Research Directorate 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)

Human Resources Management Research

Current Research

Demographics and Modeling

• Job Mobility and Promotion in the Federal Public Service (Acrobat)
• EX Representativeness: Models and Forecasts (PowerPoint)
• Forecasting Departures in the EX Community, 1998-2007 (Acrobat)
• Demographic Studies of Communities
  • Demographic Study of the Executive Community, 1991-1998 (Acrobat)
  • Demographic Study of the EX Feeder Groups, 1991-1998 (Acrobat)
  • Demographic Study of the EX Community and feeder groups, December 2001 Presentation (PowerPoint)
  • Demographic Study of Visible Minorities in the FPS (Acrobat)
• Regional Profiles: Public Sector Demographics and Equity
  • Canada
  • National Capital Region
  • Yukon Territory
  • Northwest Territories & Nunavut
  • British Columbia
  • Alberta
  • Saskatchewan
  • Manitoba
  • Ontario
  • Québec
  • New Brunswick
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Nova Scotia
  • Newfoundland

Labour Market Analysis

• Executive Succession reconsidered: The 2002 Survey of Managers and Professionals
  • Full Report (Acrobat)
  • A Focus on PE-04s (Acrobat)
  • A Focus on PE-05s and PE-06s (Acrobat)
  • Executive Succession at the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (Acrobat)
  • Executive Succession at Environment Canada (Acrobat)
  • Executive Succession at Natural Resources Canada (Acrobat)
  • Preparing for the Future: Executive Succession in the Communications Community (Acrobat)

     

• Preliminary Report on the Survey of Newly Hired Indeterminate Employees in the FPS (Acrobat)
• New Hires Survey Technical Paper #1: Post-Secondary Recruitees' work experiences and career plans (Acrobat)
• New Hires Survey Technical Paper #2: Early Work Experiences of New Recruits (Acrobat)
• New Hires Survey Technical Paper #3: Retaining New Hires (Acrobat)
• New Hires Survey Technical Paper #4: CS Group (Acrobat)
• New Hires Survey Technical Paper #5: Mid-Career New Recruits (Acrobat)
• New Hires Survey Technical Paper #6: Visible Minorities (Acrobat)

Previous Research Area

Human Resources Management Research

• Competencies - A Brief Overview of Development and Application of (Acrobat)
• Overview of Competency - Frameworks and Tools (PowerPoint)
• Competencies and KSAOs (Acrobat)
• Human Resources and Competencies Over Time (Acrobat)
• Personality and Job Performance: A Research Overview (Acrobat)
• Rethinking Executive Programs (Acrobat)
• Emotional Intelligence (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)
• Cyber-recruitment (Acrobat)