scholarly journals The Effect of Participative Strategic Planning Process on Job Satisfaction: The Experience of Local Government Agencies

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Soonhee Kim
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Participative Management ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
The Public

Strategic planning has been emphasized in the public sector to enhance government performance and accountability. However, little empirical research exists on participative management in strategic planning and its impact on employees' job satisfaction in government agencies. This study explores the relationships between employees' perceived input in strategic plan development, knowledge of the strategic plan, role clarity in strategic planning, and job satisfaction in local government agencies. The results of multiple regression analysis demonstrate that employees who perceive they have input in a department's strategic plan development express higher levels of job satisfaction than others who do not. The present study also supports the view that employees' clear understanding of their roles in accomplishing the goals in strategic plan is positively associated with job satisfaction. In this regard, organizational leaders' commitment to participative management and empowerment in the process of strategic planning should be emphasized in the public sector.

Strategic planning in the public sector of the economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Sil'vestrov ◽  
Vladimir Starovoytov ◽  
Vladimir Bauer ◽  
Aleksandr Selivanov ◽  
Vladimir Lepskiy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
The Government

This collective monograph continues a series of scientific studies and publications on the problems of strategic planning, which have been carried out for several years at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation with the involvement of specialists from other scientific and educational organizations. A series of research papers in 2017-2019 was devoted to the analysis of strategic development risks and the analysis of global strategic planning practice, the general methodology of strategic planning and forecasting (including in the context of ensuring Russia's economic security), the approach to the formation of life cycles of preparation and revision of strategic planning documents and their comparative analysis, the experience of coordinating budget, project and process types of management and financing, monitoring risks and threats, the use of new information tools in the strategic planning complex, including blockchain, and also naturally develops such aspects of previous research as analysis of world practice, coordination of budget, project and process types of management and financing, the use of information technologies. However, at the same time, a special task was set — to approach a comprehensive analysis of the strategic planning process as a whole, especially to study its documentary support as the core of the organization of this process and the implementation of its results in the practice of public administration, as well as to analyze the scientific support of strategic planning as an essential aspect of all strategic planning and strategic management activities in the entirety of its aspects (goal setting, forecast, design, programming, planning, control and audit). It is intended for specialists from the humanities, natural sciences and technical fields of knowledge focused on management and development problems, for undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as for a wide audience of management practitioners, including those related to strategic planning processes in the public sector.

The Influence of Technology on the Strategic Planning Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 798-811
Author(s):  
Martin K. Mayer ◽  
Michael L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
New Public ◽  
Impact Of Technology

The concept of strategic planning came to prominence in the 1980s under the banner of New Public Management; since, several of the private sector components of strategic planning have been applied and interpreted within the public sector. The rise of the internet in the mid-1990s changed everything; government as a traditional hierarchical entity had devolved into a series of interconnected networks. At the core, strategic planning is a collaborative approach to organizational planning consisting of concepts and tools that align the present state of an organization with the future's goals and objectives; yet the growth of technology has greatly altered the process. This entry explores the development of public-sector strategic planning, specifically the impact of technology and how strategic planning has grown throughout the digital era; along with potential opportunities and challenges moving forward as technology and organizational dynamics continue to evolve.

scholarly journals How Government Agencies React to Termination Threats

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jostein Askim ◽  
Jens Blom-Hansen ◽  
Kurt Houlberg ◽  
Søren Serritzlew
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Long Life

Abstract Much research following Kaufman’s classic study Are Government Organizations Immortal? has investigated the claim that government agencies enjoy great security and long life. Less attention has been paid to Kaufman’s thesis that government agencies facing a termination threat have strong incentives to react. In a study of the on-going Norwegian local government amalgamation reform, we demonstrate that this type of government agency reacts by hoarding (i.e., a last-minute flurry of spending) when faced with a termination threat. This finding shows that agencies facing termination threats are active players in the termination game. We discuss implications for research on agency termination and design implications for reformers of the public sector.

The Reporting Entity in Private-Public Accounting Harmonisation. Is Control Enough for the Local Government Consolidated Financial Statements?

2017 ◽  
pp. 5-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Carini ◽  
Laura Rocca ◽  
Claudio Teodori ◽  
Monica Veneziani
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Consolidated Financial Statements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Financial Accountability ◽  
Public Sector Accounting ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Reporting Entity

The European Commission initiated a discussion on the expediency of using the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), based on the IAS/IFRS, as a common base for harmonizing the public sector accounting systems of the member states. However, literature suggests that accounting is not neutral with respect to the economic, social and political dimensions. In the perspective of evolution of the accounting regulation outlined, balanced between accountability, with the need to represent phenomena for reporting pur-poses, and decisionmaking issues, which concentrates on the quantitative importance of the values, the paper aims to analyse the effects of the application of different criteria for the definition of the reporting entity of the local government consolidated financial statements (CFS). The Italian PCA 4/4, the test of control and the financial accountability approaches are examined. The evidence that emerged from the case studies examined identifies several criticalities in the Italian PCA 4/4 and support the thesis that the financial accountability approach is more effective in providing a complete representation of the public resources entrusted to and managed by the group, whereas the control approach better approximates quantification of the group results in terms of central government surveillance. The analysis highlights the importance of the post implementation review period and the opportunity to contextualize the adoption of the consolidated financial statement in the broader spectrum of the accounting harmonization process, participating in the process of definition of the European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS).

Een nieuw en flexibel personeelsbeleid in de lokale besturen in Vlaanderen ?

Res Publica ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-97
Author(s):  
Trui Steen
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Personnel Management ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
Personnel Policies

Personnel management in localgovernment in Flanders bas undergone some major reforms during recent years. We examine the purposes and the extent of these reforms. Also, the new personnel management in Flemish local government is evaluated in terms of flexibility. The Flemish civil service can be considered as an Internal Labour Market. The rigidity which characterises the Internal Labour Market in local government in Flanders is shown by the fact that local government lacks discretion in elaborating the personnel statute, which still constitutes the basis of personnel management. However, the thesis that the public sector employment policy is too rigid has to be nuanced. The civil service is familiar with irregular forms ofemployment. Infact, in Flemish local government only half of all personnel are employed according to a statute.Despite some constraints on the development of more flexible personnel policies, it is still possible to find opportunities which provide hope for the development of new and modern personnel management strategies in local government.

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