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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Civil Service Reform"”.
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Why Go Democratic? Civil Service Reform in Central and Eastern Europe
This study examines the civil service systems adopted in the post-communist Central and Eastern European democracies. While these new democracies underwent a process of civil service reform with the goal of increasing the level of bureaucratic professionalism and efficiency, civil service …
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Introducing conventional human resources practices as part of civil service reform in Qatar 2006-2016
… in 2006, the State initiated further major reforms and introduced new Ministers and top executive teams in each of 13 newly created Ministries. This created much additional noise in the data making it difficult to separate the effects of wider reforms from those caused by new HRM practices. …
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Creating a government that works better and costs less: A historical analysis of Civil Service reform
… examination of the dominant ideologies of past reform eras.
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National Security Personnel System (NSPS) a history of creation and enactment of the legislation authorizing its establishment
… historically significant example of modern U.S. Civil Service reform. It also serves as a valuable case study for other government agencies interested in enacting their own civil service reform in the future. The overall objective of this thesis is to construct an analytical history of the …
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Experiential training: does it make a difference? ; a workshop for military supervisors concerning the Department of the Army general performance appraisal system
… Performance Appraisal System to comply with the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. Training efforts, to date, have been only marginally successful in transferring the knowledge and skills required of supervisors to operate the new system and none of the training has been designed specifically for …
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Merit pay: the Federal Government's pay-for-performance experience.
… to administering pay. With the passing of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, the Federal Government began its form of this concept entitled, 'Merit Pay'. Although many studies have examined uses in the areas of pay and total compensation, and even in the narrower area of performance-based …
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Lincoln's Conservatives: Conservative Unionism and Political Tradition in the Civil War Era
… the formation of American conservatism in the Civil War era from an anthropological perspective, treating it as a tribal identification shared by American lawmakers. Nineteenth-century conservatives identified themselves according to their subscription to certain common principles of …
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Department of Defense National Security Personnel System : the transition to pay for performance
… This system will mark the most significant reform to civilian personnel management in 25 years. The DoD expects to implement the NSPS in a phased approach extending over two years, and is giving consideration to the Department of the Navy being the lead service. The NSPS will be built on …
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Effects of politicization on the regime, policy subsystem, and agency levels: a case study of the Commonwealth of Virginia
… over administration through reorganization, civil service reform, and increased use of political appointees have politicized administration in the state. At the regime level, executive aggrandizement reduces the legislature’s constitutional role in administration. This complicates the …
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At-Will Employment in the Public Sector: A Case Study of the Georgia Reform
… distended, unproductive, and impassive. The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 abolished the Civil Service Commission and endorsed reformation of workforce practice and policies. Many states in the United States have followed suit, but with limited measures (Battaglio 2010). It is apparent, …
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Organising science policy : participation, learning & experimentation in British democracy
… systems, or to broader political shifts like civil service reform. Despite the apparent rigidity of Sciencewise practices and discourses, there were significant instances of learning and change observed, resulting in shifting organisational categories, understandings and practices. These …
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Perception of agricultural extension problems in Kenya by policy- makers, supervisors, and field personnel: implications for planned change
… undertaken by governments. Strategies such as civil service reform, bureaucratic innovation, capacity building, and different types of organization development may be useful in this regard. But expanding the problem-solving capacity of rural development organizations themselves, through the …
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The Office of Personnel Management: a study in the politics and administration of American governance
… the ten-year period from its founding in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. The premise of the dissertation is that OPM has been significantly involved in the transformation of the guiding beliefs about the public service in America and that OPM's administrative actions have had important …
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The constitutional position of the British Civil Service : an assessment of the impact of managerialism on the notion of 'the servant of the Crown' via a case study of HM Prison Service
The institution of the civil service is of much contemporary interest here in Britain and elsewhere. The phenomenon of civil service reform forms a significant part of the wider movement to remould public services or in the now legendary phrase, to ‘reinvent government’ on what could be perceived …
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Who Is Our Master? -Debates during Civil Service Reforms-
… These eras were related to the four important civil service reform acts: the two Tenure of Office Acts of 1820 and 1867, Pendleton Act of 1883, and the CSRA of 1978. Congressional debates recorded in Congressional Record were analyzed to find evidences supporting multiple masters perspective. …
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Towards developing a holistic strategic management in the Hong Kong Police Force
… changes over the past decades since the civil service reform and the adoption of the strategic management practice in 2006. The first set of Strategic Directions and Strategic Action Plan (SD and SAP) was introduced in 2008. Since then, the strategic planning process has adopted a …
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Modernizing human resource management : the importance of values-based leadership in the Canadian federal public service /
… theories have been advanced as to why efforts to reform the public service have met with only limited success. Clearly, the role of leadership with respect to reform must be examined, since successful organizational leaders should be extremely accomplished in the promotion and protection of the …
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Pengaturan hukum disiplin pegawai negeri sipil dalam mencegah perceraian
… Regulation No. 10 of 1983, described that the Civil Servant as officers of the State, State Servant, and Society Servant is expected to be good role models for society's behavior, actions, and obedience to the legislation in force. Besides the Civil Service must also comply with certain …