Public servants as partners for growth
Subtitle: toward a stronger, leaner and more equitable workforce
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9789264166707; 9789264166691
Subjects: Civil service; Personnel management; Officials and employees; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Public Affairs & Administration; Employees
Description: Public Servants as Partners for Growth:Toward a Stronger, Leaner and More Equitable Workforce compiles the main policy lessons of the work of the Public Employment and Management Network of the Public Governance Committee on reallocation of the public workforce, managing competencies, and fostering diversity. Its basic underpinning is that for the public service to make a contribution and underpin the economic recovery and growth it requires modernising its governance structures. Civil service systems are at public management's core; hence they are central to governmental effectiveness. In the current context, countries need to ensure that the public workforce is motivated and committed to delivery, and produce change, despite the need for pay restraints and redundancies. Investments in the quality of people management, strategic workforce planning, competencies and diversity of the public workforce are critical to make it more competent, flexible and adaptable in order to have a competitive, innovative and inclusive public sector. Governments have to maintain and improve the capacity of the public service while at the same time producing savings. The key issue is seeing the public workforce as an asset and not as a cost.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Executive summary; title: Managing the public workforce through difficult times; title: Getting it right; title: The government shift to competency management; title: Fostering diversity in the public service; title: Policy lessons for restructuring public workforce management.