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This chapter is concerned with the issue of public service culture and focuses in particular on a project titled ‘Civil Service Renewal’ through which a number of long-standing reform issues concerning accountability and performance were addressed. The Renewal project was significant not alone for the ‘bottom-up’ nature of its development, but also for the new civil service accountability and management arrangements that emerged from its work. As part of this chapter, the introduction of departmental Corporate Governance standards and a more strategic approach to human resource management in the civil service are also presented.
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MacCarthaigh, M. (2017). Culture Reform. In: Public Sector Reform in Ireland. Executive Politics and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57460-8_8
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