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
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