Administrative Responsibility Research Articles

The Role of Heads of Departments (HODs) in University Management: Leadership and Accountability in Academic Success

The important role that heads of departments (HODs) play in university administration is examined in this article, with particular attention paid to their responsibility and leadership duties in promoting academic achievement. HODs now have a major role in determining the operational results and strategic direction of their departments as well as the evolution of academic institutions and the conventional administrative roles that they once held. Successful HODs strike a balance between administrative and academic responsibilities, fostering a climate that supports academic performance via transformative and collaborative leadership approaches. But along with this leadership comes a big accountability burden: HODs must make sure that faculty performance, research, and teaching meet high standards. The tactics that HODs may use to improve their leadership skills and maintain accountability are discussed in this article. These tactics include professional development, delegating, and fostering a transparent culture. The article also discusses the difficulties HODs encounter, including those related to institutional politics and resource limitations, which can make it difficult for them to carry out their duties in an efficient manner. This article provides a thorough understanding of the function of HODs in university administration and their vital role in ensuring the academic success of their institutions through a combination of theoretical ideas and real-world experiences.

Beyond the school: principals’ insights on expanded roles in times of crisis. The case of COVID-19 in Turkey

ABSTRACT This study examined the perspectives of school principals on the workload of the additional administrative responsibilities they were assigned during COVID-19 in Turkey. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the nature of these additional responsibilities and to assess their impact on the principals who took them on. The research group consisted of 62 school administrators (principals and vice principals), from public elementary schools. The research data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The collected data were analyzed using content analysis. The results showed that principals were assigned tasks without regard to their specific roles, with no differentiation based on their positions. The study also revealed a variety of emotional experiences among the participants, ranging from fear and anxiety to feelings of satisfaction and commitment. Overall, this study provided valuable insights into the complex dynamics of principals’ experiences during COVID-19 and highlighted the need for transparent communication, equitable task allocation, and adequate support mechanisms to maintain their well-being and commitment.

Dr. Meena and mission maternal health: building allies in the government hospital

Research methodology The case study is based on field data, including in-depth semi-structured interviews with the main protagonist and related stakeholders of a large government hospital in Western India. After informed consent, the interviews with the stakeholders were conducted, transcribed and analyzed verbatim. In addition, secondary data from policy reports, newspaper articles and government websites was used to create the case. Since the protagonist works in the government system, her identity and other identifying information are disguised to maintain confidentiality. Case overview/synopsis The case study investigates the leadership challenges in a healthcare facility/hospital in public health. It traces the evolution of Dr Meena Sharma (Dr Meena), a leader in the government hospital ecosystem facing challenges such as infrastructural deficiencies, manpower deficit, healthcare bureaucracy and heavy patient load. This first-generation medical practitioner who transitioned from a private practice to a governmental one juggles balancing her demanding clinical practice, administrative responsibilities and teaching in the government hospital with her family responsibilities setup. However, in the wake of the upcoming LaQshya – Labour Room Quality Improvement Initiative by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, she strives to put together and motivate her team to work toward improving the quality of care during delivery and the immediate postpartum period at her hospital. Various issues arise in the organizational leadership for a woman leader such as adopting appropriate leadership style and using appropriate motivation and communication strategies for optimal performance. Complexity academic level The case study is aimed at teaching/training a) departmental heads of public and private hospitals, b) health program managers at higher and middle-level leadership roles, c) health policymakers at various levels in the government and other organizations and d) graduate and postgraduate students of public health, hospital management/administration. In addition to this, it can also be used for general management programs to teach organizational behavior, communication and leadership courses.

Insights into longevity and the professional lifespan of early and mid-to-late career teachers: perspectives of teacher wellbeing

ABSTRACT This article reports on the findings of research that investigated the personal, organisational, and socio-political factors that affect early and mid-to-late career teachers’ well-being in Australian schools. Framed through the lens of the Job Demands-Resources Model, the study focused on both positive and negative indicators of teacher well-being. Informed by a qualitative research methodology, the study draws upon data from in-depth semi-structured interviews with early and mid-to-late career teachers which addressed four dimensions of impact on teacher well-being: (i) job/professional resources, (ii) job/professional demands, (iii) school culture, and (iv) social, cultural, and political challenges. Examination of the data indicates that both novice and experienced teachers rely significantly on accessible resources like mentorship, professional learning communities, increased autonomy, and interpersonal connections, which contribute positively to their overall well-being. However, challenges such as time constraints, administrative responsibilities, toxic school environments, and larger systemic issues exert detrimental effects on teachers’ well-being.

Legal mechanisms for imposition of administrative responsibility for violation of license and permit conditions

License and permit conditions violation leads to legal responsibility, expressed in different sanctions. The extent of liability depends on the country's legislation and the type of breached conditions. Adherence to the terms of the license and permit ensures the legality of the licensed activity, and legal problems will be avoided if there is no violation. Violation of license and permit conditions means non-fulfillment of the requirements and obligations imposed on the license or permit holder. Licensing conditions are established when a license or permit is issued and include various criteria and rules to be followed when performing licensed activities. Violation of license/permit conditions is subject to administrative or other liability, including a warning, fine, revocation, or suspension of license or permit. The extent of liability depends on the nature of the violation, the legal circumstances, and the requirements of specific legislation. The article will discuss cases of violation of license/permit conditions, legal bases, and mechanisms of imposing administrative responsibility.

¿Es un tribunal de cuentas el cambio real que requiere el control fiscal colombiano?

This article analyzes the parliamentary proposal to reform fiscal control through the implementation of a new model: the court of accounts, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages. To this end, it is proposed to differentiate between a jurisdictional court of accounts, an administrative body of fiscal responsibility and a judicial co urt of fiscal responsibility. In addition, the question will be addressed as to whether this new model would be the only one to intervene in the public sphere as an auditing and/or adjudicating entity, or whether it would coexist with the Contraloría General, the territorial comptrollers and the Auditoría General, who would continue to carry out the investigations on the auditing component of accounts review and fiscal oversight. Or, on the contrary, it would be the same court that would carry out such basic action to prescribe the fiscal responsibility in trial. Although the mere existence of a court with powers of “jurisdictional administrative fiscal responsibility control” does not in itself guarantee an effective administration of justice, the creation of a body with an adversarial structure, where one party accuses and the other defends itself, could strengthen the fiscal justice system. In this scenario, an impartial and objective third party, such as a court, could play a fundamental role in resolving conflicts and ensuring a fairer and more efficient tax control.

On the question of administrative-delicit law of Ukraine

The article notes that the active development of social relations affected the renewal of the doctrinal foundations of Ukrainian administrative law, as a result of which there are constant discussions in the modern science of administrative law of Ukraine, including those directly related to administrative-legal relations. And therefore, the prospects of administrative and legal science, as well as the fields of administrative law, are connected with modern tasks that science sets before itself in accordance with social requirements, which must be solved, including through the application of measures. It is emphasized that administrative law regulates a significant number of different social relations, among which a special place is occupied by administrative-delict relations, which cover a variety of relations that are subject to the norms of administrative law, which is currently in the stage of systemic reform and is mostly connected with relations to ensure implementation of human and citizen rights and freedoms, consideration of administrative disputes, application of measures of administrative responsibility, bringing to disciplinary responsibility persons of public law. Attention is drawn to the attempts to reform the administrative-tort legislation, since the codified act of the administrative-tort legislation adopted in Soviet times does not meet the realities and requirements of today. Therefore, the issue of updating the administrative-delict legislation occupies a prominent place in the scientific developments of domestic legal scientists. Existing scientific discussions on the separation of administrative-tort law into an independent branch of law exist to this day, but we must state that administrative-tort law, despite its own specificity, a significant number of various functions (regulatory, binding, permitting, protective, educational etc.), is a sub-branch of administrative law, which has a special subject of legal regulation, which is a set of legal norms that regulate relations arising from the doctrine of administrative tort. It is emphasized that the formation of modern administrative-delict law involves interaction with the institutions of administrative responsibility provided for by the sectoral norms of laws, which may include the procedure of bringing a person to administrative responsibility, completely different from that regulated by the Code of Administrative Offenses, which requires new theoretical views on the establishment of a system of administrative penalties.

Теоретическое осмысление социальных функций административной ответственности: негативные и позитивные аспекты

The article attempts to consider the social functions of administrative responsibility from the perspective of the general theory of law and legal responsibility, taking into account the negative and positive aspects implemented within the framework of administrative procedural legal relations. The author’s understanding of the functions of law, positive and negative forms of legal and administrative responsibility is given, a new original view is proposed on the protective functions of administrative responsibility, which have a socially oriented orientation, ensuring the regulation of public relations, including taking into account conceptual approaches to improving control (supervisory) activities. As a scientific discussion, it is proposed to identify three protective functions of administrative responsibility in administrative procedural legal relations, ensuring its negative impact.

К вопросу о совершенствовании административной ответственности за нарушение прав в сфере интеллектуальной собственности

The article analyzes the institute of administrative responsibility for violations of copyright and related rights. Special attention is paid to the problem of administrative and legal protection of personal non-property rights of the author. The author offers legal and technical solutions to improve the designs of the existing structures of administrative offenses infringing on copyright and related rights, including the allocation and specification of admi-nistrative responsibility for violation of personal non-property rights of the author

Общественная нравственность как объект государственно-правовой охраны

The protection of spiritual and moral values is one of the priority and extremely socially sensitive areas of the state security policy of the Russian state in the face of modern challenges and threats, which implies, among other things, the creation of an effective mechanism for state legal protection of the national spiritual heritage and public morality. This mechanism as a whole already has sufficient legal contours, formalized, first of all, by state coercive measures, in the system of which administrative and tort legislation plays a significant role. Public morality is positioned in the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation as a specific object of protection, and over the past few years, administrative responsibility for encroachment on public morality has been significantly increased. However, the analysis of the normative material, as well as the conceptual approach adopted by the legislator in resolving issues of legal formalization of public morality and its protection, seems to be flawed, which makes it possible to raise the question of improving legislation on state-legal protection of public morality.

Вина юридического лица в административном праве: постановка проблемы

Introduction. The author considers the main contradictions of legal regulation of the institute of guilt of a legal entity in administrative law. The relevance of the problem is due to the lack of legislative certainty in the construction of the guilt of a legal entity, which leads to ambiguous law enforcement practice, violation of the principles of justice and presumption of innocence in bringing the specified subject to administrative responsibility. The purpose of the article is to analyse the ‘models’ of guilt of a legal entity in administrative, tax, civil legislation, as well as to identify the problem of harmonisation of current legislation, law enforcement practice, including in order to change the vector of fiscal orientation of state policy when bringing to administrative responsibility of a legal entity. Methods. General scientific (analysis, synthesis, systematisation) and private-scientific (formal-legal, comparative-legal) methods of scientific cognition allowed to rethink theoretical, practical aspects and approaches to the definition of guilt of a legal entity in administrative law. Results. The main problems of legal regulation of the institute of guilt in administrative law are formulated in this research. It seems that in order to bring law enforcement practice in line with the fundamental principles of administrative responsibility – legality, fairness, presumption of innocence – the guilt of a legal entity, as a legal category needs to be harmonised. The legislative construction of the model of guilt of a legal entity should ensure that the balance of private and public interests of the state is observed for the purpose of economic and political stability.

Законодательная регламентация вопросов противодействия новым формам девиантного поведения в сети «Интернет»

Introduction. The article deals with the problem of legislative counteraction to new forms of deviant behavior that have recently appeared in the information space of the Internet. Trash streams represent the greatest public danger among its currently existing varieties. With the application of general scientific and private scientific methods, as well as the method of systemic formal- legal analysis, an attempt was made to determine some general provisions concerning the possibility of bringing the organizers and participants of trash streams to criminal, as well as in some cases to administrative responsibility. From the position of the theory of criminal legal science, as well as the currently available law enforcement practice, a number of draft laws prepared by the public and legislators, which are currently being considered as legislative initiatives, have been analyzed. In particular, the draft law on introducing alterations and additions to criminal legislation, proposing to establish criminal liability for committing such acts on the Internet. The subject of the study is federal laws, regulations and documents governing social relations in the field of combating criminal manifestations of deviant behavior on the Internet. The material base of the study was formed by the works of domestic forensic scientists devoted to the problem under study, as well as periodical press materials, judicial and investigative practice. Methods. The methodological basis of the study was formed by the basic provisions of the dialectical method of cognition, general scientific and private scientific methods, such as comparative-legal, concrete-sociological, formal-logical, systemic and historical, which made it possible to state some general conclusions. Results. As a result of the research the relevance of the systemic formal-legal approach has been established, starting from the legislative fixation of the concepts related to the signs of trash streaming, an attempt has been made to formulate the general conditions of criminalization of this kind of phenomena, legislative initiatives and proposals aimed at combating trash streaming have been named and analyzed. In addition, the conclusion is drawn of the complexity of criminal legal qualification of trash streaming as an act enshrined in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in the form of a specific criminal law norm due to the formal absence of indicia of public danger and illegality, as well as the need for further work on draft laws, taking into account, among other things, the opinion of the scientific community.

Curriculum Innovation: A Standardized Experiential Simulation Curriculum Equips Residents to Face the Challenges of Chief Year.

A chief resident's role incorporates administrative, academic, and interpersonal responsibilities essential to managing a successful residency program. However, rising chief residents receive little formal exposure to leadership training. To (1) define leadership styles; (2) understand the effect of cultural competence on leadership styles; (3) learn effective methods to advocate as the chief resident; (4) provide effective peer feedback; (5) provide effective supervisor feedback; (6) learn effective conflict management; (7) ensure psychological safety. We developed a 1-day curriculum combining didactics and simulation activities for our program's rising chief residents. Implementation of our curricular design included a morning session focusing on small groups and didactic-based lectures on specific topics pertinent to leadership, along with a debriefing of a psychometric evaluation tool administered before the curriculum day. The simulation activity consisted of 3 group objective structured clinical examination (G-OSCE) scenarios: (1) providing a struggling junior trainee with feedback; (2) debriefing an adverse clinical outcome as the team leader; (3) navigating a challenging situation with a supervising physician. Standardized participants were surveyed for specific objectives. Learners completed precurricular and postcurricular surveys on their familiarity and preparedness for their chief year. Comparison of preintervention (n = 16) and postintervention (n = 10) data shows improvements in familiarity with leadership models (p = 0.006), cultural competence in leadership (p = 0.027), and team organizational structure (p = 0.010) with notable improvement in report of advocating for the team to 100% of participants in the postcurricular survey. In addition, although not statistically significant, familiarity with specific strategies for feedback delivery improved (p = 0.053), as did learner comfort levels with feedback delivery (comparing 51% of learners were either very or somewhat comfortable precurriculum to 90% postcurriculum). This is further supported by standardized participant data after the G-OSCEs. Although familiarity with wellness resources did improve across learners (p = 0.421), learner-reported use of wellness resources was noted to be reduced after the curricular intervention and remains a result of further interest for exploration. A 1-day leadership development curriculum combining didactics and simulation is an effective means of preparing rising chief residents to succeed in their transition to this leadership role.

The influence of legislation on state control (supervision) on the practice of applying legislation on administrative offenses

Subject. The article analyzes the current practice of applying legislation in the field of administrative responsibility, which is the result of changes in legislation in the field of state control (supervision).The choice of the research object is due to the need for systematic application of legislation in the areas of legal regulation under consideration, as well as the need to ensure uniformity in the practice of applying the Code of Administrative Offenses, which is due to the principle of equality before the law.The purpose of the study. The article presents an analysis of current problems faced by courts. The results of the analysis of judicial practice and scientific approaches to solving the problems discussed in the article are presented.Methodology. In the course of the work, the researcher was guided by a systematic way of interpreting current legal norms, as well as existing Russian scientific research in this area.Conclusions. Based on the results of the study, norms were identified in the application of which uniformity was not ensured. In order to harmonize the legislation on state control (supervision) and the legislation on administrative offenses, it is proposed to take into account the scientific approaches that have emerged in the science of administrative law.

Streamlining Organization Tasks: A Grounded Theory on the Perspective and Coping Mechanism of School Administrators in Response to DepEd Order 002, s. 2024

In order to cope with organizational changes that simplify administrative work, educators and administrators must be resilient (Towler, 2021). Recently, public school teachers in the Philippines were relieved of administrative responsibilities, as ordered by the Department of Education (DepEd Order 002, s. 2024), and the responsibility is transferred to school administrators and non-teaching staff. According to the Department of Education (DepEd), administrative responsibilities include all tasks necessary to run schools efficiently while utilizing the fewest resources possible. These obligations include activities, services, and programs that are geared toward problem-solving; they have nothing to do with academics or the educational system. Through in-depth interviews and focus groups with school heads in the public institutions, the research utilized grounded theory to comprehensively explore the impact of shifting administrative responsibilities from classroom teachers to school heads and non-teaching personnel as well as their coping mechanism within educational institutions. This allowed the researcher to develop theories based on the data collected (Cooke, 2014). This study's generation of themes and theories led to the creation of a framework for efficient coping strategies with organizational activities that require flexibility and ongoing modifications. In order to strengthen an adaptive organization, the data collected from the respondents also contributed significantly to the conceptualization of the Modernized Educational Resiliency theory.

Decentralization and attitudes towards the environment: Survey-based evidence

Attitudes towards the environment are changing around the world. This may be due to greater awareness about environmental challenges, in part motivated by climate change, but also innovations in the policy landscape, such as those associated with decentralization, or the assignment of policymaking, administrative and political responsibilities to the subnational levels of administration. Decentralization brings the government closer to the people and creates room for bottom-up policy experimentation and citizen participation in policy design, which may influence attitudes. To shed light on these linkages, this paper provides survey-based empirical evidence based on data from the World Values Survey that exposure to decentralization contributes to more favorable attitudes towards the environment, controlling for personal and household characteristics of respondents, as well as country and cohort fixed effects.

Проблемы закрепления и реализации административной ответственности за неприменение контрольно-кассовой техники

The article deals with problematic issues of regulatory regulation and the implementation of administrative responsibility for the non-use of cash registers. A contradiction has been revealed between the norms of the General and Special parts of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, the Code) in terms of determining the amount of a fine for the specified offense. The authors assess the approaches to sentencing established in law enforcement practice under part 2 of Article 14.5 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, substantiate the position on the nature of the correlation of the norms of the General and Special parts of the Code, formulate a conclusion on the need to eliminate the identified conflict, argue for their proposed method of solving the problem under study.

TÌNH TIẾT TĂNG NẶNG TRÁCH NHIỆM HÀNH CHÍNH

Administrative responsibility refers to the negative legal repercussions imposed by the State on entities for their administrative violations. The practical implementation of laws pertaining to the penalization of administrative offences has demonstrated that considering both mitigating and aggravating factors for individuals and organizations guilty of such violations is both effective and necessary to distinguish the levels of administrative accountability. This article identifies shortcomings in the legal stipulations concerning the aggravating factors of administrative responsibility and suggests potential areas for enhancement.

ONLINE TASK SEGREGATION AND RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN A UNIVERSITY

The Online Task Management System (OTMS) is built to organize an organization resource and therefore enhance assignment’s performance by assigning, the required tasks, identify users, their full details, and even their working progress while estimating their working performance. The proposed system also compliments the interaction between the administrators, users by providing an efficient interface to accomplish goals on the web hassle freely. OTMS covers all activities related to the search for, finding, distribution, monitoring, and forecasting of the performance of every organizational asset. It is the responsibility of administrators to ensure that the school has a proper data base system in which the performance of the peer can be determined from. Thanks to the machine learning solution, this system can even predict such organizational performance based on individual peer analysis, which in turn is helpful in the organization’s growth. KEYWORDS: Allocation, Resources, Scheduling and Tracking.

Compliance in the public sector from a systemic perspective: a bibliometric analysis

The objective of this bibliometric analysis was to investigate the development of publications on compliance, systemic view, and the public sector, using the Scopus and Web of Science databases. The aim was to identify the productivity of authors, the frequency of keywords, the geographical distribution of publications, and the temporal evolution of studies. The methodological procedures included the definition of databases, selection of constructs and related terms, inclusion and exclusion criteria, data collection, and analysis. The results show that publications on these topics began to gain relevance from 2000 onwards, intensifying between 2019 and 2023. The United States leads the scientific production, followed by China and the United Kingdom. The study also indicates the researchers with the highest number of publications on the topic. The most frequent keywords were "regulate", "governance", "policy", "system", "theory", and "sustainable". The analysis indicates the growth of research in these topics, demonstrating their importance in promoting transparency, responsibility, and efficiency in public administration, as well as the need for effective and ethical public policies.