Public Administration In Romania Research Articles

Professional Training in Public Administration in Romania during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract Professional training is a basic element in the professional development of any employee, especially considering the evolution of the last months, marked by the Covid-19 pandemic and important economic and social changes. The crisis caused by the pandemic and the disappearance of many jobs, forces employees to professional conversions or to sharpen the area of activity by acquiring new, sometimes challenging skills. The aim of the study is to analyze the professional training activity in the public administration during the COVID-19 pandemic, to identify the advantages and disadvantages of training in the online system, the efficiency of this type of training, as well as the factors that would have a positive impact on a good performance of this activity. The research method is quantitative, based on the opinion survey, through the self-administered questionnaire. Employees are open to training, especially when dealing with new jobs and technologies or simply to stay up to date with the latest information in their field. Employers, in turn, want professional, efficient and motivated employees. Vocational training is a necessary tool to remain competitive in the labor market and to face the challenges of a global economy where digital skills are the key factor.

Digitalization of Public Administration in Romania: The Way Towards Efficiency and Accessibility

The digitalization of Public Administration is a subject of great importance in the context of modern societies, both for the authorities and for the beneficiaries of public services, in this case, the citizens. This process involves the transition from traditional methods to the use of digital technologies to improve the efficiency, transparency and accessibility of public services. Romania’s journey in the digitalization of the Public Sector has been a topic of interest in recent years. In general, our country has taken significant steps towards the modernization of Public Administration by introducing digital solutions. The Government and the Private Sector have invested in information technology to improve public services, education and the business environment. E-Government leads to the development of smart cities and contributes to increasing the quality of life, and when the processes are integrated correctly, multiple benefits can occur. However, there are also challenges for Public Administration, such as uneven access to technology between urban and rural environments. Digitalization continues to be a priority in many areas, with a focus on innovations such as artificial intelligence, cyber security and emerging technologies.

"Politicization of Public Administration in Romania and its Consequences for Governance in Turbulent Times"

The article aims to analyze the level of politicization of civil service in Romania, its goals, and consequences. We adopted a rather narrow perspective on politicization and we concentrated mainly on analyzing the recruitment, promotion, and dismissal of civil servants based on political criteria. The research findings were used to discuss the consequences of politicization on the governance of public institutions during turbulent times. In this regard, we conducted an email-based survey of the civil servants. The majority of the sample was composed of graduates of public administration programs at four major universities in Romania, who work in public institutions. We collected the data between May and November 2023 and we obtained 211 valid questionnaires. We found that appointments based on political criteria lower the work motivation of public employees, and increase the level of incompetence and instability of public institutions. The most affected are public employees in management positions, those who have longer work experience in the public sector, and those who work in public institutions that are part of central administration. Therefore, frequent changes based on political criteria lower the capacity of public institutions to respond to disruptive events by generating a loss of expertise, instability, and discontinuity in policy implementation. However, turbulent times require flexibility and adaptation to unexpected and unpredictable events, and political appointees might be more responsive and cooperative.

Conceptual Research on the Organization of Local Public Administration in Romania and Republic of Moldova

Conceptual Research on the Organization of Local Public Administration in Romania and Republic of Moldova

Public Administration and the Current Socio-Political Environment in Romania

Before talking about the structure of the public administration in Romania, we must consider the social and political environment of our country. Romania is a country with a democratic regime for more than 30 years, but which has been under the umbrella of communism for several decades. Communism meant a centralized, closed administrative and economic system.

CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SERVICE QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND SATISFACTION OF LOCAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION EMPLOYEES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN ROMANIA AND REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Local public administration must ensure the general well-being of the community. In fulfilling this prerogative, local authorities are organising, providing and delivering public services to ensure a good environment for every citizen in the community. Recent findings in neuroeconomics have shown that in order to provide a quality public service, the people involved in this process must themselves feel safe and comfortable in their working environment. In this regard, we considered it necessary to analyse the level of satisfaction of employees in local public administration in Romania – as a member state of the European Union, and the Republic of Moldova as a post-Soviet state taking steps to join the big European family. Based on the premise of the latest findings in the field of neuroeconomics, we considered it appropriate to highlight in this research the correlations between public service quality management and the level of employee satisfaction. In this context, we identified the aspects that need to be improved at the level of local public administrations in order to ensure quality services and employees involved in carrying out in good faith all their functional tasks, in an environment conducive to making the right decisions. The present research is a quantitative research in which we analyse the perception of public service providers in a comparative form. The findings can form the basis for further research on the correlations between the quality management of services provided by public administrations in general.

Assessing PNDL: Romanian leaders in quest for the state-budget funds, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021. Anca Monica Marin

This book contains a thorough analysis of the way state-budged funds were distributed by the Romanian government during 2017-2020 through The National Program for Local Development (PNDL), the largest state-funded development program, not devoid of controversies. At the intersection of sociology, public administration and public finance, the analysis offers a valuable tool for understanding how the complex funding environment operates at different levels of public administration in Romania.

Digitalization of Public Administration in Romania

Digitalization of Public Administration in Romania

Lobbying and Social Participation – Key Features for an Effective Public Administration in Romania

Lobbying is one of the main structural elements of democratic governance and sustainable development and is essential to achieving competitive and effi cient administrative and decisional processes in local governance. Successfully implementing lobbying regulations and techniques is of extreme importance for any public system, where social participation in the decision-making process can strongly contribute to social, political and economic / fi nancial effi - ciency. Over the last 15 years, several legislative initiatives have tried to design a coherent framework for lobby, but they are still unapplied either due to insuffi cient public understanding of the concept, or due to more or less justifi ed uncertainties and fears. The necessity of regulating lobbying in Romania is placed in a context where an important number of anticorruption international and domestic recommendations and state reliability statistics, added to a certain lack of effectiveness in time and public money management, show that the public administration system needs to be reformed. And lobbying is, as the following article shows, a must for any public reform of public administration in Romania. The case of multilingual entrance signs / labels in Cluj-Napoca is an unquestionable and unbeatable example that the simple existence of legal frameworks of lobbying could turn into real time, energy and money savers.

Comparative Analysis in Public Administration between Romania and EU Countries

In the majority of European Union countries substantiation government is the constitutional rules specific to those countries. Following the entry into force of the European agreement according to which Romania became associated with the European Community and its Member States of the European Union has started a process through legislation, institutions and economy have become compatible with those of the European Community area. Romania's transformation into a democratic state meant the transition to an economy based on free enterprise, the spirit of competition and therefore the public administration reform was necessary to adapt to new requirements of the market economy. At the level of EU countries there are a number of laws governing local and regional government. Both at European level and in our country, in order to conduct business in an efficient public administration in terms of services offered and the administrative system is needed to implement a public management that is based on efficiency and performance activities conducted. The totality trends in management in public administration, applied globally, must underpin the achievement of new objectives in the management of public administration in Romania. In this work are presented the main features of government from European Union countries and provides a comparative analysis of public administration between Romania and European Union countries. Public institutions adapting to a market economy requires major changes in the management of activities. The success of these issues requires an efficient public management. Adapting specific global public administration to public administration in Romania is of great importance, a priority and a challenge for all public managers. Albu, M. (2017). Comparative Analysis in Public Administration between Romania and EU Countries. Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty, Section: Law, V(1), 51-59. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumenlaw.2017.0501.05

Ethics Adviser Role in Public Administration

The paper presents a series of national considerations regarding ethics adviser role in ensuring integrity in public administration in Romania. Across all public authorities in Romania must be a constant concern to be identified causes of breaches of conduct by public officials. Accurate and timely identification of all causes of the breaches of conduct can lead to identifying the most appropriate ways to prevent violations of rules of conduct, namely the adoption of the most effective strategies and measures to reduce these cases. It is also indispensable as professional and efficient exercise of the function of ethics advice each institution and public authorities. The social relevance of the subject matter derives from the benefits of ethics counselling. The purpose of this paper is to present the main advantages of ethics counselling in public administration. The role of Ethics Advisers is extremely important in the context in which the level of public authorities and public institutions has been given less importance to analysing and individualizing the causes and consequences of civil servants' failure to comply with the rules of conduct. To be assured ethics in public administration at each designated institutions and public authorities is a public officer to monitor compliance with the rules of conduct and to provide advice on issues of ethics of civil servants from the institution. In this way ensures quality of service and relations with citizens, institutional image and prestige. As a result, the activity of the officials responsible for monitoring compliance with rules of conduct and for providing advice on ethical issues - ethics advisers - can play in this context is particularly relevant and responsible authorities should combine their efforts to ensure adviser ethics best framework to allow taking active, responsible and implementation of duties provided by law. How to cite : Albu, M. (2017). Ethics Adviser Role in Public Administration. Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty, Section: Social Sciences , VI(1), 41-50. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumenss.2017.0601.04

The Impact of European Structural Funds on Romania’s Local Administrative Management Development

The public sector is particularly suitable to the scope of the analysis for several reasons such as the strong multidimensionality of the activity. Additionally, in many countries, such as Romania, the public sector was one of the most affected by managerial reforms. The main aim of this paper is to propose a model for measuring the performance of the administrative management, the indicators which influence the performance of the civil servants. As is set out in 1303/2013 EU (European Union) Regulation, and in documents prepared by the commission on the position of the commission services on the development of the partnership and programs in Romania for the period 2014-2020, The Strategy for Strengthening Public Administration, was enacted by the publication of Decision No. 909/2014, representing ex-ante conditionality. By publishing The Strategy for Strengthening Public Administration, in Romania were created the premises by the 2020 step, to the administration to evolve to the point where citizens will benefit from quality public services, integrated by public institutions pro-active, responsive, implementing the tempo rapid changes required. The theoretical approaches and also the practice in public management, revealed the benefit of the Strategy Europe 2020, which implementation on the public administration in Romania, analyzing the training of civil servants is a necessity for developing public capacity.

Constitutional and Legal Foundations of Local Public Administration in Romania

The article analyzes the constitutional and legal foundations of local public administration in Romania. It appears, therefore, that the local public administration built on the principle of local autonomy benefits from a general regulation starting from its explicit recognition by the constitutional text and continuing with the development of its legal status in different regulations of organic or ordinary character. The Constitution of Romania, adopted in 1991 and revised in 2003, established the constitutional foundation of local public administration, establishing the principles under which the administration of local communities is organized and functions, how the territory of the state is divided, the authorities exercising local autonomy, as well as the body exercising the control of administrative tutelage over the acts of local public administration authorities. The constitutional norms valued as principles allowed the subsequent adoption of regulations that develop and strengthen the status of existing local communities within the administrative-territorial units in Romania.

Models for quality analysis of services in the local public administration

The quality of services in the local public administration in Romania is a subject of high actuality in the context of the ever changing modern society, of making activities more efficient, aligning them to the international standards of democracy foundation in Romania (Androniceanu , in Noutăţi in managementul public, 1992; Baltador, in Managementul capacităţii admininistrative in administraţia publică locală, 2005; Comsa, in Măsurarea performanţei municipiilor resedinţă de judeţ din România in furnizarea serviciilor publice locale in perioada 2003–2005, 2006; Raboca, in Măsurarea satisfacţiei clienţilor serviciilor publice, 2008). The mathematical modelling can be used successfully in this field too, at least through the quantifications that can be done with the help of the aggregated indicators. The scope of the article is to identify, describe and evaluate the services quality indicators in the local public administration and mathematical models in a society based on optimal communication of institutions with the citizens and to propose solutions in order to prevent and limit deficiencies in this communication. The research models were: the management theory, mathematical modelling and simulation. The results are made out of two global indicators for the quantification of the services quality in the local public administration, from justifying their composition by using the multi-criteria optimization and the simulation example in the SPSS16 software, for the statistical analysis of the defined indicators. The two types of global indicators that are proposed for quantifying the quality of the services in the local public administration can be used for both precise analysis, as well as estimations regarding the evolution of the quality level within the mentioned services or for establishing conclusions and measure plans regarding improving the quality of services in the local public administration. The scientific foundation of quality and quality management in the field of services in the local public administration together with an application of a study represent another part of this scientific paper. Using the group of quality indicators and the SWOT analysis previously proposed, by dividing this group into sub-groups corresponding to the four components of the Deming cycle, it was created and proposed a mathematical programming solution, which offers an optimal solution for the evaluation and improvement of services in the local public administration.

Representational Discourse of Public Administration in Romania

The theoretical framework of this paper uses the key concepts provided by communication theories, communication criticism in the European context, and public sphere approaches. The context analysis focuses on the existence of a significant number of critics who lament the lack of real communication policies in the European Union and tailored strategies to promote intercultural communication in Europe. The methodological perspective is one based on discourse analysis. The study is focused on a corpus of 41 semi-structured interviews, whose subjects are graduate students at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Public Administration and Public Affairs. Based on the selected corpus, the research aims are to establish: a. how European values are represented and communicated by a homogeneous and educated group; b. whether subjects believe that European values and communication practices operate in Romanian public administration activities; c. what perceptions the subjects have of the dynamics of democratic values in the EU. The premises of our research are that: a) European topics (in the broad sense) seem very uncommon in public discourse; b) Romanian citizens do not seem to be connected to European themes and legislation. The study postulates that there is a ‘lack of communication’ in Habermas’ sense of the term, and a poor connection with European topics of debate. The methodological approach is focused on identifying the most important recent topics of debate in Europe, using scientific literature on local-global, European controversies and social communication topics as source. These will form a basis for the creation of a discourse analysis grid, which will be applied to the 41 semi-structured interviews making up the corpus. The results of the analysis may lead us to a general conclusion regarding features of Romanian public discourse and the current context that builds public sphere opened by the European model.

Ecological Tourism and Public Administration in Romania

This paper presents aspects of ecological tourism. Nowadays tourists are becoming aware of the importance of a clean environment and during their holidays they would like to return to a welcome nature, to enjoy the benefits of the well-preserved areas. Unfortunately the damage already done to nature by past tourists still shows its negative effects. We wonder if modern education or law can help prevent the damages. Our study presents some of the negative aspects the tourism had on the environment. We also look at the types of tourism and the Romanian laws that try to help us live in a better world.

EGovernment—The Next Step Toward Efficient Public Administration

This study analyzes the development level of electronic public services by means of portal <www.e-guvernare.ro>, the single point of access for specific Romanian electronic public services. At the same time, a comparative analysis was conducted having as a purpose an emphasis on the evolution on eGovernement development in Romania within the period of March 2011–August 2012. The results showed lack of commitment of the public administration in Romania in using an entire force offered by the information technology and communication field in supplying public services.

Human Resource Involvement in Romanian Public Organizations under the Financial Constraints

In recent years, organizations have focused on developing human resources and on the management systems that enable them to achieve their strategic goals. The success of such systems is given by organizational culture, philosophy and mentality of people in the organization. The principal aim of our research is to identify human resource practices in public organizations, especially in public administration sector, and the link between them and the financial constraints in our country. It is analysed the orientation function of human resources in public administration in Romania based on statistical data and reports provided by the National Agency of Civil Servants (NACS) and the compatibility between the orientation function of human resource management under the financial constraints, taking into consideration the implications at organizational level and for the public sector employees.Our research objectives are:.• Show the state of knowledge concerning the involvement of human resource in terms of practices in public organizations, our research is based on literature review, national and foreign countries, which justify our analytical approach and enable comparisons.• Identify relationships between human resource management function and the financial constraints and the impact on the performance at the public organizations level, taking into considerations the provisions of law.

Management of the communal local public administration in Romania

The public administration may be defined as the fundamental form of activity of the state, applied by the bodies of the public administration, which consists in exercising the law by establishing some obligatory conducts, as well as by providing services.

MPA Education: Case Studies for Romania

The paper describes the legislative context of the practices and modalities for organising the education in the field of public administration in Romania. The questions addressed are as follows: I. Education of actual and future administrators/civil servants II. Competences developed by MPA programmes III. Convergence of MPA programmes. A case study for South-Eastern Europe Based on the evaluation standards of the European Association for Public Administration Accreditation (EAPAA), the paper presents the outcomes of a comparative study on organisation of the MPA programmes in Europe and US