Division Of Roles And Responsibilities Analysis

The Division of Roles and Responsibilities: Although it won't guarantee policy integration, but within an organization, the division of roles and responsibilities can have a variety of impacts with respect to working practices. An example is the reframing of the Cambridgeshire County Council's internal structure in 1996 that merged the transport, planning, and environmental departments which subsequently made the joint working simpler. The German political system has a clear demarcation between legislative instruments and responsibilities at all different levels of policy making. It uses the approach of establishing mirror limits in each of its departments of government which in some sense has fruitfully helped in establishing policy integration there. Another approach is the formal consultation of the ministries with other departments before taking any decision. Despite these strategies, there exist segmented policies primarily the transport and
Elected members won't concern much about the long term cross-cutting issues and are more inclined towards the short-term ‘electable’ issues'. Involving the public in making a decision for long term plan is difficult like in the case of Land use planning and strategic transport planning which are rather remote unless it has a strong impact on the people. That is why England's local authorities are increasingly involving the public in the planning process and gradually moving them away from the ‘decide-announce-defend’ system. However, exploring public opinion usually results in multiple, conflicting, unachievable goals especially when they appear counter-intuitive so making their acceptance to the local officials quite difficult. Thus support for policy integration is often high but action rather weak due to its vague clarity thereby leaving out with only a few resources to do