Fear and Ferment: Public Sector Management Today
Edited by John W. Langford
ISBN 0-919696-74-0. Pp. 177. (1987)
Proceedings of a conference sponsored in 1986 by the British Columbia Government Managers' Association, the School of Public Administration, University of Victoria, and IPAC to provide an opportunity for middle-level public sector managers from all orders of government across Canada to reflect on the impact that contemporary changes in their environment were having on their work as managers.
A summary of the discussion and a collection of plenary and workshop papers grouped around nine themes: restraint, contracting out, information technology, public access to information, conflict of interest, risk taking, employment equity, political rights, a new model for the public sector manager. The interaction of the conference, as the papers and the summary of discussion suggest, provides grounds for both optimism and concern about the public sector manager today.
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