Public sector management, especially in local government, is often bad.
But top public-sector management jobs are probably more concentrated in the south-east than the rest of the country.
ECONOMIST: The pay is better than it was. The bureaucracy is worse
At the same time, he limited the presence of government in management of public sector services like enforcement of the law and maintaining public order.
Worse, as the public sector fails to use sound management practices and simply resorts to the workplace equivalent of gavage, productivity and morale will inevitably fall.
FORBES: The Budget Crunch Spreads from DOJ to Wall Street's Cops
As with many other city needs, vehicle fleet management in the public sector shares commonalities across all cities.
FORBES: Zipcar's Tech is Saving City Governments Millions of Dollars
Various techniques have been adopted in a bid to increase efficiency in the public sector and reduce costs by transferring management control to profit-motivated private firms.
If you are one of those who rails against the short-termism and excessive risk-taking of some banks and finance businesses, you might note that a public sector financial institution, the Debt Management Office, has taken a reassuringly long-term approach to managing the UK government's debts - and without its prudence, we might all be in Queer Street or Skid Row by now.
Lengthy periods of paid maternity leave can put firms off hiring women, which helps explain why most Swedish women work in the public sector and Sweden has a lower proportion of women in management than America does.
In the past decade Germany has thanks to good management and obliging unions kept its public sector in check, partly freed its labour market, held down unemployment, and regained competitiveness.
If higher expenditure on public services comes to be seen as payday for public-sector workers, Labour will lose the reputation for prudent economic management which it struggled so hard to win in its early, parsimonious, years.
Big management consultancies have done well too, despite their poor record in the public sector (see Schumpeter).
应用推荐