Title: The Canadian public service ;
Authors: Hodgetts, J. E.,
Date: 1973
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Physical description: xiii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: J
Contents: Environment and structure : Social purpose and structural response -- The public service and the powerful persuaders -- The political system -- The legal foundations -- II. Design for operations : Allocation of programmes: the departmental rubric -- Allocation of programmes: the guiding principles -- Structural heretics: the non-departmental forms -- Internal division of labour: devolution and the hierarchy -- Buttresses for the hierarchy: auxiliary and staff functions -- The geographical dispersal of work -- III. Design for management : The treasury board: cabinet's management arm -- The public service commission: the ambivalence of central personnel management -- Departmental management: responsibility without authority -- Employees of the public service: the neglected managerial link.
Subject headings (LCSH): Canada--Executive departments.; Canada--Politics and government--1867-; Civil service--Canada.; Executive departments--Canada.