Title: Driving the fake out of public administration : detoxing HR in the Canadian federal public sector /
Authors: Hubbard, Ruth, 1942-; Paquet, Gilles, 1936-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Civil service Canada Personnel management.
Abstract: "This book deals with the fake at the origin of much unwarranted waste and inefficiency in the Canadian federal public administration. The authors propose that it has its sources in the progressivist cosmology that has displaced the primary concern of government from coordination to distribution. They probe the world of human resources (HR) as an illustration of the malefits entailed by this displacement of focus which occurred dramatically in 1967 when the Government of Canada decided to care less about performance and more about being a 'model employer.' An MRI of the HR systems helps to guide a process of modernisation of the HR regimes. But the reader is sharply reminded in the conclusion that one cannot detox the HR regimes without tackling the progressivist cosmology."--
Contents: The storyline: it is all a matter of coordination / Gilles Paquet -- The priority should be perforance, not being a model employer / Ruth Hubbard -- Tinkering can no longer suffice / Ruth Hubbard & Gilles Paquet -- Failure to confront / Gilles Paquet -- An MRI of HRM in the public sector: a prototype intent on complicating matters / Ruth Hubbard & Gilles Paquet -- Social architecture and competencies / Ruth Hubbard & Gilles Paquet -- An agenda for cultural change in the federal public service / Gilles Paquet -- Killing two birds with one stone: a mental prison and a cosmology / Gilles Paquet.