Pay-for-performance systems: experiences in Australia

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The key to a successful implementation of pay-for-performance policies in Australian public sectors is through adopting a more interventionist stance by coordinating agencies. A managerialist framework, in which the central agencies have certainly prescribed and understood functions, can possibly provide an administrative environment to promote the emergence of performance appraisal and pay. However, some variables such as organizational trust, union opposition and limited government funding, are likely to impede a successful implementation.

Australia, Human resource management, Civil service, Public sector

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Reinventing government and redefining leadership

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The reinvention of government calls for public organizations to encourage teamwork, engage the talent of leaders seeking transformation, and reduce heirarchies in the government to achieve the creation of entrepreneurial organizations. Government reinvention seeks to establish a decentralized government. Management and labor should be encouraged to consider each other as partners rather than adversaries as promoting teamwork and trust will lead to effective and creative results.

Government Organization, Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support, Decentralized Organization, Planning, Administrative agencies, Government agencies, Decentralization in government, Government decentralization, Decentralization (Management)

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Market metaphors and political vocabularies: the case of the marginalized citizen

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One of the serious impediments in implementing social policy is the use of political metaphors. Political metaphors have that effect of muddling the interpretation of parameters by which the success of a particular social policy implementation may be measured, which exonerates the politicians but crucifies many public administrators. The effectivity of public administrators is in detaching themselves from the political rhetoric and concentrating on the delivery of services.

Analysis, Education, Higher, Higher education, Politics

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