Village secretaries (VSs) are civil servants designated by the government to fulfill services at the basic-level administration unit- district office. As a bridge between the government and public, VSs assist village directors to set administrative affairs of their villages/neighborhoods into action. However, whether the administrative operation is successful or not has much to do with the achievements of VSs, because they contact the most frequently with the public as the executive staff at the front line. Along with the transition of social environment, the increased extent of urbanization and the advance of information technology, the role and function of village secretary should be reinforced simultaneously to meet actual demands. This study investigates the role recognition, role expectation and role fulfillment of village secretary and related problems confronted by VSs in actual situations. Methodologies utilized in this study include institution investigation, literature review, and profundity interview. Conclusions and recommendations drawn from this study based on the integrated pointview of theory and practical run are expected to be useful for strengthening the function of village secretary, improving the quality of civil services and reaching further toward the goal of government reform.
This thesis is comprised of six chapters. Statements pertaining to research objective, research subject and problem, theoretical basis and literature review, and research design and methodology are presented in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 discusses the understanding of organizational position of village by investigating the institutional transition of village/neighborhood. Chapter 3 discusses the role consciousness of village secretary. Chapter 4 describes the role expectation and functional operation of village secretary in details. Chapter 5 discussed the role
fulfillment of village secretary and related problems confronted by VSs in actual situations. The last chapter, Chapter 6, summarizes the research findings and recommendations learnt from this study.
Main findings of this study are summarized as follows:
1. As a communication bridge between the government and public, VSs did a good job on fulfilling the duty of servicing the people.
2. Contents of the duty and in-charge affairs of village secretary are excessively many and messy. The related standard operating procedure is not well established and unsuitable to meet actual need.
3. To effectively integrate and utilize the non-governmental resources, the public is encouraged to actively involve in solving public affairs within one¡¦s village/neighborhood.
4. To upgrade to have the efficiency concept of e-government, VSs need to take in-service training courses for improving their ability to use computer and information technology.
5. The duty and in-charge affairs of both village director and village secretary are highly overlapped, thus resulting in a phenomenon that one specific task was undertaken by two discordant persons simultaneously.
6. Due to the low post grade and limited personnel quota, the promotion channel of VSs is really narrow, thereby depressing the working morale of VSs tremendously.
Recommendations from this study are summarized as follows:
1. The work items of VSs need to be flexibly adjusted and simplified. Related work scope should be demarcated as clear as possible.
2. It is recommended to upgrade the post grade of village secretary for purposes of inspiring their working morale, letting them embody themselves and keeping them enjoy in job.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0802105-123347 |
| Date | 02 August 2005 |
| Creators | ling, Lai-tsai |
| Contributors | Liao-da Chi, Chen-wen Chun, Dzeng-yi ren |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0802105-123347 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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