John F. Kennedy, America’s thirty-fifth president once said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” (Kennedy). This quotation clearly embodies and supports individuals wanting to do public service for the benefit of their society. In my view, public service is a privilege; everyone should avail this privilege and make their community a better place. In a small way, I have been volunteering in various public service organizations as well as in my community for the past three years.
Public service is a resource which is provided by the government to their respective citizens living under a specific jurisdiction. The core objective for providing public service by the government is that certain important
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During that crisis the whole world saw the selfless service rendered by the service provided by the lay public. As the first plane hit the tall tower, people in the lower floor were running down the stairs to save their lives. An average human will normally try to run away from danger of that magnitude. But the public service team from the police department, fire services and emergency medical services were climbing up the stairs of the World Trade Centre to rescue the people who were caught in the fire or burnt by the flame. One should imagine, if public service was not in place, even a few hundreds who were rescued would have perished in the falling debris. Each and every public servant who was in action should have had a family, some friends, and most importantly, a life to live. They would also have wished to love, laugh, work, play and chat with others, but their selfless effort and the true dedication supports the oath they had taken while joining the public service that they would selflessly work towards making their community and their country better at all times. Can we all understand their act of heroism? The answer to this question goes a long way to what public service could offer to the community and …show more content…
If, for example, transportation is privatized, the first thing the company which has taken the tender will do is to find out ways to run the business profitably. To run it profitably, they might use ways like reducing the head count, increasing the fares, cutting down the low profitable routes etc. If jobs are cut, unemployment issues will arise and governments will be forced to support the unemployed with employment insurance which could be an additional cost to the government. Similarly, if the fares are increased, it will be a major stress for the general public and especially the middle and the lower section of people. If the new company starts working on return on investment by individual routes, there could be developing areas or less populated areas which might suffer drastically due to low revenue routes thereby cut in bus or train routes. Hence it is absolutely important that public services are preserved by all of us. I believe that each of us as human beings, have an inherent obligation of preserving the public service and we must all contribute passionately so that all of us would be benefitted on the long
I am familiar with service. For me, service has only extended to my peers and my community; however, I hope to serve the nation and all nations in the future.
Respect for duty is the most important quality in public service as it is in For Whom the Bell
Kenneth Ashworth, a public servant, has served Texas and its fine education for more than thirty years and knows all the ins and outs of how the government works. He has written his book to benefit his niece, who has decided to follow in his footsteps, of all of his dealings from problematic politicians to many life lessons that have shaped him. Intended for his niece, this book has opened the minds for not only me and my peers, but for students around the state. After reading Caught between the Dog and the Fireplug, or How to Survive Public Service, Kenneth Ashworth makes a truthful point of knowing what the differences of personal responsibility and social responsibility is as a bureaucrat. Ashworth shows that social and personal responsibility can be two of the same if the morals of the person acting upon them are in good conscious.
Public service is defined as a service concentrated on the public interest or by governmental employment. In the novels Brave New World and 1984, the end all be all goal was to manipulate and recreate to achieve ultimate perfection. I would have to agree with the term because in both novels most of the people conformed to the propaganda the government was putting out there. Two characters that were manipulated by their governments were Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in Oceania who alters historical documents to keep stability in the utopian society. John the savage, who came from a different society and was alienated in the utopian society because of his savage roots and teachings.
Growing up, my parents and other influential figures around me modelled the importance of community service through their continual volunteer work and dedication to improving the world around them. Whether it be participation in a well-attended project or persistent contribution to a helpful organization, those aforementioned individuals were formative in guiding me towards a path filled with opportunities for having an impact on my community.
The Role of Public Service Discipline: In Debra Gray’s book: BTEC National Public Service (uniformed) Book 1: discipline is described as obedience to authority. Discipline is necessary in all of the Public Services as it moulds people’s behaviour. It can do this in many ways such as causing fear of punishment, offering material rewards, or by offering opportunities if promotion. The main internet source of definitions I found was www.wikipedia.co.uk here I found definitions such as: Y A system of rules of conduct or method of practice; "he quickly learned the discipline of prison routine"; "for such a plan to work requires discipline"; Y the trait of being well behaved; "he insisted on discipline among the troops" Y the act of punishing; "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received" The dictionary definition of discipline is: control or order exercised over people or animals; system of rules for this; training or a way of life aimed at self control or conformity; branch of learning; punishment. Discipline can be used as any of the following: Deterrent: to stop people from doing something you don’t want them to.
Despite criticism about its ineffectiveness, bureaucracy is necessary in the society to enforce order and organization in the delivery of services and interactions between the state and citizens, especially considering the national scale of government and its service for a multitude of citizens. The reforms aimed at rectifying the political circumstances that had facilitated the prevalence of financial crises, corruption, and various inefficiencies in the delivery of public services. Introduction of a market-oriented model of public administration focusing on efficiency, public expenditure control (mainly through shrinking the government), and treatment of citizens as clients in the delivery of public service suited the evolving circumstances. Rather than an end in itself, the regime of bureaucratic reforms was a means to ascertain desired quality and standards in public service delivery. It represented a phase in the continuous objective of public administration to achieve and maintain high quality in public service
... Public sector... being engaged in the providing sevices (and in some cases goods) whose scope and variety are determined not by the direct wishes of the consumers, but by the the decisions of government bodies.
The obligation of the government to stand for the entire public as it designs and manages the economy by shaping the economic growth and development.
Among these advantages, we can list professional skills, work ethic, knowledge of government and love of one’s country. If school gives knowledge, it is in the working place that this knowledge is shown. Being a good worker is not only showing professional skills, it is also being on time at work, getting along with co-workers, giving respect to the supervisor, all this will be learned by young adults. Public service will also open young adults’ eyes to the making of the laws in their communities. Not the least, working in the military for example will make young adults have a love of their country. On the negative side of doing public service, there is the discontinuation of education, loss of opportunity, and most importantly the involvement of government in people’s civil rights. Other aspects that also will certainly financially diminish young people will be their inability to perform their profession just after finishing their studies; as a consequence, it will have an impact on the reimbursement of their student loans . These two financial effects are understood in the situation when public service work is required after the completion of young adults’ studies. Through public service, young adults will learn and obtain skills, that will benefit them in their workplace as well in their
As an educated professional in my community, I would like to make a contribution to society and my community. My background in hours of community service has prepared me for this and shown me its value.
...r pillars of public administration are equally important in the process of public administration and complement one another in the provision of quality public service. When public administrators have economy in mind they focus on the best combination of available resources to provide optimum public service. To ensure that public service is not limited to only a section of the public, the issue of equity is taken into consideration so that public interest is realized. Efficiency and effectiveness additionally go hand in hand in ensuring that allocated resources are used in the best possible manner to attain set goals. Thus whereas the first three public administration pillars – Economy, efficiency and effectiveness are concerned with how public service is provided the fourth and most recent addition (Equity) concerns with for whom public service is provided.
This essay discusses the radical transformation of the principles and foundations of public administration from traditional to New Public Management. Firstly the essay will attempt to define the key terms of traditional public administration and the doctrine of New Public Management. Rabin J. (2003) explains that New Public Management embodies “a process in public administration that uses information and experiences obtained in business management and other disciplines to improve efficiency, usefulness and general operation of public services in contemporary bureaucracies.“Traditional Public Administration progresses from governmental contributions, with services perceived by the bureaucracy.
Public policy can be defined as “What ever governments choose to do or not do” (Dye, 2008, p 2). In the context of this essay, public policies are a set of actors by the government in order to reach out to the masses. The ministries and departments are mandated to deliver specific mandates in the form of public goods and services.
Since the 1980s vast change initiatives has been undertaken in the public sector of the developed countries. The inflexible, hierarchical and bureaucratic form of Public management which was common during the twentieth century is shifting to more flexible, market-oriented form of public management. This dramatic shift alters the role of government and the relationship between government and citizens. Traditional public administration has been questioned in practice, and the acceptance of new public management means the rise of a new model in public sector management (Hughes, 1998).