Further into the discussion of public personnel, the chapter identified the similarities and differences between public and private sector employees. As earlier discussed, public sector employees are more susceptible to political changes, and thus have "more legal restrictions" (p. 4). This means that despite political changes in the government, public sector employees are expected to be neutral, and "moral legal restrictions" cover, in part, this required impartiality. Public sector employees are required to uphold, at all times, a moral character -- a character that is impartial and legally correct and proper. This is a tall order for public sector employees, given that the environment they work for everyday is constantly changing and driven by conflicts of interest,...
This determination of lines of authority brings into question whether public personnel should recognize the authority of the "clientele, superiors, legislators or their interpretation of the public interest" (p. 6). Again, this dilemma calls for the employee's better judgment and upholding of his/her moral conduct as public personnel. The greater challenge is in the employee's interpretation of what is the public's interest. Given these dynamics facing public personnel, management of this group is indeed a greater challenge when set against the private setting.
A great coalition of smaller firms aimed to defeat patronage and create an acceptable, predictable, regulatory environment; in other words, a credible commitment mechanism was needed, and politicians could supply this. This confluence of monitoring problem, change in political parties, and demand for security led to demand for a merit system that would offer legal security via impartial public agents, and that was less vulnerable to political manipulation (Shepherd,
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Public Administration Trainings and Appraisals The following will be an examination of public administration processes and skills. A question will be presented and the answer will be in the form of an analysis. The situation itself will be looked at in terms of paradoxes of freedoms and needs and from an organizational and training perspective. One book that generates these concepts is Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems. It
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