April 18, 2016

This study on training environment existing in the Singapore Public Service was conducted in 2000 by Dr. Gambhir Bhatta, former faculty member at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Known for one of the most proficient public services in the world, Singapore is credited with putting in place good policy fundamentals that helped it to withstand the Asian economic crisis much better than the other countries of the region. This paper focuses on the training environment that exists in the Singapore Public Service and argues that there is need to include a study of its overseas training programmes in order to get a more complete picture of human resource development in the public sector. Using the Value for Money (VFM) perspective, it concludes that while there has been strong commitment from the government on public sector capacity enhancement, there is need for more work on measuring the incidence of learning in the organizations.

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