When the halo wears off: a recent United Nations report, Unlocking the Human Potential for Public Sector Performance, shares some lessons from two decades of global diffusion of New Public Management thinking and practice.

From: The Public Manager | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

The World Public Sector Report 2005: Unlocking the Human Potential for Public Sector Performance, released in October 2005 by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, looks at how governments are tackling some of the key human resource management (HRM) challenges facing the public sector. Among its policy recommendations, the report cautions developing countries against overzealous adoption of private-sector practices in public management. Private-sector practices, the report argues, are not a panacea that can address all the problems confronting the public ...

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