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This study investigates service models within the public sector and explores the government's role in delivering services. While extensive research has been conducted on business models in the private sector, the exploration of business models in the public sphere has received comparatively limited attention. To address this gap, our study adopted a comprehensive multi-method approach that combined both inductive and deductive methods. Through inductive analyses of real-world cases, we gathered rich and detailed information that allowed us to uncover patterns, trends, and the unique characteristics of these service models. Simultaneously, we drew upon the existing body of literature on service delivery, harnessing theoretical descriptions and concepts that guided our analysis and interpretation of the findings. Our work has led to the identification and comprehensive description of 45 different public sector service models. In closely analyzing the models, we were able to uncover five distinct roles that the government plays when operating these service models. This study offers new implications for the development and adaptation of innovative service models in the public sector. Highlights: We identify and analyze 45 service models in the public sector. We categorize five government roles in service models: Activator, Yield Shaper, Funder, Guardian of Public Goods, Performance Designer. Our study offers insights into adapting and innovating service models in the public sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cet article examine la gouvernance d'entreprise ainsi que la performance des comités d'audit et des fonctions d'audit interne dans le secteur public d'une économie émergente, tel que le Maroc. Ces deux fonctions jouent un rôle crucial dans la gouvernance d'entreprise en assurant une prestation de services optimale des collectivités territoriales, notamment des établissements publics. L'étude, fondée sur la théorie des parties prenantes, analyse qualitativement la gouvernance d'entreprise et l'efficacité des comités d'audit et des fonctions d'audit interne dans le secteur public marocain. Les résultats suggèrent une bonne gouvernance d'entreprise avec la présence de comités d'audit et de fonctions d'audit interne dans le secteur public. Cependant, l'inefficacité des comités d'audit et des fonctions d'audit interne est soulignée, attribuée à l'absence de conseils, à la non-mise en œuvre des recommandations, et à l'insuffisance des ressources dans le secteur public marocain. Pour améliorer les performances, il est recommandé que les dirigeants prennent en considération les conclusions des comités d'audit et des fonctions d'audit interne, les recommandent et intègrent leurs conclusions dans des plans d'action mis en œuvre par la direction. Les comités d'audit doivent renforcer leur surveillance des fonctions d'audit interne pour assurer leur efficacité. La présence de comités d'audit et d'fonctions d'audit interne performantes dans le secteur public témoigne d'une exploitation compétente et efficace des ressources au bénéfice de toutes les parties prenantes

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This article explores the view of Mozambican public servants on bureaucratic entropies in the recruitment and selection process and its effects on career management. The investigation involved 20 participants, and semi-structured interviews were conducted. The grounded theory method was used to analyze the collected narratives. The findings obtained highlight the occurrence of four bureaucratic entropies, namely: weaknesses in human resource management, inefficiency in career management practices, patronage in recruitment, and centralized decisions. However, the views expressed by the interviewees reach a consensus on bureaucratic entropies negatively affecting career management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the efforts to establish objective criteria in deciding on appropriate wage levels for non-professional service workers in Ontario's hospital sector during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing from recent literature in cultural political economy and the politics of valuation, it shows how industrial relations specialists sought to reframe the field of struggle through the practice of interest arbitration. Through a comparative study of arbitration cases in this period, the article explores the complex displacement of expertise from local hospital boards and medical professionals to law professors and labour economists, who sought to establish an industrial jurisprudence that could avoid strikes and lockouts in such essential industries by assigning awards based on the probable outcomes of industrial conflict. No longer were disputes settled through the ideological obfuscations of "justice"; instead, expert arbitrators drew on the science of economics in asserting irrefutable labour market "realities." While pretensions to scientific expertise in the settlement of disputes remained hegemonic through the late 1960s, hospital workers in Ontario, through their unions and in alliance with New Left organizations, effectively reasserted "justice" as a highly contextualized unit of value through their militant struggles in the early 1970s. The article concludes by discussing the tensions and contradictions produced out of these struggles and the subsequent challenges in regulating public-sector labour disputes. Cet article examine les efforts visant à établir les critères objectifs pour décider des niveaux de salaire appropriés pour les travailleurs des services non professionnels dans le secteur hospitalier de l'Ontario au cours des années 1960 et 1970. S'inspirant de la littérature récente en économie politique culturelle et en politique d'évaluation, il montre comment les spécialistes des relations industrielles ont cherché à recadrer le champ de la lutte par la pratique de l'arbitrage des intérêts. À travers une étude comparative des cas d'arbitrage de cette période, l'article explore le déplacement complexe de l'expertise des conseils d'administration des hôpitaux locaux et des professionnels de la santé vers les professeurs de droit et les économistes du travail, qui ont cherché à établir une jurisprudence industrielle pouvant éviter les grèves et les lock-out dans ces industries essentielles en attribuant des récompenses en fonction des résultats probables de conflit industriel. Les différends n'étaient désormais plus réglés par les obfuscations idéologiques de « justice » ; au lieu de cela, des arbitres experts se sont inspirés de la science économique pour affirmer des « réalités » irréfutables du marché du travail. Alors que les prétentions à l'expertise scientifique dans le règlement des différends sont restées hégémoniques jusqu'à la fin des années 1960, les travailleurs hospitaliers de l'Ontario, par l'intermédiaire de leurs syndicats et en alliance avec les organismes de la nouvelle gauche, ont effectivement réaffirmé la « justice » comme unité de valeur hautement contextualisée à travers leurs luttes militantes dans le début des années 1970. L'article conclut en discutant des tensions et des contradictions produites par ces luttes et des défis qui en découlent dans la régulation des conflits du travail dans le secteur public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Les politiques relatives à l'emploi des personnes handicapées en France reposent sur différents mécanismes, tels que les quotas d'emploi, la non-discrimination ou le reclassement professionnel, qui renvoient à des définitions contradictoires du handicap et de la participation au marché du travail. À partir de deux enquêtes sociologiques qualitatives originales menées par entretiens semi-directifs, cet article examine comment les référent.es handicap s'emparent, ou ne s'emparent pas, des différents outils juridiques disponibles pour décliner et animer concrètement les politiques d'emploi des personnes handicapées au sein des organisations de travail du secteur public. Malgré la forte persistance d'une approche individuelle, médicale et défective du handicap dans l'emploi, nous montrons que les référent.es handicap s'efforcent de déployer une politique plus ambitieuse, proactive et systémique, sensible à la dimension environnementale du handicap et à la prévention du handicap au travail, sans pour autant intégrer dans leurs pratiques le droit antidiscriminatoire en termes d'égalité et d'inclusion. Different policies relating to the employment of disabled people coexist in France. They rely on various mechanisms, such as quotas, non-discrimination, professional rehabilitation that corresponds to concurrent, or even antagonist, definitions of disability and participation in the labor market. Based on two original qualitative sociological surveys conducted by semi-structured interviews, this article explores how disability officers grasp, or do not grasp, the different legal tools available to implement employment policies for people with disabilities in public sector work organizations. Despite the strong persistence of an individual, medical, and defective approach to disability in employment, we show that disability officers strive to build a more ambitious, proactive, and systemic policy. They are sensitive to the environmental dimension of disability and to the prevention of disability at work, but do not make reference to the antidiscrimination law and its injunction to pursue equality and inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In Quebec, as in most western countries, the past few decades have witnessed multiple and profound transformations in the public sector. In the current context of massive retirements and increasing mental health problems at work, public administrations face many challenges in terms of performance as well as attraction, retention, and mobilization of its human capital. To meet these challenges, several Quebec public organizations are developing a strategic quality of working life (QWL) policy. While research focuses mainly on the QWL of individuals, this study mobilizes a systemic approach to understand it at the organizational level. This exploratory research is based on the qualitative study of three cases of Quebec public organizations. Firstly, we identify and analyze the main axes of the QWL strategic policy of these public organizations according to the stakeholder theory (Freeman 1984; Freeman et al. 2010). Secondly, we contextualize these results with regard to the environment of these public organizations. Finally, we recommend three axes for future research to encourage the generalization of QWL strategic policies within the public sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

الملخص تتناول هذه الدراسة نموذج الحوكمة وضبط خدمة النفايات الحضرية في الجزائر وان الحوكمة ومسار الضبط تعتمد اساسا على مجموعة من الفواعل والادوات (مؤسستيه تشريعية واقتصادية) وتبقى البلديات الفاعل المهم وهذا عن طريق التسيير المباشر للخدمة اضافة الى القطاع الخاص الاقل تطورا. ان الانتقال الى الشراكة ما بين البلديات وفتح السوق للمنافسة يمكن ان يكون احدى الحلول لمواجهة النقص المسجل في قطاع تسيير النفايات الحضرية في الجزائر This document presents the model of governance and regulation of the urban waste services in Portugal. Governance and the regulatory process are based on a set of actors and instruments (institutional, regulatory and economic). Municipalities remain the most important actors with direct management and a poorly developed private sector. The transition to intermunicipality and the opening of the market to competition can be a solution to the insufficiency recorded in the waste sector. Cet article présente le model de la gouvernance et de régulation de service de déchets urbains en Algérie. La gouvernance et le processus de régulation se basent sur un ensemble d’acteurs et d’instruments (institutionnels, réglementaires et économiques). Les communes restent les acteurs les plus importants avec une gestion directe, et un secteur privé peu développé. Le passage vers l’intercommunalité et l’ouverture du marché à la concurrence peut être une solution à l’insuffisance enregistrée dans le secteur de déchet.

Résumé: La gouvernance privée telle qu'elle découle des différentes initiatives prises par les multinationales pour promouvoir le respect de normes sociales et l'égalité hommes‐femmes a eu peu d'effet sur les discriminations fondées sur le genre dans les chaînes d'approvisionnement mondiales. Les auteures soulignent l'intérêt des Principes directeurs des Nations Unies relatifs aux entreprises et aux droits de l'homme en la matière, estimant qu'il est indispensable de recourir à une gouvernance «stratifiée» associant public, privé et acteurs sociaux pour lutter contre cette discrimination et intégrer le souci de l'égalité des sexes dans l'exercice de la diligence raisonnable exigée en matière de droits de l'homme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In many European countries, greater importance is accorded to labour market policies in which employers are involved in activating unemployed people. Such employer‐oriented policies target employers' demand for labour and attempt to influence their willingness to hire, train or guide (often disadvantaged) unemployed groups. Using data from a qualitative interview study of an employer‐oriented programme in a medium‐size city in Sweden, the present article aims to develop knowledge about how these policies are used to influence employers to hire unemployed workers and how jobs created in this context differ from regular jobs. The article argues that creating jobs through new arrangements for the division of labour, with the promise of relieving regular staff of unskilled tasks, may influence employers' willingness to hire the unemployed when used alongside other kinds of policy instruments. However, the article also shows that this new division of labour, with programme participants performing mainly unskilled tasks, has been difficult to realize, as new staff gradually come to perform an increasing number of regular working tasks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: Our objective is to compare the results of the students of the rising classes with the oral jury and those of the finalists to the central jury of the private and public MFIs of the city of Mbuji-Mayi. Methodology: In order to collect the data on the ground, we used the document analysis technique. The checklist was the measuring instrument used to record the data relating to our research. To carry out the study, we collected our data retrospectively. We traveled in different directions of the GTI under study in order to take the scores obtained by the students. We also consulted the charts submitted by these schools to the provincial MGI/EMI coordination office in order to verify the authentication of the results obtained in the schools. Results: A statistically significant difference in the scores of fourth-grade students in the two categories of GTI (Student's t = 6,034, p <0.001). While comparing mean scores in rising promotions, the differences observed are not statistically significant. Conclusion: We have come to the end of this work. The main objective was to compare the averages of the scores obtained by the students of the public sector GIS and those of the private sector. We found that the difference in pupil averages for pupils in these two categories was not significant for the rising classes, ie first, second and third A2. Whereas the difference between the averages of the finalist student scores (grade 4 A2) was significant. Public sector students performed better than their private sector counterparts, at 81% versus 19%. We have attributed the superiority of the averages of public sector students to the educational assets of public sector schools. In particular: well-equipped technical rooms, recruitment of qualified courses, respect for the program, teaching materials, discipline at school, compliance with the recruitment conditions defined by the 6th Directorate of Health Sciences Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Pour faire face aux exigences au nouvel environnement politique et économique mondial, les pratiques managériales à l’instar des entreprises, se modernisent de plus en plus au sein des administrations publiques. Cependant, certaines d’entres elles connaissent un éclatement géographique de leurs entités à l’étranger ainsi qu’une mobilité professionnelle élevée. Ceci engendre une déperdition importante des connaissances tacites et explicites des ressources humaines. Le cas qui illustre d’une manière évidente cette problématique, est le Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et de la Coopération marocain (MAEC). Surtout que, la Diplomatie Marocaine a besoin aujourd’hui plus que jamais d’être plus efficace, plus performante aussi bien au Maroc qu’à l’étranger. A cet effet, nous avons mené une enquête exploratoire au sein du MAEC dont les résultats ont démontré à l’unanimité que la mise en place d’un système de gestion des connaissances sera bénéfique pour ce dernier. Ainsi, la première partie du présent article consistera à présenter, d’une manière plus détaillée la problématique ainsi que la partie conceptuelle. La seconde partie va jeter la lumière sur les résultats de l’enquête exploratoire. La troisième partie, quant à elle, consistera à illustrer un modèle provisoire qui mettra en relation la gestion des connaissances et la performance

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Our theme focuses on the study of the financing of infrastructure projects by the method of Build-Operate-Transfer system (BOT), which is one of the most important methods of private sector participation in the creation, updating and management of infrastructure projects. The study concludes that the private and public sector participation method in the (BOT) contract system is a necessary investment model for reducing public spending and government borrowing, improving management efficiency, reducing costs, accelerating the adaptation of new technologies, and overcoming the problems of implementation of infrastructure projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cet article présente les résultats d’une recherche effectuée auprès de 52 organismes du tiers secteur québécois sur la question des relations qu’ils entretiennent avec un partenaire du secteur public. Les objectifs de la recherche étaient doubles : 1) élaborer un outil d’autoévaluation validé des relations entre organismes du tiers secteur et l’État et 2) procéder à une analyse transversale des informations produites par les 52 organismes du tiers secteur ayant participé à la validation de l’outil d’autoévaluation. Les résultats démontrent que les relations entre les deux groupes d’acteurs se sont stabilisées et même améliorées depuis vingt ans. Cependant, la contribution des organismes du tiers secteur est encore largement orientée vers la coproduction de services publics davantage que sur la coconstruction de politiques sociales destinées à une population commune.This article presents the results of a study involving 52 nonprofit organizations in Quebec focused on their relationships with public-sector partners. The objectives of the study were twofold: 1) to develop and validate a self-evaluation tool to assess relationships between third-sector organizations and the State and 2) to conduct a transversal analysis of information obtained from the 52 nonprofit organizations that took part in the validation of the self-evaluation tool. The results show that relationships between the two categories of stakeholders stabilized and even improved over the previous twenty years. However, the contribution of nonprofit organizations is still largely oriented toward the coproduction of public services rather than the shared construction of social policies for a common population.

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