POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pencil, Equal Pay For Equal Work, Crisis Management
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Have to ask for permission to speak. Trudeau"s government delivery units will allow pmo to monitor the public. Ottawa"s management cultures changed: delivery unit reports back to pmo on progress of pm"s goals, this results in closer relationship between pmo and departments. Managing up focuses on process, protecting pm & ministers & managing the media. Managing down focuses on implementing programs, citizen satisfaction and management internally of human resources. Crisis management and blame avoidance becomes deputy role, make minister look good regardless. White, english people have historically been in power: tend to select employees like you, unfair. 1) making french and english canada"s official languages. Led to official languages act of 1979 which required the federal government to serve citizens in language of their choice. Commissioner of official languages monitored bilingualism in the federal civil service & deal with complaints. Political consequences has been backlash against bilingualism due to preference of applicants given to those who speak french.