Practical and theoretical underpinnings on the policy leadership role of chief administrative appointed officers of local govemments were to be propped by employing mailed-questionnaire to the whole number of Korean top appointed administrators who ha...
Practical and theoretical underpinnings on the policy leadership role of chief administrative appointed officers of local govemments were to be propped by employing mailed-questionnaire to the whole number of Korean top appointed administrators who had positioned in November 1994. Local chief govemment officials identified administrative professionalism as their work value and commitment to public services as their professional one. The survey results revealed that local council expressed more concems to policymaking rather than to program effectiveness. Local-chiefs answered that the most preferred way of citizen's participation in local policy arenas was dialogue to the interested and participated counterparts at implemenatation stage. And the top policy agenda of Korean local autonomy in the coming decade will be the budget-independence from the heavy dependency of grants and subsidies currently provided by the central govemment.