It's all about context and implementation some thoughts prompted by: unlocking the human potential for Public Sector Performance--the United Nations World Public Sector Report 2005.

From: Public Personnel Management | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Lavelle, John | Copyright information

The 2005 World Public Sector Report makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the drivers of public sector performance. It skillfully manages to meld scholarship, breath, specificity and pragmatism into a unified and coherent whole: it is thought provoking and surely required reading for all who are concerned about the role of people in effective public administration in general and the critical contribution of human resource management (HRM) to public sector success, in part...

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