Public Management Functions Research Articles

Toolkit for optimization of administrative and legal provision of the security sector of Ukraine

The article is devoted to the study of the toolkit, with the help of which it is possible to optimize the administrative and legal provision of the security sector of Ukraine. Attention is focused on the fact that administrative and legal support outlines the boundaries of the subject structure of regulatory activity in such a way that it can be carried out not by any state bodies, but only by those that perform powerful public management functions. Subjects of administrative and legal support of the security sector include: 1) those that manage the security sector; 2) those that are part of the security sector and implement separate measures aimed at the proper state of national security.
 It has been established that the toolkit of administrative and legal provision of the security sector is a set of methods, techniques and methods used by authorized entities to regulate social relations, the content of which is aimed at protecting state sovereignty, territorial integrity, the democratic constitutional order and other national interests of Ukraine from possible threats.
 The toolkit of administrative and legal provision of the security sector is classified according to the following criteria: 1) depending on the subject of application; 2) depending on the form of external fixation; 3) depending on the direction of action; 4) depending on the object to be secured; 5) depending on the time of application, etc.
 Attention was drawn to the need to optimize the tools of administrative and legal provision of the security sector. The importance of the implementation of digital technologies in the activities of specially authorized entities in the field of security is analyzed. It is noted that the peculiarity of the security sector determines the additional need for prompt response to emerging threats and the use of flexible mechanisms for their elimination. It is proposed to amend the legislation by establishing the possibility of making decisions by the National Security Council in the form of directives that do not require additional implementation through the adoption of a corresponding decree by the President of Ukraine, are of general obligation and are adopted during the period of the legal regime of martial law.

Digital Transformation in Public Management Functions for Public Information Disclosure

Digital Transformation in Public Management Functions for Public Information Disclosure

Strengthen and Improve the Public Management Function in Regional Cooperation—Take “Guangdong - Hong Kong - Macao Great Bay Area” As an Example

Under the background of the new era of global economic integration, social information globalization and social service informatization in the 21st century, different countries and regions will put the coordinated development of regions into the key consideration when planning and development, and the requirements for regional governance capacity are also increasing. Taking Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Great Bay Area as an example, it is worth discussing how to face the rapid development of society, how to innovate the regional management system, and how to make the rapid and good development of public management function in regional cooperation.

Establishment of early warning index of local government debt risk -- taking Hubei province of China as an example

With the enhancement of local governments’ public management functions and the continuous development of economic and social undertakings, the scale of debt has shown a trend of continuous expansion, and the hidden dangers related to local government debt have also become increasingly apparent, which has seriously troubled the finance at all levels and caused extensive concern from all sectors of society.

Discussion on the Formulation of Government Public Management Mechanism in Rural Tourism Development

In recent years, with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, more and more people choose rural leisure tourism to relax, which temporarily helps them escape from the stress of busy work. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized while attending the discussion of the 19th National People's Congress of Guizhou Province that it is not only necessary to encourage the development of country farmhouses, but also shall analyze and forecast rural tourism, and develop measures in advance to ensure the sustainable development of rural tourism. As a new emerging tourism project, rural tourism has been being accepted by all kinds of people. The prosperous development of rural tourism can not only effectively promote the development of rural economy and win the battle against poverty, but also is beneficial to the overall development between urban and rural areas. However, due to a lack of policy support and adequate public management during the development of rural tourism, the development of rural tourism in many areas has shown a disorganized state. In this paper, it analyzes the formulation of the government's public management mechanism in the current rural tourism development process, which will effectively improve the quality of rural tourism development, give a full play to the government's public management functions, and ensure stable development of the rural tourism industry.

Public Sector Management Reform in Developing Countries: Perspectives Beyond NPM Orthodoxy

SummaryWith the passage of time and the accumulation of experience, the hegemony of the New Public Management (NPM) (now no longer new) as the dominant approach to public sector reform has weakened, particularly as applied to developing countries. What alternative frameworks for theory and practice offer insights and guidance beyond the NPM orthodoxy? This article offers some answers to this question and draws upon the contributions to this special issue to explore four analytic strands that constitute post‐NPM approaches to reform: political economy and institutions, public management function over form, iterative and adaptive reform processes, and individual and collective agency. The discussion highlights the significance of functional mimicry, the challenges of measuring results, the practical difficulties in achieving contextual fit and accounting for the inherent uncertainty in reform processes, the tensions between ownership and outside expertise, and unpacking political economy dynamics within various micro‐contexts and across regime types. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Education within public management in South Africa: A focus on external Whole-School Evaluation process’ contribution in Mpumalanga province

The study focused on the role played by public sector management in South Africa towards the country’s total development and improvement. This article also analyses how through the Whole School Evaluation (WSE) process, the education system in South Africa seeks to ensure that the schooling is effective. This paper examines public management, public administration as well as new public management (NPM). The aim is to illustrate a view of how education fits in the broader public management and how the WSE process assists schooling in South Africa and Mpumalanga in particular. This is to ensure that the schooling is effective and contribute towards service delivery and the country’s overall development and improvement. Furthermore, WSE as a process, is viewed through five of NPM undisputable and debatable characteristics of accountability for performance; performance measurement; performance auditing; policy analysis and evaluation; and strategic planning and management. Public management functions and public management principles are discussed from a point of how the WSE process strives to ensure that it complies with these function and principles, and how this compliance benefit school improvement. This paper came to a number of conclusions regarding education within public management from a WSE perspective. Firstly, education through the external WSE process conforms to this principle of New Public Management in that evaluation is aimed at improving the quality of education. Also, the external WSE, as a process, and education in general, through the NPM principles can be performed within public management. Furthermore, external WSE conforms to public management principles as well as Batho Pele principles.

Public Service Reform and Motivation: Evidence From an Employment At-Will Environment

For nearly three decades, traditional public sector management practices have been challenged by proponents of the new public management (NPM). Public human resource management (PHRM) is frequently a target of such reform efforts given the crucial role it plays in the public management function. Traditional civil service systems, based on merit and neutral competence, have frequently been criticized for their intractability, inefficiency, and ineffectiveness. The recent trend of eliminating tenure for public employees through employment at-will (EAW) policies has received considerable attention as a mechanism for improving public sector efficiency. However, recent scholarship suggests that EAW policies have a number of obstacles to overcome. Using a 2005 survey of human resource professionals in the state of Georgia, this article assesses the impact of the EAW environment on public employee motivation. The analysis suggests that EAW policies have a significant negative impact on motivation in the workplace, particularly for minorities. The findings illustrate additional hurdles that decision makers should consider when implementing EAW systems in the public sector.

An overview of the “new” emergency management

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The Challenges of Contracting and Accountability Across the Federal System: From Ambulances to Space Shuttles

This article focuses on two questions related lo government contracting and accountability. How are key components of contracting similar or different for city, state, and federal governments in the United States? To what extent do the three levels of government share the widely recognized challenges of contract design and contract management? To address these questions, we compared and contrasted six contracting cases, two each for local, state, and the federal governments. We found that for all governments in the U.S. federal system, the public management functions of contracting are remarkably similar, and that contract management and the achievement of accountability are “weak links” in the contracting process. Our findings do not support the hypothesis that contract management is more effective in local government relative to state and federal governments. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.

Strategic budgeting: Reviewing the literature of an emerging theory

Among all the public management functions, the budget process comes closest to the scenarios pictured in the literature of strategic management and game theory. Unfortunately there has been very little written on the strategic aspects of public budgeting. Generally, writers on strategic management view budgeting as a secondary-level operation functioning as a means of implementing the strategic goals of the organization. Much of the public budgeting literature, however, suggests that budgeting serves a broader function, often helping to determine agency objectives as well as serving to implement objectives defined at top (usually political) levels. In this article the writer argues that strategic management in public agencies must be defined differently from the definition used for that process in private firms. The literature of strategic management and budgeting is reviewed in an effort to clarify the relationship between these two public management functions.

Assessing the Believability of Research Results Reported in the Environmental Health Matrix

Many public management functions are based on a knowledge of causal relationships and associations which can be provided by research. Setting objectives, assigning priorities, and developing program plans all involve an understanding (or at least a guess) about the effects of certain actions on desired outcomes. Even program evaluation can be viewed as a research effort to identify, among other things, whether a program had an effect and the magnitude of that effect. Information regarding cause-and-effect relationships and associations is a key ingredient in most public management functions. This paper describes a procedure which responds to the needs of environmental and health planners for specific forms of environmental health information. In particular, the procedure provides a tool which can help administrators and others evaluate and use the scientific information dealing with the health effects of environmental exposures. The procedure generates a quantitative measure of the credibility or believability of research results that link environmental factors to human health. The information is expressed in quantitative form for maximum utility in the planning process.' The procedure first classifies research studies about environmental health relationships by the type of evidence they provide, and then assesses the believability of each study and the totality of study results. The assessment produces a study rating for each research study; the study rating is determined by accumulating points on attributes of effective research design. All of the results for a particular environmental health relationship are summarized into a measure called a believability index. The believability index can be used in two extensions of the procedures. In the first extension, the indices help to resolve situations of conflicting or variable results from different studies of the same environmental health relationship. The second extension involves the setting of priorities for environmental health problems. There is a triad of factors that must be considered in measur