Integrating People Management into Public Service Reform

In the context of major public sector reform efforts in many OECD countries, increasing attention is being focused on the people-side of the reform equation -- the human resource management policies and practices available to public sector managers to shape and direct the workforce to achieve new or...

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Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autores Corporativos: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Public Management Committee. Content Provider (content provider)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 1996.
Edición:1st ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FOREWORD
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS
  • Context of Public Sector Human Resource Management Reforms
  • Major Human Resource Management Reform Trends
  • Summary Assessment of Country Experiences
  • CHAPTER1. WHY REFORM HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT?
  • The Study
  • Factors driving reforms
  • CHAPTER 2. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT REFORM TRENDS
  • General Observations
  • Decentralisation and Devolution of Human Resource Management
  • Pay and Classification Systems
  • Staffing Practices
  • Progress of Human Resource Management Reforms
  • CHAPTER 3. ASSESSMENT OF COUNTRY EXPERIENCES: REFORM STRATEGIES AND IMPACTS
  • General Observations
  • Downsizing
  • Decentralisation and Devolution
  • Devolution and the Position of Line Managers
  • Key Role for Training and Development
  • Rule of the Centre in a Decentralised Environment
  • Decentralisation and a Unified Public Service
  • Need for Comprehensive Reform Strategies
  • Core Business Planning and Human Resources Management
  • Performance Management
  • Evaluation
  • Balancing Competing Reform Pressures
  • The Need to Push Human Resource Management Reforms Further
  • Chapter 4.  POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
  • A. Develop a strategic approach to managing people
  • B. Articulate and promote key human resource management principles and values
  • C. Ensure performance oriented management that links individual staff performance with organisational goals
  • D. Raise the profile of training and development as a key element of strategic human resource management
  • E. Ensure conditions of employment and working arrangements support the staffing needs of the public service
  • F. Invest in monitoring and evaluation of human resource management practices or programme of reforms
  • GLOSSARY OF TERMS
  • Annex 1. HRM DEVELOPMENTS (SURVEY RESPONSES)
  • Annex 2. MAIN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT REFORMS 1980-1994.
  • Annex 3. SUMMARY TABLE ON HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT REFORMS IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE
  • Annex 4.COUNTRY CASE STUDIES