Volume 7 – No. 1 © OECD 2007 Improving Public Sector Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities by Teresa Curristine‚ Zsuzsanna Lonti and Isabelle Joumard* This article examines key institutional drivers that may contribute to improving public sector efficiency and focuses on one of them in more detail: performance information and its role and use in the budget process (“performance budgeting”). * Teresa Curristine is a Policy Analyst in the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate
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Personnel management refers to a set of functions or activities including recruitment‚ training‚ pay and industrial relations performed effectively but often in isolation from each other or with overall organisation objectives. In 1991‚ Hilmer noted that the Australian tradition of many sub-specialities or functions (industrial relations‚ compensation‚ training and pay) was out of date. The early 1990s was an are of great speculation on the future of the functions in managing people. The concept
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Introduction The purpose of the study is to explain why the misappropriation of asset happens in the public sector. Asset misappropriation is where the frauds involved the perpetrator employs trickery or deceit to steal or misuse an organization’s resources. The individuals committing asset misappropriation may be among the employees of an organization‚ customers or vendors of an organization‚ or may be the individuals unrelated to the victim organization. According to the KPMG Malaysia Fraud Survey
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be an indispensable tool for modern business activities. However‚ not only for the profit orientated commercial business‚ it also plays an important role in the non-profit profit organizations‚ such as public sectors. Moreover‚ due to several deficiencies and drawbacks of government accounting and financial-management systems‚ such as unclear accountability‚ poorly maintained assets and hided losses and long-term liabilities‚ reforms in the public sector have been conducted over the last several decades
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Managerial Skills: Strategies for Helping Managers In Organizations Personnel Management and Organizational Behavior Dr. Tassos Petrou February 20‚ 2007 Managerial Skills: Strategies for Helping Managers In Organizations Understanding Organizational Behavior (OB) presents countless challenges for managers in today’s changing society. Confronting these challenges accurately will assist managers in developing suitable environments for employees to execute occupational functions
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Managing in the Public and Private sector Long Essay Alex Francis = 33353645 National Health Service Introduction History of NHS The NHS was born 65 years ago on the 5th of July 1948. It came from a long held idea from a man called Aneurin Bevan who was the minister of health in Britain at the time. He believed that health care should be widely accessible to anyone regardless their colour‚ condition and most importantly their wealth. The NHS has grown to be one of the world’s most publicly funded
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Section 1 – Understand the factors that affect an organisation and the customer service role 1. Complete the table below with a description of the products and services for at least two commercial organisations‚ public organisations and third sector organisations. Please ensure you provide a description for each organisation‚ rather than a list. Organisation type | Name of organisation | Description of products and services | Commercial organisation | Cleaning firms
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when there is change because‚ it may be seen as a threat to be challenged or resisted‚ or when there is frustration‚ this may produce an aggressive reaction‚ fight rather than flight. Conflict is not to be deplored‚ it is an inevitable result of progress and change and it can be used constructively. Conflict between individuals raises fewer problems than conflict between groups. Individuals cannot act independently and resolve their differences; members of group may have to accept the norms‚ goals
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Both the public sector and the private sector depend on each other to operate efficiently and to serve the interest of the general populace.They therefore work hand in hand to the good of the society. The distinction between public and private can be seen as one of the “grand dichotomies” of Western thought (Weintraub‚ 1997: 1). It is also a dichotomy that dominates the field of public administration where it is mostly defined as a binary distinction between the realm
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INTRODUCTION 1. Public enterprises are neither new nor unique to India. In good old days‚ Kautilya in his ‘Arthasastra’ talked of a public sector. A person was made incharge of salt manufacture and fixing its price. Similarily there were people made responsible for mining‚ coinage and gold‚ all in public sector. Nowadays there is hardly any country that is not engaged actively and directly in the management of economic and industrial enterprises. Various names given to these enterprises are ‘Public Sector
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