The Dilemma At The Public Service Department

This case study examines the predicament of a city manager Will Spanning whose selection of a most experienced and qualified replacement for the chief of police faced stern opposition by a majority of an agenda-seeking city council who had the power to confirm or reject the appointment.

There is a crisis in California today creating a stalemate in decision making and solving of any problems the state faces. There are so many problems and so many solutions, that no progress can be made properly without conflicting interestests and opinions pausing any headway that might have been made. Most people believe that California is stuck where it is because of rules and regulations that are great on their own, but terrible when combined. The result of this crisis is a downwards spiral towards lower funding for public services and a seemingly insurmountable problem with budgeting. Some changes have been made to help the budget, but they still aren 't enough due to the many elements that cause this crisis to be so complicated.

Americans will always find a way to help others, wether this is in serving our country through military, government, or research to help better ourselves. I believe that through encouragement, not force, we can raise the public service rates in our country.

Role of public service – to provide essential services well and to help the public to navigate to get services including help; it implements government policy to serve the public the best way possible and strives to meet the needs and hopes of the people of the land. It needs to communicate and to understand the needs and situations of users so that the services it provides will be appropriate and relevant. In the face of rising expectations, it needs to engage the public even more, to welcome the co-creation of solutions and to make improvements to current services and policy implementation. Too often, implementation is understood to be execution (for example, getting things done without sufficient consideration for communication). The key

This essay will provide an analysis of the public sector in public relations, identifying its key concepts, challenges and an example of an organisation which follows its structure. The public sector PR is described as “driven by the need for transparency in how an organisation carries out its public duties, accountability to the public, on how money from taxes is spent and increasingly, public consultation and involvement in the services provided” (Tench & Yeomans 2009). Public sector organisations are those which are publicly funded - usually through taxes. This includes local government, NHS, Police, Fire stations, and Ambulance service. Public relations in the public sector widely focus on government and political communications which can be local, regional or central. The audience within this public sector is essentially the public - those who pay taxes in order to fund these public organisations as all of these services are paid for through either local or national taxes.

It is important for citizens, all levels of government employees and the institutions they serve to understand this concept of bureaucratic discretion. With education, nuances of the complexities of the job, and proper policies and guidelines, when bureaucratic discretion are made by the street-level worker they need to be balanced with ethics and integrity for the various situations they face. There is such a broad spectrum of public servants that bureaucratic discretion will also have a very broad range of definitions.

Economists employed by the government are involved in implementing policies, which were especially established to meet government 's objectives that are very often multidimensional. There are four very fundamental objectives for viable economy, including decreasing the unemployment rates in certain regions, lower or stabilise the inflation , constant economic growth and a satisfactory balance of payments position. The UK economy continues to suffer from a number of underlying structural weaknesses. The government is now set on providing the economic framework, which will enhance the opportunity to raise a sustainable rate of economy growth, (Anderton, 2006).

In any society, governmental entities enact laws, make policies, and allocate resources. Public policy can be generally defined as a law systems, strict measures, courses of action, and funding issues that about a given topic promulgated by a governmental entity or its representatives. Abortion is one issue that has been a matter of subject in government and citizens concerning its public policy. Over years the government has made decisions concerning the policy towards abortions in the United States of America. Abortion plays a major role in public policy on the issue of whether or not it is a public decision or a woman’s own private decision.

In my own opinion, the distinction on an aspect of administration and the political dichotomy is both workable and also it is practical. The reason as to why I am saying this is that first, the two aspects in the field of government running are very necessary (Goodnow & Books, 2016). In order for the government to carry out its operations for the better of the general public who are the core principles in a public administration, it is of important to have the two aspects in place for the leaders in government to operate as required in order to yield the best results of their services to the public expectations. The two are in a dichotomy situation but however, there is a way that they can be integrated and used concurrently to yield better results in government operations in its leadership process.

Public officers usually are not in basic terms executors of public policy. They make decisions bearing on the lives of people, for illustration, about taxes, survival and the dismissal of men and women. In doing in order that they endeavor discretion. The question is then how decisions are to be made to prevent ethical dilemmas. In other words, the advertising of common welfare depends to a significant extent on the use or abuse of administrative discretion.

Public administrators should understand that in a bureaucratic system, they are essential for good governance. Thus, they are in a position to represent the public and its needs to the government (Warner, 2001). As stated earlier, the role of policies is to provide a framework for solving problems. Therefore, from a general perspective, the analytic work in problem-solving moves toward a certain direction, thus from the

Partisanship is often a pitfall for many public servants, as it can present itself in a variety of dilemmas (Inwood, 2012). In many instances, public servants are influenced by the politics-administration dichotomy, a democratic phenomenon in which politics and administration are to remain separate from one another but work together for the benefit of the taxpaying citizen (Drysdale, 2010). Partisanship influences the issues inherent to this dichotomy because politicians often make the rules that public servants are trusted to implement. This dilemma raises the questions the presence of merit, patronage, and loyalty, writes Inwood (2012), all of which can have an effect on a public servant maintaining their tenure in a bureaucracy.

People need to know their role and If structures are not in place, then the outcome will not be positive. According to Litton (2014) the Wright report, (2010) found serious issues with the department’s structure and methods. Litton (2014) explains that while there was no explanation for the problems there were suggestions that issues lay with the department’s abilities and with its culture. According to Litton (2014) the Wright report’s (2010) found that the culture was that civil servants did not think that it was their duty to give their political leaders tough autonomous advice. The Panel noted that the Department didn’t ensure internal debate to support views presented to the minister. The Wright report (2010) also identified structural failings however, such reports as the Public Sector Organization Review Group (The Devlin Report) (1969); ‘Strategic Management Initiative’ (1994); and the OECD report (2008) all enlighten us how little has been achieved by the civil service, and point out how much needs to be done (Litton,

As students of Masters of Public Service degrees, it is imperative to develop a holistic and deep understanding of what “public service” means. Our class discussions have shown us the ambiguity of striking a balance between opposing forces: between intention and outcome, aid and empowerment, intrinsic and extrinsic affirmation, and self-interest and altruism. How do we balance these perspectives, when each has its benefits and pitfalls to the success of any project? In determining my own definition of public service, my hope is to elucidate factors that optimize each of these perspectives. In doing so, we can come closer to defining public service in a way that is both operationally useful and ethically guiding. Considering course documents and class discussions, I have defined the phrase as follows:

The dichotomy has been one of the most important concepts in the field of public administration. Even though for more than a century it has been the most debatable with ‘disreputable issues’ in the field. Svara and Overeem (2006), state that the dichotomy expands and contracts, rises and falls but never goes away, that is to say that the heat may wear off once in a while but the debate is always there and has never been forgotten, it is one of the primary debates of public administration. The dichotomy was not a construct until the late 1940s which is when it became an important issue of literature in public administration (Tahmasebi and Musavi, 2011:131). Many scholars have traced this construct back to Woodrow Wilson who is also known as the ‘Godfather’ of Public Administration, who according to Tahmasebi and Musavi intended to protect administration from political