Human Resource Development in the Public Sector: A Developing‐country Experience Available to Purchase

Examines the relationships and problems that exist between the theory and practice of human resource development in the public sector. Aims at enhancing the capability of human resource management systems to adapt and respond proactively to a constantly changing environment in the 1990s and beyond. Identifies and analyses the evolution and development of human resource management systems in the Barbados public sector with special reference to the role of the personnel agencies,systemic as well as sectoral problems, policy/political constraints and the relationships between management capability and national development.