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Job cuts signal start of public sector recession - maybe they will need a little help?
15th February, 2010
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Survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development warns that almost a third of public sector employers are planning to cut jobs during the first quarter of this year.
In a survey of 700 employers, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said today that redundancies in both the public and private sectors are set to accelerate during the first three months of 2010.
The CIPD report showed that one in four employers across all sectors planned to make redundancies in the first three months of the year, cutting an average 6.2% of their workforce, compared with 3.8% taken out by employers making redundancies in the previous quarter. But there is a bigger threat than cuts faces the public sector.
There IS a bigger threat than cuts faces the public sector.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in a blunt assessment of the outlook for the sector, the institute is warning that it is not cuts that represent the biggest threat to delivery of public services so much as the poor calibre of management. Too many workplaces “appear to be the exact opposite of productive”, it claims, characterised by low levels of mutual trust and failure to tackle longstanding problems of excessive staff absence and conflict between colleagues.
We know this at Great Marketing Works, as we have been trying to change just the way that councils and NGO’s market themselves. And that has been hard enough.
Perhaps we do need this second recession to weed out a bit more of the public sector garden.
Without an appreciation of great marketing (or even any marketing) how can the public sector (especially in business support) really help people?
They still have a budget and a promise on what to deliver but without the training to do so the middle managers who ‘appear to be the exact opposite of productive’ purely because they can’t get their message out to the people they serve – in a productive cost effective way.
We have been lucky enough with our work with NCGE and others to have a couple of public sector managers on our courses, purely by chance.
And they love what they have learnt – just in two hours.
Just a quick note to thank you for your session yesterday. I thought it was really good and some excellent tips for the delegates. Your session proved to me that I am enterprising, rather than entrepreneurial and that was a true learning experience too. All the delegates got a great deal from the session and have heard from a few of them today saying how much they enjoyed the whole day. (Carol A Buckman (Mrs) Business Gateway Manager: Liverpool Hope.)
Always happy to help with people’s entreprenuerial mindsets :)
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