Name Casey Duncan Leadership and Teamwork in the Public Services Assignment 1 Task Sheet – Leadership Styles in the Public Services Leadership Style Description (P1) Comparison of Leadership Styles (M1) Authoritarian An authoritarian leadership is when a leader tells you what they want you to do and you have to do it there and then without arguing. For example‚ in the Army when you are fighting on the front line and the sergeant tells you to get down you have to so that you don’t get
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Leadership and Leadership Styles A leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction for a team‚ implementing plans and motivating people to complete a task. The different types of leaderships used in the public services are- Authoritarian- Autocratic Leadership is a leadership style characterized by individual control over all decisions and little input from group members. Autocratic leaders typically make choices based on their own ideas and judgments and rarely accept advice
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P2 What is the impact of policies on different public services Public services are provided by various levels of Government ... some (like pension & post office) are federal‚ while other (like library & police) are local ... so any cutbacks at the national level will mainly impact federal/national services‚ not town/city services. The politicians decide on overall policies‚ but once any changes are decided it’s usually left to the civil service to implement the decisions. Some are specific and
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changes are increasingly occurring in the environment in which public institutions operate. An obvious manifestation of the responses towards this turbulent environment is the introduction of performance contracting in Makerere University as part of the broader public sector reforms aimed at improving efficiency and effectiveness in management. The main objective of this paper was to look at a critical review of performance contracting in public institutions. The scope of the study was limited to Makerere
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the Public Services Introduction This essay will start with the analysis of the concepts of risk and risk taking and how they apply to my experience of kayaking and decision making. It will also discuss how I would ensure the health and safety of a group when taking part in an adventure activity while including an example of a risk assessment and an explanation of the process of a risk assessment. It will then discuss what impact perceived risk‚ real risk‚ and risk taking has on a public service
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Individual in Public Services‚ 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition MICHAEL LIPSKY Winner of the 1980 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Winner of the 1981 Gladys M. Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association Winner of the 1999 Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award from the Policy Studies Organization First published in 1980‚ Street-Level Bureaucracy received critical acclaim for its insightful study of how public service workers‚ in
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FRAUD PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN NIGERIAN PUBLIC SERVICE: THE NEED FOR A DIMENSIONAL APPROACH BY BELLO SABO Department of Business Administration‚ A.B.U. Zaria ABSTRACT This article addresses some fundamental issues on fraud prevention and control and their implications on socio-economic development of Nigeria using its public sector machinery. Using the records compiled from early study covering 637 reported fraud cases in Nigeria‚ which were committed between 1970-1990 in respect
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ZERO BASED BUDGETING AT THE HEART OF PUBLIC SERVICES The 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review will include a set of zero-based reviews of baseline expenditure in Government departments‚ aimed at assessing their effectiveness in delivering the Government’s long-term objectives‚ and contributing further to the Efficiency Programme. Departments will need to identify elements of their DEL for these reviews. This note is intended to provide an introduction to the zerobased concept. Zero Based Budgeting
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A rank structure in the public services provides a hierarchical system. This system includes someone being ranked one higher than the other and as a result‚ will have more power and will take on a lot more responsibilities and decision making. Police: Rank structure: Responsibilities: Constable • Responds to 999 calls • Investigate volume crimes such as theft or vandalism and take initial action at the scene of a critical incident • Target long-term problems by working on neighbourhood
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Ethnicity And Bureaucratic Corruption In Nigeria’s Public Service: Implications For National Development TABLE OF CONTENT Title Page Dedication Acknowledgement Preface Table of content Chapter One CHAPTER ONE Ethnicity Nigeria is the third most ethnically and linguistically diverse country in the world‚ after New Guinea and Indonesia1. This ethnolinguistic diversity has very significant implications in almost every area of the economy. It implies a major investment
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