Inception point : the use of learning and development to reform the Singapore Public Service / James Low.

Title
  1. Inception point : the use of learning and development to reform the Singapore Public Service / James Low.
Published by
  1. Singapore : Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2018]
Author
  1. Low, James (Civil servant),

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Description
  1. xxxvii, 252 pages; 25 cm
Summary
  1. "While the political leadership of the late Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his People's Action Party (PAP) government were key to Singapore's modernisation, the role of policy implementation was one shouldered by the Singapore Public Service, a story thus far neglected in literature. Inception Point argues that the Singapore Public Service used executive development and training to introduce reforms across the bureaucracy. In so doing, the bureaucracy constantly adjusted itself to help modernise Singapore. In the 40 years between decolonisation in 1959 and 2001, when the training arm of the bureaucracy became a statutory board, training had been used firstly, to socialise the bureaucracy away from its colonial-era organisational culture to prepare it for the tasks of nation-building. Subsequently, civil servants were mobilised into an 'economic general staff' through training and development, to lead the Singapore developmental state in the 1970s and the 1980s. The Public Service for the 21st Century (PS21) reforms in the 1990s was the epitome in harnessing development and training for reforms across the bureaucracy"--
Subject
  1. 88.00 science of public administration: general
  2. Civil service > Singapore > History
  3. Civil service reform > Singapore > History
  4. Civil service reform
  5. Civil service
  6. Employees > In-service training
  7. Singapore > In-service training
  8. Singapore > Training of
  9. Singapore
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Neglect : the origins of Singapore's administration and training (1819-1959) -- Early political socialisation : the Political Study Centre and staff training (1959-1969) -- Toward managing the 'developmental state' : the Staff Training Institute (1971-1975) -- Symbolism and tinkering : the Civil Service Staff Development Institute and the Civil Service Institute (1975-1996) -- The first dedicated leadership training initiative : Civil Service College (1993-1996) -- Instrument for reforms : aligning the Civil Service College for PS21 (1996-2001) -- Conclusion : training and development as inception point of reforms.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.