Public sector reform in Lesotho: Challenges‚ achievements and the way forward ABSTRACT THE GOVERNMENT OF LESOTHO EMBARKED UPON A LARGE-SCALE PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM EXERCISE FROM THE EARLY 1990S (PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME-PSRIP). IT WAS DRIVEN BY THE REALISATION THAT THE PUBLIC SECTOR WAS BLOATED‚ INEFFICIENT WITH REGARD TO POOR SERVICE DELIVERY‚ WITH CORRUPTION CONSTITUTING A DRAIN ON BUDGET. THE INFLUENCE AND ‘PERSUASION’ OF THE WORLD BANK‚ THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
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Volume 7 – No. 1 © OECD 2007 Improving Public Sector Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities by Teresa Curristine‚ Zsuzsanna Lonti and Isabelle Joumard* This article examines key institutional drivers that may contribute to improving public sector efficiency and focuses on one of them in more detail: performance information and its role and use in the budget process (“performance budgeting”). * Teresa Curristine is a Policy Analyst in the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate
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1Barney and Hesterly (2006)‚ describe the VRIO framework as a good tool to examine the internal environment of a firm. They state that VRIO “stands for four questions one must ask about a resource or capability to determine its competitive potential: 1. The Question of Value: Does a resource enable a firm to exploit an environmental opportunity‚ and/or neutralize an environmental threat? 2. The Question of Rarity: Is a resource currently controlled by only a small number of competing firms
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Introduction Public sector management‚ was introduced in the UK during the era of Margaret Thatcher and in the US during President Ronald Regan’s term of office (1970s and 1980s). This transformation in the management of the public sector was adopted by many countries as a strategy for government as a means to solve problems that was existing in the delivery of public goods and services. The rigid‚ hierarchical‚ bureaucratize form of public administration was changed to a
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Globalization � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �9� Organizational Change within the Public Sector in the Age of Globalization � Organizational Change within the Public Sector in the Age of Globalization _INTRODUCTION_ Globalization can be seen as a new phase of internationalization of forcing companies and countries reciprocally depend on degrees in the past. Here you can have globalization as the third phase of the internationalization of markets‚ the first of these phases properly called internationalization
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CT310: Principles of working in the public sector (optional) Organisational structures The organisation of Central Government is separated into separate government departments. Most government departments are headed by a secretary of state or other senior minister and the structure of these departments tends to reflect what functions the minister has to oversee. Some departments are known as ‘non-ministerial’ which means they are not headed directly by a minister‚ but rather by a board answerable
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organizations‚ such as public sectors. Moreover‚ due to several deficiencies and drawbacks of government accounting and financial-management systems‚ such as unclear accountability‚ poorly maintained assets and hided losses and long-term liabilities‚ reforms in the public sector have been conducted over the last several decades across the word from New Zealand‚ Australia to England (Ball and et al‚ 1999). Accounting innovation by implementing accrual accounting in the public sector is one of the major
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Many models exist to analyze the creation and application of public policy. Analysts use these models to identify important aspects of policy‚ as well as explain and predict policy and its consequences. Some models are: Institutional model It focuses on the traditional organization of government and describes the duties and arrangements of bureaus and departments. It considers constitutional provisions‚ administrative and common law‚ and judicial decisions. It focuses on formal arrangements such
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RATIONALIZING PUBLIC SECTOR COMPENSATION JULY 2009 This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. RATIONALIZING PUBLIC SECTOR COMPENSATION Management Systems International Corporate Offices 600 Water Street‚ SW Washington‚ DC 20024 Contracted under Agreement No. 6043-001-53-14 Philippines National Budget Monitoring Project This publication is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States
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Section 1 – Understand the factors that affect an organisation and the customer service role 1. Complete the table below with a description of the products and services for at least two commercial organisations‚ public organisations and third sector organisations. Please ensure you provide a description for each organisation‚ rather than a list. Organisation type | Name of organisation | Description of products and services | Commercial organisation | Cleaning firms
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