Commitment To Public Service Research Articles

경찰조직의 특성에 따른 공직몰입에 관한 연구

In the past, the police have changed from the role of crime and law enforcement to providing security services for the nation and the people, such as maintaining order and providing services, as well as the role of the police in the past. The most necessary factor in the role of the police is public service commitment. Therefore, this study attempted to empirically verify the factors that affect police commitment to public office according to the characteristics of police organizations. By reviewing previous domestic and foreign studies, the characteristics of police organizations that affect public service commitment were perceived organizational support, access to resources, learning organization, and red tape.
 As a result of the study, it was investigated that perceived support perception, learning organization, and red tape affect the police's commitment to public service. Therefore, depending on the characteristics of the police organization, the commitment of police officers to public service can be improved to a high level. Based on these research results, we would like to make policy suggestions that can improve the police's public service commitment.

Experiencias de co-creación en Medios de Servicio Público Europeos: Visión y Tendencias

La co-creación es un concepto que tiene cada vez más peso en los planteamientos estratégicos de los medios de servicio público, en particular por su potencial innovador, ofreciéndoles a las corporaciones un mecanismo para generar un valor conjunto con su audiencia, volviéndose más relevantes socialmente y cumpliendo con sus compromisos de servicio público. Sin embargo, la ambigüedad en la descripción de este concepto se traduce en muy diversas concepciones del mismo, siendo aplicado de diferentes maneras a través de los PSM europeos. Los resultados muestran cómo las corporaciones utilizan este mecanismo con diferentes propósitos: conseguir feedback por parte de los usuarios, generar valor colaborando en la creación de sus contenidos, o potenciar el engagement en versiones más clásicas de la participación.

Debates electorales en los VOD de las RTV Públicas de Europa

Introducción: En los medios públicos, el debate electoral es de especial interés por las reglas que deben adoptar estas televisiones para cumplir con sus compromisos de servicio público y mantener los valores de diversidad, universalidad y participación. En el nuevo escenario que plantean las plataformas propias de VOD la inclusión de estos debates electorales televisados y las variaciones en su formato se plantea como un ejercicio de transparencia y un compromiso con la memoria audiovisual del país que refuerza los valores de diversidad, proximidad y universalidad representativa. Metodología: El artículo revisa de un modo comparativo el uso de este formato en siete de las principales emisoras públicas de televisión de Europa siguiendo los modelos de Hallin y Mancini y con una subdivisión regional dentro del modelo democrático-corporatista para obtener resultados con un corte étnico-político. Resultados y conclusiones: Existe una notable disparidad entre las televisiones públicas que tienen accesibles los debates electorales en sus plataformas de VOD. El análisis desvela que, a pesar de su trascendencia, los debates no se encuentran disponibles en los entornos online del medio, aunque sí son accesibles desde plataformas ajenas, principalmente YouTube.

‘There’s a star man waiting in the sky’: How does public radio approach under-the-radar musicians in the United Kingdom and Spain?

Abstract The present article aims to address one specific issue concerning public service media: how does public radio approach under-the-radar musicians? Throughout its history public radio has continued to discover and support upcoming musicians, who, by definition, have few promotional opportunities due to their position on the periphery of the music industry. This research is developed by comparing various public radio initiatives regarding under-the-radar musicians in the United Kingdom and Spain at national and regional level. Within the framework of comparative media systems, it provides case studies of BBC Introducing (BBC Radio, United Kingdom), Sona9 (CCMA, iCat.cat, Catalonia, Spain), Maketa Lehiaketa (EITB, Gaztea Irratia, Basque Country, Spain) and Proyecto Demo (RTVE, Radio 3, Spain). This subject is approached by using a mixed methodology of content analysis and interviews. The findings elucidate how these initiatives are based upon a strong public service commitment, through the combination of public service media and live venues, with particular relevance to young local music scenes and the national music industry. It is concluded that providing support to under-the-radar musicians could be a valuable lifeline for public service broadcasting in seemingly permanent crisis.

Reporting different second order elections: A comparative analysis of the 2009 and 2013 local and EU elections on public and commercial UK television news bulletins

Drawing on a systematic content analysis, this article examines how far television news bulletins with different levels of public service obligations reported the EU and local elections in 2009 and the local elections in 2013. The aim is to compare coverage on the main evening terrestrial bulletins in the United Kingdom (the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) during different types of second order campaigns and according to their regulatory responsibilities. Although UK citizens appear to value local above EU elections, the latter campaign was more extensively reported than the former on all broadcasters, with politicians sourced differently. Most striking was the market deficit of second order election news, notably Channel 5 – the broadcaster with the lightest public service obligations – containing no policy related stories. It was left to the BBC – the broadcaster with the strongest public service commitments – to deliver the most comprehensive and policy-orientated coverage.

Bigger on the inside, or maybe on the outside

Bigger on the inside, or maybe on the outside Lindy Orthia (ed.), Doctor Who and Race. Bristol: Intellect, 2013. 308pp. £20.00 (pbk). Matt Hills (ed.), New Dimensions of Doctor Who: Adventures in Space, Time and Television. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. 240pp. £14.99 (pbk). Paul Booth (ed.), Doctor Who. Bristol: Intellect, 2013. 164pp. £15.50 (pbk). Iain MacRury and Michael Rustin, The Inner World of Doctor Who: Psychoanalytic Reflections in Time and Space. London: Karnac, 2014. xxvii + 339pp. £19.99 (pbk).It must have been a slow news week at the end of May last year, and a confusing time at the Daily Mail offices in London. A bunch of presumably lefty - and foreign! - academics and fans were criticising Doctor Who's racism.Although the Mail knows, just knows, that the BBC is a left-wing conspiracy and that the corporation's privatisation is the very key to the survival of civilisation (see, for example, Kelly), the tabloid put aside its fury at public service broadcasting, rallied all the small-minded jingoism for which it is renowned and leaped to the series' defence. Momentarily abandoning its anti-immigrant scare-mongering and Islamophobic harangues, the Mail, whose long track record of 'not being racist' is why it is so widely revered as the keenest arbiter of such matters, set the record straight. Under a long-winded headline and a couple of pretty meaningless bullet points, we were presented, really quite surprisingly, with a not-inaccurate summary of Lindy Orthia's Doctor Who and Race, outlining some of its perfectly reasonable criticisms of the show as if they were damning indictments of the book. If that and a quote from some bland piece of BBC PR were not enough to persuade us of the nobility and justice of the Mail's new crusade, then we should listen to the fans, who, the Mail assures us, 'dismiss such criticisms as groundless and ridiculous' (Hasting).1Three days later, after rearranging the same paragraphs under a different headline (see Hasting and Sheridan), the Mail, confident that it had won over all right-thinking Britons by so roundly defeating the fearsome dragon-of-notparticularly-radical-cultural-criticism, retired from the field of combat. There were other dragons to slay. There are always other dragons for the Mail to slay. Many of them not from around here, or very slightly different in some way.This peculiar episode in British journalism is every bit as intriguing as it was absurd. A television-series-turned-multimedia-franchise-turned-brand, that was long mocked by the tabloids for its wobbly sets and men-in-rubbersuit monsters but is now celebrated as quintessentially British and, especially in its revived version, as a global phenomenon, and that is aware of its public service commitment to a problematically construed and often only tissue-thin multiculturalism, suddenly finds itself being defended against charges of racism, on the grounds of its 'colour-blind' casting and other multiculturalisms, by the tabloid that elsewhere praised Prime Minister David Cameron for 'ending the failed multicultural era' (Forsyth). Here is a clear sense of Doctor Who as a British cultural institution, a sense so strong that a paper one would normally expect to deride fans as acne-ridden, anorak-wearing loners lacking social skills and female companionship actually identifies itself with them. Here also is a sense that the Mail, without this convenient stereotype to hand, cannot tell fans from a broader general audience - but then, who can any more?2The transvaluation of fandom is evident in Doctor Who and Race, which happily includes both fans and academics, each sometimes writing in modes more commonly associated with the other. This is not merely the outcome of some Internet-enabled detente between two groups which were always far from mutually exclusive anyway, but a consequence of (and contributor to) broader shifts in cultural politics. Academics no longer have to deny personal taste, or even claim - as so many were still doing as recently as a decade ago - that their love of and interest in mass cultural products was, by some strange alchemy, 'subversive' or 'transgressive'. …

Public Sector and Corruption in Nigeria: An Ethical and Institutional Framework of Analysis

The paper examines the imperatives of good ethical conduct in the conduct of government business in Nigeria. As government business grows in complexity with the adoption of technological innovations in government, governance in Nigeria’s public sector becomes more problematic and ethically tasking as a result of endemic corruption. An evaluation of the collapse of institutional measures and codes of conduct puts in place to ensure high standard of behavior, using institutional theory suggests that moral contradictions in institutional behavior expectation from the public deepen daily. The perceived lack of an effective ethical organizational framework to coordinate the activities of various institutions has astronomically worsened unethical practices such as corruption in the Nigerian public service. The paper recommends a more realistic African traditional approach to ethical restraint of public servants from indulging in corrupt behavior by subjecting them to customary oath taking based upon the theistic values of fear of sin against mother earth (Ani Casimir, 2009), (a departure from the western style, which sees public service as no man’s business: Ekene, 2012). These core African values that emanate from theistic humanism should also permeate the various anti-corruption organizational frameworks in Nigeria to coordinate the national fight against corruption in the public sector. The behavioral and errant departure of civil servants and Nigeria’s public service from the core human values that ensure transparent private and public conduct of individuals have resulted in underperformance and underdevelopment. It is perceived furthermore that this lack of public service commitment to human values which would have enabled them to consider others above selfish interests, fear divine retribution, dishonor of a good family name, distaste for greed and stealing of public good has weakened the fight against corruption and turned it into a pedantic and cosmetic exercise without results. Therefore, unethical practices and the systemic abandonment of core African human values by the Nigerian public servants oil the wheel of public sector corruption in Nigeria.

Margaret Thatcher and Media Policy

Margaret Thatcher’s radical influence on the structure of the UK media can be seen to the present day. She set out to break the BBC/ITV duopoly, which she regarded as encouraging restrictive practices and a barrier to new talent. The 1990 Broadcasting Act undermined the public service commitment of ITV and paved the way for the destruction of its regional structure. Although she failed in her desire to replace the BBC’s licence fee with advertising, she forced the BBC to change its management and culture. The launch of Channel 4 as a publisher/broadcaster and the obligation on ITV and the BBC to take 25% of their programmes from independents created a thriving independent production sector. Her government helped Rupert Murdoch achieve his current dominance of the national newspaper and commercial television markets. Her period in office was marked by the role of lobbying by media organisations. The Thatcher government nodded through Murdoch’s key deals – the takeover of Times Newspapers in 1981 and the merger of Sky with British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) in 1990 to create BskyB – without reference to the competition authorities or the regulators. The evidence disclosed at the Leveson Inquiry shows, in some cases for the first time, how Margaret Thatcher was personally involved in these deals, setting a precedent for the increasingly intense (and usually secret) contacts between politicians and media organisations which helped determine media policy under Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron. Only now, with digital technology setting the UK media a new set of challenges and with the phone-hacking scandal wrecking Rupert Murdoch’s bid for the whole of BSkyB, is the influence of the Thatcher years clearly fading.

FederalistNo. 72: What Happened to the Public Service Ideal?

FederalistNo. 72 is an oft‐neglected defense of the president’s reeligibility for election. However, the paper goes well beyond this issue to basic models of human nature and motivation. James L. Perry’s essay confronts this broad issue as a guide to “a public service ethic.” Like other authors in this special issue, Perry reads broadly through the Federalist Papers in search of a deeper definition of public service motivation as a balance between the potency of passion and the limits of reason. Controlling passion was no doubt important to the founders, but it may have drowned out the greater good envisioned in public service commitments to acting on behalf of the people.

Lessons Learned in Over 31 Years in Agricultural Economics

Thank you. I appreciate those that nominated me and the committee who evaluated and selected me for this award. I understand the public service commitment of serving on committees and especially those that are entirely voluntary. I am thankful for the Southern Agricultural Economics Association, which was initiated back in 1968, by a group of committed agricultural economists to which all of us owe a debt of gratitude. A thank you is extended to my two employers over my career, The University of Georgia and Mississippi State University. As you know, in the South we attach a great deal of importance to place and I have been lucky to have been given multiple opportunities at both of these institutions. I want to thank my family. My wife of 22 years, Jenny, and our two children, Emily and Clay, empower me to work hard and enjoy life expecting the best and being prepared for the worst. My mother and father, Arthur and Charlotte Turner, made me and as Randy Pausch so eloquently stated, ‘‘I hit the parent jackpot’’ (Pausch and Zaslow, 2008). I also want to thank my students, fellow faculty, and bosses who taught me how to be a student, teacher and researcher, and administrator. It is on these lessons learned which I want to concentrate in the next few minutes. The framework of this talk, although not directly related to the discipline of agricultural and applied economics, is heavily influenced by the theories and methods of applied economics. This was especially true when I became an administrator. So what have I learned over the last 31 years in agricultural economics: seven as a student, 17 as a faculty member, and seven as an administrator?

The Unbureaucratic Personality

After 60 years of scholarship on the rule‐bound bureaucratic personality, this article turns attention to the unbureaucratic personality. Identified by a willingness to bend rules, the unbureaucratic personality is thought to be influenced by individual and workplace attributes. The individual attributes investigated in this article include nonconformity, risk propensity, and public service commitment, all of which are expected to stimulate the unbureaucratic personality. Workplace attributes include formalization and centralization, which are expected to suppress the unbureaucratic personality, and red tape, which is expected to trigger it. These hypotheses are tested using mail survey data collected from employees of four cities in a midwestern state. The results of ordered probit modeling of the data suggest that nonconformity and risk taking increase the unbureaucratic personality, as do red tape and centralized workplaces. By contrast, the unbureaucratic personality appears to be diminished by public service commitment and workplace formalization. The implications of these results for the normative aspects of rule bending are discussed.

Pop music radio in the public service: BBC Radio 1 and new music in the 1990s

The article begins by reviewing recent work on music radio, much of which suggests that radio's processes of selection reinforce the success of existing and familiar artists and genres. Through examining the recent history of BBC Radio 1, I suggest that there are ways in which the music selection and scheduling processes of radio may be used to lead (rather than entirely follow) public tastes. I include a small-scale comparative analysis of the `airplay' of certain records on Radio 1 and its commercial rivals, together with an examination of Radio 1's recent scheduling and programming changes. I seek to draw out two implications from this analysis. First, I argue that there is some support for Radio 1's rhetorical claims to have changed the British popular music environment in the mid-1990s. Second, I argue that the patterns of programming on Radio 1 are consistent with many of the BBC's stated public-service commitments, despite a popular and commercial perception of pop music being inappropriate for the Corporation. However, I suggest that this public-service role is achieved, not through the usual habit of scheduling specialist music in the evenings, but by effecting a new permeability between the traditionally separate domains of daytime (mainstream) and evening (specialist) music programmes.

Meshing Money with Mission: Purity Versus Pragmatism in Public Broadcasting

This article asks whether the increasing recourse of European public broadcasters to commercial income sources endangers their public service commitments. As a benchmark, a distinctive mission for public television is outlined, concentrating on four communication tasks and four value commitments that private television tends to neglect. The implications for such a mission of three commercial revenue sources — advertising, sponsorship and foreign programme earnings — are examined. Other assimilating pressures, operative in a mixed system, which encourage public broadcasters to tailor their programming to private television are also identified. The various problems raised are explored in detail through a case study of the likely future of children's television in Britain. The author concludes that the claims of `purity' and `pragmatism' can be reconciled only through the adoption by public broadcasters of an integrity-safeguarding policy, the main elements of which are outlined.