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Book Competency Management in the Public Sector

Download or read book Competency Management in the Public Sector written by Instituut voor de Overheid and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Competency Management is increasingly being adopted as an approach to HRM in both the private and public sectors. This book will be of interest to both practitioners and academics as it seeks to inform the reader about the practice of competency management in European public services. It throws light on the origins and meanings of the concept and traces the competency movement from the 1980s in the UK and USA. It links competency management to performance management and HRM and demonstrates how a competency approach can add value to all parts of an organisation. The nine country studies provide a rich insight into the practices found across the public sectors of Europe. At one end of the spectrum is Britain with its holistic approach to competency management in the Senior Civil Service and widespread use throughout the rest of the service. Belgium, the Netherlands and Finland provide further examples of recent developments and good practice. In France and Germany, however, competency management has only just appeared on the reform agenda and the reasons for this are identified. Micro studies in Italy and Sweden provide an insight into the problems that arise when the perceptions of reformers diverge from those of managers and managed, while the study of Poland shows the problems faced by countries in transition which lack an appropriate educational sub-structure for public management and HRM.

Book Competency Management in the Public Sector

Download or read book Competency Management in the Public Sector written by European Group of Public Administration and published by . This book was released on 200? with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for both practitioners and academics, this work seeks to inform the reader about the practice of competency management services in the public sector. It throws light on the origins and meanings of the concept and traces the competency movement from the 1980s in the UK and USA.

Book The Professional Edge

Download or read book The Professional Edge written by James S. Bowman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new context and character of public service - shifting values, entrepreneurship, information technology, multi-sector careers - require enhanced technical, ethical, and leadership skills. This concise and readable work describes what it means to be a consummate professional public servant. It sets standards for everyone who conducts the public's business and links them with performance management, human resource administration, and information technology skills. The authors identify the ethical foundations of public service and how to integrate them in practice. They also address individual leadership, what it means, and how it is based on a foundation of technical and ethical skills. Filled with original illustrative examples and case studies from government, the non-profit sector, and business, The Professional Edge is an ideal supplement for any introductory course in Public Administration or Ethics in the Public Service.

Book Knowledge Management in the Public Sector

Download or read book Knowledge Management in the Public Sector written by David E. McNabb and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Sector Competency Based Development and Self Assessment Handbook

Download or read book Public Sector Competency Based Development and Self Assessment Handbook written by Emerson J. Jones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook that maps out specific areas of competencies covering eleven functional disciplines. It focuses on a range of competencies, including job specific or functional competencies, essential competencies, and common or generic competencies in each discipline. It signposts all competency development and training needs at the basic, intermediate, and advanced levels of knowledge, skills, and abilities. It frames skills and performance development as a collaborative effort of employees, supervisors, and trainers. It is written with a focus on achieving greater organizational impact and effectiveness, individual performance and efficiency, value adding and outcome-based learning.

Book Human Resource Management in the Public Sector

Download or read book Human Resource Management in the Public Sector written by Ronald J. Burke and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An impressive collection of authoritative treatments of major current and ongoing topics in public sector human resource management, provided by both well-established experts and up-and-coming scholars who are becoming leaders in the field. A valuable resource for courses on the topic and an important reference for scholars and those seeking to maintain expert knowledge about it.' – Hal G. Rainey, The University of Georgia, US This insightful book presents current thinking and research evidence on the role of human resource management policies and practices in increasing service quality, efficiency and organizational effectiveness in the public sector. Internationally, public sector organisations face enormous challenges, including increasingly uncertain political and economic environments, more vigilant and cost-conscious governments, rapidly evolving community needs and an ageing workforce. This collection examines a range of HRM-related topics that will influence the capacity of public sector agencies to negotiate and respond to the challenges ahead. These topics include managing public sector human resources during an economic downturn, enhancing the satisfaction and motivation of public sector employees, attracting and retaining talent, leadership development, and case studies in successful public sector organizational change. With each chapter drawing on the latest research, but also emphasizing the practical implications, this collection is suitable for practitioners, researchers and students alike. It will also be valuable for HR specialists and managers of HR units in the public sector.

Book Achieving Competencies in Public Service  The Professional Edge

Download or read book Achieving Competencies in Public Service The Professional Edge written by James S. Bowman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new context and character of public service - shifting values, entrepreneurship, information technology, and multi-sector careers - require a 'skills triangle' of technical, ethical, and leadership abilities. This concise and readable work focuses on these three essential skills, and describes what it means to be a consummate professional public servant. Essential reading for both professionals and students, "Achieving Competencies in Public Service: The Professional Edge" sets standards for anyone who conducts the public's business, and links them with performance management, human resource administration, and information technology skills. Filled with original illustrative examples, case studies, and exemplar profiles, the book is an ideal supplement for any introductory course in Public Administration.

Book Public Servants as Partners for Growth Toward a Stronger  Leaner and More Equitable Workforce

Download or read book Public Servants as Partners for Growth Toward a Stronger Leaner and More Equitable Workforce written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles policy lessons on reallocation of the public workforce, managing competencies, and fostering diversity.

Book The Art and Science of Competency Models

Download or read book The Art and Science of Competency Models written by Anntoinette D. Lucia and published by Pfeiffer. This book was released on 1999-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Do You Ensure that Employees Are Doing the Right Things? Many of us ask, "What does it take to do a job well?" and stopthere. But there's more to it than that. What skills and knowledge are necessary for effectiveness in acertain job? Does the employee have the appropriate skills andknowledge, or is some kind of training necessary? Are these jobexpectations aligned with the culture and strategy of theorganization as a whole? These questions are essential to performance improvementefforts. And competency modeling is designed to help you findanswers to questions such as these. A competency model is . . . a descriptive tool that identifiesthe skills, knowledge, personal characteristics, and behaviorsneeded to effectively perform a role in the organization and helpthe business meet its strategic objectives. From the authors of the best-selling book The Art and Science of360° Feedback comes this guide to the design andimplementation of competency models. "The authors have taken competency modeling out of the domain ofacademics and social scientists by creating a practical 'how-to'work that clearly and simply explains the steps in developing andusing competency models. I recommAnd this book to anyone whose jobincludes the pinpointing and sharpening of relevant competencies,for themselves or for others." --Scott B. Parry, chairman, Training House "Lucia and Lepsinger have demystified competency models and putin the hands of the reader a blueprint for developing meaningfulrecruiting, performance measurement, and succession planningsystems. They succeed with a straightforward, pragmatic style,using actual examples that make the book an easy read." --Frank Ashen, senior vice president, New York StockExchange Get the Results You Expect! Competency models are a means of ensuring that your investmentin your employees will yield the expected results. The popularityof competency modeling is steadily increasing: human resourceproYou'll use this cutting-edge guide to: * Clarify job and work expectations * Hire the best available people * Maximize productivity * Enhance a 360° feedback process * Align behavior with organizational strategies and values * Adapt to change

Book Achieving Ethical Competence for Public Service Leadership

Download or read book Achieving Ethical Competence for Public Service Leadership written by Terry L Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows students entering the public service as well as professionals in the field how to become ethically competent to provide the leadership needed to advance the public interest. The book doesn't just talk about ethics. The contributors describe how ethical competence should guide organizational conduct. All chapters are original, and written by experts in the PA field for this book.

Book OECD Public Governance Reviews Achieving Public Sector Agility at Times of Fiscal Consolidation

Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews Achieving Public Sector Agility at Times of Fiscal Consolidation written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication supports reforms towards greater strategic agility in the public sector through the use of budgeting policy levers, human resource management strategies and ICTs.

Book Strategic Human Resource Management in the Public Arena

Download or read book Strategic Human Resource Management in the Public Arena written by John Cunningham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/strategic-human-resource-management. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.

Book OECD Reviews of Human Resource Management in Government  Brazil 2010 Federal Government

Download or read book OECD Reviews of Human Resource Management in Government Brazil 2010 Federal Government written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review of human resource management (HRM) in the federal government of Brazil provides a detailed diagnosis of the management of government employees, and solutions for improving it.

Book Public Sector Leadership

Download or read book Public Sector Leadership written by Jeffrey A. Raffel and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Constructing an Integrated Model of Public sector Leadership Competencies

Download or read book Constructing an Integrated Model of Public sector Leadership Competencies written by Iryna Illiash and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by the forces of globalization, the sweeping developments of recent decades have prompted changes in societal perceptions of leadership. The meaning of the concept itself has changed so dramatically that public leadership does not mean public-sector leadership anymore as the sectoral boundaries have been crossed to include individuals from the private and nonprofit sectors, civic leaders, and community volunteers involved in addressing pressing social, economic, and environmental problems (Luke, 1998). And yet, the chain of recent, universally acknowledged public sector leadership failures indicate that lack of leadership in public organizations is, if not immediately apparent, quite real. Increasingly, leadership quality is being linked to leadership training and development. In particular, an approach to leadership development and selection that is gaining momentum under "the pervasive influence" of New Public Management in the US and a number of other countries (Mau, 2009) is based on a set of identifiable personal characteristics called competencies. This research offers an analysis of competency-based approaches and addresses the need for better articulation of leadership models to ensure a better fit with the public sector (Trottier et al., 2008). The purpose of this theory-building exercise has been to create an integrated model of public-sector leadership competencies that could be used as a template in developing a leadership training program for public sector executives and/or managers. Exploratory in nature and qualitative in terms of methodology, the research offers a phenomenological perspective and provides critical assessment of the competency movement's place within the processes transforming public service. Grounding the analysis in the existing leadership and public administration literature, I ask the questions: How well does the competency-based approach serve the mission of producing public leaders capable of sustaining high performance in their work communities--departmental units or agencies? And is it capable of capturing and integrating new and emerging competencies as they appear? The synthesis of selected competency models into the integrated model brings the disparate and disjointed language of competency modeling one step closer to a common denominator, thus deepening our understanding of this phenomenon. It also responds to the perceived need to further develop competency-based theory of leadership and contributes, through the advancement of the topic, to the improvement of our civil service and its leadership cadre's training and development.

Book Organizational Development in Public Administration

Download or read book Organizational Development in Public Administration written by Maurizio Decastri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural, economic and political trends are changing the way public administrations are organized and this book examines the new challenges managers face, with the need for a shift from a traditional bureaucratic model to a competency-based approach to organizational design and management in the areas of recruitment, training, career development and assessment. Through the analysis of an experimental project launched jointly by the Italian National School for Administration (SNA) and the Prime Minister’s Office, this book showcases how a competency-based system can be a key tool in reforming HR in the public sector, with significant effects on the organization and management of public administration.

Book Developing Public Sector Leadership

Download or read book Developing Public Sector Leadership written by Petri Virtanen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents tools, techniques, and best practices to develop public-sector leadership. Based on scholarly research as well as the authors’ professional experience as leadership trainers and consultants, it offers guidance and practical know-how for public-sector managers, civil servants and policymakers in public administration on how to create and develop leadership skills and practice. By analyzing the particular nature of political processes and public policy decision-making as well as the complex challenges of public organizations, the authors identify competencies, leadership skills and methods required for successful governance, administration, and management of public organizations. The authors also discuss different leadership styles and philosophies, cover topics such as public sector leadership training of 2020’s, and present case studies on successful public-sector leadership development and future-oriented leadership models. Balancing public-sector leadership theory with practical illustrations and examples, tools and techniques, the book helps managers master the art of public-sector leadership.