Research Documents

Here's a complete list of all documents offered on the PSC-RD web site, roughly arranged in current and past areas of interest. To read original copies of these documents, download the Acrobat viewer or the Powerpoint viewer.

Corporate Publications

The Road Ahead: Recruitment and Retention Challenges for the Public Service (Acrobat)

Executive Succession Reconsidered: Planning for Public Service Renewal (Acrobat) (This report is also known as the 2002 Survey of Managers and Professionals)

Preparing for the Future: Executive Succession in the Policy Community (Acrobat)

Merit Systems Research

Current Research

Comparative Merit Systems

• Introduction to Merit in Western Democracies (Acrobat)
• Merit Systems in Western Democracies: Current Problems and Selected Best Practices (Acrobat)
• Overview of Public Services around the World (Acrobat)
• Three Whistleblower Protection Models: Australia, UK and USA (Acrobat)
• Stewardship and the Public Service (Acrobat)
• From Levers to Legitimacy: Governance in Transition (Acrobat)
• Reason and Passion in Public Sector Reform (Acrobat)
• Public Service Employee Survey 1999:
  • Fairness in Selection (Acrobat)
  • Comparison of Canadian and American Federal Public Service Employee Survey Findings (Acrobat)
• Public Service Employee Survey 2002:
  • Results Related to the Health of the Merit System (Acrobat)
  • Departmental Results for the PSC (Acrobat)

Previous Research Areas

Knowledge Management

• The Issue is: Knowledge Management (Acrobat)
• Leveraging Knowledge Management at the PSC (Acrobat)
• Strategic Thinking (Acrobat)
• Some Thoughts on Turning a Government Organization into A Learning Organization (Acrobat)
• The Getting and Keeping Of Wisdom (Acrobat)

Other Documents

• Canada's Public Service at a Glance
• A Timeline of the PSC
• Tracking the Role of the PSC in the Governance System of the Federal Public Service (Acrobat)

Human Resources Management Research

(See The Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada)