People Management Trends of Australian Public Service Middle Managers

DOI

10.2991/itmr.2014.4.4.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Public sector management, Government management, Human Resources, People management, Employment trends, Industrial relations, Employee turnover, Public service career

Abstract

Change is more pervasive in the Australian Public Service than ever. Taking the number of vacancy advertisements as an indication, the more stable periods of 2008 and 2009 were followed by vast expansions in 2010 and 2011, but suddenly downturned into drastic cuts in 2012 and 2013. Public service middle managers have been singled out as the most susceptible to organizational resizing since the days of business process re-engineering movement in the 1980s and 1990s, when hierarchical organizational structures were significantly flattened. This paper investigates the longitudinal trends for middle managers (Executive Level positions) in the APS, in terms of employment vacancies, appointments, and retirements.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Nicky Antonius
PY  - 2014
DA  - 2014/12/15
TI  - People Management Trends of Australian Public Service Middle Managers
JO  - The International Technology Management Review
SP  - 176
EP  - 186
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
SN  - 1835-5269
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/itmr.2014.4.4.2
DO  - 10.2991/itmr.2014.4.4.2
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