... in the public sector. This implies that the county government should invest in management development programs and leadership development workshops. The investment can equip leaders to effectively implement and foster a supportive work environment, driving ES. Originality/value The study introduces a more...

... of public sector services. This systematic review summarizes the existing knowledge in the field of management development in the public sector to investigate the main justifications for its implementation and identify factors that contribute to or hinder its effectiveness in the public sector. Design...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Competency Superior performance Public sector Competency model Human resource management Employee competence is a critical component of an organisation's effort to successfully achieve its desired goals. As a consequence, today's...

... This study identifies the competencies necessary for effective middle managers within the public sector context. Conducting behavioral event interviews with two distinct groups provides empirically unique behavioral evidence of competencies that characterize effective public middle managers and enables...

...Saša Baškarada; Brian Hanlon Purpose Although corporate portfolio management (CPM) has been a popular tool for strategic management of multi-business portfolios in the private sector since the late 1960s, it has received limited attention in the public sector. Accordingly, empirical research...

...Farhad Analoui Despite the considerable attention given to managers and their effectiveness in the last few decades, a great deal of confusion and concern still surrounds the subject. Recently, attention has been drawn to the importance of the role of the public sector to the realisation...

... on the receiving end of the intended initiative. In doing so, it opened up the possibility that the deep‐seated assumptions on which the career development initiative was based would be called into question by the intended participants. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Career development Management Public...

... study which has been carried out in the Romanian public sector. Finds that senior managers are aware of the needs for their own and others’ effectiveness and desire for development, and that the presence of certain conditions, some specific to Eastern European countries, tend to act as inhibiting...

... and accountability regimes, and the ethical challenges created by the juxtaposition of administrative power with ambiguity, complexity and indeterminacy. All of these affect, if not govern, the way they must manage. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Australia Civil Service Competences Management Public sector...

... and managers has enabled the new management to introduce a private enterprise system of management to replace the defunct public sector system. The nature of the change process was an abrupt top‐down approach, the details of which were settled in the negotiation process between the Government...

... Local government Public sector Quality Service United Kingdom © MCB UP Limited 1996 Yet quality, it must be feared, is becoming a turn‐off word for managers in local government. It has been connected in people’s minds with faddish managerialism, with top‐down, somewhat mechanistic...

... with something new. This could be innovation, changes or improvements to existing services or reorganizing of delivery systems for services. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Decentralization Local government Public sector Quality Service United Kingdom This article draws on project work...

... Local government Management development Public sector In this article we look at selected human resource management policies and practices in local government. We analyse trends in the compensation area as the increasing use of variable pay, merit/performance‐related pay, are very typical...

...; or to create a vicious cycle of more uncertainty ‐ more anxiety ‐ more defensive routines ‐ less work on the shared task. The potentially disastrous outcome is a more dysfunctional group not achieving its task. Customers Internal markets Managers Public sector Service Suppliers...

...B.K. Bakhshi Focuses on India as an example of Asia in general to emphasise the importance of the public sector in establishing the infrastructure necessary to develop the Third World. Argues that the Third World cannot follow Western or other models to solve its problems. Due to the unique...

...Thord Palmlund The UNDP governing council established the Management Development Programme (MDP) in 1988 with a facility of $60 million. The objective of the MDP is to assist developing countries in improving their public sectors by enhancing their governments′ management capabilities...

...′s officials responsible for such support looks into issues which need to be taken into account when an international agency tries to provide support to improving public sector management. It considers the problems of institutional training and on‐the‐job training of managers, and proposes...

... support for the case method. The first two were fairly easy to do, but the latter has been only partly successful. Work is continuing on driving the roots of the case method deeply into the institution. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Canada Case studies Management development Public sector...