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Title   Media, imprecation and disinformation
Category    Public Administration and Finance
Author   Gilles Paquet

Imprecators often reveal important sources of scandals, but they too can fall into character assassination and intimidation. Journalism often uses humour, pseudo-investigative ventures and editorializing as various ways to transgress...

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Title   Governance as a mythbuster
Category    New Business Models
Author   Gilles Paquet

This paper shows how the governance approach transforms key concepts in use and generates persiflage by groups whose frame of reference is threatened by this approach. It also puts forward conjectures about the future of governance...

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Title   Public Service of the 21st Century: Trust, Leadership and Accountability
Category    Human Resources
Author   Paul G. Thomas

The notions of trust, leadership and accountability are deconstructed as a way to contextualize the new Accountability Act and the setting for the public service in the 21st century.

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Title   Toward a new moral contract: Reclaiming trust in public service
Category    Human Resources
Author   Ralph Heintzman

Reflection on the existential crisis of the public service and suggestions about the ways in which the public service can reclaim the public trust.

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Title   Governance as stewardship
Category    New Business Models
Author   Gilles Paquet

In a complex world where nobody is fully in charge, the notion of leadership needs to be replaced by governance regime as stewardship. The dynamics of stewardship, and the enabling resources and competencies required are probed

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Title   Problems with Canada’s Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act
Category    Public Administration and Finance
Author   Paul G. Thomas

What went wrong with Canada’s Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act? What set of factors might explain the failure or the poor performance of this regime? It is suggested that leadership and organizational culture are the key culprits,...

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Title   Seduction as a leadership competency
Category    Human Resources
Author   Aïda Warah

The author draws on her experience as a consultant psychologist working with candidates to executive level positions, to develop a theory of seduction as a leadership competency. Aïda Warah outlines two seduction strategies, partial...

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Title   Ideas for enhancing employee empowerment in the Government of Canada
Category    Human Resources
Author   Eleanor Glor

Drawing on the results of the 1999 Public Service survey and outlining various models for empowerment, the author presents initiatives that she believes can help to empower the Public Service and to deal with the poor health created...

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Title   Leadership in learning organizations: a report from the front line
Category    Public Administration and Finance
Author   Bob Chartier

Too often the boss returns from a leadership seminar with new ideas that take all of a week to fizzle out. The author criticizes the old leadership tools in good currency and suggests some new workplace tools capable of really gingering...

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Title   Performance measurement system: a leadership-driven methodology
Category    Public Administration and Finance
Author   Bryan Shane

Performance measurement systems are essential tools. This paper presents a step-by-step methodology to develop and maintain such a system: approach, principles, development, implementation strategies, and required parallel work on...

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