PAP 2300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Jab, New Public Management, Frederick Winslow Taylor

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 2300
• Professor: All

Document Summary

The pmo works directly for the pm and has overtly partisan political role. Its major responsibilities is to serve the pm by providing advice on how policy initiatives will be viewed politically in the country, and to assist in other ways that will cast the pm in the best political light. A relative small organisation that provides policy advice and administrative support to the. The pco is headed by a clerk who is the senior public servant and a secretary to the cabinet. The pco is staffed by career public servants rather than political appointees. A cabinet committee consisting of the president of the treasury board, the minister of finance, and four other ministers appointed by the pm. The head of the tb is a cabinet minister who is appointed as the president and heads the board and its secretariat. Functions: (i) review of government the expenditure budget and (ii) personnel management.