Personnel and Change

Objectives

Personnel is of strategic importance for the success of public organizations. The aim of this research is to study personnel issues in government in order to obtain a flexible personnel policy which supports the strategic objectives of the organization. As government is expected to be a model employer in society, this also implies adequate attention to the ‘human being’ in the organization. Specific research objectives deal with the convergence of public and private employment (what is still ‘public’ in public employment) and the responsibility of public personnel policy in society (representativeness, management of diversity, the ageing of the workforce).

Research team

• Dan Sorin
• Delbeke Karlien
• Depr? Roger
• Hondeghem Annie
• Op de Beeck Sophie
• Platteau Eva
• Pollitt Christopher
• Vandenabeele Wouter

 

Some recent research projects

• Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future COCOPS (2011 - 2014, Fundamental research)
• Academic support concerning the administrative reform in Flanders (2011 - 2012, Consultancy)
• Competency transfers in Belgium: an analysis of the fifth Belgian state reform of 2001 (2008 - 2011, Doctoral research)
• The impact of the Belgian state reforms on the Flemish department of Administrative Affairs (2007 - 2011, Research project)
• Change and continuity in the public sector: a comparative longitudinal study (2006 - 2011, Fundamental research)
• Technology, place and task (TPT) (2006 - 2011, Fundamental research)
• Training top civil servants: a comparative perspective (2010 - 2010, Fundamental research)
• Reorganising the judicial landscape in Belgium (2008 - 2010, Research project)
• Change and continuity in public management reform (2006 - 2009, Fundamental research)
• Empirical research into the development of strategic management in the federal government (2007 - 2007, Research project)

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Some recent publications

• Pollitt Christopher (2012). New perspectives on public services: place and technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. In press
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• Bourgault Jacques, Van Dorpe Karolien (2011). Has the NPM changed the face of the senior public service?. European Consortium for Political Research..Reykjavik: Ijsland, 25-27 augustus 2011.18 p.
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• de Visscher Christian, Hondeghem Annie, Montuelle Caroline, Van Dorpe Karolien (2011). The changing Public Service Bargain in the federal administration in Belgium. Public Policy and Administration. 26(2): 159-188.
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• Hondeghem Annie (2011). Editorial: Changing Public Service Bargains for top officials. Public Policy and Administration. 26(2). Forthcoming
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