Chapter 9 Best Practice Guidance for Political Staffing for Political Managers, Advisers, and Reformers

This chapter sets out an overall vision and architecture for political staffing and why it is needed. It discusses the privilege of service in political staffing, notes the current crisis in political staffing human resource management but also argues strongly for the potential for positive human re...

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मुख्य लेखक: Lees-Marshment, Jennifer
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description This chapter sets out an overall vision and architecture for political staffing and why it is needed. It discusses the privilege of service in political staffing, notes the current crisis in political staffing human resource management but also argues strongly for the potential for positive human resource management. It provides guidance for practitioners by outlining best practice guidance for political staffers, their managers, and reformers. This makes clear the key approaches and tools they need to be aware of and use to improve political offices. Political staffers and advisers need to be properly trained, supported and developed. Not only will this benefit the individuals in the roles, it will provide significant benefit to the politicians they work for and in turn the voters who elect the politicians. Higher quality human resource management for political staffers and advisers will generate multiple long term dividends. It will create higher calibre, more experienced and diverse political staffers who are up and running in their role sooner, perform at a higher level and are retained for longer, preserving institutional knowledge. This will lead to higher functioning offers, generating better outputs, more effectively supported politicians, more strategic decisions, increased delivery of election promises.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1313432025-06-24T07:03:52Z Chapter 9 Best Practice Guidance for Political Staffing for Political Managers, Advisers, and Reformers Lees-Marshment, Jennifer Best practice, HRM, Human resources, Mental health, Political staffer, Prime Minister, Prime Minister's Office, SpAd, Special Adviser, Chief of staff, Government, Human Resource Management, Morale, Office structure, Orientation, Performance management, Political adviser, public administation, training, well-being, work-life balance, workload This chapter sets out an overall vision and architecture for political staffing and why it is needed. It discusses the privilege of service in political staffing, notes the current crisis in political staffing human resource management but also argues strongly for the potential for positive human resource management. It provides guidance for practitioners by outlining best practice guidance for political staffers, their managers, and reformers. This makes clear the key approaches and tools they need to be aware of and use to improve political offices. Political staffers and advisers need to be properly trained, supported and developed. Not only will this benefit the individuals in the roles, it will provide significant benefit to the politicians they work for and in turn the voters who elect the politicians. Higher quality human resource management for political staffers and advisers will generate multiple long term dividends. It will create higher calibre, more experienced and diverse political staffers who are up and running in their role sooner, perform at a higher level and are retained for longer, preserving institutional knowledge. This will lead to higher functioning offers, generating better outputs, more effectively supported politicians, more strategic decisions, increased delivery of election promises. 2023-12-05T04:05:48Z 2023-12-05T04:05:48Z 2023-12-04T13:31:46Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85774 9781032636412 9781032621722 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/131343 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85774/1/9781032636429_10.4324_9781032636429-9.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85774/1/9781032636429_10.4324_9781032636429-9.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85774/1/9781032636429_10.4324_9781032636429-9.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781032636429-9 10.4324/9781032636429-9 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 The Human Resource Management of Political Staffers University of Auckland 73c44324-2dea-4efb-9052-e3608c2b12ed 9781032636412 9781032621722 Routledge 36 open access
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Chapter 9 Best Practice Guidance for Political Staffing for Political Managers, Advisers, and Reformers
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