 HRM as Downsizing: From Cost to StrategyWilly McCourt
Chapter 2 in The Human Factor in Governance, 2006, pp 26-48 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract This chapter raises the curtain on the empirical studies which are the core of the book by examining a little-studied Human Resource initiative taken by developing country governments especially in the 1980s and 90s, one entirely unrelieved by the application of HRM specialist knowledge. This is the phenomenon of what has usually been called ‘civil service reform’ or, more narrowly, ‘employment reform’ in developing countries. Reform in this context refers to those deliberate measures that developing country governments have taken to alter the employment and payment of their staff, typically within some larger programme of macroeconomic reform. ‘Reform’ is often a euphemism, since in practice the most prominent measure has been job reduction, with which civil service reform has frequently been synonymous (Pronk, 1996). That is why our chapter has the title it does: ‘downsizing’ is a suitably ugly label for an ugly phenomenon. Keywords: Civil Service; Senior Civil Servant; Develop Country Government; Civil Service Reform; National Resistance Movement (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-20830-8_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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