This book examines the Canadian Public Service, concludingthat all of our public organizations, the public service has proven the most responsive to the forces of change, but that it has been so caught up in structural and managerial adaptation that its capacity to concern itself with substantive policy issues has been subverted.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contents
- Chronological perspective of Canadian Public Departments, 1867-1972
- PART ONE: ENVIRONMENT AND STRUCTURE
- CHAPTER ONE. Social purpose and structural response
- CHAPTER TWO. The public service and the powerful persuaders
- CHAPTER THREE. The political system
- CHAPTER FOUR. The legal foundations
- PART TWO: DESIGN FOR OPERATIONS
- CHAPTER FIVE. Allocation of programmes: the departmental rubric
- CHAPTER SIX. Allocation of programmes: the guiding principles
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Structural heretics: the nondepartmental forms
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Internal division of labour: devolution and the hierarchy
- CHAPTER NINE. Buttresses f or the hierarchy: auxiliary and staff functions
- CHAPTER TEN. The geographical dispersal of work
- PART THREE: DESIGN FOR MANAGEMENT
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Treasury Board: cabinet's management arm
- CHAPTER TWELVE. The Public Service Commission: the ambivalence of central personnel management
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Departmental management: responsibility without authority
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Employees of the public service: the neglected managerial link
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Conclusion
- Index
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