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PUBLIC EXPECTATIONS [2 records]

Record 1 2014-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
CONT

There are many pressures on public servants. On the one hand, the single-window approach raises public expectations with regard to service. On the other hand, the public service is supposed to be increasingly entrepreneurial. Public servants are expected to co-operate horizontally across departments and to be accountable vertically as well.

OBS

public expectations: term rarely used in the singular (public expectation).

Key term(s)
  • public expectation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
CONT

Bien des pressions s’exercent sur les fonctionnaires. D’une part, la méthode du guichet unique a augmenté les attentes du public relativement à l’accès aux services du gouvernement. D’autre part, la fonction publique est censée être de plus en plus entrepreneuriale. L’on s’attend à ce que les fonctionnaires coopèrent horizontalement entre ministères et rendent des comptes verticalement.

OBS

attentes du public : terme rarement utilisés au singulier (attente du public).

Key term(s)
  • attente du public

Spanish

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Record 2 1988-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

... the various participants in environmental assessment, especially those who design, undertake and evaluate the impact studies need guidance in many aspects of the assessment including conceptual approaches, attainable objectives, scientific limitations and public expectations. This discussion has shown how a rigorous regard for the meaning of the significance of impacts can begin to provide that guidance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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