Mandatory Public Service for American Citizens

Introduction

One of the significant evolutions of the last decade is the reform in public service. Public administration and service has become a separate entity. Studies and researches are conducted to improve and better implement the service public activities. Its use is not confined to a single field. Businesses, individuals, and governments are making most of this revolution. This paper highlights the significance of public service with respect to the changing universal service needs.

Definition of Public Service

Public service is the support provided by government or its agencies to the community or a nation as a whole. It is the administrative capacity of the bodies, responsible for the management and resources. The availability of resources alone is not enough; therefore, good governance of resources is a key success factor of public service. Beside governance and recourse allocation aspect, public service is important due to the following reasons (Morgan, 2008, pp. 15).

Public service is the set of services reserved in each State to the orbit of government and that are intended for the coverage of obvious benefits to citizens. A public service is a general purpose or special benefit, which is payable, by the state to all citizens eligible users. These services are provided by sovereign entities (usually the State), and primarily meet the needs of the community or society where they are held. Public services can play an economic or social (or both) and can be provided directly by government or indirectly through public or private.

Some examples are email companies (communication), telephone companies (communication), gas companies and / or electricity (energy), water companies (consumer), construction companies (communication sea / land ports, roads, highways, etc) and banking (saving money). Today, thanks to the technology one can also appoint a large number of modern companies, from radio and ...