Our ambition is to be A Brilliant Civil Service that helps to keep the United Kingdom prosperous and secure, supporting the government we serve in implementing their commitments and delivering high quality services for the public.The Cabinet Secretary has prioritised improving “the capability of the Civil Service itself and the wider public service”, noting the importance of “our diversity and inclusion agenda, building our capabilities in digital and commercial, and ensuring that our systems join up.” A particular focus of this priority is “trying to ensure that the horizontal mechanisms we have across a government that is inevitably organised vertically are as strong and effective as possible.” To that end, our areas of research interest focus on understanding how we can strengthen and transform the Civil Service as an organisation so that it can tackle current and future challenges and opportunities such as diversity and inclusion, staff engagement, rewarding and retaining talents, and career paths, more effectively.
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The central Civil Service (Whitehall) is undergoing major change. Crucial to the success of that change is how well it can learn from its own history. This project, a three year partnership between the Institute for Gove...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Institute for Government
The project partially answers the question by providing historical research on the Civil Service, but does not directly address how the Civil Service can stay abreast of new practices in organizational design/operating models or how academic research can feed into these developments.
Public services are presently going through huge changes in response to a range of issues such as the Big Society agenda, increased localisation, greater demands for service user voice and control, increased public expec...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham
The project partially answers the question by addressing the changing nature of public service roles and the need for a knowledge portal, but does not directly address how the Civil Service can stay abreast of new practices in organizational design/operating models or how academic research can feed into these developments.
The research asks why some administrative organizations are created then reorganized, merged, or terminated, whereas others are seemingly 'immortal' and even can become more powerful than the elected politicians that cre...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
The project partially answers the question by studying organizational changes within central government, but does not directly address how the Civil Service can stay abreast of new practices in organizational design/operating models or how academic research can feed into these developments.