INTRODUCTION The risk of professional burnout is constituted by job-related as well as individual factors. The latter involve affective temperament, which influences the perception of job-related stress. The aim of the present study was to assess the affective temperament, the level of job stress and professional burnout, as well as the relationships between these variables, in public servants ...

This paper addresses current issues in ethics, public policy and public policy education. I have written about ethical issues in public policy research (Ballard and James) and I have developed codes of ethics in two organizational settings. Yet, this topic is a difficult one. To most public servants, "ethics" is either an abstract topic or one familiar to us only because of highly visible event...

support for primary health, including AIDS and other disorders. The Commission called for donor support of 0·1% of donor gross national product (roughly US$36 billion in current dollars). 5 Actual donor aid lags at around 0·04% ($12 billion). We are not overspending on AIDS but underspending on the rest. These needed sums are paltry relative to military spending or the bank bailouts. The Global...

In his latest book, The Persistence of Innovation in Government, Professor Sandford Borins continues twenty-five years of research analysing winners of, and applicants to, the Innovations in American Government Awards program run by the Ash Centre for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). ‘Within the public sector, innovation awards programmes, most notably, ...

The importance of e-government (EG) has been widely recognized. However, we know little about the civil servants’ collective actions in EG development. This paper examines the collective action problems of getting civil servants to cooperating in EG developing process, to understand the so-called “free-riding” behavior of servants. In particularly, we propose that information literacy is a crit...

In the current context, training for cadres and civil servants is crucial to operations of service system. However, it influenced by many factors, affecting its effectiveness in practice. This article makes mention factors quality retraining servants, such as policy institution, management, inspection, supervision curriculum, etc., Therefore, identifying find suitable solutions, making an impor...

e-Government in Germany is usually not ranked top of the class Europe. Rankings, such as EU eGovernment Benchmark 2022, UN E-Government Development Index and others show that rather poorly among developed nations world. The authors assume there a correlation between quality Public Sector Education regarding digital competences so digitally educated civil servants can deliver. Civil graduate fro...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether disaster-related variables, in addition to known work-related risk factors, influence burnout and its subscales (exhaustion, cynicism, and lack of professional efficacy) among public servants who experienced a major disaster. METHODS Cross-sectional studies were conducted among public servants of Miyagi prefecture at 2 and 16 months after the Great East Japan Ear...