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Redefining Management Roles: Improving the Functional Relationship between Ministers and Permanent Secretaries  
Sam Agere

Series name: Managing the Public Service Strategies for Improvement Series
Series number: 10

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Categories: Managing the Public Service: Strategies for Improvement Series, Public Sector Development

ISBN No: 978-0-85092-614-9

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Publication Date: 01-1999
Number of Pages: 128

Status: In stock

Price: £ 9.00    [Currency converter]  


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Highlights problems facing ministers and permanent secretaries in the management and reform of the public service; redefines the role and responsibilities of ministers and permanent secretaries in implementing reform; identifies the policy and administrative boundaries of elected and appointed officials; shares best practice in enhancing the functional relationships through case studies of Britain, Canada and Trinidad & Tobago.

Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Political and Administrative Interface: the Functional Relationship between Ministers and Permanent Secretaries
The British Experience
The Caribbean Experience
The Canadian Experience
South African – Ministers and Public Service: Protocol on Good Practice
Appendices
 

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