公共服务动机:测量、比较与影响——基于福建省样本数据的分析

本研究采用直接测量法建立公共服务动机(Public Service Motivation,缩写PSM)测量量表,并选取福建省的部分政府部门、事业单位、社会团体与企业单位工作人员进行测量。通过对337个有效样本进行研究,揭示PSM水平及其与人口统计变量、组织角色、组织承诺等因素的关系;研究发现,基于中国文化背景的PSM总体上处于中等水平以上,第三部门PSM均值最高,PSM是服务取向而非部门取向,男性PSM略高于女性,PSM与组织承诺成正相关等。文章进一步提出PSM如何演化、PSM如何受情境影响等一些尚待研究的问题。可以将PSM运用于公共部门人才遴选、培养与使用,可以人本而又高效地提升公共部门绩效。     

Getting out of the way: on the road to aboriginal self-government

“Now, the government wants to give us self government. With what will we govern? They have taken our land! They have taken our timber! They have taken our fish! What will we do?” Saik'uz elder Sophie Thomas on the 1992 Charlottetown Accord. “Recognition and respect for First Nations as self-determining and distinct nations with their own spiritual values, histories, languages, territories, political institutions and ways of life must be the hallmark of this new relationship.” BC Task Group Report - June 1991     

Improving juvenile dependency courts:Twenty-Three Steps

New federal support for improvement in the handling of child welfare cases has made it possible for juvenile and family court judges to assess how well courts are implementing the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980. This article first describes the purposes of the Act, and then suggest 23 steps to consider in attempts to improve the court process.