How to attract and retain the best in government

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ID9963611
AuthorsPan Suk Kim (0000-0002-0551-1702, Yonsei University, corresponding author), Pan Suk Kim Pan Suk Kim (Institute for Regional Studies and Development, and Professor of Public Administration in the College of Government and Business at Yonsei University in Korea)
Year2008
Volume74
Issue4
Pages637-652
Publication date2008-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review of Administrative Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8523 • E-ISSN: 1461-7226
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0020852308098472
OpenAlexW1998482819
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited15

The purpose of this article is to discuss challenges and strategies of attracting and retaining the best in government, particularly from the perspective of government in developing countries or transitional economies. This article will first touch briefly on the technical and practical issues of how to attract and retain the best, followed by an elaboration of current trends in human resource management (HRM). It will also look at a case of the Korean experience on HRM, followed by discussion of the theoretical and policy implications on HRM. Various kinds of best practices and new ideas are available through diverse venues around the world, but it is difficult to determine what really works for whom and how. It is not feasible to apply the same reform strategy to all countries. The challenge is, therefore, to find out what is applicable to the specific country; and how things can be applied while minimizing negative consequences. Points for the practitioners Under rapidly changing circumstances around the world with increasing pressure on performance and innovation in government, old-fashioned personnel management must be significantly transformed, in order to attract and retain the best in government as well as to win the war for talent. Thus HR managers should initiate far-reaching, much needed change in talent management in terms of how they source, attract, select, train, develop, retain, promote, and move employees through the organization. In order to make government the model employer of choice, HR managers need to make a new Copernican transition in finding a new way of human resource management

Best practice · Business · Economics · Government (linguistics · Human resource management · Human resources · Management · Order (exchange · Political science · Public relations · Human Resource and Talent Management · Marketing

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