Download or read book Shared Corporate Service Project written by Western Australia. Department of the Premier and Cabinet and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Failure of Corporate School Reform written by Kenneth J. Saltman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate school reforms, especially privatization, union busting, and high-stakes testing have been hailed as the last best hope for public education. Yet, as Kenneth Saltman powerfully argues in this new book, corporate school reforms have decisively failed to deliver on what their proponents have promised for two decades: higher test scores and lower costs. As Saltman illustrates, the failures of corporate school reform are far greater and more destructive than they seem. Left unchecked, corporate school reform fails to challenge and in fact worsens the most pressing problems facing public schooling, including radical funding inequalities, racial segregation, and anti-intellectualism. But it is not too late for change. Against both corporate school reformers and its liberal critics, this book argues for the expansion of democratic pedagogies and a new common school movement that will lead to broader social renewal.
Download or read book Reform and Redirection written by Nsw Premiers Department Corporate Services Reform Unit Staff and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shared Corporate Services Reform Options Case Review written by Western Australia. Department of Treasury and Finance. Shared Services and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping Corporate Education Reform written by Wayne Au and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping Corporate Education Reform outlines and analyzes the complex relationships between policy actors that define education reform within the current, neoliberal context. Using social network analysis and powerful data visualization tools, the authors identify the problematic roots of these relationships and describe their effects both in the U.S. and abroad. Through a series of case studies, each chapter reveals how powerful actors, from billionaire philanthropists to multinational education corporations, leverage their resources to implement free market mechanisms within public education. By comprehensively connecting the dots of neoliberal education reforms, the authors reveal not only the details of the reforms themselves, but the relationships that enable actors to amass troubling degrees of political power through network governance. A critical analysis of the actors and interests behind education policies, Mapping Corporate Education Reform uncovers the frequently obscured operations of educational governance and offers key insights into education reform at the present moment.
Download or read book Good governance and civil service reform written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee's report on an evaluation of Whitehall departments' plans for structural change in response to the twin challenges of major public service reform and significantly reduced administrative budgets.The Committee expresses concern that the centre of Government, notably the Treasury and the Cabinet Office, is providing neither strategic leadership nor a governance framework to departments in managing their change programmes. The demand is immediate for an all encompassing strategic approach to change, minimising disaggregation and ensuring a 'joined up Government' approach."
Download or read book Corporate Services Reform written by Western Australia. Department of the Premier and Cabinet. Functional Review Implementation Team and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Business Review of Corporate Services Reform Within the Western Australian Government Sector written by Western Australia. Department of the Premier and Cabinet. Functional Review Implementation Team and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Business Value of Civil Service Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Efficiency and reform in government corporate functions through shared service centres written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, the Gershon Review recommended that the Government pursue the sharing of services, including human resources, finance, procurement and payroll, to achieve cost savings. It has been up to individual departments to establish their own arrangements and, between 2004 and 2011, eight major shared service centres emerged. The five centres examined by the NAO were expected to cost £0.9 billion to build and operate but, to date, they have cost £1.4 billion. They were also expected to have saved £159 million by the end of 2010-11. While, in one instance Government has achieved break-even in a time consistent with the private sector, its overall performance has been varied and the two centres that are still tracking benefits report a measured net cost of £255 million. Most departmental customers have not acted as 'intelligent customers' and they will need to build in-house capability with enough business and technical understanding to manage the services and work with the centres to achieve efficiencies. Among other findings are that the software systems used in the centres have added complexity and cost; and that, as the use of the centres has been voluntary, departments have struggled to roll-out shared services fully across all their business units and arm's length bodies. The Cabinet Office has recently gained approval for a new strategy and business case. The NAO considers the approach is ambitious and has challenging timescales. The Cabinet Office is actively working with departments on its implementation.
Download or read book Efficiency and reform in government corporate functions through shared service centres written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2004, central government has sought to reduce the cost of administering finance, human resources and procurement services through sharing back-office functions. In previous examinations the Committee found that the Government had not yet realised the potential to save taxpayers' money. The renewed focus on improving shared services is welcomed. The Committee expects the Cabinet Office to engage constructively with their recommendations. This report considers five of the eight shared service centres. Whilst performing adequately, they had cost £1.4 billion to build and operate compared to an expected cost of £0.9 billion. These five centres were also expected to have saved £159 million by the end of 2010-11. In the event, the Ministry of Justice centre broke-even, the Department of Work and Pensions and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs centres did not track their total savings, and the Department for Transport and Research Councils UK, have reported a net cost to date of £255 million. The current strategy will only be effective if the Cabinet Office demonstrates strong leadership. So far it has been left up to individual departments and their arm's length bodies to decide whether they use shared service centres leading to low take-up. Those bodies which have become customers of shared service centres have retained their own processes resulting in over-complicated systems which also undermine the scope for efficiency. The Cabinet Office should also develop comparable data on the cost and quality of services provided by the shared services centres and should consider whether it can extend its shared services strategy to include other common functions needed by central government departments
Download or read book The Unfinished Business of Civil Service Reform written by William Seal Carpenter and published by Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate Reform as a Credence Service written by Omari Scott Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the recent meltdown of the U.S. economy, there is no shortage of blameworthy corporate directors and managers. But this Essay focuses on another significant dimension of the current crisis: the crucial role of lawmakers and the need to reform the reformers. In a sense, corporate governance reform is like a service: corporate constituents (e.g., managers, shareholders, employees, and populist groups) function like consumers, and corporate lawmakers (e.g., federal government and the state of Delaware) function as monopoly suppliers of reform services. These reform services, however, exhibit credence characteristics, which are service attributes whose quality cannot be fully determined even after significant use. Credence characteristics, at least in the short term, make it difficult for corporate constituents to discern the impact of corporate reform due to information asymmetries. In light of these informational constraints, corporate constituents normally rely on an array of decision-making heuristics as a risk reduction strategy. As the current crisis reveals, corporate constituent overreliance on these heuristics may not adequately prevent corporate opportunism. Making matters worse, the unobservable impact of corporate reform (i.e., credence characteristics) creates perverse incentives for lawmakers (on the supply-side) to engage in opportunistic behavior at the expense of corporate constituents (on the demand-side), who are lulled into a false sense of security. This Essay focuses on an important chapter in the story of the current economic crisis and corporate scandals that cannot be ignored because it highlights the real potential for supply side (i.e. lawmaker) inefficiencies and the need to discipline lawmaker behavior as well as enhance lawmaker competence.
Download or read book The Business Value of Civil Service Reform written by National Civil Service League and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Integrating People Management into Public Service Reform written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1996-09-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using surveys and selected country case studies, this monograph identifies the factors driving human resource management reforms in the national public administrations of OECD countries.
Download or read book Mapping Corporate Education Reform written by Wayne Au and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping Corporate Education Reform outlines and analyzes the complex relationships between policy actors that define education reform within the current, neoliberal context. Using social network analysis and powerful data visualization tools, the authors identify the problematic roots of these relationships and describe their effects both in the U.S. and abroad. Through a series of case studies, each chapter reveals how powerful actors, from billionaire philanthropists to multinational education corporations, leverage their resources to implement free market mechanisms within public education. By comprehensively connecting the dots of neoliberal education reforms, the authors reveal not only the details of the reforms themselves, but the relationships that enable actors to amass troubling degrees of political power through network governance. A critical analysis of the actors and interests behind education policies, Mapping Corporate Education Reform uncovers the frequently obscured operations of educational governance and offers key insights into education reform at the present moment.
