... of HRM may indicate both practical mistakes associated with implementation and/or deep seated misconceptions in the relevance of management reform to the wider reform of public services. Our evidence, taken from samples of UK and Irish Civil Service managers, shows a more subtle set of failings...

...John Dixon Australia began a comprehensive process of federal civil service reform in the 1970s, culminating in the introduction of a set of ambitious administrative reforms in the 1980s. Faced with the challenges of reform implementation, the traditional approach to public management development...

...Nail A.H.K. Awamleh Probes organizational commitment of civil service managers in Jordan. Employs descriptive, analytical and field survey methodologies. A specially‐designed questionnaire was distributed to 420 civil service managers in Jordan of which 293 have been returned and analysed. Explains...

...Na′il A.H.K. Awamleh Examines the relationship between managerial innovation (dependent variable) and sex, age, education, organizational level, and length of service as independent variables. The sample of this field survey included 293 managers in the civil service in Jordan. Primary data have...