Suchergebnisse

1. Why should we study public organizations? -- 2. Administering a public organization -- 3. Organizational structure -- 4. Power in and around public organizations -- 5. Missions, goals, and planning -- 6. Bureaucratic expansion -- 7. Public organizations and their evironments -- 8. How to motivate bureaucrats? -- 9. Organization and culture -- 10. Communicating and networking in and around public organizations -- 11. Organizational change and decision-making -- 12. Performance management in public organizations.

This title explores ways in which bureaucracy may not only be compatible with democracy but, more ambitiously, the conditions under which it can enhance it, examining the systems and institutions of the Korean bureaucracy: the National Election Commission, the police force, local government, the ceiling recruitment strategy, and procurement policy.

Transformation of Korean Politics and Administration: A 30 Year Retrospectiveretraces critical turning points in Korean history as seen from the historical path dependence theory to help explain the significant changes that have occurred in the major pillars of the Korean politics and administration.

This title explores ways in which bureaucracy may not only be compatible with democracy but, more ambitiously, the conditions under which it can enhance it, examining the systems and institutions of the Korean bureaucracy: the National Election Commission, the police force, local government, the ceiling recruitment strategy, and procurement policy

Few design approaches have utilized scientific methods in dealing with aesthetic and visual factors. In an attempt to explore a scientific approach to environmental design, the relationship between visual preference and ratio variables in enclosed spaces on the Virginia Tech campus was investigated. Visual preference of enclosed spaces was measured by the Scenic Beauty Estimation (SBE) method. The SBE method was found to be reliable and valid in urban enclosed spaces. This study suggests that visual quality of an enclosed urban place can be predicted from the linear combination of three ratio variables-ground slope, height ratio, and vegetation coverage. The prediction model can be used as an heuristic or analytic tool for design practice.

The impact of ODA on governance is still a contentious issue of debate. A few number of East Asian countries, such as Korea and Singapore, have achieved rapid economic and social development by government-led development strategy. This study focuses on the role of government to achieve developmental goals, and explores the relationship between aid dependence on government expense and government effectiveness from the perspective of government competitiveness and the mediating effect of corruption as well. The analysis draws upon a data set of 82 developing countries over the period 2004- 2013. The findings of the study illustrates that dependence on ODA in government expenditure reduces government effectiveness in developing countries. In addition, ODA funds from donors have an adverse effect on the control of corruption, and it, in the end, impedes government effectiveness. To increase aid effectiveness in promoting growth and development, governments of developing countries need to improve their government competitiveness.

This study introduces the concept of government competitiveness to the public management literature. Government competitiveness involves an effective, value-oriented utilization of resources in order to provide services that can lead to economic and social development. It is argued that, overall, government competitiveness is the outcome of both coordination and cooperation among key industries and competition between them, as each strives to secure for itself a greater share of resources and legitimacy. This hypothesis is tested using a novel measurement method of government competitiveness that incorporates both a subjective and objective dimension of competitiveness obtained from a national survey of civil servants as well as performance rankings from the Korean prime minister's office. In addition to finding that interorganizational competition enhances overall competitiveness, this study also finds that performance management, goal clarity, and innovative climate all influence government competitiveness. The theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed in detail.

As interest in Millennium Development Goals surges, criticism targeting their applicability to developing and underdeveloped countries has also sharply increased. While Millennium Development Goals highlight important development goals, targets, and indices, they lack a time perspective. Korea`s experience suggests that it is impractical to pursue all developmental goals simultaneously. Instead, prioritizing goals based on country-specific contexts and approaching them sequentially is an approach better suited to underdeveloped and developing countries, because of their limited resources and underdeveloped social conditions, and can be more effective in achieving multiple goals in the long term.