Public-sector line management must improve, says CIPD

The poor quality of line management in the public sector must be addressed if public services are to be capable of responding to the challenge of budget cuts, according to a report from the CIPD.In the first report from its Building productive public-sector workplaces series, the institute highlights the “sporadic and often inadequate” quality of front-line management in the public sector, high levels of absence and an inability to tackle poor performance.
 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School