School meals and pupil satisfaction. Evidence from Italian primary schools

This paper aims to analyse to what extent pupils value the characteristics of the state school foodservice and identify which variables affect the degree of pupils’ satisfaction with the quality of school meals. A representative sample of 33 state primary schools providing meals was extracted for the metropolitan city of Naples. Two questionnaires were distributed, one to the headteachers concerned and the other to 5th grade pupils (10–11 years old). Information about the catering companies was mainly sourced from the AIDA database. Pupil satisfaction was measured by two key variables: pleasantness of eating at school and food tastiness. Controlling for pupil, family, school, foodservice and catering company characteristics, the paper shows that the catering company size negatively impacts upon pupil satisfaction with the foodservice, whereas the estimated meal average production cost is positively associated with pupil satisfaction. The study could assist city boroughs in devising meal quality indicators to be taken into account in designing competitive tendering.     

Gendering and Gender in Public Service Organizations: Changing Professional Identities Under New Public Management

This article examines the enactment of new public management (NPM) in public service professional organizations, the nature of professional/managerial subjectivities promoted within the NPM discourse, and the implications for male and female professionals/managers. The article has two aims. First, taking a gender ing organization perspective, it explores the gendered meanings of NPM and the promotion of new professional/managerial subjectivities. Second, focusing on gender in organizations, the article then considers the implications of the enactment of NPM for male and female professionals/managers. The article illustrates the complex, manifold and fluid nature of both the meanings ascribed to NPM and individual responses. It is argued that a gender lens offers a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of NPM enactment and the implications of this for public service professionals/managers are considered.     

Accrual output based budgeting systems in Australia The rhetoric-reality gap

This paper describes accrual output based budgeting (AOBB) systems and examines their adoption in Australia. An analysis of claims made about AOBB systems by central agency reformers is set out, and the conclusion offered that these claims are fundamentally rhetorical in their characteristics. These rhetorical claims are contrasted against a critical analysis which suggests that despite the claims made by reformist elements in favour of the adoption of these systems, the structural and empirical elements of AOBB systems as implemented in Australia raise considerable doubts as to whether suggested benefits will be realised in practice.     

房地产税改革对公租房制度的政策支持分析

2007年以来,我国住房保障体系建设取得了突破性进展,公租房则是近期住房保障制度的重要创新。随着房地产税改革步伐的加快,新的房地产税制必将对公租房的建设和运营形成制度约束。本文在厘清公租房属性和制度要点的基础上,分析现行房地产税制对公租房建设和运营的制度约束,对最近上海和重庆的房产税试点改革进行评述,讨论房地产税改革取向并提出支持公租房制度的建议。     

模糊积分模型在公共组织绩效评价中的应用研究

加强对公共组织绩效评价方法的研究,可以有效反映公共组织管理的效率,为上层组织提供决策依据.本文首先指出了模糊积分模型能消除指标间相关影响的客观性的优点,阐明模型在解决公共组织绩效评价问题上的可行性和优势,随后构建了公共组织绩效综合评价的理论模型,创新地引入了对模糊数的调整来确定各指标的权重,提高了权重的准确性.最后通过实证研究,验证该方法的适用性和局限性,为公共组织绩效评估的实际操作提出了若干建议.     

基于引入理想决策单元DEA的公租房配租方法研究

摇号是目前重庆公租房分配的唯一形式,由于不能区分谁更迫切地需要公租房的问题,不能更好地解决分配公平的问题,本文在建立申请人状况的评价指标系统基础上,采用引入理想决策单元的数据包络分析模型,考虑申请人的困难状况对申请人进行评价和排序,以比摇号更公平的方式分配公租房,这在目前公租房数量较少的情况下有更现实的公平意义.     

公共自行车服务系统的分析及改进

本文对温州市鹿城区公共自行车服务系统180个站点进行调查,综合分析研究了每个站点的借还车状况和用车时长,进一步结合温州市鹿城区地图,定义两站点之间的距离,然后综合考虑各站点的锁桩数量对公共自行车服务系统进行评价,最后为公共自行车交通服务系统提供一些解决方案,以便更好的完善公共自行车租用系统。     

Exploring the structure and meaning of public service motivation in the Turkish public sector: a test of the mediating effects of job characteristics

Using a data set consisting of 315 middle-managers at the district level in the Turkish public sector, we develop a structural equation model (SEM) for assessing the impact of empowerment and stewardship on public service motivation (PSM) through job characteristics. The results demonstrate that stewardship and empowerment are distinct ‘levers’ that managers can use in novel ways to influence PSM; and cultural context may factor into the manipulation of these levers. We find that job-based mediators may not compliment leadership styles and self-generating rewards, but, rather work separately in their appeal to PSM.     

面向代建制的公共水利工程行政管理体制转型研究

我国公共水利工程建设管理面临的问题越来越多地体现在体制性上,并非在工程本身上。代建制是建设管理体制改革的一种较好的选择。本文总结了面向代建制的公共水利工程行政管理体制转型政策依据,分析了转型的方向、内涵和职能,提出了两种转型路径及其影响的关键因素。