Research

The Public Service Commission (PSC) research function changed in January 2004 with the creation of the Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada (PSHRMAC).

Research related to demographics, modeling or comparative developments in recruitment, employment equity and related practices, public and private sector, is now the responsibility of PSHRMAC.

The following documents represent some of the PSC's research between 1996 and 2003.

Notes:

• Some of these documents are now maintained in the Electronic Collection of Library and Archives Canada.
• Documents available in PDF format.

Documents

• Public Service Employee Survey 2002: Departmental Results for the PSC (April 2003)
• The Getting and Keeping of Wisdom: Inter-Generational Knowledge Transfer in a Changing Public Service (October 2002)
• Executive Succession Reconsidered: Planning for Public Service Renewal (October 2002)
• The Road Ahead: Recruitment and Retention Challenges for the Public Service (February 2002)
• Three Whistleblower Protection Models: A Comparative Analysis of Whistleblower Legislation in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom (October 2001)
• Comparison of Canadian and American Federal Public Service Employee Survey Findings (January 2001)
• Overview of Recent Public Service Reforms in Canada, Great-Britain, Australia, New-Zealand and the United-States (December 2000)
  • Overview
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • New Zealand
  • United Kingdom
  • United-States
• 2002 Public Service Employee Survey Results: Results Related to the Health of the Merit System (March 2000)
• A Values-Based Merit Framework and Fairness in Selection: Issues from the Employee Survey (March 2000)
• Merit Systems in Western Democracies: An Introduction to Merit in Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand (December 1999)
• Merit Systems in Western Democracies: Current Problems and Selected Best Practices (December 1999)
  
• Strategic Thinking: A Discussion Paper (April 1999)
• Some Thoughts on Turning a Government Organization into a Learning Organization (June 1998)
• Leveraging Knowledge at the Public Service Commission of Canada (May 1998)
• A Timeline of the Public Service Commission of Canada (1998)
• The Issue is: Knowledge Management (September 1997)
• From Levers to Legitimacy: Governance in Transition (September 1997)
• Tracking the Role of the PSC in the Governance System of the Federal Public Service (April 1997)
• Reason and Passion in Public Sector Reform (January 1997)
• Stewardship and the Public Service (January 1997)
• The Public Service of Canada at a Glance (1997)