An Exploration of Public Engagement in Public Board Meetings
This study explores the purpose and role of public board meetings in the British National Health Service as an aftermath of public sector reforms. It deviates from the mainstream methodologies to study boards in action as it employs an ethnographic approach. Data has been collected through participant observation, in-depth semi-structured interviews from eighteen board members and members of the public, and documents in the form of board agenda and meeting minutes. Findings reveal that the purpose of the public board meetings is to manage their public image and to protect their reputation as rational actors and serve as a reporting function that excludes the public from active participation. Hence, this study asserts that public board meetings serve as a formal ritualized practice that performs board meetings. This study has practical implications as similar reforms have been introduced in other public organizations.
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Board Meetings, Public Sector, Ethnography, British NHS
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(1) Humera Manzoor
Assistant Professor, Institute of Business Studies, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Khushnood
Assistant Professor,Institute of Business Studies, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Rao Aamir Khan
Assistant Professor,Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan.
Government Sector Performance of Pakistan, South Asia and 34 OED Countries-International Policy Issues in the Contemporary World
The paper focuses on the various aspects especially as globally accepted fact is that social and key economic indicators are influenced by the government activities. Public Sector Performance and efficiency reflect government priorities. The paper evaluates the public sector performance of Pakistan by calculating the Public Sector Performance Index based on seven indicators and these seven indicators are further classified into two broad groups. Many international studies have carried out the performance evaluation of public sectors of industrialized countries missing the public sector performance of Pakistan with other countries. With the aim, Public Sector Performance of Pakistan was compared with countries of South Asia and some developed countries. The research analyzes the public sector performance indicators of countries to calculate the overall performance. The paper aims to compare public sector performance of Pakistan with South Asian Countries and members of Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which currently includes 34 Countries.
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Performance Indicator, Public Sector, Performance Evaluation, OECD, Pakistan
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(1) Muhammad Zia Ur Rehman
Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership and Management Studies, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Ahsan Rafiq
Research Scholar, Department of Leadership and Management Sciences, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Waseem Ishaque
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.