This paper empirically explores how whistle-blowers, as members of a collective or as individual actors, are motivated to report a wrongdoing in public service organizations of Iran. Whistle-blowing in the service organizations of public sector utilizes the mass media to call the attention of public to corruption activities that are associated to the misuse of public funding in a direct way. Th...

public interests justify the existence of public administration and public administrator must obligate it in any policies and decisions. reduction of public trust and organizational trust in recent years and necessity of power distribution and empowerment in democratization trend, intensify the emergence of servant leadership. denhart´s idea of new public service in recent decades, increases th...

This study examined the training needs of agricultural extension agents in Delta State, Nigeria. A sample of 102 respondents was drawn from extension agents in the States’ Agricultural Development Programme (ADP), Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources (MANR) and the FADAMA Programme. Data were collected in February 2017 by using a structured and validated questionnaire. Data generated w...

Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) maps service identifiers and location information to service contact URIs. If a LoST client wants to discover available services for a particular location, it will perform a query to the LoST server. However, the LoST server, in its response, does not provide context information; that is, it does not provide any additional informat...