Public service: PROMOTING PLEASING professionalism

The adoption of New Public Management opened up vast possibilities of government officials acquiring or developing sophisticated HRM techniques. Thus, in developed countries, NPM principles allowed a more flexible and responsive approach to questions of recruitment, selection, retention, training and development of public sector employees. In these countries, the public sector developed a distinctive approach to HRM over time and featured many innovations that delivered significant rights and entitlements to employees,

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Socio-economic scene

Consumer is not king-- he is nothing

An acquaintance, recently returned from abroad, complained to this writer that she had undergone an unusual (to her) experience at a local clothing store. Having gone to the shop in question in order to buy a present, she found a couple of male employees lolling beside the main desk and the only (apparently) working employee,

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Judge Human Rights relative to ground reality - Part V:

Accountability, fait accompli

The government of Sri Lanka has expended an enormous amount of resources, time and effort in restoring normality to the conflict affected areas. The government committed USD 2.8 billion mostly through loans, with some grant funding, in support of ongoing projects in 2011. Investment in infrastructure especially roads, railways, transport will pave the way for restoration of livelihoods and the movement of goods

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