Decision Making in Public Sector Organizations

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1. IntroductionMy aim in this article is to develop a research agenda for examining the integration of citizens for improving public administrative processes, public sector organizational behavior, corporate governance practices in the public sector, and outstanding institutional drivers that may contribute to enhancing public sector efficiency. I shall focus here on the role of public sector leadership, the structure and processes in public organizations, the bureaucratization of the organizational structure, and public sector innovations and reforms. Overall, throughout this paper, I demonstrate the value and importance of governance mechanisms in the public policy process, quality service enhancements in public sector organizations, and forms of citizen integration in the public sector.2. Factors that Affect Strategic Decision Making in Public Sector OrganizationsAs Kant puts it, a finite rational being cannot act rationally without having certain feelings and emotions and manifesting them in its actions. All reasons for action are based on the objective value of rational nature that grounds our own perfection and the happiness of others. The value of our own happiness, except as an indirect duty, is an object of prudential. There is no systematic priority of perfection over happiness as ends or values to be promoted. The good is that which is recognized as practically necessary independently of inclination. As the capacity to set ends according to reason, humanity is an end in itself, and insofar as it is capable of morality, humanity has dignity. (Wood, 2011) Kant asserts that goodness is a function of, and not independent of, moral principle. Wrongness marks incorrect ways of acting. Avoiding impermissibility and avoiding wrongness are not the same thing. If moral wrongness is about faulty reasoning, an action-centered notion of wrongness does not fully capture the nature of moral error. Something's being good for you to do does not entitle me to coerce your doing it. We cannot impute the harmful consequences of rightful action to the agent. Motive is an agent's source of interest in an end, and so in action as a means. Duties of justice are institution-based duties whose point is to secure conditions of equal external freedom. Morality belongs to the domain of practical reason (reason can determine the will to action). There are only two obligatory ends: of our perfection and of the happiness of others. Correct reasoning ultimately depends on our being able to reason together. We may not forgo truthfulness in speech for the sake of some contingent purpose. (Herman, 2011) According to Kant, only if one takes the Categorical Imperative as the fundamental principle of practical reasoning, one can see oneself as deciding what to do. Accepting the Categorical Imperative as one's highest level principle of practical reasoning, one can see oneself as acting independent of inclination. One should act only on a maxim that one could will to be a universal law (the Formula of Universal Law). A maxim could not be willed to be a universal law: willing such a law would be incompatible with viewing oneself as a raticnal agent. Insofar as we see ourselves as rational agents we cannot see the development of our talents or the needs of others as considerations that count for nothing. Claims about reasons are grounded in the requirements of rational agency. (Scanlon, 2011)Decision content influences relevant features of decision process (Hunter, 2013a), and has little bearing on participation variables. Resource and budget cutback decisions are affected by contending external political authorities. Political decisions generally involve agendas that are not associated directly with the decision task. (Bozeman and Pandey, 2004) Various and contradictory sources of political domination create relevant function ambiguity for the public manager (public organizations target complex social roles), the economic indicators of efficiency and effectiveness (Popescu, 2013c) may be unavailable in the public sector, and supply and demand do not automatically join toward optimal efficiency in the public sector. …

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