Where Have All The Workers Gone? Exploring Public Sector Workforce Planning

Colley, Linda; Price, Robin

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8500.2010.00676.x

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“…In Australia, for example, institutional capacity was reduced as strong central personnel agencies were abolished, and their functions were distributed horizontally to other central agencies and vertically to line ministries and agencies (Alford, 1993). While there have been some benefits from the devolution of human resource management (Teo & Rodwell, 2007), there has also been a loss of coordination, with overall responsibility for the monitoring of service-wide trends and the quality, cost and productivity of labour falling between the many stools (Colley & Price, 2010;Nethercote, 1989Nethercote, , 1996. It was this package of reforms that came to be identified as the New Public Management (NPM).…”

Section: The Hr Implications Of Reformmentioning

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Hybrids and Contradictions: Human Resource Management in the Contemporary Public Sector

Colley

McCourt

Waterhouse

2012

International Journal of Public Administration

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Public employment is a dynamic field of study, buffeted by the ever-changing and reforming public sector environment and by external events such as changing demographics and the global financial crisis. This introduction to the special edition on contemporary public sector human resources provides a broad overview of recent developments, starting with the nature of public sector reforms and proceeding with analysis of the far-reaching effects on public employment. For many western countries, this has led to a hybrid model of old and new practices, with many internal contradictions and a confusing array of accountabilities. The new arrangements led to a de-privileging of public servants through reductions in merit and tenure. They also reduced the institutional capacity of central personnel institutions to coordinate and monitor public employment and public management. The paper proceeds with a review of the implications of these changes in the face of new challenges such as skills shortages and economic pressures. This overview provides a backdrop for the variety of papers presented in the special edition.

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Section: The Hr Implications Of Reformmentioning

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Hybrids and Contradictions: Human Resource Management in the Contemporary Public Sector

Colley

McCourt

Waterhouse

2012

International Journal of Public Administration

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“…Thus, if on one hand the surplus of resources can be considered wasteful, the lack of it can compromise the provision of services and generate significant damage to society (Colley & Price, 2010). For this reason, the Government seeks to improve its Labor Force Planning models in order to reallocate the workforce according to the real needs of the organization (Anderson, 2004;Colley & Price, 2010). Therefore, the main advance of administrative reforms is the search for actions based on the application of the principles of strategic planning in public management by results (Corrêa, 2007).…”

Section: Absenteeism In Public Organization and Workforce Sizingmentioning

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Absenteeism as a mechanism of repression of demand in the Brazilian public sector: accounting reflex in federal education public institutions

Mendes

Serrano

Ferreira

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OSJ

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Absenteeism is seen as a critical problem in public organizations, since the factors that generate it negatively impact the productivity of organizations. In this sense, considering that Federal Institutions of Higher Education represent almost half of the entire workforce existing in the Federal Executive Branch, this article aims to identify absenteeism, as well as its typification, in addition to measuring its accounting reflex. The methodology adopted was panel data analysis, through the analysis of the absenteeism index with time series from 2008 to 2018. The research findings reinforce that absenteeism is more representative when it is due to a stricto sensu graduate program and medical licenses. Furthermore, it was found that the absenteeism rate doubles every 5 years.

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“…According to Colley and Price (2010), HRP process has been applied by very few public sector organizations in many countries, including Australia. Government experience a huge challenge of retaining and attracting skilled employees.…”

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Obstacles of human resource planning that affect workers in delivering quality services

Khumalo

2019

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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AUTHORSNjabulo Khumalo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7480-6715 ARTICLE INFONjabulo Khumalo (2019). Obstacles of human resource planning that affect workers in delivering quality services. AbstractThe paper aimed to identify the obstacles of Human Resource Planning (HRP) that affect workers in delivering quality services to public within the customer centres of the municipality located in South Africa (SA). Since, HRP is well known as a tool that resolves the existing and future organization obstacles by confirming that the right employees are placed in the right positions at the right time. The investigation of the paper used mixed methods, which encompasses both qualitative and quantitative methods in its data collection. From the target, only 45 workers completed a questionnaire and only seven supervisors participated in one-on-one interviews. Results reveal the lack of both internal and external factors, which include a shortage of workers to perform the duties of the municipal in the customer centres. This includes demographic issues, lack of education qualifications, recruitment policies, insufficient working tools, working environment and career growth. The recommendation is to implement a strategical recognition for good performance to workers and to look for other venues with enough space to deliver quality services. Lastly, there is a need to establish and implement strategies of promotion and growth within the municipality.

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Where Have All The Workers Gone? Exploring Public Sector Workforce Planning

Cited by 16 publications

References 19 publications

Hybrids and Contradictions: Human Resource Management in the Contemporary Public Sector

Hybrids and Contradictions: Human Resource Management in the Contemporary Public Sector

Absenteeism as a mechanism of repression of demand in the Brazilian public sector: accounting reflex in federal education public institutions

Obstacles of human resource planning that affect workers in delivering quality services

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