Albert Rees: Teacher, Scholar, Public Servant

The article investigates the imageological aspect of mentor’s communicative competence in public service and reveals the communicative functions of mentor’s image in relation to the mentees. The author determines the communicative skills necessary for the mentor in all processes and stages of this personnel technology. Based on the analysis of scientific publications, the author discloses and justifies the role models of mentor’s behavior in relation to the mentees from the perspective of the mentor’s image, authority, and communicative competence. The author has conducted an expert survey among public servants, which allowed identify the main professional, business, moral, psychological, and integral qualities that are the most effectively developed by the public servant in the process of performing mentor’s functions. As a result, the author suggests a structural-logical model of the communicative competence of a mentor in the public service in the process of perceiving its communicative knowledge, skills, and competencies for achieving the effectiveness of mentoring.

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The Working Sheep Dog as a Model of the Street- Level Public Servant

Public Voices ◽

10.22140/pv.343 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 51

Author(s):

Anne J. Hacker

Keyword(s):

Organizational Structures ◽

Servant Leader ◽

Street Level ◽

Public Servant ◽

The Relationship

There are examples all around us of natural, simple, yet amazingly complex organizational structures that demonstrate models of leadership that are of use today. The working sheep dog is one such example. It is a vision of grace, ability, stamina and integrity. The relationship that exists between theses canine and human partners mirrors that of the street-level public servant and servant leader.

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Public Service Motivation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Public Voices ◽

10.22140/pv.71 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 67 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sharon Mastracci

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Public Service ◽

Public Service Motivation ◽

Public Servants ◽

Buffy The Vampire Slayer ◽

The Public ◽

American Popular Culture ◽

Public Servant ◽

Definition Of ◽

The Individual

In this paper, the author examines public service as depicted in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS). First, she shows how slaying meets the economist’s definition of a public good, using the BtVS episode “Flooded” (6.04). Second, she discusses public service motivation (PSM) to determine whether or not Buffy, a public servant, operates from a public service ethic. Relying on established measures and evidence from shooting scripts and episode transcripts, the author concludes Buffy is a public servant motivated by a public service ethic. In this way, BtVS informs scholarship on public service by broadening the concept of PSM beyond the public sector; prompting one to wonder whether it is located in a sector, an occupation, or in the individual. These conclusions allow the author to situate Buffy alongside other idealized public servants in American popular culture.

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George Gabriel Stokes

10.1093/oso/9780198822868.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Fluid Dynamics ◽

History Of Science ◽

Mathematical Analysis ◽

Royal Society ◽

Science And Religion ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Public Servant ◽

History Of ◽

The Many ◽

Natural Philosophers

George Gabriel Stokes was one of the most significant mathematicians and natural philosophers of the nineteenth century. Serving as Lucasian professor at Cambridge he made wide-ranging contributions to optics, fluid dynamics and mathematical analysis. As Secretary of the Royal Society he played a major role in the direction of British science acting as both a sounding board and a gatekeeper. Outside his own area he was a distinguished public servant and MP for Cambridge University. He was keenly interested in the relation between science and religion and wrote extensively on the matter. This edited collection of essays brings together experts in mathematics, physics and the history of science to cover the many facets of Stokes’s life in a scholarly but accessible way.

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Roland de la Platiere. A Public Servant in the Eighteenth Century. Charles A. Le Guin

The Journal of Modern History ◽

10.1086/240315 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 40 (4) ◽

pp. 651-653

Author(s):

Richard M. Brace

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Public Servant

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The Railroad a Public Servant. Carr White Taylor

Journal of Political Economy ◽

10.1086/251522 ◽

1909 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 168-168

Keyword(s):

Public Servant

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Training for policy capacity: A practitioner’s reflection on an in-house intervention for civil servants, students, and post-secondary graduates in Canada

Teaching Public Administration ◽

10.1177/01447394211019458 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 014473942110194

Author(s):

Bobby Thomas Cameron

Keyword(s):

Prince Edward Island ◽

Provincial Government ◽

Civil Servants ◽

Mentorship Program ◽

Post Secondary ◽

Policy Capacity ◽

Public Servant ◽

Capacity Theory ◽

Integrated Policy ◽

Recent Graduates

A substantial amount of scholarly work focuses on conceptualizing, theorizing and studying the policy capacity of governments. Yet, guidance for practitioners on developing policy capacity training programs is lacking. In this article, I reflect on my experience as a public servant in the provincial government of Prince Edward Island where I designed and implemented the Policy Capacity Development and Mentorship Program for civil servants, recent graduates and students. In this article, I offer a descriptive overview of the framework and logic of the program and discuss how I integrated policy capacity theory. This article may serve other practitioners who seek to implement similar programs in their respective organizations and provides a base for future interventions. The article also offers thoughts on practitioner-led collaboration with academics and recommendations for those who would like to establish similar programs in their organizations.

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