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This paper is a historical retrospective of the public opinionsuveys conducted in the Czech Republic. The goal of this historical discourse is to make review of the development of the empirical observation of the public's view towards the daily political events. Particularly, the aim of this paper is, by means of presenting data and analysis, to create a more realistic conception of the reader for this type of scientific and practical interest in this part of Central Europe.
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The aim of the research explained about the arrangement of health insurance administration for BPJS Kesehatan participant in health service. The phenomenon that appeared in health insurance administration had many problems and complain from BPJS Kesehatan participants. The problems were how the arrangement of health insurance administration for BPJS Kesehatan participants. The research method that used was qualitative research with purposive technique then the data validity was analysis and tested. The research result showed the arrangement of health insurance administration in giving health service for BPJS Kesehatan participants were based cooperation, where BPJS Kesehatan assaign and payed to RSD dr. Soebandi that giving service to BPJS Kesehatan participants.
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Collaboration in general, and in the public and municipal sector in particular, is currently increasing. Despite the deep logic behind the need for such cooperation, the expected benefits and advantages - yet the public and municipal sectors find it complex to implement them in view of the obstacles and barriers that lie ahead. Municipal companies that function as the executive branch of the municipality in many places in local government are required to adopt this approach of sharing as part of achieving economic, operational and service efficiency for their owners - the municipalities. In order to understand how a plan should be prepared to promote cooperation between the 25 corporations owned by the Tel Aviv Municipality, a qualitative survey was conducted between stakeholders in the municipal corporations. The research findings and conclusions (together with the literature) point to the vital need for a management commitment and organizational culture which enable collaboration. Without trust among the work teams, open communication and personal relationships, formal and informal, implementation of a cooperation program will not succeed.
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Sport is a vector of social cohesion that demands from the state and local authorities intelligent and strategic sports policies based on an inclusive sporting governance model adapted to its own socio-cultural identity. However, the Eurobarometer on Sport and Physical Activity (2013) for the 28 Member States shows that 59% of Europeans don’t do sports or never carry out sporting activities, thus causing a negative impact on the health of the population and on the socio-economic level, given that sport has an important place in the European economy (3.65% of European GDP), providing jobs for 5.4% of the working population. From this perspective, the present paper performs a comparative analysis centered on the support mechanisms granted by the EU Member States to physical education and sport, focusing on the financing of sport clubs and the employment of athletes during sporting activities or after its conclusion. For the comparative analysis, the paper selected a number of EU Member States, which it grouped into three categories, which correspond to the states on the first and last places, respectively in the middle of the ranking presented by the Eurobarometer. The analysis carried out in the paper highlights the fact that at the level of the analyzed states there is an increasing involvement of the local authorities in ensuring a comprehensive status of the athlete and also in the promotion and development of the sports sector, even if the magnitude, sometimes overwhelming, of budgetary constraints often conditions the local sports policies, with many common points in this respect, but also significant gaps between these states.
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The paper examined the activist role of public administrators in a democratic system. It attempts to analyze the active participation of public administrators in the process of formulation and implementation of governmental policies. The paper argues that most times public policies largely reflect the desired value commitment of public administrators, and the politicians in whom the electorate entrust their mandate. It further argues, not minding legitimacy problem, that activist role of public administrators is not unacceptable if it is directed towards the public interest. The paper adopts desk research method; drawing data mainly from secondary source and adopts analytical research in arriving at keyfindings.
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Corporate governance is a very actual subject. After the financial world has faced during the 2000s several financial scandals, developing principles of corporate governance became necessary at international level. The 2008 financial crisis has highlighted the need for the existence of effective codes of corporate governance, which is why the OECD principles of corporate governance suffer changes, as well as national codes. The paper aims to highlight the application of corporate governance but also the role of internal audit in the company's activity. We appreciate that an effective, high-quality internal audit is the thing that, applying the rules of International Standards on Auditing, manages to detect the risks which may be subjected to the work of the Organization, to take action to reduce them so that the value of the company would not diminish.
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The focus of this study is to identify the barriers to innovation processes in the public sector of Kosovo. This study is exploratory and a mixed methodology is used, while the findings are compared and contrasted with the most recent literature in public sector innovation. The findings clearly indicate that a risk-averse culture still persists in Kosovo’s public sector. In addition to that, lack of human and financial resources add another important barrier towards public sector innovation. Moreover, staff resistance is also considered an important barrier to public sector innovation in Kosovo. Therefore, it is recommended for public sector managers to integrate the new concepts of open innovation and networked governance to diminish these barriers. These concepts demand engaging all employees as well as external parties in critical innovation processes which in default will lead to the adoption of a culture of innovation in the public sector of Kosovo. This study contributes to further research, regarding the adoption of a culture of innovation in the public sector of developing countries. Lastly, this research enriches and extends the current knowledge of public sector innovation with focus on the barriers to public sector innovation processes in developing countries.
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Organizational performance is, and will remain, a priority on the agenda of each manager within the different hierarchy and structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the provision of a modern and professional human resources management based on maintaining a high level of probity and professional integrity for the staff and an increase level of authority in the community, will always be a useful indicator for assessing the efficiency and effectiveness of institutional mid level and top management. The conduct of specific activities directly and closely to the civilian population, the difficulty of permanently assessing the risks associated with police interventions and the existence of various situations that can unpredictably degenerate into actions of destabilizing social order, the deployment of police activity in high risk criminal areas, all associated with insufficient human and logistic resources, may be factors that in most cases influence the authority of the personnel in the public order and safety system, thus affecting both citizens and the ones charged with ensuring, maintaining and restoring public order. The surveys carried out in the past at the level of the specialized centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs highlighted very clearly the determinants that lead to the diminution of the authority of the personnel. The perception of respondents, both policemen, border guards, gendarmes, was almost the same, being expressed by the fact that the diminution of authority reached a critical level and will continue to inevitably lead to negative effects which will not be easily controlled by the organization and by the state in the medium and long term. The survey conducted last year confirmed the results of the previous ones, the most significant effects occurring, as the interviewees noted, were the constant diminution of the image and credit granted to the institution and its representatives by the different categories of beneficiaries of the public services provided respectively citizens, the civil society, other partner public organizations, aspects translated into a crisis of legitimacy, increasingly negative not only in the public discourse or in the media, but also in the self-image of the employees.
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The paper aims to contextualize the elements that define the peculiarities of the nonprofit nonprofit sector. In a general note, there is provided a series of answers to the following questions: ‘Which ones are the factors that influenced the establishment of the nonprofit sector?’, and ‘Of what consists the object of the conceptual delineations regarding the nonprofit sector?’. In a particular sense, the first part of the paper refers primarily to the aspects regarding the necessity to optimize the manner of organizing the society, along with the one related to the establishment of a distinctive framework in terms of organizational infrastructure of the civil society. The second part of the paper begins with the structural-operational definition of the nonprofit sector and continues with its general characteristics.
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Taking into account the very large sums being spent through the Romanian public procurement system (approximately 8% of the GDP), analysing the award criteria used in the procurement procedures is an important element that influences the achievement of the economic and social efficiency of procurement. The article describes the criteria for public procurement award in Romania, focusing on the most used criterion, namely the lowest price. It also presents the advantages and disadvantages of using this criterion, statistical situations at national and European level, the difficulties encountered in using this criterion by contracting authorities and the vulnerabilities of tenderers participating in the procurement procedures which use for the award the criterion under consideration.
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Employee wellness is one of the key and most essential antecedents to employee and organizational performance. Organisational performance heavily depends on the health and wellness of employees and their attitude towards their work. The study explored the relationship between wellness programs and job satisfaction for workers in armed conflict societies. The study focused on one wellness program; that is the establishment of organizational onsite health centers. A quantitative research methodology was employed to carry out the study. A questionnaire was used to solicit data from 50 people who witnessed or directly or indirectly participated in the war of liberation in Zimbabwe and the civil war in Mozambique. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the collected data. The study established that there is a strong relationship between the establishment of onsite health centers and job satisfaction. All the major services of health clinics such as provision of health services to the injured during the war, provision of counseling services, provision of physical fitness programs and provision of ill-health prevention services showed a strong relationship with job satisfaction. It was recommended that all organizations operating in armed conflict societies should establish health centers within their premises to provide health services to the physically and emotionally injured employees.
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The article aims to identify and demonstrate the benefits of other tools besides those already in place, tools that ensure greater responsibility for companies, namely tools to ensure the transition of production flows towards a sustainable approach. The research method included entities representing the interest of the capital and labor determiners, in order to identify their organizational structure and concrete elements deriving from this relationship. The collection of data was based on the analysis of 52 collective agreements in force, which involved the identification of the synergy with the ISO 26000 principles. The data processing involved the organization and classification of the collective agreement clauses based on the ISO 26000 principles, following an individual analysis approach aimed to identify the synergy and compliance of the collective agreements with the ISO 26000 principles. The research highlighted a way of organizing at the level of the social partners fully adapted to the amplitude and characteristics of the environmental and social protection issues. Moreover, their work provides a concrete framework of commitments, expressed in a specific type of contract, namely the collective agreement. The latter integrates in a meaningful way the specific principles of ISO 26000, the situation that provides the collective bargaining institution as a solution to the need to make companies accountable, among others, for catalyzing the process of converting the transfer of the production flows towards the bioeconomic area. A collective agreement is a solution that does not involve the state intervention, it is immediate, and attracts binding commitments from companies to strengthen bioeconomy and social responsibility.
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Economic development within different countries has been seen in general as a task of central governments, especially in the case of unitary or more centralized states. According to a kind of “musgravian view” of public budget functions, central authorities were in many cases responsible for creation and implementation of comprehensive programs and policies, oriented to economic growth. However, despite this general approach, nowadays can be noticed that values as decentralization or subsidiarity are widely recognized, sustaining a trend of “glocalization”, within which local authorities are gaining and play a key role for regional development. Moreover, the move and the spirit of “Europe of Regions” are granting now to local authorities more means and importance in the field of economic development, considering them plenary actors of policy-making and its implementation. On this background, our paper aims to emphasize the impact of local budgetary spending on regional development, with a special accent on country differences. Based on data collected from Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Statistics and Eurostat databases, our findings suggest that strengthening the role of local authorities and improving the framework of their actions could lead to enhanced economic development at this level. Our findings and recommendations could be useful both for national and European authorities, in their efforts to improve regional policies in order to alleviate economic discrepancies.
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In response to the assumptions of new public management models and public or good governance, practical aspects of research in the area of public administration and the development possibilities of qualitative research methods are presented in the article. Due to the fact that qualitative research has become increasingly popular in the above disciplines, data archiving and transparency is discussed (Moravcsik), (Yom et al.) and guidelines and principles are established (American Political Science Association). However, there is a lot of controversy among scholars (Monroe), and some examples are missing. This paper presents the challenge of ‘openness’ in the empirical activities (or empirical practice) of researchers. Its purpose is to present the archiving data potential from in-depth interviews on the example of a small set of qualitative data from research in the field of public administration. Firstly, the basic assumptions of new models of functioning of public administration and related consequences for researchers are described. In the second part, the challenges related to openness in contemporary public administration models are briefly mentioned. Next, the method of creating an archive from existing data, individual stages, documents, and data is outlined; it is based on the author’s best practice on Qualidata (American Political Science Association; Van den Eynden et al.) and DA-RT principles.1 The summary includes examples of probable opportunities and challenges related to usage of data archiving for the research in public administration and political science development.
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