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Strengthening Management Development Institutions: Enhancing the Involvement of Management Development Institutions in the Public Service Reform Process  
Sam Agere

Series name: Managing the Public Service Strategies for Improvement Series
Series number: 9

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

ISBN No: 978-0-85092-585-2

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Publication Date: 01-1999
Number of Pages: 96

Status: In stock

Price: £ 9.00    [Currency converter]  


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Identifies ways in which practitioners and institutes can improve their performance in delivering public services.

Contents

Historical Background
Critical Review of MDIs and their Performance
The Quest for Autonomy, Survival and Revival
The Imperatives for Collaboration
The Way Forward
Strategies to Improve Public Sector Performance
Development of a Training Policy
The Mode of Contribution of the MDIs to National Development
Institutionalisation of the Training Policy Framework
Conclusions
Case Studies
- Ghana
- Malaysia
- Singapore
 

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