POLS 2250 Study Guide - Final Guide: Organizational Culture, Individual Ministerial Responsibility, Nepotism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2250
• Professor: Tim Mau

Document Summary

List and define some of the key traditional public service values as well as some of the new values that have been emerging with the advent of new. In canadian public administration system set of traditional important public service values are neutrality, accountability, efficiency, effectiveness, responsiveness, representativeness and integrity. Neutrality means political neutrality is determined between non-partisanship and value-neutrality. The value system of individual public servants is crucial to an analysis of bureaucratic behaviour and power, because they cannot be completely value-neutral in making and recommending decisions. Accountability emerges as to hold public servants accountable for their actions; it involves concern for the legal, institutional and procedural means by which public servants can be obliged to answer for their actions. Since early 1990s there has been a major shift in emphasis from accountability for process, for the way things are done, to accountability for results, for what is achieved.