Human resource management in European public services
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An introduction to eight articles based on case studies that reported and analyzed new human resource management (HRM) practices in selected European public services. The articles cover topics like staff communication and consultation, job satisfaction, HRM reforms and organizational performance, learning and development, and public services as employers of choice. The modernization of public services or reforms highlights some ambiguities, tensions and contradictions that the public managers need to be address.
Publication Name: Review of Public Personnel Administration
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0734-371X
Year: 2004
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Best value reviews of human resource services in English local government
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The United KingdomEs public sector modernization agenda has significant implications for human resource (HR) practices and how they contribute to organizational performance. The effects of externally imposed performance assessment process on HR practices in local government are examined as also their impact on the development of high performance model of the central government performance.
Publication Name: Review of Public Personnel Administration
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0734-371X
Year: 2004
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New directions in staff consultation and communication in the British Civil service and the Prison Service
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The results of a research conducted on senior managers and trade union officials indicate that there is a sweeping change in the nature of partnership agreements, staff participation and communication practices in the British civil service and the prison service.
Publication Name: Review of Public Personnel Administration
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0734-371X
Year: 2005
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