This thesis evaluates the current transformation of the concept of public service, which has been reflected as new trends in the domain of the public services, within the context of changes in the role of state and the discipline of public administration that have been experienced under the influence of neo-liberal policies of the post-1980s. In the thesis, the concept of public service, which has been used in reference to administrative law, and dynamics of its transformation have been analyzed from the perspective of public administration discipline. In this regard, besides examining what public service is and its basic features, the connection between the transformation of the concept of public service and new genre of public administration, subsumed under the title of new public management, has been investigated. Throughout the study, the process, in which the transformation has taken place, has been examined in the light of the basic tenets of neo-liberalism, new public management, reinventing government and governance approaches by focusing on their distorting impacts on the public characteristics of the public services.

<p>The group of elderly people in Sweden will increase significantly in the future and science point out that the future elderly people will not accept today’s standards and offers of assistance in today’s public elderly care. Therefore public elderly care stands before a significant challenge in terms of development that has to be sustainable. New research also points out that middle managers can be a great strategic resource, and a founder of success, in the challenge of sustainable development. The aim of the report was to increase the knowledge about what middle managers in public elderly care think sustainable development has to embrace, when it comes to quality and personnel administration, in order to meet the needs of the future elderly people. The aim was also to deepen the knowledge of how formal and informal organizational factors facilitate or limit middle managers possibilities to work with development in general and sustainable development in specific in their units. Interviews, as a qualitative method, were used to gather empirical data and the result was analyzed with theories as Domain theory, New Public Management and Situational leadership. Our findings showed that middle managers have little possibilities to work with sustainable development in their units and that formal factors as budget had a great impact of the middle managers overall possibilities in their work. According to the result it seemed that development and long term planning in this particular organization were tasks mainly for the management and political domain. According to our findings it seemed as if the introduction of New Public Management increased the underlying initial problems of human service organizations. According to Domain theory these problems consists of disjunction, discordance and conflicts due to the differences between the three domains when it comes to principles, success measures, structure and work modes.</p>

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Problem. With the Swedish public sectors problem with efficiency in mind, several reforms have beeninitiated during the last decades. These reforms go, in academic contexts, under the name“New public management”. The reforms have resulted in, among other things, an increasedcompetition, privatization and goal-orientation in the public sector. These new conditionshave changed the public leadership challenge and demand an increased focus on innovation todecrease costs and increase value as a central aspect of the Swedish public leadership. Purpose. The purpose for this research has been to examine the conditions for innovation in a publicorganization and how the leadership can improve the organizational innovativeness. Method. This research does not aim to measure the innovativeness in a public organization, instead itfocuses on understanding the condition for innovation and how the leadership can affect theorganizational innovativeness. Hence, it is motivated that I use a qualitative approach in theresearch process. Semi structured interviews and precedent research are being used as afoundation for the results and recommendations given. Conclusion. The leadership’s opportunities to improve the organizational innovativeness depend on anumber of independent organizational variables and the adaption of the variables to oneanother and the system as a whole. Leadership includes both the formal boss and the coworkerin a relationship that ought to be characterizing by reciprocity and cooperation. Bothmanagement and leadership are vital competences for the formal boss as both structure andculture must support each other. The conditions for organizational innovativeness improve ifthe organization has a structure and a culture that enhances: transboundary cooperation, spaceand energy for creative activities, a common context that contributes to an organizationalidentity and motivation and competence and organizational learning. The examinedorganization needs to decentralize the right to make decisions, improve the openness of theculture, and strengthen the organizational identity and audit structures in purpose to facilitatetransboundary cooperation.

Šiuolaikinė visuomenė neįsivaizduojama be modernių informacijos apdorojimo, perdavimo, saugojimo priemonių. Įstatymai tradiciškai reikalauja „rašytinių“, „pasirašytų“, „originalių“ popierinių dokumentų, tai sukelia neaiškumų dėl dokumentų perteiktų elektronine forma teisinės reikšmės ir galios. Šiame darbe apibrėžiama e. dokumento sąvoka, teisinės galios aspektai, aptariama kokiomis priemonėmis e. dokumentui suteiktas teisinis pripažinimas ES šalių, Rusijos, Lietuvos, UNCITRAL dokumentuose. E. dokumentų apyvarta suprantama kaip e. dokumentų susidariusių organizacijos veikloje valdymas, kuris apima dokumentų rengimą, tvarkymą, apsikeitimą, apskaitą, saugojimą. Šiame darbe analizuojama e. dokumentų valdymo patirtis ir teisinis reglamentavimas viešajame administravime ES ir Lietuvoje, tarptautiniai e. dokumentų valdymo standartai. Aptariamas e. dokumentų teisinės galios pripažinimas, jurisdikcijos koalizijos klausimas dokumentų formos atžvilgiu, galimybė naudoti e. apskaitos dokumentus ir e. mokėjimo priemones e. komercijoje ES ir Lietuvos teisės aktuose. / We cannot see modern society without modern information management, transfer, storage. Traditionally law ask imperative “writing”, “signing”, “original” paper document. That make in a state of uncertainty as concern electronic document form legal power. In this paper are define e. document conceptions, aspects of legal power and implement for legal validation in EU, Lithuania, Russian, UNCITRAL documents. E. document management is understand as e. document management which compose in the organisation work. The process of e. document management is comprise of making, administration, exchange, accounting, saving e. document. This paper explain the existing experience and legal regulation of the e. documents management in the fields of the government EU, Lithuania and international document management standards. In this paper are define e. document legal power validation, jurisdiction problem as concern e. document form, possibility or using e. accounting document in e. commerce EU and Lithuania. There are talk about possibility, methods, problems of using e. document in the court process. In conclusion of this paper are generalize a legal problems in the development of the e. document management and offer suggestions of legal regulation in Lithuania.

Oppgaven omhandler utskillingen av Produksjonsvirksomheten i Statens Vegvesen, det som fra 2003 har hett Mesta og hvorda de ansatte ble påvirket av denne utskillingen.

Accounting choice has prior to this dissertation been studied comprehensively in the private sector, and in a small extent in the public sector. The purpose of this study is to explain what factors influence the accounting choice in municipal corporations. The dependent variable, accounting choice, has been limited to explain if the municipal corporations either use the fair-value method or the cost-depreciation method when considering asset value loss. The independent variables are partly derived from the New Public Management, which is an umbrella term for the decentralisation of public state authority. The findings of the study indicate that the factors municipal corporations’ dual role does not influence the accounting choice. However, a correlation between the turnover and the use of the fair-value method has been found. The study also shows that there is a correlation between the regulations of the Municipal Act and the use of fair-value method. Furthermore, only one of the hypotheses was found significant. This stated that there is a positive correlation between the financing from the private sector and the use of cost-depreciation method to value tangible assets. The findings indicate that one cannot study municipal corporations as a single phenomenon (i.e. no municipal corporations is another alike). This is because they incorporate charachteristics from both the public and the private sector, and thus, have different levels of publicness. The limitation of this study is that the dependent variable accounting choice is only considering the asset value loss (i.e. fair-value and cost-depreciation method), and thus, does not give a holistic picture of the research field.

Sammanfattning – “Ekonomistyrning i skolsektorn” Datum:               2014-01-08 Nivå:                   Kandidatuppsats i företagsekonomi, 15hp             Institution:          Akademin för Ekonomi, Samhälle och Teknik, EST Författare:          Robert Ericson                    Thomas Ericson                                     15 juni 1985                        23 mars 1988 Rubrik:                     En studie om likheter och skillnader i styrning av två kommunala och två fristående gymnasieskolor i Västerås              Handledare:           Mona Andersson                Nyckelord:          Ekonomistyrning, kommunal och fristående gymnasieskola, balanserat styrkort, benchmarking, styrning, ansvarsfördelning            Frågeställning:     Vilka styrmedel använder sig gymnasieskolorna av?                          Vad finns det för likheter och skillnader i användningen av styrmedel mellan kommunala och fristående gymnasieskolor? Syfte:                     Syftet med studien är att kartlägga vilka likheter och skillnader det finns mellan två kommunala och två fristående gymnasieskolor i Västerås gäller styrning och uppföljning av verksamheten. Det vi avser att fokusera på är ansvarsfördelning, styrformer och budgetprocessen samt undersöka om balanserat styrkort och benchmarking används av skolorna. Metod:               En kvalitativ metod där intervjuer gjordes med två rektorer på kommunala och två rektorer på fristående gymnasieskolor samt en controller på Barn- och            utbildningsförvaltningen i Västerås. Den teoretiska referensramen baseras på vetenskapliga artiklar, böcker om ekonomistyrning och två statliga utredningar.            Slutsats:            Studiens jämförelse mellan kommunala och fristående gymnasieskolor visar att de olika aktörernas verksamhet och styrmedel till stor del liknar varandra. Samtliga skolor har resultatansvar, resultatstyrning, målstyrning och budgetstyrning. Den största skillnaden är att de fristående skolornas rektorer har ett större eget bestämmande över resursförbrukningen.

This thesis employs a multiple case study design to examine the challenges, benefits, and limitations associated with the contracting and procurement frameworks used by three Alberta ministries for the purchase of employment services, including services for people with disabilities. Each framework reflects a market emphasis to varying degrees, and one is seemingly at odds with a shared governance legacy and transformational vision. A literature review inventories a host of issues related to new public management era contracting and the more recent trend toward collaborative or horizontal governance. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore the impact of market mechanisms on inter-organizational dynamics and organizational mandate and autonomy, the use of performance contracting for services for disabled populations, and a governance framework that serves as a backdrop for contracting reforms. It is suggested that the market model begins to strain where services are designed for people with more complex needs and where the overarching goals are intended to bring about societal transformation. The province may be reaching the limits of where a market-inspired model can be expected to produce meaningful results.