§ Mr. Matesasked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will list the contracts, with the subject of the assignment, awarded to management consultancy or accounting firms by the Management and Personnel Office in 1985, with the name of the consultants concerned.
§ Mr. LuceThe contracts awarded to management consultancy and accounting firms during the calendar year 1985 are as follows:
Consultancy firm and contract
- China' Management Services Ltd.
- Specialised training
- Communication Audit
- Review of written guidance to promotion boards
Coopers & Lybrand Associates
- (i) Management/staff communications
- (ii) Policy work and the Financial Management Initiative1
Diane Bailey Associates
- (i) Training material on staff appraisal; training workshops
- (ii) Trainers' resource pack on equal opportunities
- (iii) Specialised training
Hay-MSL Management Consultants
- (i) Evaluation of Performance Bonus Experiment
- (ii) Means of assessing the potential and management development needs of staff at junior levels1
Imitax Ltd.
- Workshops on job satisfaction/employee involvement
- Imitax Ltd./Christine Howarth
- Local Office Network Conference
- IMS
- Use of information technology in personnel work
- Inbucon Management Consultants Ltd.
- Case study on personnel and financial management linkages1
Industrial Training Services Ltd.
- (i) Measuring training activity
- (ii) Specialised training
Intra Systems Ltd.
- Pilot study on the use of interactive video1
- KMG Thomson McLintock
- Review of office automation pilot programme in a government department
- OD (Management Consultancy) Ltd.
- Review of a productivity scheme
- PA Personnel Services Ltd.
- Study of the provision of information, advice and guidance on matters of employment law within the Civil Service
816 - Peter Saunders Associates
- Self instruction package on Government Accounting
- Transform
- Specialised training
1 Costs for these studies were shared with other government departments.