This status eliminates much of the market pressure to change, and improvement. While much of this book discussed the situations which have arisen because of the missing factors of the private marketplace, the problems of public personnel administration may be sooner converted into possibilities with a change of perspective.
If the problems of the public HR professional were a pink elephant which had taken up residence in the living room, it would be more helpful to discuss ways of removing the elephant from the living room, rather than controlling what it eats, how to keep it from breaking things. The public sector health and human resources marketplace must find pathways to embrace these free market principles if it genuinely desires to also be known as a world class provider of goods and services. Change will be slow, as the problems discussed in this book are very real obstacles. And change cannot come without conflict. But the purpose of the conflict is to create a system which is more responsive to the clients it serves, and more responsible to the public who inevitably fund it with their tax dollars.
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