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100 _aHockey, Julia
245 _aDeveloping a leadership cadre for the 21st century: a case study of management development in the UK's new civil service
260 _c2005
300 _ap.83-98.
362 _aMar
520 _aThe UK civil service has experienced considerable challenges in introducing new ways of working as well as alternative organizational designs, both for the purposes of achieving `best value' during the last two decades of the last century. In addition to the strategic changes introduced, people development and training has been equally vigorouly pursued in order to facilitate the reconfigurations that have been implemented. This article presents the findings of a study exploring how extensive development and training strategies are assisting managers to confront and address the challenges they face better, now and into the future. A mixed picture emerges principally highlighting the challenges of aligning human resource management (HRM) strategy with organizational strategy within a devolved organizational civil service fonfiguration. - Reproduced.
650 _aManagement - 21st century
650 _aLeadership - 21st century
650 _aCivil service - 21st century
650 _aLeadership - Great Britain
650 _aCivil service - Great Britain
650 _aCivil service
700 _aKakabadse, Nada K.
700 _aKakabadse, Andrew P.
773 _aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
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999 _c65232
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