on Public Sector Reform PHILOSOPHY FOR PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM Government’s policy for public sector reform is driven by a philosophy that makes the interest of the people of paramount concern. The human resource is the most valuable of all national resources. People‚ whether there are the employers‚ employees or customers of the public sector‚ transcend structures‚ systems‚ procedures and technology. They are the key elements to the overall success of government’s initiative in public sector reform
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USA COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ASSIGNMENT INTRODUCTION Public Personnel Management as a field of study has undergone considerable development in the past 40 years. Personnel professionals now have available a wide range of techniques which they can apply toward the efficient acquisition‚ allocation‚ and development of human resources – human resource planning‚ job analysis‚ selection‚ appraisal‚ training‚ and labour management relations. The field of personnel management is growing in importance
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WHAT CHALLENGES DOES THE TRADITIONAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ENCOUNTER IN A CHANGING PUBLIC SECTOR ENVIRONMENT The traditional model of public administration (TPA) remains the longest standing and most successful theory of management in the public sector which pre-dominated for most of the 20th century. The TPA can be characterized as an administration under the formal control of the political leadership which was based on a strictly hierarchical model of bureaucracy‚ staffed by permanent‚ neutral
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Management of Change in the Public Sector Joseph Mphafudi Contents 0 Introduction 2 The definition of Change management 3 Origin of Change Management 4 Factors that prompted Necessity for Change 5 The Approach to Change Management in the Public Sector 6 Managing Change in the public Sector –Methods and Tools 14 Conclusion 16 References 17 Introduction In today’s knowledge-based economy‚ the world is highly competitive and demanding. Society
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COMES TO THE PUBLIC SECTOR Richard B. Freenan Working Paper No. 1452 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 September 1984 The research reported here is part of the NBER ’s research program in Labor Studies and project in Government Budget. Any opinions expressed are those of the author and not those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER Working Paper #1452 September 1984 Unionism Comes to the Public Sector ABSTRACT This
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However‚ there is one sector in which organized labors are at historic lows and are unlikely to rebound: government. This has severe implications for the nature of organized labor itself. Unionism grew in the private sector as a result of government support through the passage of laws and the establishment of regulatory bodies intended to encourage the expansion of unionism and collective bargaining throughout the workforce. On the other hand‚ union organizing in the public sector starterd only after
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“Private and public sector management differ only in context‚ but this difference is significant.” George Boyne in his article “Human resource management in the Public and private sectors: An empirical comparison” explains with empirical evidence how even though private and public sector management differs in service ethos but this difference is significant which impacts the tradition‚ culture and practises of both the sectors. Over the past two decades many different interpretations and perceptions
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PUBLIC SECTOR WHAT ARE PUBLIC GOODS‚ MERIT GOODS AND IMPURE PUBLIC GOODS? WHAT KIND OF A PROBLEM IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS? WHAT ARE THE REMEDIES? A public good is a good or service that can be consumed simultaneously by everyone and from which no one can be excluded—nonrival and nonexcludable. They are determined in terms of their economic rather than their administrative‚ physical‚ normative or financing charateristics. The market will fail to exist for public goods because
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Overview of Central Public Sector Enterprises The government-owned corporations play a pivotal role in the economic development of emerging economies because their participation is higher in the industrial and commercial activities of these economies. Resource constraints and limited scope of the private sector in the early stages of development and planning have set the stage for predominance of the public enterprises in these economies. Thus‚ public sectors in the leading developing countries
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1) Explain the development of human resource management and how it differs from personnel management. Human resource management involves all management decisions and practices that directly affect or influence the people‚ or human resources‚ who work for the organization. In other words‚ Human resource management is concerned with ‘people centric issues’ in management. The Human Resources Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities‚ and key among them is deciding what staffing
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