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?