Redefining Management Roles: Improving the Functional Relationship between Ministers and Permanent Secretaries (Managing the Public Service: Strategies for Improvement Series)

The book highlights problems facing Ministers and Permanent Secretaries in the management and reform of the public service; redefines their role and responsibilities in implementing reform; identifies the policy and administrative boundaries of elected and appointed officials; shares best practice in enhancing the functional relationships through case studies of Britain, Canada, and Trinidad and Tobago.