Download or read book Defending a Contested Ideal written by Luc Juillet and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2008-09-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Commission, recounts its unique contribution to the development of an independent public service, which has become a pillar of Canadian parliamentary democracy.

Download or read book Corporate Autonomy and Institutional Control written by Douglas F. Stevens and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993-06-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stevens examines institutional frameworks for Crown corporations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba between the early 1970s and the mid 1980s, showing how each framework establishes different practices and offers distinct strategic advantages. Organizational approaches in Alberta most closely approximated what the author calls a "self-contained" design, in which corporate actors had the advantage and were most able to achieve their own objectives. In Manitoba, where "vertical information systems" prevailed, central bureaucratic monitoring agents tended, to some extent, to wield influence over the corporations. Saskatchewan practice was akin to a "lateral relations" pattern, with an equilibrium between corporate and bureaucratic goals. Stevens's comparison of Crown corporation organization designs suggests that, while no one form is inherently more efficient than another, each leads to qualitatively different outcomes. He concludes that the most important issue in problems of organization design is who is winning the Crown corporation "game" -- a finding of considerable interest to all students of government enterprise.

Download or read book Final Report written by Canada. Parliamentary Secretary's Task Force, Government-Wide Review of Procurement and published by Canadian Government Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Program Evaluation and the Management of Government written by Eliot Freidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book appears at an opportune time in the history of evaluation. Its detailed and up-to-date account of the organization and use of evaluation in eight Western, democratic countries—Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Denmark, Holland, Norway, and Switzerland—shows how evaluation functions at different levels of development. Focusing on the national or federal level of government, this volume presents a systematic and comparative view of eight nations at different stages of the development, institutionalization, and utilization of evaluations. All of these original contributions have been written by academics and government officials involved in the production and use of evaluation findings. Each shows how their respective country has moved to institutionalize evaluation at the federal level, and each explores the reasons for that institutionalization. Among them are managerial accountability, the increased complexity of the decisions facing policymakers, federally sponsored social change that needs to be tracked and assessed, and the increasing recognition that political power comes to those who possess such information. Program Evaluation and the Management of Government is tightly integrated. The contributions share coherence, a common analytic framework and use of key terms, resulting from the authors’ three-year dialogue as members of the Working Group on Policy and Program Evaluation sponsored by the International Institute for Administrative Sciences located in Belgium. Their shared commitment to working together has given us the first systematic effort to assess evaluation across such a large number of countries. It will be of interest to applied social scientists and policymakers, especially those interested in comparative research.

Download or read book Civil Service Systems in Anglo American Countries written by John Halligan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Civil Service Systems in Anglo-American Countries' presents a comprehensive overview of the important issues in modern bureaucracies, combined with a comparative analysis of the civil service systems & administrative traditions of five Anglo-American nations.

Download or read book Public Budgeting in Canada written by G. Bruce Doern and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988-06-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Regulations Crown Corporations and Administrative Tribunals written by Ivan Bernier and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1985-12-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third of six volumes dealing with Law, Society and the Economy (see list in back of book), included in the Collected Research Studies of the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada. This volume surveys administrative law in its various manifestations and considers new themes and issues that are likely to affect the subject. Challenging generally accepted views, the contributors discuss such topics as the structures and processes of Canadian administrative tribunals, Crown corporations as an instrument of economic intervention, and the use of delegated legislation as the preferred instrument of government regulations.

Download or read book Federal provincial Collaboration written by Donald J. Savoie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1981 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What implications does the GDA approach have for federal-provincial relations? How does it relate to the constitutional division of responsibility? What advantages and drawbacks does it hold for Canada's political system? More generally, what can we conclude about the GDA approach?

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 Report of the Independent Review Panel on Modernization of Comptrollership in the Government of Canada written by Independent Review Panel on Modernization of Comptrollership in the Government of Canada and published by Panel Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports a review of comptrollership at both the central agency level of the federal government and in operating departments, but not in Crown corporations or other arms- length agencies. Begins with an overview of the character, underlying assumptions, key stages of evolution, and the advances needed in the current state of federal government comptrollership. Three views of modern comptrollership are presented: as a way of thinking and state of mind, as a management-centred function, and as an integrating function. A new direction for comptrollership is then set out, including some key principles and the responsibilities and capacity of departments and the central government. A framework of responsibilities is proposed within which elected officials, executives, specialists, and professionals can achieve modern comptrollership in the federal government. Proposals are made to achieve previously stated objectives and certain results or outputs that can be expected from exercising those responsibilities are described, along with the implications for the system. The final chapter identifies critical success factors, actions, and measures by which to make and gauge progress in the modernization of federal government comptrollership.

Download or read book Managing Publicly written by Henry Mintzberg and published by Institute of Public Administration of Canada. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how the role of the public manager differs from that of the private sector. Public managers are held to high standards, are in the public eye, and expected to have a private sector management style while taking into consideration the ethos of the public sector. The book presents case studies and encourages debate.

Download or read book The Evolving Physiology of Government written by O. P. Dwivedi and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2009-06-20 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian public administration has provided a rich ground for examining the changing nature of the state. Currents of political change have rippled through the administration of the public sector, often producing significant alterations in our understanding of how best to organize and administer public services. This volume brings together some of the leading Canadian and international scholars of public administration to reflect on these changes and their significance. Providing a historical perspective on public administration in Canada, the volume examines the shift from a traditional model of administration to newer forms such as new public management and governance, and explores current debates and the place of Canadian public administration within a broader comparative perspective.

Download or read book Canadian Public Sector Financial Management written by Andrew Graham and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's not your money - it belongs to the people." Taking this simple axiom seriously creates unique challenges for the management of public funds. Andrew Graham outlines all aspects of public sector financial management, addressing how funds are obtained, what rules of accountability and accounting are applied, who controls public funds, what constitutes effective budget management at the operational level, and how accountability and oversight are dealt with. The skills demanded of public sector managers in financial management are becoming increasingly onerous and complex. Canadian Public Sector Financial Management will be of great help to practitioners in the public sector who wish to better understand their financial responsibilities as well as to students of public administration and the general reader concerned with public financial management issues. The secondedition of Canadian Public-Sector Financial Management updates the widely used text, reflecting on the developments in public financial management over the past six years. Developments in financial reporting and the widespread need for governments to constrain growth and manage their finances more closely are looked at. It remains focused on the practitioner and manager in the public sector.

Download or read book Canada s Century written by John Meisel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the 18 essays presented at a 1991 conference held in honor of the well-known Canadian political scientist John Meisel. Contributors explore key issues in Canadian politics including governance, Quebec's place in Canada, French-English relations, multiculturalism, the party system, electoral processes, the regulatory function, and aspects of culture and social science. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Beyond the Bottom Line written by Timothy Wynne Plumptre and published by IRPP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the back cover: Subject to shifts of political mood, portrayed by the media as lazy and incompetent, hobbled by central agency regulations, criticized by auditors general, public service managers have a tough time of it....Is the good manager one who follows the rules, or the one who ignores lines of authority to get things done? Is the official who stays within the budget but doesn't deliver the program a better manager thlan the one who blows the budget but provides the public with a needed service? This book, one of very few on public sector management, suggests how to improve the system and foster management excellence.

Download or read book Building the New Managerialist State written by Denis Saint-Martin and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies how the world of governance has witnessed a transition from the Weberian model of bureaucracy to the new managerialism. It examines the differences in the extent to which France, Canada and Britain have embraced these ideas.

Download or read book The Canadian Experience of Public Sector Management Reform 1995 2002 written by Commonwealth Secretariat and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public sector reform has moved on apace since the first of the Commonwealth Profile Series was launched in 1995 when the principles of New Public Management (NPM) were in an early stage of adoption.