The 2008 annual survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development shows how coaching within organisations has moved beyond being ‘the latest fad’ – to adding real benefits. Coaching is ...

Public Money and Management. Volume 24: Issue 2. ISSN: 0954-0962.

In this book James M Kouzes and Barry Z Posner argue that the truth is that the best leaders are the best learners. Leadership is a set of abilities, and like any other skill set it can be learned and ...

Public bodies across the UK are being urged to use the purchasing power of procurement contracts to drive critical investment in skills. Until recently the inclusion of clauses in contracts relating ...

The NHS Confederation and the BMA have agreed what they hope will be the framework for a new contract for family GPs.It will modernise an old-fashioned system that left doctors frustrated, feeling ...

Local people have been given a month to put forward their views on a list of potential sites for new nuclear power stations. The locations have been named by the Department of Energy and Climate ...

Organisations in the public sector have arguably a far more difficult task in communicating with their external audiences than their commercial counterparts. The very nature of public sector ...

Many ex public sector employees are turning to freelance and contract work in the search for an alternative livelihood. Contrary to reports that point to the commercial sector’s reluctance to employ ...

Members of local councils should play a greater role in the procurement processes that deliver local services. This will allow them to meet the ‘political priorities’ on which they have been elected.

Police forces, like hospitals, achieve widely differing levels of performance. Until now there has been no way to group the various measures together to present a balanced scorecard. Neither has it ...

This report from Communities and Local Government summarises the evaluation. Participatory Budgeting helps to improve relationships within communities and between communities and service providers. In ...

This report of the 2009 survey of local authority websites by the Society of IT Management reveals that 73 per cent of adults in the UK now have access to the internet, compared to 66 per cent last ...