The Relationship Between Public Services And Public Sector Organizations

When the expectation is to level up, not down, often any chance of savings is eliminated and may even include hiring additional supervisors, support staff or specialized positions (L.G.C, pg. 153). This addition of staff may also take place due to a loss of volunteer positions within smaller municipalities, which may impact the community connectivity to municipal programs or events. Norris, Pharres and Zimmerman’s Ontario study suggest that within a regional government system, the larger the municipality, the higher per capita expenditures (L.G.C, pg. 154). Local government service and program are often dictated by

The budget of Local Government in the UK will be reduced by a third over the next few years. While more social needs surface and more responsibilities for delivering social care are transferred to the local level, Local Governments need to ensure the capacity to keep delivering services. The paper looks at the case of Leicester. Specifically, at the programme called Transforming Neighbourhood Services, which aims to review the way the services are delivered in a neighbourhood level and to find ways to ensure that the services will still be delivered in the future. The program consists in the reorganisation of public assets prior public consultation, and it contemplates the possibilities for asset transfer to communities. From an Urban Regime

Governments that are in a fiscal crisis are consistently looking for ways to save money without raising taxes. There is an idea that local governments can save costs by sharing services and/or consolidating government functions. However, there is not much research proving that this will help governments

A reliance on public funding is potentially problematic due to budget cuts being unpredictable, which can jeopardise: progress, staff numbers and projects within a community which can not only disempower and discourage individuals, but it can also be very frustrating for practitioners (Gilchrist & Taylor, 2011).

In the late 1970s, the old government model faced a series of crisis, which lead the Western governments to a new approach usually known as the New Public Management(NPM). As Pollitt, Thiel, and Homburg stated, the New Public Management is apparently focusing on efficiency, results, and customer oriented(2007). It is a new approach to reach a more efficient way to deliver public service(Lane, 2000, P8). In the UK government public management reform, it is worth to underline its idea of evidence-based policy. Evidence-based policy in the UK was first introduced by the white paper on Modernising government:

There is a correlation between quality and cost in healthcare in the United States (U.S.). The World Health Organization ranked the sovereign countries in the world for having an efficient and effective healthcare system (World Health Organization [WHO], 2009). From this chart, it is evident that the United States is in the 37th rank which is exceptionally low for a first world country. According to the Commonwealth foundation, the United States, in 2011 had the highest health expenditures per capita averaging at 8,508 dollars (Mahon & Fox, 2014). This shows that the cost does not aid quality. About 30% to 40% of the U.S. expenditure in the healthcare goes wasted as it was to provide inefficient and low-quality services (Denisco & Barker, 2013). The U.S. has its healthcare expenditure owned and operated predominantly by the private sources (American Hospital Association [AHA], 2014).

This semester we had the opportunity to explore management principles in public and nonprofit organizations. We learned a range of concepts, theories, models and techniques related to organizational and management theory, supervision, communication, ethics, and a multitude of perspectives within organizations and society. The concepts that were stressed by Lee G. Bolman & Terrence E. Deal (2013) in Reframing Organization was the structural, human resource, political and symbolic aspects of organizational behavior. (Bolman & Deal 2013). Exploring these organizational structures have made me evaluate my own organization and I want to present in my paper some of the concepts that we learned this semester and relate them to my experiences I

Non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization of general interest and does not belong to the Government nor to an international institution. It does not prevent it from cooperating or receiving assistance and funding from governments, it was founded without active control of a national government and it is a not-for-profit organization and are involved in every major international issue. If the organization activities go beyond the country's borders, it becomes an international NGO like "Doctors Without Borders", "Amnesty International" and "Human Rights Watch". On the other hand the Intergovernmental organization (IGO) is an international legal entity established by two or more States under an agreement between consenting, and aims to achieve goals and common interests in the following fields: political, military, social, economic, health, education and human rights. [1]

In recent years, public sector organizations increasingly leverage collaboration as a means of overcoming resource constraints and solving complex problems such as natural disaster preparation. Collaboration offers a means of achieving synergy among the public sector, private sector, and non-governmental organizations when strategizing, preparing, and responding during times of impending disasters. When faced with such a complex challenge, various federal, state and local agencies unite to develop and implement an emergency response plan, outlining essential responsibilities (Perry & Nigg, 1985). This paper describes the need for stakeholders along the west coast of the United States to conduct disaster response planning collaboration to

Clean energy sources includes wind, solar, thermal, ocean, geothermal, bioenergy, hydro, marine and ethanol. Clean energy can also include non-renewable low carbon technologies such

The distinctions between private and public organizations are not really important because the distinctions are blurred and can overlap at certain points. For example, both private and public organizations can have customers that purchase their services. The government can offer public transportation for citizens just as private organizations, such as Uber, can offer transportation for those same citizens. These overlaps between private and public organizations make the distinctions between the two unimportant. If there was no overlapping, then the distinctions would be important because those distinctions would only be defined as either private or public organizations – there would be no room for blurring aspects or factors.

A government agency is an organization that works like a government and is responsible for specific functions. There are federal, state, and local governments. All different government agencies work together to keep a community functioning. Specifically, a Board of Trustees under an independent school district works together to keep the school district working efficiently.

Information systems offer public service managers a modern way of using technology systems to help improve them in accomplishing several related tasks. Creating suitable fiscal and monetary responses to enhance macroeconomic environments; they can ensure responsibility for the planning and use of public resources. They can utilize these systems to,“improve the effectiveness and efficiency of public expenditure programs, as well as mobilizing domestic resources and managing external resources. Also, it could help by managing the civil service and decentralizing operations with satisfactory controls,” as stated by Ali Hashim and Bill Allan.

Collecting, mining and storing information has become a huge commodity in today’s fast-paced technology centric world. Information has transitioned from ancillary data to lucrative assets that can give a company a competitive edge or provide the means for governments to combat threats against critical infrastructure. In most cases, the data has legitimate uses for both enterprises and government agencies. Metadata, commonly defined as information about information, can also be of tremendous use. Metadata and data have become a regular currency for citizens to pay for their communication services and security; a trade-off the users have accepted for the convinence of using the technology (Van Dijck, 2014, p. 197).

Service organizations play a crucial role in any country. In our country, it is the backbone of our economy in terms of creation of employment potential and contribution to the National income. The study of Quality of Working life has been an important and critical area in management and organizational performance from last several years especially in the LIC. Work is an integral part of our everyday life, as it is our livelihood or career or business. On an average we spend around twelve hours daily in the work place that is one third of our entire life. It does influence the overall Quality of our life. For the research, based on the literature review and brainstorming with academicians eight important dimensions were identified. They are organizational climate & culture, Work life balance, compensation of employees, participation of decision-making, opportunity for growth and development, work environment, Welfare measures, Social relevance of work.Life Insurance Corporation of India which concentrates all these factors, a study has been undertaken in order to find out the opinion of employees about the effectiveness of Quality of Work life in the corporation.