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Leadership in Public Sector
There has been a declining public sector performance and a constant stream of complains from the general public. Over the years, there have been attempts to restructure the public sector in a bid to improve the performance and the satisfaction among the public. The main concern is whether the focus on leadership in the public sector, and the HRM in particular can bring noticeable changes to the public sector and improve the outcome and the results that are manifest.
The public sector in America has various challenges that bundled together leads to the general failure of the entire sector. However, these problems all point towards a crippled leadership, however there are remedies to it as shown in the selected annotated bibiographie below.
Government Fleet, (2011). Solutions to the Top Challenges Facing Public Sector Fleets.
Retrieved May 5, 2011 from http://www.government-fleet.com/Article/Print/Story/2011/03/Solutions-to-the-Top-Challenges-Facing-Public-Sector-Fleets.aspx
Outlines the various challenges that are experienced in the public sector as well as the possible solutions; it focuses on the public sector fleet in particular. It shows how the government has contributed to the lack of efficient service in the public sector and how the reluctance by the government has trickled down to the local levels. It stipulates step-by-step the myriad of challenges that are seen in the fleet departments across the state of Florida. Among the prominent issues it discusses that affect organizations are Zero-Growth Fleet Budgets, Relentless Mandates for Cost-Cutting Initiatives, Difficulty Maintaining Aging Assets, Increased Concern for Staff Burnout, and Unpredictability of Future Fuel Prices & Political Pressure to Expand Green Fleet Initiatives.
GovLeaders, (2008). Management Challenges: Government vs. Private Sector. Retrieved May 5,
2011 from http://govleaders.org/matrix.htm
The website puts a binary between the challenges that are faced by the private sector and the public sector managers side by side. It however highlights the areas where the private sector had performed exemplarily and needs to be emulated by the public sector in give a good and efficient leadership and results in the public sector. Among the discussed issues in comparison are budgetary constraints, hiring, firing, bureaucracies and procurement.
Khi V.T., (2011). Challenges in Public Procurement. Retrieved...
Khi discusses the internal and the external factors that act as fundamental challenges to the public sectors, as well as the environmental forces that affect the procurement procedures in the public sector hence slowing down the process.
HRM Advice (2008). Internal or External Recruitment. Retrieved May 5, 2011 from http://hrmadvice.com/hrmadvice/hr-processes/recruitment-and-selection/internal-or-external-recruitment.html
Focuses on the recruitment sources that the HRM department can use to ensure that the company has the prerequisite skills and talent as well as retains the best brains in the company. It mainly concentrates on the internal and external recruitment sources, and discusses the advantages that each source has as well as the disadvantages that they both have. The writer then insinuates that both the sources are worth using and must be used in accordance to the needs of the company by the HRM team leader so as to retain the right talent in the company.
Sunil Ramlall, (2004). A Review of Employees Motivation Theories and their Implications for Employees Retention within Organizations. Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge; Sep 2004; 5, 1/2; ABI/INFORM Global Retrieved May 8, 2011 from ftp://ftp.cba.uri.edu/Classes/Beauvais/HPR412/Ramlall_2004.pdf
Sunil focuses on the aspect of employee motivation and how it is significant in the retention of employees. It highlights the various theories of employee motivation in any organization that can help the HRM leader to effectively motivate their teams to better performance. The theories touched on here are the motivator-hygiene theory, Vroom's original theory, expectancy theory, equity theory, McClelland's Need theory, Maslow Need theory as well as the various job designs.
HR Cap, Inc., (2008). Advantages and Disadvantages of Internal vs. External Recruiting
Sources. Retrieved May 5, 2011 from http://www.hrcap.com/Images/v2/HRCap_Articles/appendix_secured/Appendix%205.pdf
Discusses solely the advantages and the disadvantages of the external and internal recruiting sources. It points out the two sides in a binary table and puts them in short point forms for the easy understanding of these two.
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This is a report of the WHO workshop that was held in December 2000 in France to look at ways in which the HRM can contribute positively to the improvement of the Health Care Sector in the entire world. This paper focuses on the capacity building for the HRM leadership and team with a bid to ensuring that the same training can capacity building would lead to a new dispensation of the leadership and skills needed to well and appropriately manage the Health Care sector, which in effect is one of the world's biggest private sectors.
Conclusion
The public sector, just like all other private and NGOs can deliver the services with a lot of efficiency and in a timely manner. The leadership in the various departments of the public sector is very instrumental in the ultimate effective service of the public sector. The public sector is see as a highly multifaceted field that poses a lot of challenges and the leadership that is determined and possesses the positive attributes and follows the stipulated procedures in order to perform and make the public sector a beneficial entity to the Americans in general.
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