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Author | : Peterson's |
Publisher | : Peterson's |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : 0768938090 |
Master the Civil Service Exams offers complete test preparation for the written exam so you can pursue a government job. Math, verbal and clerical exercises, plus four full-length practice tests, build skills and confidence, while experts in the field provide an inside scoop on how to become a first-rate job candidate. You will also find up-to-date information on the civil service job market and projected areas of growth.
Author | : Stephen E. Condrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Across the globe, governments are ending civil service as we know it. This volume presents the newest research that explores efforts to replace civil service systems with more flexible, non-tenured systems. Featuring both original and previously published essays by many of the leading practitioners and professors in the field of public administration, Radical Reform of the Civil Service asks big questions. Is radical reform of public bureaucracy needed? What is the scope of these reforms? What are the dangers of reform and why is it happening now? The essays in this book should be read by anyone interested in the future of public management.
Author | : Ronald N. Johnson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226401774 |
The call to "reinvent government"—to reform the government bureaucracy of the United States—resonates as loudly from elected officials as from the public. Examining the political and economic forces that have shaped the American civil service system from its beginnings in 1883 through today, the authors of this volume explain why, despite attempts at an overhaul, significant change in the bureaucracy remains a formidable challenge.
Author | : Cindy Sondik Aron |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Civil service |
ISBN | : 0195048741 |
Drawing from workers' applications, testimonies, and other primary documents, this book examines the changing roles of federal civil servants during the crucial period between 1860 and 1900 as they formed part of the first white-collar bureaucracy in the United States.
Author | : Donald F. Kettl |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780815707356 |
The authors of this book contend that the civil service system, which was devised to create a uniform process for recruiting high-quality workers to government, is no longer uniform or a system. Nor does it help government find and retain the workers it needs to build a government that works. The current civil service system was designed for a government in which federal agencies directly delivered most public services. But over the last generation, privatization and devolution have increased the number and importance of government's partnerships with private companies, nonprofit organizations, and state and local governments. Government workers today spend much of their time managing these partnerships, not delivering services, and this trend will only accelerate in the future. The authors contend that the current system poorly develops government workers who can effectively manage these partnerships, resulting too often in a gap between promise and performance. This short, lively, and bipartisan volume, authored by the nation's leading experts on government management, describes what the government of the future will look like, what it will need to work well, and how in particular the nation can build the next generation of workers required to lead it.
Author | : Martin Stanley |
Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1785900161 |
Although it is seldom recognised as such by the public, the civil service is a profession like any other. The UK civil service employs 400,000 people across the country, with over 20,000 students and graduates applying to enter every year through its fast-stream competition alone. Martin Stanley's seminal How to Be a Civil Servant was the first guidebook to the British civil service ever published. It remains the only comprehensive guide on how civil servants should effectively carry out their duties, hone their communication skills and respond to professional, ethical and technical issues relevant to the job. It addresses such questions as: How do you establish yourself with your minister as a trusted adviser? How should you feed the media so they don’t feed on you? What’s the best way to deal with potential conflicts of interest? This fully updated new edition provides the latest advice, and is a must-read for newly appointed civil servants and for those looking to enter the profession – not to mention students, academics, journalists, politicians and anyone with an interest in the inner workings of the British government.
Author | : A. Massey |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1781001081 |
'This Handbook on civil service systems is truly international and comparative. It covers and compares countries from all continents. It also connects historical (Weberian) legacies to contemporary challenges such as coordination, the hollow state, and trust. Massey's Handbook does not avoid difficult issues for civil service systems such as ruined reforms, fiscal retrenchment, and cultural and political system shocks. Therefore this book is exceptionally rich and stimulating.' Geert Bouckaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium While there is no universally accepted definition of civil servant and civil service, this authoritative and informative Handbook compares and contrasts various approaches to organising the structure and activities of different civil service systems. Underpinning theories and frameworks provide a disciplinary perspective from which to explore recurring topics and themes, and international comparisons are made via case studies from Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America. The expert contributors consider the historical and theoretical context of public administration and public sector management, encompassing issues such as the Weberian legacy, joined-up government and the hollowed-out state thesis. The debate between Anglo-American influenced systems versus the continental European approach to organising the civil service is also addressed.
Author | : J. Raadschelders |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2007-10-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230593089 |
The role and position of the civil service as core actors in the public sector has been seriously questioned in recent years. This volume provides a comparative study of civil service systems in Asia, Western Europe and Africa. The cast of international contributors provide new insights.
Author | : Shannon R. Turlington |
Publisher | : Arco Pub |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2005-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780768918328 |
This guide features step-by-step tutorials for mastering verbal, arithmetic, and clerical questions for entry-level civil service exams, advice on application procedures, and the inside scoop on the civil service job market.
Author | : R.A. W. Rhodes |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2003-02-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0335227562 |
This book is concerned with the civil services of the United Kingdom, examining their characteristics and trends since 1970. It provides a map of the British civil service beyond Whitehall, giving an individual country-by-country analysis of the civil services of the UK. It considers the implications of the changing nature of the civil services for our understanding of British governance, especially in the context of the public sector management reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and the impact of constitutional change (chiefly devolution) since 1998. Given that devolution has been characterized as a process rather than an event, the book brings to bear evidence of how existing longstanding differences within some parts of British public administration may come to be replicated elsewhere in the UK. The authors also explore two controversial propositions. First they ask whether Britain is moving from the unitory, strong executive of the 'Westminster model' to a 'differentiated polity' characterized by institutional fragmentation. Second, they consider whether an unintended consequence of recent changes is a 'hollowing out of the state'. Is the British executive losing functions downwards to devolved governments and special-purpose bodies and outwards to regional offices and agencies with a resulting loss of central capacity? Substantial empirical data (both quantitative and qualitative) has been amassed here in order to give answers to these questions. Decentralizing the Civil Service assesses the UK's changing civil services in the wake of two decades of public sector management reforms and New Labour's constitutional reform programme, most notably devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This assessment has significant implications for how we view governance in the UK.