life balance has no direct effect on work productivity. The effect of work-life balance on work productivity occurs through job satisfaction. In this relationship, job satisfaction plays a full mediation role. Original Article | Turnitin

Performance Management Practices and Motivation in Developing Countries: A Further Validation of the Public Service Motivation Construct in Ghana

This study aims to test if the local government's performance management practices are predicted by their employee's public service motivation levels. Local government's performance management practices are effective when their employees are committed and motivated. Employees whose motivations are unique to public institutions will be committed to both their key performance indicators and the general strategic goals of the local government's core mission. The lack of such motivations may be detrimental to the practice of management at the local level. The study used a cross-sectional survey of 850 local government employees in the Greater Accra of Ghana. The method of analysis of the data was multiple regression techniques. The findings suggest that employees' scores on attraction to policymaking, civic duty, and commitment to the public interest are strongly positively associated with performance management practices. The regression analysis demonstrated that public service motivation subscales combined to predict the variance in the dependent variable. Several performance management studies examine federal government utilization and rational decision-making processes. However, this study is one of the few to examine performance management practices of local governments and public service motivation theory by showing that employees' public service motivation levels can significantly predict the changes in performance management practices.

РЕФОРМУВАННЯ СЛУЖБИ В ОРГАНАХ МІСЦЕВОГО САМОВРЯДУВАННЯ ЯК СУТНІСНА СКЛАДОВА МЕХАНІЗМУ ДЕЦЕНТРАЛІЗАЦІЇ В УКРАЇНІ

Professional analysis of the effective implementation of service reform in local self-government bodies in Ukraine has been conducted in this scientific article. The research contains a comprehensive description of the new draft Law of Ukraine "On Service in Local Self-Government Bodies" with the definition of positive changes and innovations as well as stating the existing contradictions and shortcomings that must be rectified. Generalized approaches to the functioning of an effective service in municipal authorities have been determined in this scientific article, a review of legal acts that have a direct impact on the implementation of reforming the activities of the service in local governments as a separate institution has been carried out, existing problems in the work of local self-government have been characterized. Beneficial recommendations and proposals for improving the service in the municipal authorities have been provided as well. The scientific research proposes to change approaches to the legislative regulation of provisions on the political impact on employees in local governments, the optimal remuneration system, the concept of allowances and bonuses, the composition of the competition commission, a unified mechanism for holding public competitions, improving the status of employees. Gaps in legislative work in the areas of extending labor legislation to employees in local self-government bodies, the possibility of owning the citizenship of another state, the extension of new legal regulation to bodies of self-organization of the population, the prospects for streamlining the rights and obligations of employees in the charters of territorial communities have been determined. The implementation of the service reform in municipal authorities should be carried out taking into account priority areas, such as: harmonization of the principles of service in local self-government bodies, a comprehensive reform of the selection and service procedures in local self-government bodies, the creation of social guarantees, improvement of the system of responsibility of local government employees, the establishment of restrictions in discretionary powers of local governments.

ПЕРЕОРИЕНТАЦИЯ РЫНКОВ ПРОДУКЦИИ АПК В НОВЫХ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИХ УСЛОВИЯХ

In this paper, the issues of changing the work of the markets of agricultural products to the new conditions of economic development are considered. In particular, this work is devoted to the issue of reorientation of regional agricultural markets in modern conditions. The reorientation of markets is taking place at a relatively fast pace and allows for the development of economic sectors. Recently, the economy of the Russian Federation has faced problems that can be solved by reorienting the agricultural food markets. In this regard, the question arose about the expediency and possibility of reorientation of agricultural markets. In this work, the following indicators of the Russian Federation were analyzed: the total land area of agricultural land by region, the dynamics of budget revenues, the number of employees of state bodies and local governments by region, the number of organizations that carried out research and development, by type of organizations. The analysis showed that the Russian Federation, at the moment, has a high economic, scientific, technical and institutional potential. In this regard, I would like to note that the Russian Federation is ready to reorient the markets of agricultural products for the development of the national economy of the Russian Federation in the medium term