Political Science 2246E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sunshine List, Market Discipline, Job Security
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Lecture 10 human resources and public administraion. Government like an island a gap has developed creaing two widely diferent worlds between the public and private sector. Two worlds of work: private sector explosion, post wwii period prospects for workers diverged, economy became more diverse and sophisicated, inequality increased, economic distances separaing people had been wider than ever inequality increased greatly. Explains the meager compensaion in comparison: promoing a social contract of equality. As a porion of gdp, canada spends more than usa on government expenditure. Businesses have to persuade and sell, government compels revenue by taxes. Rules, regulaions, and sunshine: rules in place to prevent iring can be beneicial on one hand but can make iring and hiring of people more cumbersome and slower. Turnover under 2% in public sector i. e. extremely hard to ire a teacher: unions, sunshine list if you make over ,000 earnings are reported on the list.