以党的先进性建设为主线 推动创先争优活动深入开展

创先争优活动是新形势下加强党的先进性建设的有效载体、有力抓手和实现路径,是对深入学习实践科学发展观活动取得成果的巩固和拓展。     

服务科学优先研究方向和重点课题概述及评析

服务科学是一门新兴的复合交叉型学科,尚处于研究的初级阶段。亚利桑那州立大学服务领导研究中心历时18个月完成了一项研究报告,识别和阐明了今后服务科学研究十大全球性、跨学科的优先研究方向和重点研究课题。本文对该研究报告进行编撰、凝练和分析,希望对我国的服务科学研究提供启示和借鉴,从而激发国内服务科学研究者关注那些能为学术界...     

以行动学习理念推进学习型组织建设

行动学习是学习型组织建设的有力工具。以行动学习为主线,整合内外部资源和各方力量,将学习型组织理论、工具与方法融入具体工作实践之中的行动学习整合策略能够有效推动学习型组织建设,在解决组织实际问题的同时促进学习型组织发展。     

流动人口管理服务创新机制研究

流动人员管理一直是困扰社会治安的＂老大难＂问题,同时也是政府公共管理的社会性难题。葫芦岛市借鉴其他省市的做法,大胆探索,勇于实践,破解了流动人员＂管不住＂这个长期困扰管理工作的难题,依靠政府主导,创新管理体制、实施＂以房管人＂、＂以证管人＂、＂以业管人＂,坚持社会联动,实行一站式服务管理的新举措,开辟了一条适应新形势、符合新要求,以人为本、管理与服务并重的长效管理新路子。     

论民事诉前鉴定程序及其建议——以诉前鉴定试点情况展开

从部分法院开展民事诉前鉴定的实践来看,谁来主导诉前鉴定、如何选定鉴定机构、诉前鉴定的范围问题一直是拷问民事诉前鉴定程序是否合法、高效的关键。在认识层面上,应肯定民事诉前鉴定属于司法鉴定或证据收集的法律地位,肯定其具有多元化解及提升审判质效的巨大优势。在实践层面上,应结合当前人民法院诉讼服务中心建设以及审判团队建设两个关键,探索运用由法官助理主导、鉴定人员参与的法律及技术双重审查路径,这样既可克服当前司法实践中谁来主导诉前鉴定的问题,又能使得鉴定程序“审鉴分离”,达到民事诉前鉴定充分扩大适用的法律效果。     

Coordination outside formal organization: consensus-based decision-making and occupation in the Occupy Wall Street movement

Previous work has shown that a vital component for successful collective action is formal organization, in particular because it facilitates internal coordination. But how is coordination achieved in the absence of formal organization? To answer this question, this article presents findings drawn from an ethnographic study on Occupy Wall Street (OWS) in New York City. It first introduces the concept of ‘autonomy’ to discuss the particular challenge faced within the decentralized structure of OWS of developing coordination. It then shows how the practice of holding mass assemblies and the occupation of Zuccotti Park itself each served, in incidental and unintentional ways, as mechanisms of coordination. These findings confirm previous work on the importance of coordination and build upon it by demonstrating that not only is coordination possible outside formal organization, but that it is also in some cases achieved without conscious intention. This suggests the utility of moving beyond an overly rational understanding of social action by acknowledging the inevitability of unforeseen outcomes.     

Shifting the paradigm of prison suicide prevention through enhanced multi-agency integration and cultural change

This study examines an unusually sustained reduction in suicide rates in a local London prison during the three year period 2008–2011. The likelihood of this reduction taking place by chance was <2:100,000, and its perceived success was such that the prison service recommended an evaluation of its characteristics. This study arose from that recommendation, and it used a retrospective case study multi-method approach (including factor identification, qualitative interviews and triangulation with official documentation) to identify factors which had been associated with the reduced suicide rates. The results endorsed a number of factors which have already been internationally identified as best practice, along with some local innovation factors. Two further pivotal factors emerged through analysis, and they are the key to service improvements. These factors – senior management support for cultural change and cross-professional collaborative working – indicate that positive leadership and multi-agency integration are vital ingredients.     

What Do Voters Want From Their Local MP?

This article summarises the findings from a study of what constituents want from their local Member of Parliament. 1 We make use of a survey technique known as conjoint analysis, wherein we present a national sample of British voters with profiles of hypothetical MPs who vary randomly in their characteristics, activities and behaviour. We find that voters like MPs who are independent from the party line and who do not focus exclusively on national policy work. MPs' gender and experience matter far less to constituents. Overall, voters want a Parliament made up of strong‐minded MPs who see their role as that of a constituency representative. This has important implications for parliamentary democracy in Britain.     

Crowding Out Meritocracy? – Cultural Constraints in Chinese Public Human Resource Management

This paper seeks cultural explanations of the pervasive norm violations against the principle of meritocracy in Chinese public human resource management especially at local levels. It reveals that a bureaucratic culture of patrimonial individualism, including favouritism, nepotism, localism, and factionalism prevailing within Chinese officialdom as the ethos, value, psychological disposition, and behavioural orientation of civil servants, has undermined the development in China of a modern meritocracy‐based civil service system. With 14 case studies, this research demonstrates that the Chinese civil service institutions, derived from an opposite culture of hierarchical collectivism, failed to address the cultural constraints over the implementation of the meritocracy principle. The conceptual framework, as well as the case findings, points to legislative and policy reforms in China that would address the problems derived from the unique Chinese bureaucratic culture through further institutional design and capacity building.     

Relationships between Policy Academics and Public Servants: Learning at a Distance?

The cultures and practices of the public service and academic researchers are very different. However, there are areas of common interest in policy and governance, and some potential for building closer relationships. Public servants make direct use of academic research only in exceptional circumstances. Nevertheless, there are other ways in which academic expertise can be useful and influential. This article surveys the international literature on the ways in which practitioners make use of external expertise, including academic research. It also considers whether the heightened interest in ‘evidence‐informed policy’ might provide avenues for mutual influence between practitioners and academics.