Évolution de la gestion des ressources humaines dans la fonction publique québécoise

Sommaire: L'austérité qui a frappé les budgets gouvernementaux, combinée à plusicurs autres nouveaux facteurs. exerce une profonde influence sur l'administration publique. Le statut et la sécurité. du fonctionnaire sont remis en cause et le priblic manifeste des exigences nouvelles. Les gouvernements prennent des mesures pour satisfaire l'intérêt public et cela transformera le rôle de l'administrateur public. La nouvelle Loi sur la fonction publique du Québec (Loi 51) provoquera une autre transition dam la gestion des ressources humaines. Après être passée do l'arbitraire des années 1950 à l'administration normative des années 1970, la gestion des ressources humaines des années 1980 sera déconcentrée vers les ministéres et organismes qui en assumeront la responsabilité première. L'instauration d'un régime d'imputabilité suppose clue le gestionnaire jouera un rôle plus engagé dam la gestion de ses ressources humaines et que la fonction publique sera mieux orientée vers sa mission première, qui est de fournir au public les services de qualité auxquels il a droit. Abstract: Hestmint affecting governmental budgets, combined with several new other factors. is having a serious effect on public administration. The public servant's status and security are challenged and the public is making new demands on the public services. Governments take measures to satisfy the public interest and this will transform the role of the public administrator. The new Quebec Public Service Act will allow a new transition in the management of human resources. After going from the ai-bitrariness of the 1950s to the normative administration of the 1970s, the management of human resources of the 1980s will be decentralized towards ministries which will take on full responsibility. The institution of an accountability system implies that the administrator will play a more active role in the management of his human resources and that the public service will be better directed towards its first task, which is to provide the public with the quality services it is entitled to.     

Apport de l'immunoelectrophorese pour l'expertise des taches de sang en medecine legale

Conclusive evidence was obtained in this study that immunoelectrophoresis could be used in the identification of blood-stains in two particular cases: for diagnosis or approach to diagnosis of the age of a blood-stain, and for diagnosis of the human origin of a blood-stain that had been treated with petroleum products.Although many aspects should be investigated in more detail, it is certain that this method can be employed in combination with other methods.     

Perfect justice procedures

Perfect justice procedures are such that rule out envy. At the core of such procedures lies the divide-and-choose procedure (one divides, the other chooses), which guarantees that individuals be satisfied with outcomes. The divide-and-choose principle is extended here ton individuals, to the sharing of nondividable goods, to job allocation, and to social satisfaction. The introduction of this principle into social psychology and sociology is proposed, and a comparison between equity and satisfaction is outlined.     

Sex differences in the Beck Depression inventory scores of adolescents

The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the potential differences between male and female adolescents in their performance on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) as a function of demographic variables and variables related to their living conditions. Three hundred and twelve adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 completed the BDI and a questionnaire dealing with the variables mentioned above. All adolescents were from the Western Quebec area and were registered at De l'Ile High School (Hull) or at L'Erablière High School (Gatineau). Differences in the BDI scores were observed between female and male adolescents, with females scoring significantly higher than males. However, none of the variables included in the questionnaire had a differential effect on the BDI scores of either male or female adolescents. The results are discussed in light of their relationship with some adjustment factors in adolescence.This is a modified version of a poster paper presented at the 15th annual meeting of the European Association for Behaviour Therapy, Munich, August 1985. Participation at this conference was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (461-85-0373) to the first author. The authors wish to thank Madeleine Fortin and Lyne Prud'homme for their assistance, as well as Gilles Boudrias and Lionel Fournier for their cooperation.Received his Ph.D. from University of Ottawa. Major research interest is depression in adolescents.Research interest is behavior in adolescents.     

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Ideology and Development in Africa by Crawford Young Yale University Press, New Haven (Connecticut), 1982. xviii plus 376 pp. including tables, notes and index. R62,57. R23,35 paperback.

Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa by Robert H. Bates Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983. xiii plus 184 pp. including tables, notes and index. R40,95.

Political Development Theory: The Contemporary Debate by Richard A. Higgott Croom Helm, London, 1983. xvi plus 124 pp. including index. £6,95 paperback.

Decolonization: The Administration and Future of the Colonies, 1919–1960 by Rudolf von Albertini Holmes and Meier, Inc., New York, 1982 (reprint), xxx plus 680 pp. including notes, bibliography and index. $ 37,50. $19,50 paperback.

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Kaunda on Violence by Kenneth D. Kaunda and edited by Colin M. Morris Willia m Collins, London, 1980. 184 pp. R6,95 paperback.

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Facial Soft Tissue Depth Measurement: Validation of the 75‐Shormax

The shorth and 75‐shormax were recently posited as an improved alternative to the arithmetic mean for describing facial soft tissue thicknesses in craniofacial identification. The shorth better estimates the data peak, while the 75‐shormax provides improved provisions for a long right tail. When first proposed, the 75‐shormax was subjectively gauged. Herein, shormax errors are calculated at every whole percentile to quantitatively determine zones of error minimization in two large samples: (a) CT data of French adults, n‐range = 211–469 individuals; and (b) all C‐Table data, n‐range = 60–1065 individuals [including part but not all of sample (a)]. The smallest residuals were found at the 79th percentile (mean of raw residuals) and the 74th percentile (mean of absolute residuals). The 75‐shormax is subsequently verified as good error minimizer since the absolute differences carry the greatest weight and the 74th percentile closely approximates the 75th percentile.