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From Bureaucracy to Public Management: The Administrative Culture of the Government of Canada
From Bureaucracy to Public Management The Administrative Culture of the Government of Canada Author:O. P. Dwivedi, James Iain Gow This book is about the systems of values, traditions, perceptions ans meanings existing in the Canadian federal public service since the First World War. Surveying that history, it considers the conflict of values arising from the attempt to add new Public Management values to older bureaucratic ones. These tensions are looked at from an ethical... more » viewpoint, but also from that of the relationship between ends and means. Are the ends proposed really likely to meet the ends proclaimed? Attempts to change a culture from the top down run against daily realities; the interests, training, and experience of all employees, elites, and others. Authors Dwivedi and Gow intend this overview to enable readers to appreciate the complex world of Canada's public servants.« less