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"To stay ahead of the competition, the public sector has to ensure effective talent management strategy to attract, develop and retain talents. Effective talent management is about aligning the organisation's approach to talent with the strategic aims and purpose of the organisation. This book adopts a comparative country analysis, which takes into account of the institutional emphasis, organisational configuration and unique characteristics of the public sector. Against the backdrop of three major stages of administrative development i.e., the colonial, postcolonial and modern periods, this book unpacks how the talent schemes have been shaped by the reforms, experiences, cross-country knowledge transfers and evolved over time responding to globalisation and digitalisation in Southeast Asia. This book will be of great interest to scholars and public managers working on public administration and civil service reforms in Asia towards developing a contextualised understanding of talent management and leadership development in the region"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Administrative reforms and transformation in the public sector that shape talent management and leadership development in Southeast Asia -- 2 Talent management as a growing discipline in the public sector -- 3 Talent management and leadership development in Singapore -- 4 Talent management and leadership development in Malaysia -- 5 Talent management and leadership development in Thailand -- 6 Talent management and leadership development in Cambodia -- 7 Talent management and leadership development in Vietnam -- 8 Comparison of the talent management practices - attraction, development and retention -- 9 Leadership development of senior public officials through transnational knowledge transfer -- 10 Assessing talent strategies within the context of inclusive-exclusive tension paradigm -- References -- Index.

Introduction. 1. Administrative reforms and transformation in the public sector that shape talent management and leadership development in Southeast Asia 2. Talent management as a growing discipline in the public sector 3. Talent management and leadership development in Singapore 4. Talent management and leadership development in Malaysia 5. Talent management and leadership development in Thailand 6. Talent management and leadership development in Cambodia 7. Talent management and leadership development in Vietnam 8. Comparison of the talent management practices -- attraction, development and retention 9. Leadership development of senior public officials through transnational knowledge transfer 10. Assessing talent strategies within the context of inclusive-exclusive tension paradigm

To stay ahead of the competition, the public sector has to ensure an effective talent management strategy to attract, develop and retain talents. Effective talent management is about aligning the organisation's approach to talent with the strategic aims and purpose of the organisation. This book adopts a comparative country analysis, which takes into accountthe institutional emphasis, organisational configuration and unique characteristics of the public sector. Against the backdrop of three major stages of administrative development, i.e., the colonial, postcolonial and modern periods, this book unpacks how the talent schemes have been shaped by the reforms, experiences, cross-country knowledge transfers and evolved over time responding to globalisation and digitalisation in Southeast Asia. This book will be of great interest to scholars and public managers working on public administration and civil service reforms in Asia towards developing a contextualised understanding of talent management and leadership development in the region.

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Sir Colin Campbell's incumbrances : women as a factor in British command decisions during the Indian Mutiny 1857 / T.A. Heathcote -- Heni Te Kiri Karamu : the heroine of the Gate Pa / Leicester Chilton -- Home from home on the Western Front, 1914-1918 : women's contribution to morale / Elspeth Johnstone -- Working, queueing and worrying : British women and the home front, 1939-1945 / Mark Connelly -- Flight through the retreating Allied armies : non-combatants and the Blitzkrieg of 1940 / George Bailey -- 'Put that light out' : the 93rd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery / Imogen Corrigan -- Homeland defence : British gunners, women and ethics during the Second World War / Georgina Natzio -- Princess Marina the Duchess of Kent as commandant of the WRNS during the Second World War / Celia Lee -- Hurricanes and handbags : women RAF ferry pilots during the Second World War / Mike Ryan -- British secret agents during the Second World War / Juliette Pattinson -- Sue Ryder and the FANYs of SOE / Jonathan Walker -- Women with a secret : photographic interpretation / Christine Halsall -- 'Station X' : the women at Bletchley Park / John Lee -- Women in the siege of Leningrad / Tatiana Roshupkina -- Lotta Svärd, Nachthexen and Blitzmädel : women in military service on the Eastern Front / Paul Edward Strong -- Women at war : Poland / Halik Kochanski -- Women who thawed the Cold War / Grace Filby -- War veterans : four short histories - Georgina Ivison; Theresa Jordan; Beryl; Minnie S. Churchill / edited by Celia Lee

AbstractChinese special economic zones (SEZs) have played a key role in attracting massive foreign investment and in facilitating knowledge and technology transfer to local companies. This explains the mushrooming of Chinese‐led SEZs and industrial parks in parts of Southeast Asia and Africa since the early 2000s, and more recently its prominence in the planning of the economic corridors along the Belt and Road Initiative. Our interest in SEZs derives from the fact that they provide novel grounds to investigate the dynamics of knowledge transfer (KT) in South–South exchanges and the extent to which it diverges from more traditional exchanges. This study undertakes a comparative analysis of KT in the Eastern Industrial Zone (EIZ) in Ethiopia, and the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) in Cambodia. The case studies suggest that, although the provision of training by Chinese investors has added value to the labour force, its transformative impact is limited owing to the concentration on explicit KT modalities at lower skills levels and the top–down approach to KT by Chinese companies. These limitations are largely a function of the wide absorptive capacity gap between China and the host countries studied and the absence of more conducive industrial policies.

"The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, consists of 17 goals which build on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and aim to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure peace and prosperity. The 17 goals are interconnected and the success of one will involve tackling issues associated with another."

AbstractThis special issue on 'The Dynamics of Governance and Sustainable Development Goals in the Global South', with a focus on the 'Asian Models of Governance', aims to fill the gap by contributing to expanding and advancing the transnational knowledge transfer literature by bringing new cases from the Global South. It also hopes to further advance the discussions translating some aspects of Asian experiences of governance in developing an outcome‐driven knowledge and policy transfer model for SDGs. The articles in this issue of Global Policy were selected from papers first presented at the London School of Economics – IDEAS and Nanyang Technological University – Nanyang Centre for Public Administration (LSE‐IDEAS and NTU‐NCPA) Joint Workshop on the Dynamics of Knowledge Transfer and Governance in the Global South, held at the London School of Economics in November 2019.