Public-service awards programs: An exploratory analysis

Canadian Public Administration

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 321-342

  Borins, Sandford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0039182890     PISSN: 00084840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-7121.2000.tb01851.x     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Robert Reich, Locked in the Cabinet (New York: Knopf, 1997), p. 133.
2. Interview with Tom Glynn, deputy secretary of labor, 1992-96, 8 November 1999.
3. www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/hr_connexions_rh/sigs/Awards/Outstanding/siglist_e.html
4. www.ipaciapc.ca/english/menu.htm
5. www.gov.on.ca/MCZCR/english/citdiv/honours/amethyst.htm
6. www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/hr_connexions_rh/sigs/Awards/Head_public/siglist_e.html
7. For details see the Agatha Bystram Award for Leadership in Information Management (www.nlc-bnc.ca/cfl-cbg/bystram/cabind.htm), the FleetWise Award of Recognition given by the Office of Energy Efficiency of Natural Resources Canada (http://fleetwise.nrcan.gc.ca/award_e.htm), the Awards for Excellence in Government Finance (http://www.gfoa.org/awards/excel.htm), and the Union of British Columbia Municipalities' Best Local Government Internet Web Site Award (http://www.civicnet.gov.bc.ca/ubcm/awareness_99/web_awards.html).
8. www.techgov.com/english/index.html
9. www.ipacipapc.ca/english/menu.htm
10. Information provided by Jane Peatch, executive director, Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships, 1 October 1999.
11. www.capam.comnet.mt/
12. www.ksg.harvard.edu/innovations/
13. www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/Pubs_pol/hrpubs/TB_855/recognition_e.html
14. www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/Pubs_pol/hrpubs/TB_855/Chap1_11_e.html (Information also provided by Lynda Janney, Treasury Board Secretariat, 15 July 1999.)
15. Public Service Employee Relations Commission, Government of British Columbia, application to the IPAC Award for Innovative Management for 1999, 23 February 1999.
16. Information provided by Kathy Durst, director of human resources, City of Waterloo, 27 August 1999.
17. Nicholas Timmins, "Team Bonuses to be Paid to Civil Servants," The Financial Times (London), 1 February 2000 [on-line edition].
18. www.nqi.ca/new_web/english/html/cae.html
19. United Kingdom, Next Steps Team, Towards best practice: an evaluation of the first two years of the public service benchmarking project (London: Cabinet Office, 1998).
20. For a similar argument regarding the Order of Canada, see Anthony Westell, "The Order of Canada: What absolute rot!" The Globe and Mail (Toronto) 18 July 2000, p. A13.
21. See Sandford Borins, "New Public Management, Canadian Style," in David Barrows and H. Ian Macdonald, eds., The New Public Management: International Developments (Toronto: Captus Press, 2000), pp. 173-99; Sandford Borins, Innovating with Integrity: How Local Heroes are Transforming American Government (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998); and Sandford Borins, "What border? public management innovation in the United States and Canada," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 19; no. 1 (Winter 2000), pp. 46-74.
22. See Sandford Borins, "New Public Management, Canadian Style," in David Barrows and H. Ian Macdonald, eds., The New Public Management: International Developments (Toronto: Captus Press, 2000), pp. 173-99; Sandford Borins, Innovating with Integrity: How Local Heroes are Transforming American Government (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998); and Sandford Borins, "What border? public management innovation in the United States and Canada," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 19; no. 1 (Winter 2000), pp. 46-74.
23. See Sandford Borins, "New Public Management, Canadian Style," in David Barrows and H. Ian Macdonald, eds., The New Public Management: International Developments (Toronto: Captus Press, 2000), pp. 173-99; Sandford Borins, Innovating with Integrity: How Local Heroes are Transforming American Government (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998); and Sandford Borins, "What border? public management innovation in the United States and Canada," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 19; no. 1 (Winter 2000), pp. 46-74.
24. Arie Halachmi, "Potential Dysfunctions of Quality Award Competitions," in H. Hill and H. Klages, eds., Trends in Public Sector Renewal (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1995), pp. 293-314.
25. Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), pp. 31-3.
26. Eleanor Glor, "The role of innovation awards," The Innovation Journal, 21 February 1998 [online publication at www.innovation.cc/articles/role.htm].
27. The one type of award for which the measurement of benefits is intrinsic is gain-sharing awards, since the award itself depends on the existence of measurable gains.
28. Information provided by Diane Eyre, awards coordinator, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 21 September 1999.
29. See Kenneth Kernaghan, Brian Marson and Sandford Borins, The New Public Organization (Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada, forthcoming).