從消極規避到積極應用：政府資訊公開法下建構「臺灣文官調查資料庫」的芻議   全文下載

From Passive Avoidance to Proactive Application: A Proposal for Building Taiwan Government Bureaucrats Survey Database (TGBS) under the FOIA

Since the introduction in 2005 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in Taiwan, researchers have mainly focused on people’s right to know and how to ease the problem of“information asymmetry”between government and citizenry. Not much attention was given to discussing the possible added value from the perspective of government knowledge and information management (KIM). Because of the preoccupation with the controversy over openness vs. secrecy, the government has not been able to develop and re-use government information to create useable and evidence-based managerial knowledge to improve government effectiveness. In this article, we use the 2008 Taiwan Government Bureaucrats Survey (TGBS) to illustrate the possible benefits of establishing Taiwan Government Human Resource Management Database. Some crucial reforms are needed to establish this kind of managerial database and some possible topics of research are discussed to show the potential benefits that will be created by the reform efforts to revitalize the effectiveness of our government.