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| 1. General
information
The Speyer Quality Award was brought into existence in 1992 at the National School of Public Administration Speyer. This School is the only postgraduate university for public administration in Germany. It was founded in 1947 by the French occupying power in Palatinate following the example of the Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA). The body responsible for the School are all German States and the Federal Government. After the reunification of Germany the five east German States ("Länder") joined the Treaty, which constitutes the School. The National School of Public Administration Speyer is the central training institution for the sixteen Länder. Ever since it worked in its training courses on questions of modernising public administration. 2. Aims It is the intention of the Speyer Quality Award to foster the modernisation
of public administrations. Instead of "civil service-bashing", which is
- often unconsidered - done by the media, positive examples show that and
how successful modernisation can be achieved. Through the exchange of views
during the course and after the competition the participating administrations
are given the opportunity to learn from each other and to orient their
modernisation efforts towards internationally acknowledged standards.
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3. Benefits
for public administrations
Candidate organisations apply for the Speyer Quality Award. The application
takes place on the basis of a self assessment, for which the comprehensive
criteria list builds the framework. A lot of administrations, which took
part in the former rounds of the Competition, have confirmed that this
procedure has the effect of a guided organisational analysis. With this
tool adequately used, public administrations can put their own organisation
under close scrutiny, for example in project groups, and then modernise
it continuously. Benchmarking with other administrations and the exchange
of views during the congress at the end of the competition foster the achievement
principle and motivate participants for further improvement of the own
administration. This is part of an active knowledge management of public
organisations.
4. Benefits for sponsors The Speyer Quality Award depends on financial support by sponsoring
partners. These partners may come from all areas which work together with
public administration (banks, assurance companies, consultants, software
companies, furnishers, providing and disposing companies etc.). Other companies,
which want to contribute to the improvement of the locational factor public
administration by a societal-oriented marketing are also very welcome.
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5.
Since 1992: Five competition rounds
For the Speyer Quality Awards modern management and quality concepts from the private and the public area, the national and the international level are analysed continuously and worked in the current competition. The planning and realisation of the competition is therefore steadily improved. The 1st Speyer Quality Award 1992 went on from a project of the Canadian
audit office with the topic "Well performing organizations". In addition
other international quality competitions like the Malcolm Baldridge Quality
Award in the United States or the European Quality Award were considered.
From private management the guidelines DIN EN ISO 9000 ff., from the public
area the initiatives of the Kommunale Gemeinschaftsstelle (Local Government
Management Board) with regard to the "Neues Steuerungsmodell" ("New Steering
Model") as well as the work of the Bertelsmann Foundation with its international
and national network of reform-oriented local governments have been taken
into account.
6. Further information For further information please turn to: Armin Liebig, M.A., Mag. rer. publ.
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