Diriger comme Barack Obama
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Ces dernières semaines, les manchettes et l'attention du monde entier étaient centrées sur deux dossiers : l'élection présidentielle aux États-Unis...
Purpose, people, performance: The roles and attributes of effective public sector leaders
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Much of the current leadership and human resource literature focuses on outlining core leadership "competencies," but empirical research shows that...
A culture of performance for managing complexity
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Managing public sector organizations requires living with high levels of complexity and managing ever-increasing demands and changing priorities.
Workforce renewal in an aging world
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Popular wisdom holds that the public service will need to recruit a large number of young professionals, mostly recent grads,...
Comment l’amélioration des communications avec le citoyen permettra à l’administration publique de se redéfinir
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La phase d'expansion initiale qu'a connue l'Internet dans les années 90 étant maintenant bel et bien terminée, nous pouvons commencer...
Achievements and challenges for the Public Service Commission
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The Public Service Commission is a unique Canadian institution. Its mandate as a guardian of merit and the non-partisan character...
Managing for performance
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Performance management leads to either disdain or glee in public sector organizations. Both reactions rely on a faulty understanding on...
Case Studies: It pays to learn from others
4 min read
We live in times of significant demographic and technological transition across the broader public sector. People are leaving. New people...
Zero to hero: Changing municipal culture
4 min read
In terms of performance measurement, incentives for success and penalties for failure, public sector organizations operate in a paradigm detached...
The legacy of the scholar-practitioner
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As the pace of public service retirements has picked up, so have reports of questionable decisions and "wheel reinventions" arising...