Nachum studies what motivates public servants to come to work on a daily basis and what draws them to those jobs in the first place.
"The main goal is to . . . Improve organizational performance on the whole and make for a happier, healthier, and more productive workforce".
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Remote work has dramatically changed the world of work as we once knew it. The COVID-19 pandemic was a tidal wave, but rising tides have been elevating virtual, or hybrid work to greater prominence since the late 1990s and early 2000s. Last year’s dispute between the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the federal Treasury […]
Have you ever wondered who was more rational, Mother Teresa or Milton Friedman? If yes, great! No just me? Okay, suppose you had and bear along. The answer to this question isn’t obvious; indeed, there isn’t really a right answer. We can start by asking, what is rationality or how is it defined? This seemingly […]
Have you noticed that many of Canada’s public sector organizations, at all levels of government and right across the country, are not operating at their best, to put it gently? Ministries, departments, and agencies are perpetually hobbled by any number of ‘emergencies’, ‘situations’ or ‘issues’ hampering their daily operations, hamstringing their management and staff, and […]
The old way of classifying jobs as blue- or white-collar is no longer relevant in Canada’s modern labour market. Our 21st century economy and workforce are too complex to boil jobs and work categories down to a simple blue- or white-collar contrast. The first use of white collar to describe those in non-manual labour jobs dates back to the […]
Building models and using advanced statistics to unpack vexing questions in the social sciences makes for a neat, enlightening, and intellectually stimulating pursuit. It’s how I spend most of my days, happily so. But social science models, both theoretical and empirical, aren’t all cut from the same quality cloth. Many models as well as novel, […]
If a party host asked ‘would you please come to my dinner get together, but don’t expect a place to sit, or any refreshments, or even a hanger for your jacket’ you might be justified in concluding that your host is a tad inhospitable, to put it mildly. How about a country that asks, ‘skilled […]
