Modern requirements for digital competencies of civil servants

Civil servants and politics : A delicate balance

This recently published anthology contains twelve chapters authored by various primarily European academics, who address the balance between civil servants and politicians. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which sets the scene and explains the apparent increasing tension between civil servants and politicians. The second section includes a number of country studies, chosen ...

Civil Servants' Internet Skills: Are They Ready for E-Government?

In order to utilize the possibilities of information and communication technology within the public domain and thereby further develop the electronic government, it is necessary that civil servants possess sufficient levels of Internet skills. Higher levels of these skills among professionals in the public sphere might result in better Internet usage, thus improving both productivity and effici...

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Smoking Patterns in Ghanaian Civil Servants: Changes Over Three Decades

The number of smokers in developing countries is expected to increase as markets in high income countries begin to decline and multinational tobacco companies shift their marketing efforts to lower income countries. We determined the prevalence and distribution of smoking in a cross-sectional study of 1,015 urban civil servants in Accra, Ghana (82.7% participation rate) in 2006. The results wer...

John Henryism and blood pressure among Nigerian civil servants.

STUDY OBJECTIVE Among urban Nigerian civil servants, higher socioeconomic status is related to increased blood pressure. In the United States, the relation between increased blood pressure and low socioeconomic status or low level of education has been found to be potentiated by high effort active coping (John Henryism) among African-Americans. Thus, the potentiating effect of high effort activ...