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News & Events
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15-Jan-2009
What does it mean for a national government when important decisions about public employment and public employees are taken by sub-national governments? What are the risks that the national government runs as a result of the decentralisation of responsibilities and competences, and what strategies and measures can a national government develop to manage these risks? These are the questions dealt with in this study.
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11-Dec-2008
This book takes stock of the main changes in the management of public services across OECD countries and aims to help governments and the public better understand some of the complex issues. It summarises the findings of the OECD Public Employment and Management working party over the past 15 years.
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05-Feb-2008
As part of a wider project on developing comparable data and indicators of good government and efficient public services, the OECD is currently developing a new methodology for gathering comparable data on public employment. The goals of this methodology are two-fold: to measure the production costs of goods and services of the "public domain" and to put public employment numbers and costs in the perspective of these wider costs.
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13-Aug-2007
In their quest for legitimacy, democratic regimes find themselves having to balance two values that can be in some tension: fair and non-politically partisan public service delivery and, subject to the law, the responsiveness of public servants to the policies of the current executive. This paper depicts the way in which different countries have developed institutional arrangements which balance these two concerns, to avoid the extremes of a self-serving public service immune to political leadership, or an over-politicised public service hostage to patronage and serving partisan interests.
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25-Sep-2007
The review of human resource management in Belgium's governments is the first country review of its kind to be carried out by the OECD. It provides a detailed diagnosis and solutions for improving the management of government employees in the Brussels-Capital Region, Federal Government, Flemish Government, French Community and Wallon Region. The report compares the policies and practices of Belgium with those in other OECD countries, as well as those across different governments in Belgium.
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19-Jul-2007
This paper details the findings of a study into how performance-based arrangements at the individual level are related to performance management arrangements at higher levels such as the agency or programme level. The paper aims to provide practical lessons and insights into performance-based arrangements for senior civil servants derived from country and practitioner experiences, and is meant to be applicable to countries starting to work with such arrangements as well as to countries wanting to improve their existing systems.
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08-Mar-2007
The consequences of an ageing workforce are magnified in the public sector which has an older demographic profile than the private sector. How can pension reform help attract and retain capacity in the public service as large numbers of experienced public servants retire?
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Events
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on 01-Oct-2009
Workforce diversity contributes to a stronger and fairer public service that is better equiped to understand and meet public expectations. Experts from OECD countries discussed the challenges and innovative practices in fostering diversity at a meeting at the OECD Headquarters in Paris.
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