An Inefficient Management Style - Public Sector Management Logic

In the private sector if you have new government requirements for reporting or new health and safety requirements from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) you wouldn 't think of hiring more staff to address the extra workload or hiring a consultant to help you out.

Similarly, if your business experiencing substantial upticks in activity at the front counter you would not immediately hire additional staff.  You would wait until you knew for sure the level of activity was going to continue. Instead you ask an employee from another area to help out at the front counter.

  Unfortunately this is not how Owen Sound's Senior Leadership Think when it comes to spending your tax dollars!                 ...  Read More