This paper aims to examine the dynamic relationship between informal controls and formal control in the context of public sector outsourcing and explores whether informal controls have a role to play in public sector outsourcing and what implications this has for the role of trust and accountability of the public service. This paper uses two case studies to examine these questions and concludes that while it is necessary for formal controls to dominate the selection stages of outsourcing for accountability and transparency reasons, informal or looser controls can play an important role in the implementation of the outsourcing relationship.
The question highlights a prevalent lack of understanding about a key reality of public debt: i.e. virtually every dollar of financial shortfall by governments must be borrowed from someone else. For example, the U.S. deficit is funded mainly by auctioning hundreds of billions in Treasury bills, with China being the biggest buyer. Here in Canada, sovereign debt securities include Canada Savings Bonds. It's no coincidence that those bucolic TV ads advocating their purchase have become more frequent. Our country's recession-battered tax revenue on the one hand and massive stimulus spending on the other is rapidly driving up our national debt, after years of paying it down. Private sector recovery will be long and difficult, but the overall direction will be up. On the other hand, financia...
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It doesn't end there. Most big public sector unions, including teachers' unions, have negotiated "steps" for different job classifications. For example, in the Pembina Trails school division, a "class 5" teacher (one with an under grad degree and a bachelor of education) will automatically progress through ten pay levels over a ten-year period. Regardless of merit, extra-curricular efforts or student outcome, teachers with more years of work automatically get paid more than teachers who have put in less time. A first year, "class 5" teacher in that division will earn $48,459 this school year while a second year "class 5" teacher will earn $51,188. That works out to a 5.6 per cent year-over-year increase. However, don't forget about the three per cent increase that the union negotiated a...
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