Workers in the Public Sector are prepared to be flexible if it will stop their colleagues losing their jobs, according to a survey of over 2,500 people by the independent campaign Keep Britain Working ...

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.

Contracts awarded to Nuffield Hospitals and Capio Healthcare UK to perform almost 25,000 hip, knee and other operations for NHS patients will help towards the target of reducing waiting times for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Government has announced a review of the institutional structure for delivery of its housing and regeneration programmes. It will look into the best way of organising national delivery mechanisms ...

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 ...