Regarding constantly growing importance of information technologies public organizations try to find optimal solution, which might help to increase the qualitative aspects of relationship between governments and citizens. Experts argue that social media usage have potential to foster participation and engagement of the public. The aim of study is to analyse Facebook profiles of selected Slovakian cities, focusing on the general features of social network usage, content and the purpose of posts published over a four-year period. Besides, the article tries to be theoretical and practical insight to application of social media in public administration. The main finding is based on statement that analysed official Facebook pages mostly include informational posts while calling for opinion and calling for participation represent significantly lower part of total posts. Simultaneously, positive impacts of social media usage have been identified both for public organizations and wider public. Simultaneously, the benefit of the article is associated with fostering an interest in examined issues of social media usage, which we hope might improve the quality of social media strategies and benchlearning processes in other Slovakian cities and hopefully other local self-government units in the European territory. Finally, various limits and perspectives of social media use are discussed in the final part of the article, specially of ideals of democracy, cybersecurity, policymaking, as well as participation and engagement of citizens.
Demanding of ethical requirements in public administration is currently one of the most discussed issues connected with the ethics in public administration. The presented study regarding challenges connected with the organizational context of public administration ethics concentrates its attention on importance of ethical instances. Besides that, the part of contribution is focused on the consideration of organizational dimension of ethics mentioned in the international organizations documents. The core of presented contribution is concentrated on the current practice of ethical instances with an emphasis on cities in the condition of the Slovak Republic. The main benefit of presented study is based on finding that ethical instances in the public administration objectively have the potential to affect the ethical aspect of organizations.Keywords: ethical aspect of the public administration practice, ethical instances, local government, organizational context, international organizations documents, code of conduct ÚvodZohľadňovanie etického aspektu praxe vo sfére správy vecí verejných je aktuálne v súvislosti s neustále narastajúcimi požiadavkami na transparentnosť, otvorenosť, nestrannosť, nezávislosť alebo predchádzanie konfliktu záujmov často pertraktovanou témou. V kontexte súčasne prebiehajúcich globalizačných a integračných procesov sa aj požiadavky na etické kvality verejnej správy postupne zbližujú, pretože jednotlivé krajiny sa snažia aplikovať odporúčania, ktoré sú prijaté na nadnárodnej | 16 | Sociológia a SpoločnoSť 2 / 2 (2017) Ondrej Mitaľ
Serving the public interest should be perceived as a fundamental goal of public administration. Regarding the complexity of social reality, various motives could influence public officials’ behaviour and decision-making. Conflict of interest is mostly discussed as an issue, which relates to activities of elected officials. In this sense, the paper concentrates on rules and standards connected with the conflict of interest, which have to be observed by the public officials. The paper tries to be an interdisciplinary insight and emphasizes the legal and ethical approaches to the examined issue. In this sense, the paper tries to examine the managing of risks and impacts of the examined issue at the local level of self-government in the Slovak Republic. The hypothesis is based on the precondition that ethical norms can define aspects of the conflict of interest more precisely than the relevant legal acts. In the paper, the methods of content analysis, abstraction, comparison and synthesis are involved. The benefit of paper is based on the finding that ethical norms could define important aspects of the conflict of interest more precisely than legal acts. The author presumes that complementarity of legal systems and ethical infrastructure could minimize contradictory and negative impacts of the conflict of interest. Based on this fact, local self-government units should adopt codes of ethics if they want to improve the managing of risks and impacts of the conflict of interest.
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