Public Service 2000 and cultural change in the Department of National Defence

Abstract: External changes are challenging fundamental management practices of the Department of National Defence that have been in place since the unification of the military services and creation of National Defence Headquarters over the years 1964–72. Trends in management thinking such as empowerment, total quality management, and learning organizations should cause DND senior management to review many of these practices. More directly, initiatives undertaken by the federal government under the aegis of the Public Service 2000 white paper may challenge certain DND practices, but paradoxically may also be of benefit to a large, decentralized military/public service organization. Sommaire: Des changements en provenance de l'extérieur mettent à l'epreuve les pratiques fondamentales de gestion du ministère de la Défense nationale, pratiques qui existaient depuis l'unification des services militaires et la création du Quartier général de la Défense nationale entre les années 1964–1972. En effet, les courants de pensée en gestion, tels que l'habilitation, la gestion de la qualité totale et les organisations d'apprentissage devraient mener la haute direction du MDN à revoir bon nombre de ces pratiques. Plus directement, des initiatives entreprises par le gouvernement fédéral dans le cadre du Livre blanc “ Fonction publique 2000 ” sont directement contraires à de nombreuses pratiques actuelles du MDN, mais, de maniere assez paradoxale, elles pourraient aussi être utiles à une organisation à la fois militaire et de service public, et qui est décentralisée et de grande taille.     

Teaching the Violent Past: History Education and Reconciliation, Elizabeth A. Cole

Elizabeth A. Cole has edited a comprehensive collection of casestudies of educational reform efforts following some of the20th century's most searing episodes of violence and human rightsabuse. The collection begins with an essay on the role of educationalreform in reconciliation. Cole     

The internal market and the grand exception

The Oxford Encyclopaedia of European Community Law The Lawof the Internal Market By A.G. Toth, 2005, Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress Price: £155.00, Hardback, ISBN: 0-19-825600-0   This second volume of the Oxford Encyclopaedia appears somefifteen years after the first volume, which dealt with InstitutionalLaw. A third volume is projected which will cover CompetitionLaw. Given the excellence of the first two volumes, one hopesthat we will not have to wait as long for the final instalment.An update of the