Managing staff costs in central government - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Managing staff costs in central government write by Great Britain: National Audit Office. This book was released on 2011-03-11. Managing staff costs in central government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The total costs of central government staff grew by 10 per cent in real terms in the ten years to 2009-10, with current costs totalling £16.4 billion. Over the same period, staff numbers fell by 1 per cent, from 497,000 full time equivalents to 493,000. The growth in staff costs is largely the result of an unplanned increase in the number of staff in higher grades. Between March 2001 and March 2010, the number of administrative grade staff declined. But all higher grades grew in number, with Civil Service management grades 6 and 7 showing a 67 per cent increase (around 14,000 posts). This change in grade mix accounts directly for approximately 50 per cent of the staffing cost increase. Some 35 per cent of the real terms increase in staff costs is due to increases in salaries and performance-related pay. A range of immediate central actions in response to spending pressures has been announced, including freezes on pay and recruitment. But the longer term reductions in staff costs required by the 2010 Spending Review will be the responsibility of departments and agencies, and many do not have a comprehensive understanding of their own staff costs or skills in order to support this cost reduction activity adequately. The scale of staff cost reductions is unlikely to be achieved by natural turnover alone. Despite proposed changes to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, the up-front costs of voluntary or compulsory redundancy schemes and early retirements will be significant.
Managing early departures in central government
Managing early departures in central government - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Managing early departures in central government write by Great Britain: National Audit Office. This book was released on 2012-03-15. Managing early departures in central government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This report finds that central government departments have spent around £600 million gross on the early departures of 17,800 staff in the year from December 2010. These costs are around 45 per cent lower than they would have been under the previous Scheme. After meeting the initial costs, departments will save an estimated £400m a year on the paybill. The time it takes departments to start seeing these savings depends on how quickly they can eliminate headcount-related costs, such as on IT and property. The net present value of the early departures to the taxpayer will be between £750 and £1,400 million over the spending review period, depending on the ability of departments to eliminate costs. This figure will also be affected by whether those leaving find comparable work and pay tax, or claim benefits. Of those departments that are reducing staff numbers, the proportion of staff released ranges from less than 1 per cent at the Department of Energy and Climate Change to around 16 per cent at the Department for Communities and Local Government. Departments used large-scale open voluntary exit schemes to release staff as quickly as possible, though this meant departments could not predict accurately which staff would leave. Older, more senior staff are leaving in the first tranches. This is partly because of deliberate restructuring, but also because those staff who have worked in the civil service for longer, or who are over 50, gain more financially from taking voluntary exit or voluntary redundancy.
A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?
A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? write by Christopher Hood. This book was released on 2015-04-03. A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much discussion and debate over government makeovers and reforms, however, there has been remarkably little systematic evaluation of what happened to cost and performance in UK government during the last thirty years. A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? aims to address that gap, offering a unique evaluation of UK government modernization programmes from 1980 to the present day. The book provides a distinctive framework for evaluating long-term performance in government, bringing together the 'working better' and 'costing less' dimensions, and presents detailed primary evidence within that framework. This book explores the implications of their findings for widely held ideas about public management, the questions they present, and their policy implications for a period in which pressures to make government 'work better and cost less' are unlikely to go away.
Management of Public Service Reform
Management of Public Service Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Management of Public Service Reform write by Joan Corkery. This book was released on 1998. Management of Public Service Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The reform of public administration to adapt to the pressures and new requirements of an ever changing world has become a major global phenomenon. This study has been produced by the International Institute of Administrative Sciences and the European Centre for Development Policy Management.
Commercial Management and Financing of Roads
Commercial Management and Financing of Roads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commercial Management and Financing of Roads write by Ian Graeme Heggie. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Commercial Management and Financing of Roads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Printed on Demand. Limited stock is held for this title. If you would like to order 30 copies or more please contact [email protected] Contact [email protected], if currently unavailable. In developing and transition economies, 60 to 80 percent of all passenger and freight transport moves by road-the main form of access for most rural communities. Yet most of the 11 million kilometers of roads in these economies are badly maintained and poorly managed. This paper discusses one of the most effective ways to promote sound policies for managing and financing road networks--commercialization. It discusses the emerging central concept of bringing roads into the marketplace, putting them on a fee-for-service basis, and managing them like a business.
