The scientific monograph is created primarily in response to the 2015-2020 Public Administration Development Strategy intended to support systematic development of public administration in Slovenia. The goal of the monograph is to highlight the selected dilemmas and substantive points of the adopted strategy from a scientific perspective and bring them closer to the expert scientific and general public in the form of two fully structured content sets. The first content set comprises development of good governance from strategic and information aspects. In this section, the contributors critically analyze the strategy document, place the importance of good governance in the Slovenian public administration with an emphasis on harmonized understanding of protection of the rights of the parties and effective implementation of public interest in administrative procedures, and examine the role of e-government in achieving its strategic objectives. The second set is primarily focused on the simplification of regulatory framework in the light of a more efficient public administration. In this respect, the authors examine the role of administrative costs in the context of tax policy, environmental regulations and renovation costs, namely simplification of procedures for obtaining building permits in an international context and in the light of the adopted strategy.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 283902208For the 9th time, the two decisive European professional associations of Public Administration, the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee) and the European Group on Public Administration (EGPA) held a joint conference in the series of Trans-European Dialogue (TED 9). Six conference sessions brought together numerous professionals from research, education, public administration, etc. in order to promote and interchange current information on topics of openness, transparency and ethics in public administration (PA). O/T/E concepts are interrelated and intertwined and considered as the basic pillars of the modern PA. Ethical conduct in PA has been somehow assumed as a leading principle for conduct of public servants for a very long time while other two concepts are much younger and became subject of normative codification in most countries only in the last two decades. Openness and transparency are two principles that are often used interchangeably in literature, but it is important to define the differences and connection between them. So the main aim and objective of TED9 was to serve as an academic forum of experts to highlight all these concepts and to discuss their relevance for further development of PA theory and its implications.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 283330048International journal of public policy addresses public policy issues facing nation states and national/supranational organisations, including governments, and how these approach and solve common public policy problems. It highlights governance, accountability, creation of wealth/wellbeing, and implications policy choices have on nation states and citizens, acknowledging that public policy choice/execution is complex, has ramifications on the welfare of citizens, and that, despite national differences, the actions of nation states are constrained by policies determined by supranational bodies, some not directly accountable to any international body. The journal is indexed in Scopus (Elsevier).
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COBISS.SI-ID: 522116889The paper was motivated by the fact that human resource management (furthermore: HRM) has long been recognised as a critical innovation performance factor. Yet, the link between HRM and innovation performance has been given much less attention in some sectors, the public sector in particular. Therefore, we defined our research question as follows: which are the key HRM factors of innovative EU-28 public sector organisations? The answer to the research question was sought in three phases. The first phase of the research consisted of data acquisition. We used anonymised microdata from the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), covering 28 EU member countries. In the 2nd phase, by applying some of the less known EWCS indicators, the EU-28 sample was divided into two groups: innovators (public sector units, which have introduced at least one technological or at least one non-technological novelty during the last 3 years) and non-innovators (public sector units, which did not introduce any technological or non-technological novelties). Finally, in the 3rd phase, the aim of the study was achieved by applying a t-test, identifying in which HRM factors (management support, employee cooperation, training, recruitment/suitability of competencies, changes and innovation within work, job satisfaction, wages) the groups of innovators and non-innovators significantly differ. The research findings suggest that innovative public sector organisations are devoting significantly more attention to the majority of HRM factors than their non-innovative counterparts. Consequently, HRM is indicated as a critical factor, fostering innovation performance in public sector organisations. This efficient use of human resources proves especially important due to resource limitations, an implication of the financial and economic crisis.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 4870062The dissertation’s main research topic is an assessment of the transmission mechanism of fiscal policy effects and the identification of three channels through which those effects influence economic activity. The research takes into account: 1) an evaluation of the short- and medium-term effects of fiscal policy, including consolidation or stimulus measures and their dependence on economic development and the state of the economy; 2) a quantification of the transmission effects of fiscal policy, thereby considering their dependence on the fiscal stance and the state of the economy; and 3) an assessment of the transmission effects of high and persistent public debt on potential economic growth considering the economic development and level of indebtedness in the private sectors.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
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