Download or read book Government Capacity and the Hong Kong Civil Service written by John P. Burns and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines, in detail, the political context within which the civil service operates, including the role of the central government in Hong Kong SAR civil service policy making, the changing leadership role of Hong Kong's administrative elite, and attempts by the government to boost executive accountability since 2002.

Download or read book The Civil Service in Hong Kong written by Ahmed Shafiqul Huque and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the organization, problems, issues and prospects of the civil service in Hong Kong. It examines the origin and development of the civil service, efforts to deal with the changes before and after the transition, and the process of managing public services with references to its changing role and responsibilities. The book will be of interest to academics, civil servants, professionals and students, as well as researchers interested in the role of civil servants in changing societies, and can be used for teaching courses on public administration and Asian studies.

Download or read book The Hong Kong Civil Service and Its Future written by Ian Richard Scott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hong Kong Civil Service written by Ian Scott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the Hong Kong government's personnel policies and practices both in the context of changing circumstances and with reference to recent theories of personnel administration. Specific subjects covered include: recruitment and selection, training, performane appraisal, job satisfaction, staff relations, the pay determination process, and the role of public-sector unions.

Download or read book The Government and Politics of Hong Kong written by Norman Miners and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully covering the political and administrative structures of Hong Kong's system of government, this text--now in its fifth edition--is regarded by many as the definitive work on the subject. As readable and accessible as it is thorough and detailed, the book's most recent edition features an additional chapter on the political and governmental developments that Hong Kong has encountered since it returned to Chinese rule in July 1997 under the "one country, two systems" policy.

Download or read book Sharpening the Sword of State written by Andrew Podger and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharpening the Sword of State explores the various ways in which 10 jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific enhance their administrative capabilities through training and executive development. It traces how modern governments across this region look to develop their public services and public sector organisations in the face of rapid global change. For many governments there is a delicate balance between the public interest in promoting change and capacity enhancement across the public service, and the temptation to micro-manage agencies and be complacent about challenging the status quo. There is a recognition in the countries studied that training and executive development is a crucial investment in human capital but is also couched in a much wider context of public service recruitment, patterns of entry and retention, promotion, executive appointment and career development. This empirical volume, authored by academics and practitioners, is one of the first to chart these comparative differences and provide fresh perspectives to enable learning from international experiences

Download or read book Can Hong Kong Exceptionalism Last Dilemmas of Governance and Public Administration over Five Decades 1970s 2020 written by Anthony B. L. CHEUNG and published by City University of HK Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong under British rule was a prime example of exceptionalism in many aspects — economic, political, and even social. It was governed under a colonial structure and yet had enjoyed a large degree of social and economic freedom, as well as fiscal self-sufficiency and autonomy from London. After returning to Chinese rule in 1997, Hong Kong has continued to thrive as a relatively resilient city-state still known for efficiency and effectiveness despite tensions and scepticism about its political future. This book carries decades of academic observations and the author’s personal political experience. It reviews and reflects on the past trajectory of governance and administration, identifying strengths and capabilities as well as constraints and vulnerabilities of Hong Kong as a polity and society, while charting its course of ‘exceptionalism’ within a new context and under changing conditions. As this book concludes, the exceptionalism of Hong Kong not only hinges on institutional arrangements and historical inheritance but also on the statecraft of the administration of the day. ********************************************************* “… This is a text for deep reading, reflection, and deliberation.” – Professor LUI Tai-lok Chair Professor of Hong Kong Studies, Director of the Academy of Hong Kong Studies, Director of the Centre for Greater China Studies, and Former Vice President (Research & Development) at The Education University of Hong Kong “… a gem … whatever your political stand is, you have to admire Professor Cheung’s thorough observations and profound ideas on what made this city tick…” – Mr LAM Woon-kwong Former Secretary for the Civil Service and Secretary for Home Affairs, and Former Convenor of Non-Official Members of the Executive Council (2012–2017) “… a compelling addition to the literature on Hong Kong.” – Professor Darryl S.L. JARVIS Professor and former Head of the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong

Download or read book Public Administration in Hong Kong written by Wei Li and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the case of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of People’s Republic of China, mapping the changing patterns of political-administrative relations affected by the sovereignty change and structural reforms. It identifies the conditions that account for the varied political-administrative relations resulting from these changes, and develops an analytical framework that integrates and adapts theories and models from Western contexts to explain varied political-administrative relations in Hong Kong policymaking. The book tests its hypotheses through a qualitative comparative analysis of 18 cases occurring during the period of 1997–2012. It also conducts a comparative case analysis, which identified alternative causal conditions that were missing in the original framework. The book concludes that civil servants no longer dominate policymaking in Hong Kong after the regime change and structural reforms. While senior civil servants have sustained influence over policymaking processes through codified rules and political appointment, some of them have adapted to the changes in political environment that require more proactive policy styles and more hierarchical loyalty to the Central People’s Government of China than before. The first-hand interview materials presented in the book provide insights about internal political-administrative dynamics rarely accessible from the public domain. These insights provide inside knowledge of the actors, structure and processes of local policymaking in a context of post-colonial transition, and will be of interest to public administration scholars.

Download or read book Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics written by Wai-man Lam and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title describes the present political system and development in Hong Kong. The second edition assesses the main strands of continuity and change in Hong Kong's government and politics since the creation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 1997.

Download or read book China s Civil Service Reform written by Wang Xiaoqi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A market economy and a more liberal society have brought great challenges to China’s outdated governance structure and personnel management. To improve decision-making in government and reshape the management system in face of a more complex economy, post-Mao authorities have implemented a number of administrative reforms, including civil service reform which emphasized on selecting and promoting public officials based on their capability and work performance. Thousands of positions have been filled since the civil service system was implemented nationwide in 1993. The Chinese civil service reform is of far-reaching significance because it had the potential to be a departure from the established structure of cadre personnel management system developed in the 1950s. However, after several years of policy development, scholars observe that the new reforms have done little to undermine the old cadre system. Is this true? Or does this conclusion over-simplify the complicated implementation of the reforms? This book examines the implementation and performance of the on-going civil service reforms in China. Using the principal-agent framework, the author draw upon key case studies showing how the reforms affect civil servants’ incentives and behavior in the local context and the Chinese leadership’s control over the bureaucracy. China’s reform experience speaks directly to many Asian countries facing urgent need to improve state capacity as the global financial crisis unfolds.

Download or read book The Public Sector in Hong Kong Second Edition written by Ian Scott and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and analyses the role of the public sector in the often-charged political atmosphere of post-1997 Hong Kong. In this second edition, Ian Scott explores public sector accountability in terms of Hong Kong’s constitutional framework and the structure, functions, and personnel policies of its civil service system. He examines critical issues facing the administration of the public sector and the formulation and implementation of public policy with particular attention to the political challenges confronting the Hong Kong government over the past decade. A concluding chapter assesses how contested values in a changing political environment have affected the public sector in recent years. This edition has been fully updated to incorporate the latest statistics and research, including Scott’s work in such areas as integrity management, corruption prevention, and policing. This book is an essential resource for scholars and students of public administration and public policy in Hong Kong and more broadly for those who are interested in how a particular jurisdiction deals with common administrative problems such as centralisation, the role of statutory bodies, corruption prevention, and the redress of citizens’ grievances. ‘Professor Ian Scott’s book, The Public Sector in Hong Kong, now in a second much-expanded and up-to-date edition, offers a thorough and rigorous analysis of contemporary governance in Hong Kong, focusing on all the key stakeholders. The book is essential reading for government officials, politicians, journalists, academics, students, and the general public.’ —John P. Burns, The University of Hong Kong ‘The second edition not only updates the development in the public sector of Hong Kong, but also provides an important perspective to help readers understand the contexts that navigate its latest developments. This edition, along with Ian Scott’s earlier work, will be judged by many in the field to be among the best books on Hong Kong politics.’ —Hon S. Chan, City University of Hong Kong

Download or read book CIVIL SERVICE REFORM IN HONG K written by Mei-Wah Karen Kue and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Civil Service Reform in Hong Kong: New Appointment Policy" by Mei-wah, Karen, Kue, 葛美華, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction I. Argument The new appointment policy which the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) adopted on 1 June 2000 to create a flexible and structured civil service framework is limited both in scope, focusing just on changing the probationary system, and in scale in revamping the existing Weberian lifetime bureaucracy down the path of New Public Management (NPM). Both the Weberian model of bureaucracy and NPM have their strength and weaknesses. To attain the optimal level of efficiency, stability and accountability in the Hong Kong civil service through the use of the most appropriate forms of employment contracts, it is argued that the Weberian long-term contracts may be combined with NPM short-term contracts such that short-term contracts are offered to new recruits and the top civil servants while the rest of the civil servants are put on long-term rolling contracts. II. Problem and Issue Prior to 1997, the public held the Hong Kong civil service in high esteem. Results of opinion polls regularly showed that the public had a high level of trust in the civil service with overall satisfaction with its performance. In February 1997, one poll found that 56.7% of the sample had trust in the Hong Kong government compared with only 25.8% in the British government and 22.2% in the Chinesegovernment (Scott, 2000, p.49). The critical role played by the civil service during the transition in sovereign change was appreciated by the Chinese and British governments and the Hong Kong public alike. However, shortly after the handover on 1 July 1997, there were completely different public views about the civil service. Public dissatisfaction with its performance was widespread and was exacerbated by the Asian economic crisis. Opinion polls found that public satisfaction with the government's performance dropped dramatically. Between June 1997 and October 1998, satisfaction with the government's performance slumped from 75.1% to 20.4%, with 35.5% neutral and 41.8% dissatisfied (Scott, 2000, p.52). The civil service at present is no less able to carry out its work than it was before July 1997 and it remains a meritocracy (Burns, 2000, Ch.l, p.l). Whether there was an actual or perceived decline in its performance will not be discussed here. But one thing is sure is that the economic downturn from late 1997 through 1999 had brought about high unemployment rate and substantial salary reduction in the private sector, widening the gap between the public and private sectors in pay and conditions of service. In particular, the suitability of continuing with the permanent terms of appointment for most of the civil servants had come under public attack after the Audit Commission unveiled several slackening cases involving junior civil servants in late 1998. Organizational failure and weak civil service accountability to the political actors and the public were said to have rooted from the permanent terms of appointment. This kind of appointment policy wascriticized for its failure to tackle post-contractual opportunism of running slack and having bred an entitlement culture in the civil service under a promised lifetime career. This dissertation focuses on the contractual relationship between the Hong Kong Government and its employees and its attempts to change the relationship in 1999. Particular focus is placed on the length of employment contracts. This dissertation argues that

Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Civil Service of Hong Kong and Singapore written by Ada Hin and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "A Comparative Study of the Civil Service of Hong Kong and Singapore" by Ada, Hin, 禤雅儀, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract The civil service system, being an important agency for carrying out the policies and measures of a government, is receiving more and more attention in recent years. Significant developments and modernization programs to improve the efficiency of the bureaucracy have been carried out in many countries. In this paper, we work to examine and study the civil service of two small but efficient economic entities in Asia - Hong Kong and Singapore. By smoothly and honestly implementing the government policies, the civil services in these two cities have indeed contributed to the remarkable societal and economic developments in the 1980s and 1990s. By comparing the two civil service systems, we can identify a number of features that they have in common, including the administration by generalists, the efforts for localization and the determination to combat corruption within the civil service systems. With increasing demands and expectations of the government service, both Singapore and Hong Kong have designed and carried out different kinds of civil service reforms to cope with the new environment. Their reform measures include various types of changes, such as adjusting the conditions of service, 3remuneration of the civil servants and introducing new kinds of training and development programs. These measures aim at increasing the efficiency of the system, cultivating a service culture into the minds of the civil servants, as well as solving immediate problems and challenges facing the governments such as reducing governmental financial burden by adjusting the scale for salary payment of the civil servants. Finally, after briefly evaluating these reforms, a number of pitfalls and successful examples are illustrated. It is hoped that by examining these lessons learnt, adequate directions for future civil service management could be more easily identified. It is also the purpose of this paper to bring more insights in improving the civil service efficiency for other governments in Asia by taking the experiences of Hong Kong and Singapore as a reference. 4 DOI: 10.5353/th_b2951877 Subjects: Civil service - China - Hong Kong Civil service - Singapore

Download or read book Public Administration in Hong Kong written by Ian Scott and published by Marshall Cavendish Academic. This book was released on 2005 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Public Administration in Asia provides a periodically updatable resource that examines the public administrations of Asian countries looking at all the factors involved in the formulation of public policies. The Hong Kong civil service has experienced considerable change since the retrocession to China in 1997. The new political order has attempted to exert more control over the public sector, to introduce new approaches to formulating and implementing policy, and to re-define the relationships between the government and the public. In this book, the author describes the system of public administration in this changed political context, compares the way in which it now operates with that of its colonial predecessor, and analyzes the difficulties which the new regime and the public sector has faced in meeting the challenges posed by economic recession, epidemics and the fierce debates generated by its constitutional policies.

Download or read book Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong written by Jane C. Y. Lee and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together, for the first time, a collection of essays on public sector reform in Hong Kong. Public sector reform has come rather belatedly to Hong Kong, being launched officially since 1989. The underlying themes as well as key initiatives of the reform package are undoubtedly in line with similar reform trends prevailing in Western Europe, North America and the Australasia dating from the rise of privatization policies in governments in these places since the late 1970s. In Hong Kong, however, little discussion has taken place in the community over the government's guide public sector reform programme. Even within the civil service, interest in the programme has been limited to those senior officers tasked with implementing the reform measures. Little is actually written on the subject which should have important implications for the future shape of public administration in Hong Kong. Being the first volume of its kind in the local print, this book tries to capture the basic objectives and features of public sector reform as well as raise some fundamental issues and questions for further debate. The chapters are so arranged as to provide multi-dimensional perspectives from local academics, government officials as well as overseas experiences. This book should be of interest to general readers and of particular use to students of government and public administration as well as practitioners in the field.

Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews National Schools of Government Building Civil Service Capacity written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews how national schools of government are adapting to address countries’ most pressing political and economic challenges.

Download or read book Civil Service Training and Development Institute Hong Kong Government written by Hong Kong. Civil Service Training and Development Institute and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: