Question 1:
Describe how the common trends of HRM reforms undertaken by Governments of developed countries have:
(a) reduced the gap between public and private HRM;
(b) provided scope for better decentralization and flexibility in terms of human resource management in public sector organisations;
(c) enhanced organisational and managerial accountability of public servants.
Question 2:
In cases where a Government judges that rightsizing would mean reducing the number of staff, how should it go about it.
Question 3:
"A meritocratic civil service is of universal importance to performance."
(a) What are the basic ingredients of a merit-based appointment system?
(b) Describe why, probably, no public administration operates a pure merit recruitment system?