Title: Public Service Reform and Policy Capacity: Recruiting and Retaining the Best and the Brightest
Abstract: In discussions of state policy capacity one area that is often neglected is the recruitment, retention and development of professional staff. This chapter addresses this issue by examining the effects of public service reform on government policy capacity in respect of the quality of public service staff. In doing so it argues that public service reforms over the past two decades — or at least in countries that have been highly receptive to the new public management paradigm — and a general political climate that is critical of bureaucracies have made it difficult to recruit and retain 'the best and the brightest'. This is a critical failing for those regimes in which public servants are expected to function as 'partners in governance' with political executives, having leadership roles in respect of corporate, government-wide responsibilities as well as for individual departmental or agency responsibilities.KeywordsPublic ServiceService CommissionPolicy WorkPublic Service CommissionPolicy KnowledgeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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