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Much of the waste in public administration is ascribable to the displacement of the primary concern for performance and coordination by a primary concern for redistribution. In each sphere of activities, it has led to unreasonable rules inspired by egalitarianism that have triggered permanent allocational malefits.
The failure to confront the progressivist ethos and culture has rendered any action on the managerial front ineffective. First, the authors underscore the seemingly unanimous diagnosis of waste and dysfunctions in Canada’s federal public service and show that efforts to correct the situation have failed. This failure is ascribable to a fundamental incapacity to deal concurrently with the ill-advised managerial decisions of governments and the perverse progressivist philosophy inspiring them. Second, an MRI of the human resource (HR) regimes has been sketched as a guide to the detoxing and modernization of the HR regimes.
It was used to spell out some guidelines for the modification of management structures and competencies, and to probe the cultural underground of moral contracts that would need to underpin the new arrangements.
Ruth Hubbard is a practitioner, advisor, explorer, and published writer about governance and management challenges, especially in the public and not-for-profit sectors. She served for more than a decade as a federal deputy minister, during the iImplementation of Canada’’s value-added tax (the GST). Later, she was Master of the Royal Canadian Mint and President of the Public Service Commission. She was a senior research fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Centre on Governance and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. from 2002 to 2017.
Gilles Paquet (Author)
Gilles Paquet (1936–2019), O.C., MRSC, was Professor Emeritus at the Telfer School of Management and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Royal Society of Arts of London, and served as President of the Royal Society of Canada (2003–2005). He studied at Laval, Queen's (Canada) and at the University of California (Los Angeles) where he was Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics. He taught at Carleton University for almost 20 years before joining the University of Ottawa in 1981. He received honorary doctorates from Queen's, Laval, and Thompson Rivers University, received the Public Service Citation Award of APEX, and was made Honorary Member of l'Association des économistes québécois. He was made Member of the Order of Canada in 1992.
Preamble
The Storyline: It Is All a Matter of Coordination
Gilles Paquet
Introduction
The Priority Should Be Performance Not Being a Model Employer
Ruth Hubbard
Culture governance shift
HR as a crucial arena
Fifty years ago the HR regime went off track: the model employer conceit
PART I Cleansing the Augean Stables
Chapter 1
Tinkering Can No Longer Suffice
Ruth Hubbard & Gilles Paquet
Chapter 2
Failure To Confront
Gilles Paquet
PART II Modeling
Chapter 3
An MRI of HRM in the Public Sector: A Prototype Intent on Complicating Matters
Ruth Hubbard & Gilles Paquet
PART III Prototyping
Chapter 4
Social Architecture and Competencies
Ruth Hubbard & Gilles Paquet
Chapter 5
An Agenda for Cultural Change in the Federal Public Service
Gilles Paquet
Conclusion
Killing Two Birds with One Stone: a Mental Prison and a Cosmology
Gilles Paquet
Sources
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