Contemporary debates over the future direction of retirement pensions policy have been dominated by a polemic over the scope of, and the future balance between, the respective roles of public and private sectors in the management and delivery of benefit “entitlements”. This debate has...

The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is designed to introduce new resources into the national infrastructure. It introduces the idea that the public sector can provide services by purchasing them from the private sector rather than by direct provision. There have been considerable disagreements...

The paper explores the conditions of employment and career development in Saudi Arabia, which are found to be strongly segmented across nationalities. It discusses the main factors shaping employment and career development in Saudi Arabia, including employment policy, education and training,...

Examines in depth the practical realities and difficulties of initiating and sustaining a major tourism development project which is intended to further economic regeneration and job‐creation and is funded in partnership with the European Union. The financial framework of the scheme, the...

Marketing policy concerns have been receiving increasing attention from Socialist policy makers within the last two decades, often as central components of overall reform efforts. Normative frameworks underlying Socialist marketing policy, as well as its equity and efficiency components are...

An empirical study based on the buying behaviour of local authorities in the UK. A taxonomy of local authority is outlined and buying centres identified. The stages in the buying process are discussed and differentiated from the stages associated with the private sector. In particular, the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions of managers and employees, in one private and one public sector organization, towards an individual's decision to go to work, despite being unwell, a phenomenon known as presenteeism in the literature....

Reviews the development of the concept of reward management within the context of other apparently innovative approaches to pay and the role of government policy from the 1960s to the 1990s. These are largely seen to have been ineffective and reward management to be another new wine in an old...

This article describes how economic decisions are made differ from the public and private sectors. Both cater their decisions to the needs of the public but the context and the purpose behind the decisions differ. The primary purpose of article is to evaluate and compare the most common and...