Each country has its own government, and it could be very different from one to another country. However, all governments have particular duties and responsibilities toward their citizens (Gomez, n.d). In general, the role of government is to assure the citizens’ well-being (World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 2005) and specifically, Gomez (n.d) describes that the government’s duties and responsibilities are providing order, protection, public service, and economy stability. Nevertheless, all governments throughout the world are dealing with the same issues including financial stresses, finding quality personnel, an aging infrastructure, and sustainability. Limitations that have been created by today’s challenging economy are making many governments struggling to continue to serve their community (Britz-Parker, n.d). This current financial stresses has left the government to challenges itself to learn to do more with less. Today, people are seeking an efficiency, since the world around is moving very fast and it will not wait for anybody. Efficiency is one of the key factor of the economic development. Researchers on these field frequently focused on efficiency of central economic sectors, factor that impact this, and policies that could improve it. However, the researchers have difficulty to study about public sector’s efficiency since it is almost impossible to measure output of public sector. Without measure of output, there can be no measure of efficiency (McLeod, 2005). In Indonesia, everyone knows that the public sector, or on this paper term, the civil service, is very inefficient. No one with any knowledge about its functioning could say otherwise. The examples of it could be an endless list, such as the taxa... ... middle of paper ... ...07). Another matter that has also made the remuneration system of Indonesia’s civil servants became vague is the relation between salary and the measurement of performance/achievement. The situation in the Indonesia’s civil service system is those who do not have particular tasks have the same payment with those who have certain tasks and do it very well. Often, those who were gradually maintained good performances did not receive any incentive or appreciation for the achievement. Professionalism and achievement should have specific assessments that could quantitatively be measured and compared with. The DP3 that has been utilized as performance assessment for the civil servants could not be a valid reflection of the real civil servants’ performance since it is only measuring the preferences of the civil servants according to the subordinates (Prasojo et al., 2007).
We often wonder about the importance of government. Is it necessary? Does it really benefit society? The answer is yes. Many countries have diverse forms of government such as totalitarian, monarchy, theocracy, and much more. The United States of America specifically runs a democratic type of government. A democratic government gives power to the people. Citizens over the age of eighteen are allowed to elect leaders based on their individual opinions through voting rights. The main purpose of the American government is, to protect people’s inalienable rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness as our Founding Fathers intended.
Problems and Prospects. The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, Volume 12(3). Retrieved from http://www.innovation.cc/scholarly-style/bradshaw5final.pdf
government should involve itself in the lives of its citizens (the “importance” of the role of
government’s ability to hold true to its true purpose, which is to establish a government
The issue of diversity in the public sector goes beyond noticeably visible differences, and expands to areas such as culture and population changes. Public leaders manage diversity not only to meet legal obligations, but as a method to improve governance, decision making, efficiency and performance. The role of diversity in public administration is to aid leaders in providing equal opportunities to all employees and stakeholders with in the public sector. Demographic changes are inevitable therefore public agencies can benefit from implementing a diverse workforce by drawing on talent from the widest possible pool. Likewise, by placing diversity at the forefront of policy making, public leaders can attract a diverse array of stakeholders.
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.
A traditional starting point is to look at what can be considered textbook definitions of efficiency. The broadest or most general meaning of efficiency as used in the public administration literature is that of technical efficiency, which concerns the ratio between resources and results, or input and output. One way or another, in all cases efficiency retains the general characteristics of input–output ratio outlined earlier, and all can be regarded as tokens of technical efficiency. The meaning of efficiency in public administration literature is almost without exception defined in terms of technical
Efficiency is highly prized in a culture turned toward productivity. It is therefore cultivated in contemporary business administration theories. It also tends to be prized above all other values in modern society, as society is more and more oriented toward technological advancement. Efficiency is also defined here as the most economic or the shortest or fastest or most simple way of realizing or achieving a goal with the least cost.
...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.
Armstrong ( 2010) defined Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) as “an approach to making decisions on the intentions and plans of the organisation in the shape of the policies, programmes and practices concerning the employment relationship, resourcing, learning and development, performance management , rewards and employee relationships,” ( p. 115). There is a paradigm shift from a functional role to a tactical one through the strategic management process. SHRM is very important to the effectiveness of my learning organisation because it ensures that the needs of the learning community are met and provides the opportunity for instructional leaders to “add value to the learning community” (Introduction to Human Resource Management, 2012, p.6) while achieving the goals and objectives of the institution.
United Nations, (2006). Unlocking the human potential for public sector performance world; public sector report 2005. United Nations: Academic foundation
The primary purposes of the governmental budget are to legitimize public expenditures and to account for and control the usage of public resources. As budgets evolve, officials find that the annual budget should be used for planning, coordinating, and scheduling programs. Demands on municipalities force them to engage in establishing priorities and monitoring how well the priorities are achieved. It is no longer possible for a municipal government to do everything for everyone. A municipal government must prioritize the services that are mandatory, urgent, and that are done well. Resources must be aligned with strategies and citizen’s needs by allocating them over some time frame; usually twelve months – a fiscal year.
Pfiffner, J. P. (2004). Traditional Public Administration versus The New Public Management:Accountability versus Efficiency. Unied States: George Mason University.
The study of public administration only continued to grow over the course of the next two decades. As the study of public administration expanded, so did the development of s...
Since its emergence as a field of study, there have been some important contributions to public administration. Its goal has always been to improve productivity which then improves workplace performance. All of the contributions have been aimed at completing the work with the highest level of efficiency and at the lowest cost.