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Investigators say club had only one exit and no sprinkler system.
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The modern state, oriented to the satisfaction of the public services users, while applying the principle of subsidiarity, and respecting the principles of constitutionality and legality, strives to ensure the local self-government development in accordance with international standards and good practices. An important mechanism for achieving this goal is the continuous application of the quality management system that focuses on studying the customer satisfaction and changes in their requests, opposite to the static quality assurance system focused on the established processes and known requests of service users. The quality of services of local self-government units in Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the satisfaction of their users are conditioned by the formal application of the basic instruments of quality management system and the lack of information and participation of citizens in local governance.
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Discussing the future of research in public administration (PA) is more than just listing topics for reserach which are inspired by possible future challenges for the public sector. Even if national contexts determine a strong path dependency for research agendas, there are four major trends which affect the future of PA research: Europeanisation, reform agendas, globalisation issues, and marketisation of research. A crucial element in the debate is to know what the specific European voice is and should be in PA research. For this purpose it is necessary to explicitly organise research in PA.
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The purpose of social co-ordination mechanisms is to co-ordinate the activities of individuals and organisations specialised in the distribution of work. The paper reviews five basic types of mechanisms: market, bureaucratic, ethical, aggressive and co-operative co-ordination. Today’s world operates on the basis of a duality: international cooperation is based on nation states, in which the public administrations work according to bureaucratic coordination. However, the increasingly globalised market responds to the logic of market coordination. The article argues that in terms of understanding the working of public administration, the various coordination mechanisms are of crucial importance, especially where various mechanisms meet, such as the relationship between nation states and multinational corporations.
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This study investigates how audit opinions affect the operations of municipalities in South Africa. The study is premised on the principal-agent theory, where the municipal council and management act as agents and the stakeholders as principals. Municipalities are mandated to execute the national development plans of the government in power. Their main task is service delivery to the citizens residing within their area of jurisdiction. Thus, municipalities do not seek to make a profit. The Municipal Council forms part of the management of the municipality, and governs it in line with the mandate prescribed by provincial and national government, as well as the country’s constitution. A self-administered questionnaire was used to gather data. The study found that the municipal employees are aware of audit findings and indicate that qualified audit findings have an adverse impact on the operations of the municipality. The study offers insight into the services provided by external auditors that add value to municipality operations and ensure sound governance, efficient financial recordkeeping, and also reporting thereon. The study concluded that an audit that is relevant to an entity’s objectives rather than a standard, tick-box exercise, would enable municipalities to achieve their objectives and thus provide policy-makers with useful information to inform policy formulation and implementation.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of outsourcing public services as a strategy to improve the quality of service delivery by local authorities. The aim was to find out the causes for the poor service delivery by local authorities. A quantitative research approach was used and questionnaires were used to collect data from the respondents of the study. A chi-squared tests was used to determine the relationship between outsourcing and services quality. The key findings were that the causes for poor service delivery by local authorities were corruption, lack of citizen participation, lack of funds and political interference. Outsourcing was seen to bring quality and affordable services for the public while costs savings and emergence of hidden costs were the financial implications unveiled for the local authorities. Social costs, accountability for public service delivery and quality shading were cited to be the outsourcing challenges. A strong positive relationship between outsourcing and quality of services was determined. Outsourcing was seen as a feasible strategy to use so as to improve service delivery by local authorities.
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The paper deals with the analysis of the public administration's performance in social policy and health care implementation. In order to realise it, the analysis takes into consideration four specific indicators: the impact of the social transfers on poverty reduction, general government expenditure by function, aggregate replacement ratio for pensions, children aged less than 3 years in formal childcare, self-reported unmet need for medical care and out-of-pocket expenditure on healthcare. The analysis in the paper is structured on two levels: a comparative analysis between the Member States and a regression analysis in order to point out the disparities. A special part of the paper is dedicated to the social policy in Romania. The analysis is supported by the latest official statistical data and pertinent diagrams. Moreover, dedicated software was used in order to compute statistical data and to obtain pertinent results. The main conclusions of the paper are connected to the huge differences between the EU average goals in social and health care policies and the reality from each Member States. On the other hand, Romania faces to great challenges related to social policy and public administration support for improving the situation of its citizens.
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This study, set in Nigeria, focused on the effect of organisational culture on employees' level of professionalism. This is against the backdrop of the appalling services rendered by the Nigerian public service. A mixed method strategy was adopted which revealed interesting insights from 479 senior officers within various government parastatals. Among others, evidence shows that there is a connection between professionalism and organisational behaviour which was revealed when leadership effect, staff conformation, impact of religion and cultural beliefs of individuals were placed against organisational behaviour and employees‟ professionalism. Focus group discussions also established that there is a strong relationship amongst these variables. Interestingly, the disparity in salaries owing to a reform programme that was instituted brought about the lackadaisical approach to service delivery in the public sector. There is also a sense of disgruntlement recorded against arbitrary job placements and other job conditions. Essentially, to facilitate a productive public service we suggest among others the need to hold dearly the interests of the new generation of workers who have sought to take up careers in public service.
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Good governance rests on independence, competence and integrity of public administration and its employees. The concept of good governance wants public administration to improve its work to become responsible, open and transparent, to encourage the utilization of inclusive mechanisms and to promote rule of law, to use its resources efficiently and effectively and to render good quality public services. Every developed state pays considerable attention to recruitment in public administration and other public institutions and companies. For achieving best possible results, the focus is on ensuring the highest degree of legality, competitiveness and equal opportunities, that is, meritocracy as the principle. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, there are more than 165,000 individuals employed in the public service sector or public administration. Moreover, there are additional almost 20,000 managerial positions in the public administration that officially are non-political, however, there are serious attempts to take control over them and make them political i.e. election prey. Politicisation, recruitment and appointments to managerial and all other positions in the public sector along political lines have become a rule, not an exception. Promotion of direct and utterly harmful political control over the entire public sector expose the system to the collapse of a fragile rule of law, equality before law and confidence in the legal system. Politicisation and partisation of the public administration have reached maximum, and recruitment of politically suitable rather than best qualified individuals renders poor public services, crisis of legality and lack of accountability. That is why it is imperative to have a sharp turn in the political culture, public policies and daily practices that are used in the public sector appointments and recruitment, because de-politicisation and meritocracy are axioms and the decisive determinants of the public administration reform.
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The following article concerns the issue of durability of service of the Customs official. It presents the legal solutions that contribute to a higher, than in other professional groups, stability of employment. It describes matters related to establishing and terminating the official employment relationship as well as actions directed at rationalising human resources. The analysis of the above mentioned issues was possible thanks to the data base that contains statistical and strategic documents, reports on actions published by the Customs, court rulings and scientific publications. The most useful research methods turned out to be the quantitative comparative and systemic methods.
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The article is devoted to the restoration of local and regional self-governments in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.The author shows the main directions of formation the local government administration in the post-communist countries.The main subject of the analysis is a group of five countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania.The article also presents some Polish aspects of creating self-government structures.
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The purpose of the functioning of the public administration is to carry out / provide quality public services for citizens. Within these public services, the community services occupy a special place, the presentation being the objective of this article. The specialized literature has devoted the following categories of community public services: community public services for issuing and keeping passports, public services driving permits and registration of vehicles, community public services for emergency situations, community public services for cadastre and agriculture, public services community records of the person. Community public services represent a special category, as opposed to the decentralized public services in that they are in a double subordination both horizontally and vertically, compared to the local public administration and to a specialized body of central public administration.Also, within the article is presented a proposal of "lex ferenda" considered useful in the efficiency of the activity of the community public service of records of persons, namely the resignation of civil servants with special status, who are detached from the Ministry of Interior and supplementing them with civil servants employed by the local public administration, because at present the two categories, although they perform similar activities, enjoy different advantages according to the specific statutes.
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The article deals with the problem of the impact of applying decentralization in educationthat is, of the decision autonomy, in some areas, offered locally, having as model theSecondary School no. 1 Mileanca, from Botosani County. In recent years there has beenmuch written about decentralization, different solutions have been issued for a successfulimplementation of this process, all of which are limited to encouraging the continuation ofthis form of administrative organization. The state pre-university education is part of thedecentralized public services, while remaining and subordinated (for aspects regardingeducational policies, evaluation of the educational process and compliance with thelegislation) to the Ministry of National Education, through the county school inspectorates.Decentralization gives the school the role of main decision-maker, ensuring theparticipation and consultation of several factors in the education process: family, localauthorities, representatives of civil society, business environment, church, police, health unitsetc. But one of the most important aspects remains the financial one, an administrativedecentralization, unpublished by the financial one, being doomed to failure. Therefore, thefocus in this article is on highlighting the aspects related to the financial implications ofdecentralization within the Gymnasium School No.1 Mileanca, from Botosani County.
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The very existence of the public administration is determined and should have as the finality the serve of society, in general, and of each of its members, in particular. In other terms, the public administration's mission and the reason for being of the civil servants are among the most generous - the satisfaction of public needs. From this perspective, the pages of this paper are dedicated to the comparative analysis from an empirical perspective of the perceptions of public servants, on the one hand, and of members of the local community, on the other hand, on the level of satisfaction of local public needs.Examination in the mirror of the answers given by these two categories of respondents - those who administer and those administered - highlighted the existence of significant differences between the opinions expressed regarding the level of satisfaction of the local public needs in relation to the services provided, to the employees and, respectively, to the logistics. As a result of the investigations carried out, we found that the civil servants consider more than the members of the local community in whose behalf they act and whose interests they represent that the locals are satisfied, a result that was otherwise predictable and which is also confirmed by the applicative research.
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Success in the local administration process is also supported by the way in which the local administrative mechanism is organized. Through the work done in this paper we aim to achieve the general objective of analyzing the organizational management at the local level in order to highlight the organizational peculiarities in relation to Berchişeşti commune in Suceava County. The study conducted shows that this locality is the basic administrative-territorial unit comprising the rural population, reunified through the community of interests and traditions, composed of component villages, depending on the economic, social-cultural, geographical and demographic conditions. From the analysis of the internal organization of the City Hall in the commune, we have found that this functional structure consists of the local council, the mayor, the deputy mayor, the secretary of the commune, together with its own specialized apparatus, as well as several organizational compartments, as structural units, all supporting the efficiency of local public management.
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The principle of equality must ensure equal rights under the law for all citizens, including between women and men. The principle of equality between women and men is placed at the base of the European policies in all fields and represents the headstone of Romania’s integration into the EU. This principle and its implementation are in the focus of the whole world, and it is not just a concern of the EU-28. In the third millennium, in a continuously changing world where the struggle for personal success is frequently identified among individuals, equal opportunity and gender equality is a real challenge for many of the world's states. Thus, in relation to the issues presented above, having as starting point Romania's concerns for the application of the principle equal opportunities and gender equality in relation to the EU-28 and its integration in this structure, we extend our research towards measuring the pulse of gender equality at the global level.
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The principle of the dissolution of marriage by administrative means meets certain derogations in some specific stringent cases such as physical or legal death of one of the two husbands, or the incidence of some voluntary reasons. With the loss of the civilian capacity, there was the possibility for that marriage to continue if the unaffected spouse consented to the perpetuity of the marriage act. Regarding the voluntary reasons that could determine the dissolution of marriage, these could have been repudiation or divorce.
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In the pages of the present paper we propose the analysis of the administration organization of the Gagauziа Autonomous Administrative- Territorial Unit of the in Rерubliса Mоldоvа, with particularity at the City Hall of Comrat Municipality, in order to highlight its self-determination right. The research carried out shows that their own national emblems - flag, coat of arms, but also the establishment by referendum of their own capital, are prerequisites for the Gagauz autonomy. We found that, from the point of view of the administrative-territorial division, the autonomous territory of Gagauzia is divided into rayons, cities and villages, the Comrat Municipality representing the administrative center of the Gagauz autonomy. In Gagauzia, the local public administration bodies are the Gagauz Bascan, the People's Assembly and the Executive Committee. At the level of Comrat Municipality, the authorities exercising attributions in matters of local interest are the Municipal Council and the Mayor, the latter being assisted by three deputy mayors. From the analysis of the administration organization of the Gagauzia Autonomous Administrative-Territorial Unit, we noticed that it has a special legal status consisting of the right of the gagauz people to self-determination.
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Discrimination of any kind is prohibited by the provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, as well as by other norms of European or national character. Since the cases of discrimination in the statistics regarding the frequency of manifestation of this phenomenon have been identified far too frequently, it has been decided to create new structures with attributions in this regard and increase the concerns of the institutions of the European Union and implicitly of the national ones for the multiplication of the undertaken measures with the purpose to prevent and stop discrimination of citizens. In this context, we intend to focus our attention on some of the opinions and perceptions of EU citizens regarding the effects that the implementation of these actions has, as well as on the outline of future directions of action that need to be taken.
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This research attempts to analyse the determining factors of successful innovations and formulate a strategy for replicating public service innovation. It also aims to fill the gap in research regarding the public sector innovation that is required to create sustainable, innovative services, and to develop a better understanding of how innovation develops in the public sector. In this study, the desk review method was used with data of the public services available in Indonesia to analyse the determinants of service innovations in the public sector. Additionally, interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) were held to gain a deeper understanding of how innovation can develop in government institutions. Analysis of the results indicates that the most dominant innovation determinant is found within the institution itself, although other determinants also provide positive contributions as well. The replication and adoption of public service innovation efforts that institutions carry out need to undergo several stages in order to achieve optimal implementation. One of the practical implications here is that public institutions can use the findings of this study to begin developing innovation within their organization and implement it using the stages of strategy analyzed in this paper.
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