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McGill, Ronald - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 14 (2001) 5, pp. 376-390

This paper is the fourth in a series about institutional development (ID) in government in the developing world. The first sought to establish a general understanding of ID. The second tested ID in the diagnostic phase of organisational analysis in civil service reform. The third looked at the...

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Appointing Planning Consultants: The Case of UK Local Authorities

Mitchell, V.W. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 6 (1993) 3

Covers the reasons why planning consultants are employed and gives some indication of what and who is involved in the …

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HRM Trends in the 1990s: Should Local Government Buy in?

Wright, Phillip C.; Rudolph, Jake J. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 3, pp. 27-43

Municipal or local governments worldwide are poorly prepared for the vast changes taking place in human resource management (HRM). Most aspects of organizational life are being transformed, and a strategy, that local governments can follow to avoid becoming a “backwater”, that will cease to...

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Demystifying Privatization in Developing Countries

Basu, Prahlad K. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 7 (1994) 3, pp. 44-55

institutional framework, the pace and sequence, planning and preparation and financing of privatization, with transparency of …

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A survey of chief planning officer attitudes towards planning consultants

Mitchell, Vincent‐Wayne - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 8 (1995) 1, pp. 20-34

Recent increases in the use of planning consultants by local authorities prompted an interest in the decision … chief planning officers revealed that these attitudes were not wide‐spread. Attitudes were significantly more favourable … planning department increased. …

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Planning for the impacts of agrobiotechnologies

Marks, Leonie A.; Kerr, William A.; Klein, K.K. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 8 (1995) 1, pp. 35-47

planning framework which will allow them to anticipate the impacts of biotechnologies in advance of their introduction and …

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Lessons from Tanzania’s Experience of Rural Local Government Reform

Mutizwa‐Mangiza, N.D. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 3 (1990) 3

Rural local government is an important aspect of development planning and implementation in third world nations and …

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Qualifying for leadership or control masquerading as enlightenment?

Milliken, John - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 15 (2002) 4, pp. 281-295

The 1988 Education Reform Act marked a fundamental shift in direction for the education service and represented a radical shift from the past. One of the major areas of change has been on existing relationships and the subsequent challenge to traditional structures and practices....

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Evaluating best value through clustered benchmarking in UK local government: building control services

McAdam, Rodney; O’Neill, Liam - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 15 (2002) 6, pp. 438-457

services. Aims to measure the effectiveness of best value in a similar group of building control services by using a clustered … councils within the cluster and then comparing the cluster with the best practice UK measures for building control services. To … facilitate the process a benchmarking measurement framework for building control was developed. The results indicate that the …

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Professionals, discretion and public sector reform in the UK: re‐visiting Lipsky

Taylor, Ian; Kelly, Josie - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 19 (2006) 7, pp. 629-642

of increased managerial control over professionals. Design/methodology/approach – The main thesis in Lipsky's work …

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