Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada, 2003-04

Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada, 2003-04
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 9
Release: 2004
Genre:
ISBN: 9780662681465

This report describes some of the key events of the past year that have affected the public service. It describes progress made in building a better public service, and it sets out some of the main challenges that the public service faces over the next year and beyond.

Professionalism and Public Service

Professionalism and Public Service
Author: David Siegel
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2008-07-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442692006

Representing the leading scholars in the field, Professionalism and Public Service assesses the state of public administration in Canada while also moving the discipline forward both as a profession and an academic discipline. The contributors to this volume trace the evolution of public administration institutions and explore issues such as the protection and improvement of the public service, recent innovations in the area of service delivery, and how this has created increased legitimacy and recognition from citizens. The various chapters also examine the importance of ongoing learning and training within the public service, and study many recent advances in teaching methods for both students as well as for public administration practitioners. Written in honour of Kenneth Kernaghan, the groundbreaking scholar who played an important role in public administration in Canada, Professionalism and Public Service thematically highlights some of his lasting contributions to the discipline. It is a history of the recent evolution of an essential part of Canadian governance and a fitting tribute to a distinguished scholar.

The Innovation System of the Public Service of Canada

The Innovation System of the Public Service of Canada
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2018-11-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9264307737

Governments today are confronted with a complex array of interconnected problems, increased citizen expectations, and fiscal constraints. Furthermore, they must operate in a context of fast-paced technological, geopolitical, economic, social, and environmental change. Existing policies and ...

Public Branding and Marketing

Public Branding and Marketing
Author: Staci M. Zavattaro
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2021-07-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030705056

This edited volume details public branding and marketing from a global, comparative perspective. Place branding and marketing practices are now prominent in cities, states, nations, regions, and organizations all over the world. While disciplines such as hospitality management, tourism marketing, and business marketing have made inroads into understanding the intricacies of place branding, research in public administration and policy is still emerging. This volume fills that research gap. Including accounts from both the academic and practitioner communities, this book bridges the academic-practitioner divide and provides a holistic account of branding and marketing in public organizations as well as immediate application and lessons learned. The book takes an explicit public administration approach, focusing on a wide range of topics such as branding leadership, co-creation, stakeholder engagement, education, non-profit marketing and branding, and city administration. The book is divided into four sections. Section I highlights the process of developing and communicating public branding and marketing efforts. Section II focuses specifically on how social media and other digital technologies are used to communicate and evaluate place branding strategies. Section III centers on branding at the local government level. Section IV highlights how various stakeholder groups come together (or not) when participating in strategic branding efforts. Presenting various methodologies, approaches, and implications of place branding and marketing across differing social, cultural, political, and economic conditions, this book will be of use to scholars and students in public. administration, tourism studies, and business administration as well as professionals and practitioners in the public branding and marketing field.

Public Sector Leadership

Public Sector Leadership
Author: Jeffrey A. Raffel
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1848449348

A truly international examination of public sector leadership, this book explores the ways leaders of developed nations are addressing current challenges. The overriding question explored by the authors is how public leadership across the globe addresses new challenges (such as security, financial, demographic), new expectations of leaders, and what public sector leadership means in the new era. The book allows the reader to view a large number of situations across the globe to better understand the relation between context and leadership. It integrates the two fields of leadership and public administration, providing a wide-ranging and complementary empirical context to the topic. Transcending state-centered perspectives, the authors include new developments in governance and public private sector collaboration while retaining a focus on the public values involved. The chapters address public sector leadership issues in a wide array of nations, integrating international perspectives with a globally diverse authorship. Several chapters address issues of collaboration across sectors, changing roles in the New Public Management paradigm, and corresponding new visions of leadership. Several of the chapters are explicitly comparative, including a study of mental health leadership training topics in eight nations, central banking in Europe, and efficiency studies in Britain, Denmark, and Norway. The chapters can be used as thought-provoking case studies as part of a supplemental text, and are accompanied by substantial bibliographies. Scholars, students, and practitioners in leadership, public policy and administration, and organization studies will find this volume a useful reference.

The International Handbook of Public Administration and Governance

The International Handbook of Public Administration and Governance
Author: Andrew Massey
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1781954496

The International Handbook of Public Administration and Governance is a ground-breaking volume with eminent scholars addressing the key questions in relation to how international governments can solve public administration and governance challenges in

The Politics of Public Money

The Politics of Public Money
Author: David A. Good
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0802095038

" Public money is perhaps the quintessential currency of influence for politicians and public servants inside government. It shapes how they undertake the nations business and it impacts on the standards of living in the country. The Politics of Public Money examines the extent to which the influence of players in the budgetary process is shifting from a bilateral relationship between departmental spenders and central guardians to a more complex multilateral relationship involving spenders and central guardians, as well as priority setters and financial watchdogs. David Good analyzes this shift of influence in terms of a broader societal change from an old village, conditioned by old norms of behaviour, to a new town that brings with it new ideas about how much public money should be spent, where it should be spent, and how it should be managed. To better understand the changing situation, Good develops a new framework for analyzing the politics and management of public money. This framework is used to explore the interactions among budget players and, perhaps the most central of all, the relationship between Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. As an analysis of the changing budgetary process and an examination of the promises and pitfalls of budgetary reform, The Politics of Public Money sheds new light on the role of insiders in influencing our governments spending. "

Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada, 2004-05

Annual Report to the Prime Minister on the Public Service of Canada, 2004-05
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 8
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN: 9780662689331

This report describes some of the key events of the past year that have affected the public service. It describes progress made in building a better public service, and it sets out some of the main challenges that the public service faces over the next year and beyond.

Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom

Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom
Author: Donald Savoie
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2008-05-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442692987

There is a consensus throughout much of the western world that the public sector is in urgent need of repair. This study seeks to understand why this is so by comparing developments in Canada and the United Kingdom. It looks to changes in values both in society and inside government, and to the relationships between politicians and civil servants at the top and between civil servants and citizens at the bottom. Donald J. Savoie argues that both Canada and the UK now operate under court government rather than cabinet government. By court government, he means that effective power now rests with their respective prime ministers and a small group of carefully selected courtiers. For things that matter to prime ministers and their courts, the decision-making process shifts from formal to informal, involving only a handful of actors. For things that matter less to them, the decision-making process is horizontal, cumbersome, and consultative, and involves a multitude of actors from different government departments and agencies as well as a variety of individuals operating outside government. Court governments undermine both the traditionally bureaucratic model and basic principles that have guided the development of our Westminster-Whitehall parliamentary system. Nonetheless, Canada and the United Kingdom still cling to accountability requirements better suited to the past and the traditional bureaucratic model. Savoie concludes with a call for new accountability requirements that correspond with court government as well as the new relationships between politicians and civil servants, and civil servants and citizens.