Making citizen’s charter effective in public organizations of Bangladesh: Rhetoric or reality? A study of department of immigration and passports

This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy (M. Phil) in Public Administration Submitted to Department of Administration and Organization Theory University of Bergen

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Autor principal: Razzaque, Farhana
Formato: Tesis
Lenguaje:en_US
Publicado: The University of Bergen 2022
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10361/16242
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spelling 10361-162422022-02-14T21:01:29Z Making citizen’s charter effective in public organizations of Bangladesh: Rhetoric or reality? A study of department of immigration and passports Razzaque, Farhana Government Citizen's charter Public sector management This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy (M. Phil) in Public Administration Submitted to Department of Administration and Organization Theory University of Bergen Citizen’s Charter (CC), as a means of improving public service delivery, has become popular around the world since the 1990s. In order to change administrative rigidity and enhance the responsiveness of public organizations to society, the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) introduced CC in 2007. The principal objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of this CC program. It also attempts to explore and analyze the factors and actors that may have bearing on the effectiveness of the CC program in public organizations. The focus of this study is the Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) of GOB. In this study, the effectiveness of CC is measured by five service quality dimensions. These are timeliness, accessibility, responsiveness, cost-effectiveness, and grievance redress mechanism. Combinations of quantitative and qualitative methods have been used in this study. As for data collection tools, semi-structured interviews with both open- and close-ended questions, observation, and documentary analysis were used. The findings of this study revealed that citizen’s charter at DIP largely successful in providing required information to the service seekers and successful to some extent in ensuring accessibility to concerned officials. However, it was also disclosed that service seekers sometimes find the officials unfriendly and unresponsive. Moreover, it was found that service provision is costly and complaint system is fully non-functional. All these indicate that the quality of service provision at DIP is yet to be satisfactory, leading to the conclusion that the goals of CC are not fully realized so far. This is because of the organizational culture of DIP which is still traditional. In fact, two indicators of rigid traditional organizational culture i.e., high power distance and strong uncertainty avoidance tendency are existent and affecting the outcome of CC implementation at DIP. Furthermore, the findings also revealed that human resources at DIP is inadequate in number and even the available personnel are lack of socialization with the ethos and principles of CC. As a result DIP personnel are less committed to CC goals subsequently negatively contributing to the achievement of CC goals. 2022-02-14T06:48:10Z 2022-02-14T06:48:10Z 2011 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10361/16242 en_US https://bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/handle/1956/7335 application/pdf The University of Bergen
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topic Government
Citizen's charter
Public sector management
spellingShingle Government
Citizen's charter
Public sector management
Razzaque, Farhana
Making citizen’s charter effective in public organizations of Bangladesh: Rhetoric or reality? A study of department of immigration and passports
description This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy (M. Phil) in Public Administration Submitted to Department of Administration and Organization Theory University of Bergen
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author Razzaque, Farhana
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title Making citizen’s charter effective in public organizations of Bangladesh: Rhetoric or reality? A study of department of immigration and passports
title_short Making citizen’s charter effective in public organizations of Bangladesh: Rhetoric or reality? A study of department of immigration and passports
title_full Making citizen’s charter effective in public organizations of Bangladesh: Rhetoric or reality? A study of department of immigration and passports
title_fullStr Making citizen’s charter effective in public organizations of Bangladesh: Rhetoric or reality? A study of department of immigration and passports
title_full_unstemmed Making citizen’s charter effective in public organizations of Bangladesh: Rhetoric or reality? A study of department of immigration and passports
title_sort making citizen’s charter effective in public organizations of bangladesh: rhetoric or reality? a study of department of immigration and passports
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