... picture. On the positive side, most councils had initiated race awareness training programmes. The majority had also incorporated aspects of race equality into their equal opportunities policies and most had instituted measures to engage with ethnic minority communities. However, there are still areas...

... Professional education Equal opportunities Public sector organizations Managers A further set of challenges is presented by expectations of public service organisations to be equal opportunities employers. Public sector organisations employ a diverse group of staff and serve a diverse community...

... Publishing Limited 2007 United States of America Public sector organizations Service delivery Equal opportunities Organizational culture A scholar of public administration writing in an issue of the American Society for Public Administration's PA Times points out...

... analysis and summary of the different schools of thought. David Bamford can be contacted at: David.Bamford@mbs.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 National Health Service Hospitals Equal opportunities Race relations Employee relations The management of racial...

...Mohamed Branine This paper starts with the assumption that local authorities, under the new public management, may use job sharing as part of an equal opportunities policy in order to attract and retain experienced and professional employees. Data collected from 32 councils in England and Scotland...

... to the ineffectiveness of the solutions proposed by the Commission and their failure to address the charges of ethnic imbalances. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Ethnic groups Service control Equal opportunities Trinidad and Tobago Guyana Ethnic conflicts are frequent occurrences in the developed as well...

...Elisabeth M. Wilson; Paul A. Iles The UK public sector has had a long‐standing policy commitment to equal opportunities, alongside limited access to managerial positions for women, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities. In place of equal opportunities, a new paradigm, managing diversity...

.... These questions were explored through the case study of an organisation which was selected as typifying many others in the public sector. It has a track record of being proactive in equal opportunities policy, strategy and practices; and a structure which was recently changed by the removal of the central equal...

...Marilyn McDougall Highlights the recent growth in the concept of managing diversity as an alternative to equal opportunities, and considers whether the difference between them is simply one of semantics or of material substance. Assesses the nature of these differences and considers their impact...

... to the service. Examines the debate and counters criticisms surrounding it through comparisons with reforms in Britain′s National Health Service, and also with the Dutch and Japanese police. Argues that direct entry could catalyze change and improvement in the areas of equal opportunities, specialist functional...

... participation in the development process. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Africa Botswana Equal opportunities Gender Management development Women Gender Sensitivity in Public Management Education in Africa Victor Ayeni University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana Gender Sensitivity in Africa 47 The focus...

..., there was no improvement in their attitude towards an equity programme for women. Implications for the Equity Reform process are discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Attitude surveys Australia Discrimination Equal opportunities Public administration Top management Equity Reform in Public Administration...