Lepsinger R, Lucia A D
Training & Development, (USA), Feb 98 (52/2)
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Emphasizes the importance of gaining the support of staff and line employees for 360 degree feedback programmes. Advises trainers and human resource development managers to identify the key decision makers and stakeholders and use this information when assessing where the main resistance to the feedback system will come from. 

Public Sector managers can look to the radical reform about to undergo Britain’s legal system for hints about the forms of modernisation the Government is looking for.
The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, says he plans to sweep away restrictive practices that have allowed two lawyers, such as a solicitor and then a barrister, to charge the customer when the same job could have been done by one person. 

Sir Jeremy Beecham, Chair of the Local Government Association, which represents councils nationally, has called on councils to take up new challenges in order to regain ground lost during the last two decades of coping with squeezes on budgets and on town hall power.
He said: “It is essential that local government demonstrates its willingness to take advantage of a new legislative framework which we hope will encourage innovation and experimentation at local level.