About the Singapore Government's unique concept of public management and Enlightenment

[Paper Keywords] Singapore, public management ideas, building a harmonious society
[Abstract] Singapore in a short period of time in forty years into modernization of the leading countries in Asia, which with its unique concept of the government's public administration are inseparable. By "outsourcing" concept of construction of efficient government, to "pro-business "concept optimizing the Economic environment," Talent Nation "concept to strengthen human resources development, to" People First "concept of service to the people, etc., to promote the rapid development of the Singapore economy and society, also currently working on building a harmonious society in China to benefit Inspiration: One is to establish the "outsourcing" concept, improve administrative efficiency, the second is to establish a "people power" concept, to provide protection for Economic development and third is to establish a "pro-business" concept, optimizing the Economic environment, the four is to establish " People First "philosophy, working to improve people's livelihood.


Since independence in 1965, Singapore maintains that political control and Economic freedom combined with the common ideal of multiculturalism combined with the dominance of one party for the combination of people, social stability, Economic prosperity, as most Asian developing countries establish a model of modern urban development. In 2009, the competitiveness of economies in the world ranking, behind Singapore, the United States, ranking second in the world. I believe that the rapid economic and social development of Singapore and its unique management philosophy of government is inseparable from public opened its analysis and Research, promoting the overall development of our economy and society has very important implications.

First, the Singapore government's unique concept of public management
Singapore's economy is highly developed and successful market economy, the Government is not only a clean, efficient, diligent, pragmatic, and create a favorable business environment to attract a large number of foreign investors to invest. For decades, Singapore's efforts to build service-oriented government to livelihood-oriented and serve the people, promoting economic development and social prosperity. in this development process, the Singapore government formed its own unique concept of public management.

(A) the "outsourcing" concept of building efficient government
Singapore Government is well known known for high efficiency. In the People's Action Party appears to rely on the sustainable development of Singapore, "an efficient government." For the construction of efficient government, the Singapore government introduced in public administration "outsourced" concept. "Outsourcing" concept business management from the government's work extends to come. Europe and other countries entrepreneurs often the time-consuming, laborious, cost of capital of the work outsourced to other companies, other countries do, just keep your ideas and design the most the core part. Singapore government to apply this concept to the realm of public management, the Government through the integration of resources, the work of non-core approach to outsourcing contracts to social intermediary organizations to enable the Government to fully "downsizing." violation of such vehicles punishment, such as the departure tax audit functions originally belonging to the Government through the bidding and "outsourcing." practical effect from the point of view, the Government has "outsourced" some of the functions not only did not affect the government's credibility and image, but also improve operational efficiency, effective to put an end to corruption in these areas have.

(B) to "pro-business" concept optimize the economic environment
Singapore's business environment, open and honest In 2009, "<Forbes>> business environment rankings published in the journal report, Singapore was rated the best performing economies in the Asia-Pacific, ranking fourth. Well benefit the business environment the government establish a "pro-business ideas". "pro-business philosophy" is the core of public administration the Government of Singapore. The idea that the Government is not the real creators of social wealth, and only when the government succeeded in providing an environment for the development needs of industries, enable enterprises to obtain a higher investment than other regions the rate of return, the government's role to be reflected.''pro-business ideas "to the government - business - civil unified in social and economic development among the whole process, through the development of the economy to improve people's living standards and the country's competitiveness, but also that the Government create an environment to generate wealth and promote economic and social development.

In the "pro-business" concept under the guidance of the Government to give full play their own control, services, management functions, and create all favorable conditions to attract foreign investment. For example, vigorously improve the infrastructure, so that Singapore developed transport and communication facilities, electricity and water supply adequacy, financial services and banking system sound, reliable, cheap industrial land set aside to help manufacturers to build factories, to provide low-interest loans, to give national treatment to foreign investors, and so on. Singapore is also the least intervention in the enterprise world, one of the countries, the Government is "Flying" enterprises, so companies are free to "solo", so that enterprises have a good environment for development. optimize the economic environment to attract a large number of overseas clients to invest in Singapore, at the same time, the Government has adopted various measures to help local businesses to overseas development, expand overseas markets, effectively promote the economic development of Singapore.

(C) of the "Talent Nation" concept to enhance human resource development
Singapore, one of the factors conducive to attracting foreign investment is large pool of talent. Lee Kuan Yew pointed out: "Singapore is the talent to implement socialist system." Talent, personnel training, use of talent and compelling is its "talent nation" an important part of the strategy . First of all, is the talent to do their best to use. Singapore government to establish a personnel system reuse, advocating use of talent, do not waste talent, do not trample on people, let the real people come to the fore of this country. Lee Kuan Yew believes that "as long as five was a true leader is willing to work, ten years to build a new country may be "." If Singapore was mediocre and opportunism by those who control, will pay a terrible price. "ruling People's Action Party vigorously elitism strategy, the elite promoted to the country's most important leadership positions and ensure the efficient functioning of the state apparatus. Second, is to try to develop talent. The Government has allocated large sums of money to invest in education, reform the education system, through scholarships, grants system for government train a large number of talented people and society, focusing on job training for enterprises of all types of workers, focus on cultivating local technology industry elite. again, is human to try to dig. Lee Kuan Yew had made "with the private sector for talent" strategy, a substantial increase wages, improve benefits, to "high salary grab Yin", attracted a large number of talents to the work of government departments. The Government has also set up an international human resources group, responsible for attracting foreign high-tech talent to Singapore to work.

(D) to "People First" concept of service to the people
Root of the success of People's Action Party is not one single party authoritarian political system, and set in its "people-oriented care for the people, care for grass-roots" and "People First" philosophy. To win the support of the people , the Singapore Government adopted a series of "service to the people" measures to compare the main are the following:
Member reception at the implementation of the system first. People's Action Party was established in the country in dozens of constituencies, from members of Congress "dicing lump sum," all members of the party two nights a week to arrange time to visit the constituency voters and reception petitioners to deal with a variety of services, public service, even if the government ministers, Deputy Prime Minister and the Prime Minister is no exception.


Second is to establish a sound social security system. Singapore Government to develop a variety of policies to "prevent the formation of an underclass". For example, the lower income people who live scattered to various constituencies to enable them to receive help to get more opportunities Government assistance for the implementation of education policies so that low-income children to escape poverty through education. In addition, grass-roots community as well as "community funds" and "People's Association" and other non-profit agencies for a variety of low-income families help.

Third is the establishment of a mature community management model. Singapore Government, through the material support of community organizations and behavior guidance, take the direction of community activities. In Singapore, there are three main organizations within the community, namely the Home Advisory Commission, community management committee and the RC Council. Habitat Advisory Commission is responsible for public welfare within the community, according to the requirements of the community residents to communicate with the government, maintaining the interests of residents, community management committee responsible for community center operations and to develop computer training to children from a range of sports activities program, the RC will be primarily responsible for law and order, sanitation work, the organization's activities within the community. among their duties, co-management community.

Second, learn from Singapore's unique concept of public management, and promote the comprehensive development of China's economic and social
The ancients said: "Stones from other hills, can learn." We can learn from Singapore's unique concept of public management, transformation of government functions, build efficient and limited government to improve administrative efficiency, optimizing the economic environment, improve people's livelihood and promoting economic and social round development. Links to Research Papers Download http://www.hi138.com (a) establish the "outsourcing" concept to improve the administrative efficiency
Singapore's "outsourcing concept," told us that the Government must climb down from a number of areas, not only "the helm" and "paddle", but should devote more energy to invest, "the helm" for the "paddle" to do service work . Therefore, to effectively change the government functions, in accordance with the "big ministries system" and "simplification, uniformity and efficiency," the principle of setting government agencies can work to non-core "outsourcing" to the social intermediary organizations, so that the Government fully "downsizing" improve administrative efficiency.

First, we must strive to foster social intermediary organizations. The government to "downsizing" to empowering the community and businesses, the companies are back to business functions, social functions are returned to society, back belongs to the functions of intermediary organizations, intermediaries, in order to achieve efficient management. At present, China is obviously insufficient development of intermediary organizations, operations are not standardized, immature. The Government should grasp this opportunity to actively support and nurture industry associations, chambers of commerce, environmental groups, advisory bodies, charities and other social intermediary organizations, standardize their operations to play its important role in various fields.

Secondly, to improve e-government, to create a transparent government. For a transparent government, turned the government into "glass tank in the goldfish," in addition to actively promote open system, we must vigorously practice of "electronic government", the effective implementation of the "Government Online" project, will "put people to apply, the Government has to approve" mode into "the public demands the government to service" model. governing the implementation of e-government help to increase transparency, reduce administrative costs, improve efficiency, and strengthening of good governance, for the Government and the public, the interaction between enterprises and the response of a revolution.

(B) establish a "brain power" concept, to provide protection for economic development
Talent is the first factor of production, is the first resource for economic development. We must establish the "brain power" concept, attention to intellectual input, and improve institutional mechanisms for the introduction of talent, human resource development to enhance administrative efficiency. One should strive to achieve "the employer yin. "personnel administration from the traditional focus on human resources management to change, so that their talent from outside the box constraints, to the talent to the full development of space. Second, we must intensify efforts to nurture talent. Singapore's emphasis on staff training practices we can learn from. from the current point of view, China should reform the education system, focusing on training high-tech talent, professionals in various fields. In education and training of cadres, the method and content to innovative ways to conduct foreign training and remote teaching, improve the quality of training train a large number of economic and social development needs of different kinds of people. Third, the introduction of foreign intellectual resources. Singapore government established the Advisory Committee and the Economic Review Committee, invite some foreign experts for the government advice. we can hire some well-known scholars and experts as the Advisory Committee to hear their views on China's economic development and improve the international level of government work.

(C) establish a "pro-business" concept, optimizing the economic environment
Economic development of the main enterprises, the Government's main duty is to create a fair market environment, maintaining market order. The Government should change the traditional control of thinking, establish a "pro-business" concept, the establishment of pro-business service system. In the "pro-business" Under the guidance of the concept, the relationship between government and enterprises is no longer the relationship between management and managed, but service with the Service. the Government does not interfere with the normal production and business activities of enterprises, only responsible for maintaining the market order, and optimize the economic environment and the like responsibilities, so that free enterprise "fly." concrete can take the following measures:
First, improve the investment environment to attract foreign capital. In order to attract foreign enterprises have settled down, need to vigorously improve the basic facilities, such as the establishment of the transport network to facilitate smooth and well-developed communications systems, improve financial services and banking system, the establishment of e-commerce and logistics platform, engage in Good land acquisition and resettlement work in the tax preferential policies, so that foreign companies attracted into and keep them.

Second is to strengthen reform of administrative examination and approval system. In Singapore, citizens spend very little money just to be registered company, the government is responsible for services and regulatory functions, not approval functions. Compared with Singapore, the existence of the administrative examination and approval system many drawbacks, such as low efficiency, there is rent-seeking behavior. We can learn from the Singapore Government's one-stop service model, one-stop service center to form a highly efficient service system. one-stop service center is unique to is directly under it as the government has full authority, businesses and citizens to work only one-stop service center can be a window after finishing all matters, both to improve efficiency, but will also prevent the breeding of corruption, greatly optimizing the investment environment.

Third, commitment to a social service system, strengthen the functions of government services. To build the promised social services system, standardize government behavior, strict regulation arbitrary collection of fees, the charging transparent, open, legitimate, relevant departments in the implementation of the enterprise management services functions, no buck-passing, not perfunctory, in an enterprise application, go through the normal consultation and approval procedures which must be fast, good service, high efficiency, to create a good environment for the development businesses.

(D) establish a "People First" philosophy, public service, improve people's livelihood
All modern states are based on public administration and development anchored the survival of citizens, the government used the majority of public revenue in the community building. At the present stage, employment, social security, education, health, housing, social security and other issues affecting their vital interests are still large, part of the lives of low-income people is still difficult, for which the Government should take the "People First" concept as the starting point, under the guidance of scientific concept of development, on the basis of economic development ensure and improve people's livelihood and building a harmonious society will be implemented in the practice of public management. To strengthen the government's responsibility to provide education, public services, accelerate the establishment of urban and rural residents of the social security system, improve the housing as the main body, affordable housing and cheaper rental housing for the add urban housing security system, strengthening primary focus of the public health system, so that the people to education, employment, medical, pension, and housing.

In addition, in recent years because of urban demolition of property disputes caused by the growing number of community conflict. China can learn from Singapore's experience, set about establishing government management and community self-government combination of new community management system, and actively foster community self-government organizations, and guide people broad participation in community affairs decision-making, management and supervision, improve the level of community self-management. The Government should also focus on coordination and balance interests of all parties to strengthen the government and residents, effective communication between enterprises in land acquisition, demolition, etc. adhere to put people's interests In the first place, and Building a harmonious community. Links http://www.hi138.com Research Papers Download