Preparing the public workforce for the twenty‐first century: the challenge

Abstract

The twenty‐first century is knocking on our doors, but do we know how to greet it? We know it is there waiting for us to let it in, but what are we likely to face when we open our institutional doors? What opportunities, uncertainties, or threats will it bring? Will we recognize the twenty‐first century when we see it, or might we confuse it with something seen before? Might we mistake an issue we should be prepared to deal with in the next millennium for a controversy of no significance? For government agencies the calendar is not much help. For public administrators the twenty‐first century is more than just a date. It is a state of affairs, a set of behaviour patterns, opportunities to be explored and risks to be avoided. Confronting the twenty‐first century means emerging from a relatively certain past to confront an uncertain future.

Citation

Halachmi, A. (1995), "Preparing the public workforce for the twenty‐first century: the challenge", Work Study, Vol. 44 No. 2, pp. 8-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/00438029510082549