Public Administration
Sepideh Gholipour; Ali asghar Pour Pzzat; Jabbar Babashahi; Reza Tahmasebi
Abstract
Addressing the issue of establishing development-oriented structures, governments might face either of the following situations: they find themselves capable of engaging target society in programs and projects or they fail in doing so which would lead to independent actions by people themselves. Complex ...
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Addressing the issue of establishing development-oriented structures, governments might face either of the following situations: they find themselves capable of engaging target society in programs and projects or they fail in doing so which would lead to independent actions by people themselves. Complex social problems and meanwhile population growth, would inevitably make primary governmental structures inefficient in achieving development objectives thoroughly, as a result governments should take active steps towards empowering and enlightening people in a way that they become capable of organizing their efforts in accordance with development objectives, public goods and public benefits. When underdeveloped societies find out about the influential role of non-governmental structures in the development process, governments would have two options: facilitating the engagement process for the society, or witnessing local societies authentically establishing bottom-up planning and implementation structures. Noticing the importance of organization and engagement seem much more crucial in case of villages, where in comparison with urban areas, suffer from deficiencies in engagement structures. This paper based on Hermeneutic analysis approach, takes advantage of literature study and two case studies of rural development policy making and implementation (European Union and Pakistan), in suggesting a theoretical framework for mobilizing social structures with the purpose of supporting development policies in Iran's rural areas.
Public Administration
Zeinab Molavi; reza tahmasebi; Hassan DanaeeFard; Ali Hamidizadeh
Abstract
The importance of citizens’ perception and attitude toward state’s performance needs broad studies in this field. Various studies are conducted on citizens’ perception and attitude toward state, most of them have considered inefficiency of the state. A few studies addressed negative ...
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The importance of citizens’ perception and attitude toward state’s performance needs broad studies in this field. Various studies are conducted on citizens’ perception and attitude toward state, most of them have considered inefficiency of the state. A few studies addressed negative perceptions and attitudes toward public section while not related to state’s inefficiency. Present descriptive – correlational paper aims at studying the relationship between bureauphobia and Perceived national resilience. To this end, by surveying the citizens through a questionnaire, the phenomenon of bureauphobia and Perceived national resilience was identified. Then the relations between both variables were investigated. Research population consists of all 18 – 70 year-old citizens who had gone to public organizations at least one time in past year to receive services. Data was analyzed by drawing table and Chi2 test. The results suggest that distrust to states and employees in public section are not only related to the performance of public services and 31 percent of respondents have bureauphobia. Likewise, 31 percent of respondents had negative Perceived national resilience on threats. Finally, findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between Perceived national resilience and bureauphobia.
Public Administration
Ali Hamidizadeh; Reza Tahmasbi; Ashraf Mirzaei
Volume 4, Issue 2 , April 2016, , Pages 51-66
Abstract
In recent years, performance gap between private and public sector has affected researchers of public administration to pay attention to the concept of public service motivation. Present research has been accomplished aiming at improving public service motivation among employees of public sector and ...
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In recent years, performance gap between private and public sector has affected researchers of public administration to pay attention to the concept of public service motivation. Present research has been accomplished aiming at improving public service motivation among employees of public sector and is intended to identify effective factors on public service motivation. For this reason, 196 people of employees at Qom central municipality have been studied in a descriptive survey method. Results show that family socialization, religious socialization, professional identity, job characteristics, member/leader exchange and role situation are effective on public service motivation. On the other hand, results showed that demographic characteristics don't affect on public service motivation. Based on research results, absorbing people who have strong and related family background and also stronger religious beliefs will lead in improving public service motivation in municipality. Furthermore, improving group and professional identity, redesigning jobs in a flexible way and based on freedom of action, trust creation between leader and member and disclosure of organization's roles expand public service motivation in municipalities.
