Emerging trends and early lessons in public-sector HR outsourcing

It should come as no surprise that business leaders have long wrestled with ways to demonstrate how business-management practices that greatly benefit their own companies are also good for the economy as a whole and can be applied equally well to the public sector. Outsourcing has become controversi...

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Published in:Employment Relations Today 2005, Vol.31 (4), p.31-37
Main Author: Davidson, Glenn K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automation
Cost control
Employees
Government
Human resource management
Outsourcing
Public sector
Trends
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Summary:It should come as no surprise that business leaders have long wrestled with ways to demonstrate how business-management practices that greatly benefit their own companies are also good for the economy as a whole and can be applied equally well to the public sector. Outsourcing has become controversial in political circles recently in large part because business leaders have been strikingly inarticulate in explaining how this method can not only increase corporate profits, but also make the US economy more efficient and productive, with higher growth rates and job creation as well as creating a higher standard of living. Perhaps the best example of how outsourcing can benefit the economy is human resource outsourcing - a form of business-process outsourcing that focuses on applying technology, process improvements, and economies of scale to HR activities, saving companies money that they can invest in their core businesses.
ISSN:0745-7790
1520-6459
DOI:10.1002/ert.20039