The changing global Public Administration and its theoretical and practical implications for Africa
October 2014
‘Classical’ public administration theories, principles and paradigms continually fascinate scholars given their relevance to government practices especially in Africa. As used here, ‘public administration’ (in lower case) denotes government activities whereas ‘Public Administration’, often associated with Woodrow Wilson’s renowned 1887 essay, refers to the subject matter....
Interest groups, voluntary agreements and tobacco control in Ghana
October 2014
The paper examines the role of tobacco interest groups in obstructing the adoption of tobacco control policies in developing countries using the interest groups and global advocacy network theories. Specifically, it combines expert interviews with review of secondary materials to examine the strategies to promote the adoption of a tobacco control law in Ghana. This study finds that the adoption of the voluntary...
Immunities and privileges of International Organizations and the international civil service
September 2014
A fundamental principle of public international law and the law of the international civil service bestows a certain degree of immunity and some privileges to members of the international civil service (those serving in the United Nations system). Therefore it follows that negligence of a member of the international civil service cannot be judged at the same level as that of a member of the public, particularly in...
Public administration reform in Eritrea: Past trends and emerging challenges
September 2014
Public administration has always been the tool available to African governments for the implementation of developmental goals and objectives. It is seen as being crucial to the growth and development of African economies. To this end efforts have been made in many African countries to increase efficiency through decentralization, restructuring and privatization. This study presents Eritrea’s public administration...
Planning and Managing of Development Projects in Bangladesh: Future Challenges for Government and Private Organizations
August 2014
This paper aims to study planning and managing process of development projects in Bangladesh. It unravels the institutional inadequacies and challenges in planning and managing procedure. The deductive nature of the study has been conducted through explanatory research design. The key to a triumphant project is planning. Creating a project plan is the first thing that ought to do when embarked on any kind of project....
Methodological issues in estimating and forecasting health manpower requirement
August 2014
Human resource is one of the most important components of health systems. Support for human resources planning for health ranks low on the health policy agenda of many national governments and international agencies. The aim of this study is to present various existing methodologies for estimating the health manpower requirement and forecasting approaches and to discuss some of the methodological challenges, their...
Desire to work in an organization forever among university employees in Botswana
April 2014
The importance of commitment of employees to their organizations is evident in the volume of research that continues to be conducted on the subject and in the research findings that have linked high levels of commitment to favourable organizational outcomes. Factors that lead to differential levels of commitment appear to differ from one context to another. For this reason, each organisation should periodically...
Advocating for direct revenue allocation to Nigerian Local Governments: A catalyst for national development
October 2013
The issue of revenue allocation remains very volatile and constitutes a major source of political and governmental tension in Nigeria. This paper examines the revenue allocation system in Nigeria vis-à-vis the functional and institutional relevance of local government in national development. The paper strongly advocates for a direct revenue allocation to Nigerian local governments; it also identifies...
Efficient policy of India
October 2013
Public policy and governance, which defines country’s growth strategy, plays a significant role in any country’s development story. In case of India, if its development and growth is compared with other nations, who were once just as developed as India was, we found that India has not been able to transform itself into a developed nation that it could have done by now. The reason behind this is not just slow...
Corporate governance and its potential implementation in Egypt in light of international experiences
September 2013
Governance has appeared similarly to other terms such as privatization and globalization. The corporate governance concept has had a great importance due to the financial declines and economic crises which several states have witnessed in the money markets and corporations located in a number of states in East Asia, Latin America and Russia during the 1990s of the twentieth century. Furthermore, the US...
The genealogy of cultural knowledge and its requirements
September 2013
The genealogy of fact by Michel Foucault presented to the knowledge of humankind from a historical perspective. In his view, human understanding as an existence have ontological characteristics. It is also inspired with and follows of an extra-discursive order which causes the dialectic between power andknowledge. In this article, Michel Foucault’s theory of genealogy of knowledge...
Public participation in urban development: The case of Leipzig, Germany
September 2013
During the years following the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 the city of Leipzig in the former East Germany was facing considerable urban challenges. Vacant housing and derelict lots could be found everywhere. The population was shrinking and Leipzig became known as a perforated city. In the early 2000s, city officials obtained federal government funding for a research project entitled “Leipzig...
Nigeria in the age of globalisation
September 2013
The paper examines the ways in which globalization of Nigeria`s culture industries is directing its dimension and direction. When we look at Nigeria and her democratization process, we must realize that democracy in its current form is largely a Western concept. Democracy building on the part of the US outwards is a classic example of globalization. The paper adopts two theoretical perspectives of...
Public procurement system and e-Government implementation in Bangladesh: The role of public administration
September 2013
Since the adoption of privatization as an economic policy reform in 1976, public procurement by contractual means in Bangladesh has been increasing day by day. Objective of this paper is to discuss the e-Government Procurement implementation and recommends measures to be adopted in public procurement system in Bangladesh. Study methodology included bibliometric analysis, literature and archival document...
The mediating role of total quality management on co-ordination mechanisms in quality service delivery in Uganda’s Local Governments
September 2013
The aim of this paper is to assess the mediating effect of total quality management on the relationship between co-ordination mechanisms and quality service delivery in Uganda’s Local Governments. The findings of this paper are based on a sample of 212 Local Governments in Uganda whose heads of department and section heads formed the unit of inquiry. The paper utilises Med...
Can Policy Adoption and Transfer Lead to Policy Implementation? Environmental Financial Assurance Policy in Ghana
August 2013
The introduction of a regulatory policy such as Environmental Financial Assurance (EFA) requires a change in other fronts including enforcement philosophies, modes of organization and an increase in financial support for the regulatory system. Regulation is an essential developmental policy toolkit that favours poorer countries in the developing world. This research aims at contributing...
Perception of selection interview, selection test and employee performance: An empirical analysis
August 2013
Unlike in the past, a critical success factor for organizations in this 21st century in achieving and sustaining a competitive advantage is by combating the challenge of improving quality and service delivery. This study using the ex-post facto design critically analyzed the role of selection interview and selection test on employee’s performance. One hundred and ninety (190) (males = 96 {50.5%};...
An assessment of leadership role of the political office-holders in the 21st century at the Nigerian local government level: A theoretical perspective
August 2013
Effective political leadership is essential to facilitate successful attainment of public goals. The focal point of this paper is to assess the leadership role of political office-holders towards achieving the aims and objectives of local government vis-à-vis prospects and challenges. It reviews the conceptual issues related to leadership with reference to Nigerian Local Government; and examines the...
Workers – government wage relations and the unresolved issue of income inequality and labor strikes in Nigeria: Suggestion for the way forward
July 2013
Generally speaking, employees in all kinds of work organizations (private or public) exchange work for rewards, which take many forms (that is, material and non-material rewards). However, one of the most important of such rewards and invariably the most obvious is the money paid to workers either as salaries, wages or monitored fringe benefits. The importance of this group of reward lies in the fact that it...
On the legal system construction of China’s administrative monopoly proceedings
July 2013
The implementation of China's "anti-monopoly law" in 2008 was no doubt a powerful needle for China's market economy, but it was just a gesture of the Chinese Government. Between the top-down model which was advanced by the Government, and the bottom-up model which was pushed by social forces, which one was the better choice as the leading force in the implementation of law enforcement?...
The relationship between trait emotional intelligence and entrepreneurship attitudes and intentions
July 2013
This research intends to evaluate the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and entrepreneurship intentions– with proactivity, creativity and attitudes toward entrepreneurship functioning as mediator variables. The population of the study included 5927– 3784 M.A. students from Guilan University and 2143 from IAU of Rasht. The sample size was defined using Cochran limited sample. 376...
Using knowledge mapping to support knowledge translation in health organizations
May 2013
This article briefly discusses knowledge translation and knowledge mapping. It focuses on the use of knowledge mapping as a technique to support knowledge translation in health organizations in order to bridge the gap between knowledge generated and action for health. This paper explores the possibility for integrating knowledge mapping with conceptual framework so that it can help understanding many complex...
Impact of public sector reforms on service delivery in Tanzania
May 2013
This paper is an investigation on the impact of public sector reforms on service delivery in Tanzania. The main question was to what extent the public sector reforms has contributed or inhibited service delivery. The question was considered imperative to conduct a systematic inquiry in this area. The paper was guided by three objectives and instrumental questions towards the achievement of its findings. The...
Role of Kudmul Ranga Rao in empowerment Of Dalits in the undivided Dakshina Kannada District
May 2013
Kudmul Ranga Rao (1859 to 1928) was a social reformer from former South Kanara district, who was one of the pioneers of depressed classes movements in Southern India for providing education, better housing, employment and empowering the depressed classes socially by guarding them against exploitation by upper classes in later half of the 19th century. This paper briefly discusses...
Reforms of the public sector in the light of the new public management: A cases of Sub-Saharan Africa
January 2013
The aim of this paper is to talk about reforms of the public sector in the light of the new public management (NPM) with special emphasis of some selected Sub-Saharan African countries. The origin, rationale and chief characteristic of the ‘new public management’ was explained. Thereafter, a discussion was made on the trends, rationales and principal characteristics of the public sector reform...
Governance and management of urban infrastructure services in Lagos Nigeria
January 2013
Good governance is now recognised in a manner like never before, as a necessary condition for economic growth and poverty reduction. The focus of this paper therefore is to evaluate the effect of urban governance on the condition and provision of infrastructural services including citizens’ perception of service delivery in metropolitan Lagos. The study is a survey research designed to obtain...
Political interference and corporate performance of public universities in Uganda
December 2012
This study examined the relationship between political interference, corporate governance and corporate performance in four public universities in Uganda. The study was prompted by institutional turbulences as a result of political interference in public universities. A cross-sectional and correlational study was conducted in four public universities in Uganda namely; Makerere, Kyambogo, Gulu and Mbarara....
Malta’s Europeanization experience: How smallness enables a state to minimise the monitoring of its implementation of EU policy by third parties
December 2012
This paper discusses the issue of how size impacts a country’s experience of EU membership, in particular its ability to control the implementation of EU policy. Small countries share several characteristics at an EU level, in that they avoid isolation in the Council and depend on partnership with larger member states. In terms of Malta, this was shown to be the case but other factors appear to have...
Problems encountered in the management of nursery and primary schools in Delta State, Nigeria
December 2012
The study examined the problems encountered in the administration of nursery and primary schools in Delta State. The research findings were collected through the use of questionnaire which was distributed to the proprietors and proprietresses of the five selected schools. These nursery and primary schools are owned by the government and private individuals. Findings show that these schools are confronted with...
The ‘guided ownership’ revisited: An agenda for independent policy making in Bangladesh
November 2012
With the failures of the SAP regimes, the WB and IMF were forced to learn that country ownership of development policy was critical and based on the new insight they advocated for a new approach which was popularly known as poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP). The major shift in PRSP was that the loan recipient countries were required to ensure ‘country ownership’ in their respective PRSP...
Dynamics of government decision-making process on the policy level towards Thai State owned enterprises (SOEs)
November 2012
This research study on the government decision-making process on the policy level towards Thai State owned enterprises (SOE) offers some ideas that may provide a useful interpretation of the government decision-making process on the policy level of public administration. The researcher aims to propose a better understanding of government policy formulation and implementation towards Thai SOE through two case...
Investigation of demands of various stakeholders and participatory management in Zagros forests, Iran
November 2012
Zagros forests, located in the western part of Iran. Up to now, enough attention has not been paid to the demands of stakeholders and participatory management in Zagros forests. The main objective of this research is studying the demands of various stakeholders in Zagros forests to determine the communication gaps and problems of participatory management. This research was carried out in Dashte-Barm...
Board role performance in Uganda’s services sector firms
November 2012
The present paper sought to confirm factors that are relevant to board role performance in Uganda and as a corollary empirically tested the relationship between individual dimensions of the model of board role performance. The study was cross-sectional and correlational and the analysis was conducted using Structural Equation Modelling...
Health related policy reform in Nigeria: Empirical analysis of health policies developed and implemented between 2001 to 2010 for improved sustainable health and development
April 2012
This study was an empirical analysis of health sector reform on policy developed and implemented between 2001 to 2010. Multiple data collection was used to generate the findings. Not more than 21 States in Nigeria had either started or are implementing various types of health reforms. National, State and Local Government Areas (LGAs) levels elite had dominated policy through the control of resources. The...
Relationship of multi-dimensional leadership with lecturers work commitment: A study on Malaysian heads of polytechnic’s academic departments
April 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine if Malaysian polytechnic’s heads of department multi-dimensional leadership orientation affects the lecturer commitment and mediating effects in leadership effectiveness as perceived by the lecturers. The department heads leadership orientations was determined by the structural, human resource, political, cultural, and educational frame used based on Bolman and...
Ethics in Public Administration
March 2012
The modern world has seen an increase in interest in the areas related to the ethics of the sovereign good. A number of studies have focused on this subject matter and several academicians have exposed a number of ethical and philosophical dilemmas related to the concept of ethics in public administration.Despite the increasing number of studies that have focused on the importance of administrative ethics,...
Unitarism and presidentialism: Political institutions and corruption in public management in Ghana
March 2012
This paper examines the compatibility of democratization and corruption in Ghana. It uses institutional explanations of unitarism and presidentialism as independent variables to explicate why the adoption of democratic government has not addressed the problem of corruption and the consequent inefficiencies in public sector management. While unitarism draws attention to how the supremacy of national...
The prospects of new local government system: An empirical study of the local government in District Dera Ismail Khan (DIK)
March 2012
The objective of this paper is to study the ground-realities of the system by gathering empirical facts and figures from the real actors of the local government work. Empirical results show that there is a lack of understanding of the system itself by all the users, which is making the system-performance-evaluation more ambiguous, complicated and thus, subject to a variety of interpretations. The regression...
Promoting popular participation for entrepreneurship and sustainable basic educational development in Nigeria
February 2012
This paper acknowledges the fact that education is a must and fundamental to national development; and as such it should be made accessible to all irrespective of sex, age, socio-economic status among others. Resulting from this therefore, there is the urgent need to promote people’s (Nigerians’) participation in sustainable entrepreneurship through basic educational development required to...
Legal policy and aviation industry in Nigeria: Constraints to optimal safety of air transportation
February 2012
The study examined aviation law and industry in Africa, using Nigerian experience. This became necessary in view of the recent and frequent happenings in aviation sector that involved heavy losses of lives and property in plane crashes. The study relied on both primary and secondary sources of legal materials to gather information on aviation laws and industry. The findings of the study revealed that aviation...
Working poor and economic growth in some selected ECOWAS countries
December 2011
This paper discusses the interaction between working poor and income growth in some selected ECOWAS states. Unlike similar studies that focus on pro-poor growth in an economy, this study highlighted the basic issue in wealth creation by drawing on the issue that poverty can impact on growth of the economy. Relying on some principle developed by Kimenyi (2006) the study concluded that policies should be...
Management of electricity generation and supply in Africa: The Nigerian experience
December 2011
Incessant power failures have caused irregular production and low utilization of resources in industries and educational institutions while the Nigerian government has also been embarrassed on several occasions when Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) switched off power during government official functions. The PHCN has thus become an object of ridicule and opprobrium for over two decades. The paper...
Inducement of development communication on the administration of secondary schools in Delta State, Nigeria
December 2011
This study investigated the extent to which development communication induces the administration of secondary schools in Delta State. It is a survey study based on ex-post facto design. The researcher raised some questions and formulated three hypotheses were tested using z-test to guide the study. The target of the population of the study was 320 public secondary school principals and 9608 teachers in the...
Teacher factors in the implementation of universal basic education programme in junior secondary schools in the south senatorial district of Delta State, Nigeria
December 2011
The study is an empirical research on teachers’ factors in the implementation of universal basic education (UBE) Programme. There were three research questions and three hypotheses to guide the study. As a descriptive survey, 205 teachers were sampled from a target population of 2,040 teachers in 120 junior secondary schools. Questionnaire was used to generate data. Data were analyzed using the mean and...
National development in Nigeria: Issues, challenges and prospects
November 2011
Development is critical and essential to the sustenance and growth of any nation. A country is classified as developed when is able to provide qualitative life for her citizenry. Nigeria in the last fifty years has been battling with the problems of development in spite of huge human, material and natural resources in her possession. The paper discussed the problems affecting national development as well as strategies...
Devolution and political accountability: Some insights from Pakistan
November 2011
This paper studies the relationship between devolution and political accountability in District Dera Ismail Khan, KPK, Pakistan. It examines the extent of political accountability through the gates of popular participation in elections, level of transparency in decision making process and accessibility of general public to public information at grass roots level. The main findings of this paper are two fold....
Corporate governance: Ownership structure, board structure and performance of public sector entities
November 2011
This study seek to examine ownership structure, board structure and their relationship with public sector entities’ performance in Uganda. A cross-sectional and correlational research design with a sample of 85 public sector entities in Uganda was used. The findings portrayed that, CEO duality is not yet an issue as far as the performance of public sector entities in Uganda is concerned. Findings...
Water and politics in Africa: The need for regional cooperation
October 2011
This paper examines the need for regional cooperation in water resources management in Africa. The earth is a water planet made up of 70% water, but the crucial fact is that freshwater constitutes only 3%, 99% of which is locked in polar icecaps, glaciers and far too deep underground, leaving humanity with only 0.3% with which to quench its ever increasing thirsts. At the country level, extreme variability...
An empirical investigation of selected strategy variables on firms performance: A study of supply chain management in large private manufacturing firms in Kenya
October 2011
This paper focuses on the joint effect of selected strategy variables on performance of large private manufacturing firms of the supply chains in Kenya. To guide the study, two specific objectives have been used namely: 1) to determine the independent effects of core competencies, strategy, strategy implementation and core capabilities on firms performance, 2) to determine the joint effect of core...
Notes on the economics of the 2004 Nigerian pension scheme
September 2011
Poor social security arrangement imposes large costs on government and it becomes an attendant economic cost. As a result, large fiscal deficits result along with a high poverty rate. Though, much has been done by the government to address old age poverty and bring dignity to labour for Nigerian workers who (should) deserve to enjoy their retirement, the defined benefit scheme which has been practised over...
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