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Links between Public sector and not-for profit-organisations Conrad…
Links between Public sector and not-for profit-organisations
Conrad Willars
Public Value
Job security - organisations have government backing and funded by the taxpayer, there is less chance of them disappearing
Guranteed pension plans higher in the public sector than the private sector
Public sector has been hit by the financial crisis in 2008/09
Many services in the public sector are about prevention rather than expanding the size of the 'market'
Private sector and voluntary sector can also create and add public value
Economic value
Generation of economic activity and employment
Political value
Whether the service stimulates democratic participation and dialogue
Ideological value
Allingment of beliefs, moral or ethical values with actions or outcomes of services
Quality of life value
Security, health, recreation, personal liberty
Stewardship value
Public view of officials as competent and capable
Ecological value
Contributing to the Environmental sustainability
Social value
Family or community relationships, community cohesion
consultation and public participation in public service delivery is an important part of creating public value.
Public Sector
Government departments
Local Government
District councils
Health
Education
Housing
Policing
That part of a nation’s economy that deals with the delivery of goods and services by and for the government, whether national, regional or loca
Over the last 20 years, public services in the UK and elsewhere have changed a great deal.
Wider effects of globalisation
Many public services have been partially or wholly privatised
'Properly designed'
'Higher quality'
'more responsivness'
More efficent
18.2% of employees people in the UK are currently working in the public sector
65% of public sector workers are women
Not-for-profit organisation
Voluntary sector
Comprises a mix of organisations that link to communities, the state and the market.
Umbrella term that encompasses a number of organisations that fufill the needs of communities and state
May also function within a 'marketplace' of organisations all competing for resources and fulfilling any number of functions
Competing Values framework (CVF)
Emerged from the studies of public sector organisational effectivness
Trust and Legitimacy
Without public trust in a service, there would be no public value
Legitimacy is important because it refers to the extent to which a service has the authority to provide a particular service
Collectivity – this is mainly described in terms of the contribution of the public service to society
Security – this is largely the extent to which a service can be said to be reliable, safe and to have a geographical consistency in standards.
Personal utility – this refers largely to the ‘measures of the degree of choice available Talbot, 2008, p. 20)
Autonomy – this refers to the extent to which the service consults and is run for the benefit of its service users
How the public sector can work to produce public value
Collaborate
Collaboration is important because it identifies how organisations can work together to produce public value
A good example of this is the ways in which charities contribute to so many areas of healthcare, working with the NHS to offer support for mental health
Create
The notion of creation is multi-faceted but it involves the many ways that organisations demonstrate they are providing public value
A good example of a school creating public value might be shown through regular parents’ evenings
Control
It also focuses on the need to keep costs low and efficiency high, in order that the service is sustainable over time.
Compete
Competition is needed to provide public value
based around the notion that organisations are shaped by two key elements that are contradictory in nature: a desire for flexibility and autonomy, and the need for control and stability.
The model is based on the fact that in order to achieve real public value, there must be a balance between each area. Too much emphasis on one area will lead to an undermining of public value within that service
In order to measure public value, each area needs to be considered.
