Old-school Bureaucrats and Technocrats in Malawi: Civil Service Reform in Practice

2014 ◽  
pp. 329-348 ◽  
1900 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 246
Author(s):  
Edward Cary

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calliope Spanou

The nature of the relationship between the public administration and politics and the subsequent role of the administration appear to be incompatible with the emergence of an administrative elite. After analysing the reasons for this incompatibility, the article explores the impact of the measures taken in the wake of the economic crisis on the civil service and its reform, and also the prospects for the development of a senior civil service. The key, and also the challenge, to any change in this direction remains the rebalancing of the relationship between the public administration and politics. Points for practitioners What might interest practitioners is the issue of the conditions of effectiveness of civil service reform in times of economic crisis and significant pressure.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Ahmed Albalushi ◽  
Ashraf Zaidan ◽  
Fakhrul Adabi Bin Abdul Khadir ◽  
Muhammed Bin Yusof

This paper aims to discuss the extent of the application-based management efficiency in the Sultanate of Oman Civil Service, by comparison with the practices and experiences of five systems of the civil service or the public in each of the (United States of America, Canada, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates). Several variables and address are necessary to achieve reform and development in the civil service such as the situation organizational and strategic system competencies, selection and appointment and based on efficiency, performance evaluation based on efficiency as one of the main functions of human resources management in the public sector, and the framework or efficiency model. In order to become a civil service in Amman of the best practices in the efficient management system at the regional and international level, providing more than ten developmental proposals paper to raise the level of the civil service, because the competency's management of important topics in the development of civil service performance, seen as a tool to shift from the traditional bureaucracy to modern organizations.


1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Hurley

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