Krisna Nuryan, Muhammad Daffa Rafiyandi, Enayetur Rahim
This study aims to investigate the impact of Employee Work Discipline and Public Service Quality on Community Satisfaction at the Lengkong Village Hall Office, Bojongsoang District, Bandung Regency. A survey method with a quantitative approach was used, and 15 residents who used village office services were selected as respondents. Data were collected through questionnaires to evaluate public perceptions of employee discipline and the quality of public services. The results of the analysis show that employee work discipline has a positive and significant influence on community satisfaction. Employees who uphold discipline are able to provide better and professional service. In addition, the quality of public services also has a positive and significant influence on community satisfaction. Friendly, responsive, efficient, and accurate service increases community satisfaction. However, this study also identified several problems in the quality of public services that need to be addressed to increase public satisfaction. It is hoped that this article can help readers understand and explore information about how important the influence of work discipline and the quality of public services on public satisfaction.
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This study aims to analyze the influence of transformational leadership on the performance of public employees in a government agency. The survey method is used to collect data from employees who are the research subjects. Statistical analysis, including regression, was used to identify the relationship between transformational leadership and employee performance. The results of the research show that there is a positive and significant influence between transformational leadership and the performance of public employees. Employees who experience transformational leadership tend to show higher levels of performance, including achievement of work targets, initiative, collaboration, and better job satisfaction. This research indicates the importance of transformational leadership in improving public employee performance and offers important implications for the development of transformational leadership in the context of government
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Pub Date : 2022-10-10DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2131587
L. Tao, Bo Wen
ABSTRACT While public service motivation (PSM) is universally acknowledged as a value-laden and context-contingent construct, few studies have relied on qualitative methodologies to investigate unique components and dimensions of PSM in a Chinese context. Thus, our knowledge of on-the-job motivation (held by Chinese public employees) and how the cultural and political systems shape these motivations remains limited. This study fills this gap through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 22 junior public servants working at various organisational levels, geographic locations, and functional departments. The findings show that an attachment to the governance regime and predilection towards becoming a politician are two key dimensions that capture the rational motives among Chinese civil servants. In terms of norm-based motives, Confucianism-oriented authoritative values (including government-centric conception, collectivism, obedience, and moral obligations to serve the public) combine to affect the ways in which Chinese nascent public workers interpret the notion of public interests. In addition, love for both the family and nation serves as a core affective factor that contributes towards one’s willingness to seek membership in the public sector. This study ultimately helps construct an all-encompassing yet localised PSM concept, laying the foundation for subsequent quantitative examinations, validations, and replications of PSM-related theories in China.
{"title":"Demystifying the components of public service motivation among young public servants in China: a qualitative inquiry","authors":"L. Tao, Bo Wen","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2022.2131587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2022.2131587","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While public service motivation (PSM) is universally acknowledged as a value-laden and context-contingent construct, few studies have relied on qualitative methodologies to investigate unique components and dimensions of PSM in a Chinese context. Thus, our knowledge of on-the-job motivation (held by Chinese public employees) and how the cultural and political systems shape these motivations remains limited. This study fills this gap through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 22 junior public servants working at various organisational levels, geographic locations, and functional departments. The findings show that an attachment to the governance regime and predilection towards becoming a politician are two key dimensions that capture the rational motives among Chinese civil servants. In terms of norm-based motives, Confucianism-oriented authoritative values (including government-centric conception, collectivism, obedience, and moral obligations to serve the public) combine to affect the ways in which Chinese nascent public workers interpret the notion of public interests. In addition, love for both the family and nation serves as a core affective factor that contributes towards one’s willingness to seek membership in the public sector. This study ultimately helps construct an all-encompassing yet localised PSM concept, laying the foundation for subsequent quantitative examinations, validations, and replications of PSM-related theories in China.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78335164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2076135
Pablo Sanabria-Pulido, Cristian Pliscoff
ABSTRACT This article analyzes whether and how managerial and Weberian value systems can coexist or collide in different organisational settings. We compare six public organisations in two Latin American countries to study whether public sector reforms imply a clash or a crowding-out between these values systems. The article uses data from 60 semi-structured interviews with public officials of different hierarchical levels, in public central government agencies with different ages, modernisation stages, and organisational structures. Our analysis reveals that even in different settings and types of organisations, Weberian values coexist with managerial ones and with other sets of values related to governance or political patronage. We conclude that managerial values do not necessarily crowd out other value systems as previous studies have found and appear to be adapted to the organisational and national contexts in which they operate.
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In the era of globalization, every organization or company in the form of private or government, of course, has both short-term and long-term goals to be achieved through the activities it undertakes. In an organization or company, leadership is an important factor. In carrying out its duties, the Public Order and Community Peace Sector, the Civil Service Police Unit of the City of Bandung becomes the spearhead in the implementation of Enforcement of Regional Regulations. because in this field it is more in direct contact with the community and regional regulation violators. The leadership factor on employee performance is needed, so that the quality of employee performance continues to improve, of course this is done with good leadership. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of leadership carried out by the Head of Public Order and Public Peace of the Civil Service Police Unit in Bandung City. The data were collected using interviews and questionnaires, analyzed using descriptive and regression techniques. While the program used to manage data uses SPSS(Statistics Program for Social Science) version 23. From the results of this analysis, it can be seen that the leadership carried out by the Head of Public Order and Public Peace of the Civil Service Police Unit of the City of Bandung has gone well, the recapitulation results show that leadership is measured based on the elements of leadership amounting to 4,228 or 72.89%. This is included in the high category. Meanwhile, employee performance is measured based on employee performance dimensions of 2,931 or 72.19%. This is included in the high category. Based on these results, it can be said that the performance of employees in the field of Public Order and Public Peace of the Bandung Civil Service Police Unit is quite positive.
{"title":"The Influence of Head of Field Leadership on Employee Performance at TRANTIBUM SATPOLPP Bandung City","authors":"Handani Binangun, Fitra Nurhakim","doi":"10.61317/jc.v1i1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61317/jc.v1i1.9","url":null,"abstract":"In the era of globalization, every organization or company in the form of private or government, of course, has both short-term and long-term goals to be achieved through the activities it undertakes. In an organization or company, leadership is an important factor. In carrying out its duties, the Public Order and Community Peace Sector, the Civil Service Police Unit of the City of Bandung becomes the spearhead in the implementation of Enforcement of Regional Regulations. because in this field it is more in direct contact with the community and regional regulation violators. The leadership factor on employee performance is needed, so that the quality of employee performance continues to improve, of course this is done with good leadership. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of leadership carried out by the Head of Public Order and Public Peace of the Civil Service Police Unit in Bandung City. The data were collected using interviews and questionnaires, analyzed using descriptive and regression techniques. While the program used to manage data uses SPSS(Statistics Program for Social Science) version 23. From the results of this analysis, it can be seen that the leadership carried out by the Head of Public Order and Public Peace of the Civil Service Police Unit of the City of Bandung has gone well, the recapitulation results show that leadership is measured based on the elements of leadership amounting to 4,228 or 72.89%. This is included in the high category. Meanwhile, employee performance is measured based on employee performance dimensions of 2,931 or 72.19%. This is included in the high category. Based on these results, it can be said that the performance of employees in the field of Public Order and Public Peace of the Bandung Civil Service Police Unit is quite positive.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83501230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-13DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2121294
Aisha Azhar, T. Steen
ABSTRACT Based on a qualitative study of public service motivation (PSM) among public employees in Pakistan, the authors formulate a model of contextual factors influencing public-service-motivated behaviours. Through an analysis of 36 interviews, the research finds that because of their different cultural background Pakistan public employees did not identify with the principal motivational structure generally associated with PSM. While Pakistan public employees exhibited empathy and compassion, they did not relate them to public service. The antecedents for these motives were primarily their Islam religion. Employees showed inclinations for the pursuit of power, job security, and implicit opportunities for corruption as motives for seeking public employment. The contextual factors not only directly influenced employees’ behaviours more strongly than PSM, but they also tended to undermine the effect of PSM as a strong influencer for employees to think of serving society at large. The authors conclude that assumptions about PSM in a developing country such as Pakistan are not irrational but are embedded in local rationalities that admittedly countervail the ethical foundations of public service. These local rationalities seem widely accepted among public employees in Pakistan. The findings of the study can be related to other developing countries, particularly South Asian countries.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-05DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2118801
Baris Kiyak, Naci Karkin
ABSTRACT Employees’ complaints about the routinisation of jobs and a decrease in their autonomy have been cited as major reasons for employee turnover in government organisations. This study analyzes the relationship between job characteristics and public service motivation (PSM) to shed light on this issue. Employing an online survey completed by employees from Turkish Regional Development Agencies, we examined the effect of job characteristics on the PSM of highly-skilled employees. The results show that employees’ PSM is fostered when they use high-quality skills in implementing their duties. Autonomy, an employee’s self-direction to decide the methods and timing of work, is another important factor affecting PSM. We found that job redesign would foster PSM of highly-qualified employees.
{"title":"Job characteristics and public service motivation among highly-qualified public employees","authors":"Baris Kiyak, Naci Karkin","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2022.2118801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2022.2118801","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Employees’ complaints about the routinisation of jobs and a decrease in their autonomy have been cited as major reasons for employee turnover in government organisations. This study analyzes the relationship between job characteristics and public service motivation (PSM) to shed light on this issue. Employing an online survey completed by employees from Turkish Regional Development Agencies, we examined the effect of job characteristics on the PSM of highly-skilled employees. The results show that employees’ PSM is fostered when they use high-quality skills in implementing their duties. Autonomy, an employee’s self-direction to decide the methods and timing of work, is another important factor affecting PSM. We found that job redesign would foster PSM of highly-qualified employees.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78307308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-04DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2116585
S. Khanal
{"title":"Open or shut case? Exploring the role of openness in public sector innovation","authors":"S. Khanal","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2022.2116585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2022.2116585","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83747286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2110909
Srinivas Yerramsetti
ABSTRACT Everyday administrative practices are relatively understudied in research on illiberalism and authoritarianism. This article addresses this gap to account for the neoliberalist and technopopulistic motivations that support illiberal and authoritarian practices in a weak rule of law context. Using narrative analysis, it interprets the role of beliefs and desires of politico-administrative actors in facilitating such actions in the context of India’s public sector digitalisation. This article elaborates how the instrumental rationalities embedded into the design of digitalised policies and their practices at various levels of analysis can erode voluntariness and privacy as well as undercut democratic accountability. This article makes a case for recentering the democratic ethos in designing and implementing digitalised policy regimes to ensure everyday administrative practices are aligned with the need to avoid the infringement of individual freedoms and democratic accountability.
{"title":"Public sector digitalisation and stealth intrusions upon individual freedoms and democratic accountability","authors":"Srinivas Yerramsetti","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2022.2110909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2022.2110909","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Everyday administrative practices are relatively understudied in research on illiberalism and authoritarianism. This article addresses this gap to account for the neoliberalist and technopopulistic motivations that support illiberal and authoritarian practices in a weak rule of law context. Using narrative analysis, it interprets the role of beliefs and desires of politico-administrative actors in facilitating such actions in the context of India’s public sector digitalisation. This article elaborates how the instrumental rationalities embedded into the design of digitalised policies and their practices at various levels of analysis can erode voluntariness and privacy as well as undercut democratic accountability. This article makes a case for recentering the democratic ethos in designing and implementing digitalised policy regimes to ensure everyday administrative practices are aligned with the need to avoid the infringement of individual freedoms and democratic accountability.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72867218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2110910
Ahmad Rizki, M. Turner
ABSTRACT Independence is widely regarded as one of the key principles of effective auditing. This article explores the understanding of the nature of auditor independence at the level of practice in the public sector using the case study of Indonesia’s Supreme Audit Institution (Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan-Republik Indonesia – BPK-RI). The research uses a case study methodology involving in-depth interviews with a stratified sample comprised of four groups of BPK-RI auditors. The results confirm that independence is perceived by all respondents as a fundamental auditor value. Independence was found to be a multifaceted concept which was perceived by respondents to have personal, professional and organisational aspects. However, depending on one’s location in the organisational hierarchy there are different emphases about the relative importance of the different aspects of auditor independence.
独立性被广泛认为是有效审计的关键原则之一。本文通过对印度尼西亚最高审计机构(Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan-Republik Indonesia - BPK-RI)的案例研究,探讨了在公共部门实践层面对审计师独立性本质的理解。该研究采用案例研究方法,涉及对由四组BPK-RI审计师组成的分层样本进行深入访谈。调查结果证实,所有受访者都认为独立性是审计师的一项基本价值。独立被发现是一个多方面的概念,被受访者认为有个人、专业和组织方面。然而,根据一个人在组织层级中的位置,对审计师独立性不同方面的相对重要性有不同的强调。
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