The Management of Complaints in Slovene Public Administration

• Authors: Janez Stare , Barbara Gruden , Polonca Kovač
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Slovene public administration is part of the broader social system, therefore it must be responsive and proactive. The instrument of complaint in the administrative procedure, and wider in the context of the entire administrative management, is very helpful to public administration for tracking social changes and should therefore be seen as a form of constructive criticism. On the basis of user complaints regarding its services or the parties to the administrative procedure, the public administration must learn permanently and, as learning organisation, must incorporate its findings into future practice. The starting point of this contribution is the problems of the complaint in the narrow sense - customer dissatisfaction with the functioning of the public administration or arising from the fact that one of the characteristics of the administrative procedure or other services is the direct contact between the customer and the provider of the service. With this approach, the public administration will develop part of an integral system of quality and excellence that underlines the meaning of satisfaction of (all) the users of public services.

Keywords

EN

complaint; public administration; Slovenia; customer; administrative procedure; administrative management

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 22-30

Dates

published

2008-01-01

online

2008-10-17

Contributors

author

Janez Stare

• Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Gosarjeva ulica 5

author

Barbara Gruden

• Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Gosarjeva ulica 5

author

Polonca Kovač

• Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Gosarjeva ulica 5

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-008-0003-9