All posts tagged "Policy and governance"

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  Five interesting insights from the OECD’s governance report

  The recent publication includes some surprising lessons for civil service leaders – arguing, for example, that some anti-corruption practices can be counterproductive Last month, the OECD published a report promoting

  • Posted January 8, 2021
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  Use your intelligence: former UK spy chief on good decisions and poor information

  These days, the public discourse is awash with fake news; but intelligence operatives have always worked in an environment of uncertainty and incomplete data. At a lecture last week, former

  • Posted November 6, 2020
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  Global resilience has taken a hit – these countries will bear the brunt

  The global economy has suffered its biggest shock since the Second World War. When coronavirus hit, we battened down the hatches and it’s driven us into deep recession. As countries

  • Posted October 14, 2020
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  Johnson forges ahead with civil service shake-up

  UK prime minister Boris Johnson is moving policy advisers out of Downing Street and into the Cabinet Office as part of wider plans to ensure that No 10, the Treasury

  • Posted August 14, 2020
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  US federal unions vow to fight executive orders after court defeat

  US federal employee unions have pledged to fight the overturning of a court ruling blocking the implementation of three controversial executive orders which diminish federal workers’ collective bargaining rights. The

  • Posted July 25, 2019
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  Automatic Union Fee Payments To End In UK Public Sector

  Unionised civil servants and public sector workers in the UK will have to re-subscribe to their trade unions and set up new payments plans under new legislation proposed by the

  • Posted August 6, 2015
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