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Celovito obvladovanje kakovosti pri izvajanju nalog lokalne skupnosti: primer predšolske vzgoje
Get PDFV prispevku predstavljamo izziv vzpostavitve trdnega upravljavskega okvira izvajanja nalog lokalne skupnosti. Na osnovi predpostavke, da je vzpostavitev celovitega obvladovanja kakovosti za napredek tega področja ključnega pomena, smo se pri odkrivanju priložnosti za izboljšanje naslonili na skupni ocenjevalni okvir CAF. Raziskava obravnava področje vzgoje in izobraževanja. Osrednje raziskovalno vprašanje je, kako odgovorni v lokalnih skupnostih za predšolsko vzgojo poznajo in razumejo odgovornost občinskih uprav za uspešno izvajanje nalog iz njihovih pristojnosti. Raziskava je v metodološkem smislu pokazala, da je z uporabo ustrezno oblikovanih vprašalnikov upoštevajoč model CAF v lokalnih skupnostih mogoče odkriti ključne priložnosti za izboljšanje upravljanja z nalogami v pristojnosti občine. Rezultati raziskave na področju predšolske vzgoje kažejo, da občinske uprave dobro obvladujejo finančno področje in se pri načrtovanju osredotočajo predvsem na investicijski (prostorski) vidik. Kot ključna priložnost za izboljšanje se je izkazalo obvladovanje kakovosti. Odkrite priložnosti za izboljšanje izkazujejo potrebo po nadaljnji teoretični obdelavi problema, ki bo osnova za praktične usmeritve v obliki dobrih praks in prenos znanja v prakso
Diaspora Engagement Strategies and Policies
Get PDFDiasporas have been making contributions to their motherland for a long time (Ionescu, 2006), without waiting for policies to rally them and, if truth be told, very often finding them to be the major obstacles for establishing the partnership. However, diaspora-motherland partnership is closely related to institutional frameworks, socio-economic settings, political milieu as well as issues of perceptions, images, trust and social identification, in both the home and host country, most of which are within the scope of public administration. Moreover, the evolution of policy awareness and a thorough understanding of the diaspora and development nexus are, in some countries, the result of the efforts of public administration. The development of diaspora strategies is essential because it demonstrates how state agencies, policy makers and individual citizens themselves have begun to think beyond national borders and make efforts to build non-territorial forms of organisation, such as Diaspora Virtual University. Promotion of networks, strategic alliances and sustained institutional cooperation between diaspora and the policy makers such as the Ministries for Diaspora, as well as other officials dealing with diaspora and development related issues have become the subject of primary interest in many countries, one of them being Serbia. As a part of the effort to formulate effective and just policies used to respond to the brain drain, the paper analyses and recommends different policy types. Among different models of academic diaspora congregation is, no doubt, the alumni model, which proved to be very useful for both, developed and developing countries. The paper presents the concept as a part of the »brain gain« model and states the principles distilled from the alumni concept experience, which summarize the current wisdom regarding development of a community which will serve as the »intelligence pool« for Diaspora Virtual University. Different types of remittances, as well as pessimistic and optimistic perspectives on remittances, are analyzed in the paper, and recommendations are summarized for current and future policy makers. Recognizing diaspora as a valuable foreign investor a model of partnership through the Serbian Regional Chambers of Commerce is also proposed
Differences in Regional Economic Prosperity: Do State Policies Matter? – An Empirical Investigation of Data from the German States
Get PDFDifferent regional economic theories come to different conclusions with regard to the impact of (state) policies on the economic prosperity of regions. This article provides empirical evidence that determinants like geography, urbanization, industrial mix and social capital explain 68 percent of the variation in GDP per worker among West German regions. One element that all these factors have in common is that they cannot, at least in the short run, be influenced by state policies. Determinants like infrastructure and human capital, both of which can be influenced by state policies, only account for another 11 percent of the variation in GDP
Professionalization of Civil Service in Hungary: The Potential Impacts of Centralizing Public Administration Education
Get PDFThe article examines the recent developments in public administration training in Hungary and draws conclusions for the future. The paper analyzes the connection between legalism and professionalism in Hungary. Legalism and professionalism are displayed as contrary notion by a considerable number of theorists. It appears that »legalism« is an appropriate label for the past status of public administration that reformists long to abandon. Since Hungary is considered to be part of the legalistic culture of European public administration (PA), the assumed conflict between legalism and professionalism appears more vividly. As part of the currently undergoing reform, professionalism received an influential institutional promoter within the Hungarian PA: the National University of Public Administration that is primarily a university but is also a successor of the government agency that used to be in charge of civil service professional training. The article concludes with summarizing the currently undergoing reform regarding professionalism that is also presented as being contrary to the legalistic PA in the government reform program for modernizing PA
Tax Procedure Law within the Reduction of Administrative Burdens – between Goals and Praxis
Get PDFThe Tax Procedure Act (TPA; Slovenian ZDavP) is the key law regulating relations among the participants in tax collection procedures. Therefore, it has been more or less thoroughly changed several times in recent years, also within the government’s programme of reduction of administrative burdens (RAB; Slovenian OAO). Procedures are being attempted to be simplified for both taxpayers and tax authorities. The paper explores a selection of institutes introduced to this end, such as tax assessment through a provisional specification, service by regular mail, advance rulings, etc. The author considers statistical data on how frequently those (new) institutes were used in 2006, 2007 and 2008 to establish whether, or how much, goals of the regulatory change in the tax procedure are actually being achieved in praxis. It is found that notwithstanding some exceptions, the majority of the considered institutes do amount to a realisation of the RAB programme
New Wine in Old Wineskins: General Administrative Procedure and Public Administration Reform in Croatia
Get PDFIn 2009, Croatia adopted the new General Administrative Procedure Act (GAPA), which introduced several novelties in the regulation of general administrative procedure. The main research topic deals with the changes that the new GAPA, as an incentive for public administration reform in Croatia, has produced. The empirical data were collected within the EU funded IPA project “Support for the implementation of the General Administrative Procedure Act” (2012−2013) and interpreted on the basis of institutional theory. Despite changes to the legal text, the empirical data show that the new GAPA has not resulted in actual changes in everyday public administration
Merjenje kakovosti, usmerjenost k uporabniku in davčna administracija
Get PDFMerjenje kakovosti in usmerjenost k uporabniku je sestavni del reform javnega sektorja in zato tudi sestavni del sprememb dela davčnih administracij povsod po svetu. V članku je na začetku predstavljen odziv davčnih administracij v svetu na te spremembe, v drugem delu pa so prikazani rezultati raziskav o mnenju uporabnikov slovenske davčne uprave (davčnih zavezancev) o njenem delu, torej kakovosti izvajanja storitev in njeni usmerjenosti k uporabniku. Ker gre za raziskave, ki so bile izvedene v različnih časovnih obdobjih, je podana tudi primerjalna analiza rezultatov, predvsem glede tega, ali so zavezanci bolj zadovoljni z delom davčne uprave ali ne
Trendi razvoja e-uprave v Sloveniji
Get PDFRazvoj e-uprave, katere glavna cilja sta povečati učinkovitost in uspešnost poslovanja ter zagotoviti kakovostne in uporabnikom prijazne storitve, je v večini razvitejših držav, pa tudi v Sloveniji, v polnem teku. Prispevek skuša predstaviti trende v razvoju e-uprave v Sloveniji s poudarkom na ponudbi storitev, upoštevajoč rezultate raziskav, ki jih na Inštitutu za informatizacijo uprave na Fakulteti za upravo opravljamo že od leta 1999
Pravni vidiki sodelovanja javnosti pri pripravi in sprejemanju predpisov
Get PDFSodelovanje javnosti pri pripravi in sprejemanju predpisov vsebuje bodisi pravico oziroma dejansko možnost državljanov, da izrazijo svoja mnenja ali stališča o predlaganem predpisu. Med primerjalnimi ureditvami obstajajo precejšnje razlike glede pravne (ne)urejenosti takšnega postopka. Ponekod je postopek pravno oziroma zakonsko urejen, drugod je urejen le z internimi akti uprave ali pa je povsem neformalen in ni predpisan z obstoječo zakonodajo ali drugimi pravnimi akti. Čeprav vprašanje oblike pravne urejenosti ni bistveno za sam postopek sodelovanja, je to vprašanje bolj pomembno v tistih državah, kjer je nivo splošne pravne in politične kulture nižji in katere se soočajo s problemom (ne)implementacije sprejetih predpisov oziroma implementacijskega deficita. V državah kjer je posvetovanje izvršilne veje oblasti z javnostjo conditio sine qua non za postopek priprave predpisov, je viden tudi pomen splošne politične kulture, saj si v nekaterih državah, kot je na primer Velika Britanija, ni mogoče predstavljati postopka sprejemanja predpisov brez ustrezne konzultacije javnosti, čeprav takšna vključitev javnosti ni neposredno opredeljena v pravnih aktih
Izkušnje in perspektiva prvega pilotnega projekta priznanja RS za poslovno odličnost (PRSPO) v javni upravi 2004
No full textS samoocenjevanjem pridobijo organizacije močno orodje za dodatno okrepitev procesa stalnega učenja, izboljševanja ter inovativnega mišljenja. Najboljše evropske organizacije se primerjajo pri podeljevanju evropske nagrade za kakovost EQA od leta 1992 na osnovi meril modela odličnosti EFQM. V Sloveniji Urad RS za meroslovje že osmo leto zelo uspešno spodbuja razvoj odličnosti v slovenskih organizacijah, poleg ocenjevanj organizacij v okviru nacionalne nagrade za kakovost – Priznanja RS za poslovno odličnost (PRSPO), tudi s pilotnimi projekti. Pilotni projekti PRSPO sistematično spodbujajo organizacijsko učenje, prenos najboljših praks in inoviranje ter dvig konkurenčnosti v tistih sektorjih države, ki so na teh mestih podhranjeni oz. je uporaba nezadostna v primerjavi z evropskim okoljem. V letih 2003 do 2005 sta Urad RS za meroslovje in Direktorat za javno upravo (zdaj Ministrstvo za javno upravo) uspešno izvedla skupni projekt uvajanja odličnosti v upravne organizacije z uvajanjem ISO standardov, s samoocenjevanjem po CAF-u ter z zunanjo oceno v pilotnem projektu PRSPO za javno upravo 2004