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Abstract:This paper is based upon the experience of the New South Wales Department of Lands with the Government and Related Employees Appeal Tribunal (GREAT), a body established in New South Wales in 1981 to hear promotion appeals from employees of the public sector. Serious doubts are expressed as to the value of the promotion appeals system and questions asked about its contribution to efficiency. Statistics show not only a substantial commitment of resources by the Department to the maintenance of selection decisions, but suggest a very large overall financial commitment by the state if the costs are representative of other departments and authorities. Proposed changes and possible reforms are reviewed and evaluated. Although confined to a study of a single system, the conclusions have relevance to the promotion appeals systems of all Australian public sectors because of the many common features which they share.

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1986.tb01518.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:Many interactions between adjacent elements of public administration are “resolved” by a weak form of bi‐lateral and non‐hierarchical coordination. There are quite intractable obstacles to achieving a good fit between bi‐lateral resolution and higher order aims of government. Formal limits to the results that can be achieved by coordination may be derived from the requirements for optimality in the “Decomposition Model” of decentralised administration. Limits to human capabilities are widely recognised in contemporary computer software that is designed to be “user friendly”, yet in the design of systems of statute and administration the limits of human rationality are commonly ignored. Proper statutory definition of functional boundaries can harness innate strengths in the “bounded rationality” of which mere mortals and their institutions are capable, and partially guard against the unwanted effects of its weaknesses. Three main classes of interactions may be defined, and can be dealt with respectively by (a) an external and superior source of statutory power, (b) the use of temporary concurrence powers, and (c) statutory plans. The trick is to be clear about which applies

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1986.tb01519.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:Australia's current disaster management system does not provide an appropriate interorganisational counter‐disaster structure, nor does it ensure an efficient operational structure. Even when allowance is made for the inadequate funding provisions that characterise this area of public operations, the present disaster management system falls short of the degree of protection which society has come to expect. A recent appraisal, requested by the Victorian State Government, which considers the reorganisation of Victoria's “emergency services” fails to address many of the significant aspects that are at the heart of Victoria's and Australia's disaster management pro

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1986.tb01520.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1986.tb01521.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1986.tb01522.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1986.tb01523.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1986.tb01524.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1986.tb01525.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1986.tb01526.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1986.tb01527.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY