Moral attributes such as honesty, being devoted to one's social duty and principles, responsibility for one's words and action are very important for civil servants. Morality as a basis for personnel management and the moral features of civil servants are of special value, especially during the deep political, social and economic reforms taking place in Russia. Global social changes are extreme...

political attitudes of bureaucrats and their impact on performance have been one of the most important debates in public administration that have been studied in dichotomy of politics-administration. in this article, we examine the effect of political attitudes of bureaucrats on their organizational citizenship behavior (ocb). the results show that political attitudes have a significant correla...

OBJECTIVE To identify predictors of burnout syndrome among workers in the public sector. METHODS Cross-sectional study with a representative sample consisting of 879 municipal civil servants in a city of the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil. In order to measure the demographic variables and related characteristics of work we used a questionnaire developed for this purpose....

As it became clear that I was likely to have an ongoing contact with the hospital, both as an in -patient and an outpatient, I thought, perhaps naively, that I might link the experience to one of my professional interests Improving the Quality of Service in the Public Sector a major emerging theme for public servants. Here was an opportunity to observe service first hand as a customer from insi...

means "a private person", that is to say, "one not holding public office". I felt quite safe in giving you that definition today as there are so many holders of public office among my hosts that they, at least, can sit back comfortably and congratulate themselves on being by definition outside the scope of the term. Once the Welfare State has made civil servants of us all, of course, there will...

Fundamental principles that characterize medicine’s social contract are primacy of the patient’s welfare, patient autonomy and social justice. Professions become de facto trustees of the public interest if those principles are maintained in the face of pressures from the state or the marketplace. Professions must protect not only vulnerable persons but also vulnerable social values. If professi...