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These sites promote better people and performance management in the public and private sectors. Click on a letter to go down the list.

Those sites with a have a focus on futures issues.

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All Governments of the World
Law and government resources from around the world

American Society for Quality
The Society advances individual, organizational and community excellence worldwide through learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange
- Quality Progress Magazine

American Productivity and Quality Center
APQC has become a world-renowned resource for process and performance improvement for organizations of all sizes across all industries

American Society for Public Administration
ASPA is the largest and most prominent professional association in public administration

American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
ASTD is the world's leading association of workplace learning and performance professionals, forming a world-class community of practice. ASTD's 70,000 members come from more than 100 countries and 15,000 organizations

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
APEC has become the primary regional vehicle for promoting open trade and practical economic cooperation. Its goal is to advance Asia-Pacific economic dynamism and sense of community

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
APPAM encourages excellence in research, teaching, and practice in the field of public policy analysis and management

Association of South Eastern Nations (ASEAN)
Organisational website

Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Teaching
ACIRRT, based at the University ofÊ Sydney, is one of Australia's leading, multi-disciplinary, research and training organisations.

Australian Human Resource Institute
AHRI is a national organisation that contributes globally through strategic alliances with major international HR bodies, and has growing influence in Asia

Australian Institute of Management
The Australian Institute of Management (AIM) facilitates management and leadership excellence by promoting, supporting and developing the profession of management in all its forms

Australian Quality Council
The Council's role is to assist organisations in achieving world class performance using the Australian Business Excellence Framework

Benchmarking Link-Up Australia
The most comprehensive Australian site devoted to benchmarking. Their aim is to be a complete information and resources service for anyone wanting help with benchmarking and best practice

The Benchmarking Centre
UK Benchmarking site

Benchmark: Learning from the best
A site where a network of companies and organisations from around the world, all involved in the provision of best practice information and services, have come together to create a site for any person or organisation looking to learn from the best practice of others

Benchnet - Benchmarking Exchange
International benchmarking resources website

BPR Online Learning Center
The learning center offers an index of best practice reengineering articles from around the world, an online tutorial series, benchmarking studies, and information on toolkits and document templates for project teams.

Brookings Institution - US
The Brookings Institution functions as an independent analyst and critic, committed to publishing its findings for the information of the public. It also serves as a bridge between scholarship and public policy, bringing new knowledge to the attention of decisionmakers and affording scholars a better insight into public policy issues.

Center for Creative Leadership
The Center for Creative Leadership works to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide.

Club of Rome
The Club of Rome is a think tank and a centre for research, action, innovation and initiative. The Club of Rome was founded in 1968 in Rome, and consists of a group of scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former heads of state from the five continents. Members of the Club of Rome seek to avoid present and foreseeable catastrophes by stimulating debates on the major issues that have global implications. The site provides a list of future-oriented publications such as Meadows' seminal work, The Limits to Growth (1972).

Committee for Public Management Research
The Committee sponsors research on issues of relevance to the development and management of the Irish civil service.

Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM)
CAPAM is dedicated to strengthening public management and consolidating democracy and good governance throughout the Commonwealth

Center for Technology in Government: "Tying a Sensible Knot: a Practical Guide to State Local Information Systems"
Summarizes the results of a cooperative project to identify and promote the practices that lead to effective state-local systems

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) - US
This service is provided in support of world-wide efforts in quality improvement and education in quality

Council for Excellence
The nonpartisan, nonprofit Council for Excellence in Government works to improve the performance of government at all levels and government's place in the lives and esteem of American citizens

Emerald Reviews (formerly Anbar International Management Database)
Covers the major management disciplines including strategy, leadership, information management, marketing and human resource management.

Ethics in the Public Sector - OECD
Issues paper

Europa (Government sites)
Europa is the portal site of the European Union. It provides coverage of European affairs and information on European integration. Users can also consult all legislation currently in force or under discussion, access the websites of each of the EU institutions and find out about the policies administered by the EU

Evatt Foundation
The Evatt Foundation is the Australian labour movement's leading policy research organisation

Foresight Institute
Foresight Institute's goal is to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition. The Institute focusses its efforts upon nanotechnology, the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision, and upon systems that will enhance knowledge exchange and critical discussion, thus improving public and private policy decisions.

General Accounting Office (GAO) - US
GAO examines the use of public funds, evaluates federal programs and activities, and provides analyses, options, recommendations, and other assistance to help the US Congress make effective oversight, policy, and funding decisions

Global Futures Foundation
The Global Futures Foundation (GFF) is a non-profit organisation devoted to integrating the interests of business and environment. The site provides information and publications relating to pollution prevention, industrial ecology, resource productivity and market-based environmental laws. GFF manages a network of business leaders for advanced resource productivity which teach systems-based disciplines like industrial ecology as applied to management, accounting, product development, marketing, and public policy.

Harvard Business Review
Business web-newsletter

HRM Resources on the Internet
This is a list of internet resources relevant to Human Resource Management

Hudson Institute
The Hudson Institute, founded by Herman Kahn, is a public policy research organisation and a 'non-partisan futurist organization that is known for its healthy skepticism of conventional wisdom and its guarded optimism about solving tomorrow's problems today.' The page has links to some useful publications and its major studies and reports include:

Kahn and Wiener; Workforce 2000 and its sequel The Next 200 Years;
Workforce 2020 concerning changes in the American workforce.

Institute for the Future
The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is a non-profit applied research and consulting firm dedicated to understanding technological, economic, and societal changes and their long-range domestic and global consequences. The site describes corporate membership programs and includes examples of IFTF analyses, e.g. The 1999 Ten-Year Forecast, and The 20-Year Retrospective (1977-97).

Institute on Governance
The IOG is a non-profit Canadian organization with charitable status founded to promote effective governance - governance comprising the traditions, institutions and processes that determine how power is exercised, how citizens are given a voice, and how decisions are made on issues of public concern.

Institute of Personnel Development - UK
Personnel officer/manager resource site

Institute of Public Administration - Canada
The Institute of Public Administration of Canada is dedicated to the theory and practice of public management.

Institute of Public Adminsitration - Ireland
The Institute of Public Administration is Ireland's only consultancy service focused exclusively on public sector development.

Intergovernmental On-Line Information Kiosk
Links to government and international organisations

International City Government Resource Centre
Links to city government websites

International Labour Organisation (ILO)
The UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The IMF works to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries

International Newspapers: Editor and Publisher Online newspapers
Links to newspapers/journals around the world

International Personnel Management Association (IPMA)
IPMA is a non-profit membership organization for agencies and individuals in the public sector human resources field, and others with members located in federal, state and local governments throughout the United States and overseas. The IPMA works to promote excellence through the ongoing development of professional and ethical standards and career development

International Quality and Productivity Center - US
The IQPC is dedicated to providing practical, detailed information through conferences held at both the national and international level

Investors in People - UK
Investors in People is a national quality standard which sets a level of good practice for improving an organisation's performance through its people.

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Educational site for learning in government. Includes human resources section

Knowledge Management Virtual Library
Resources and links for knowledge managament

The Knowledge Sharing Effort
A consortium working to develop conventions facilitating sharing and reuse of knowledge bases and knowledge based systems

National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) - US
The Academy is an independent, nonpartisan organization chartered by the US Congress to assist federal, state, and local governments in improving their effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability

New South Wales Department of Industrial Relations
Administration of awards and indutrial relations in NSW

Office for Public Management - UK
The Office for Public Management was established as an independent centre to develop management practice and thinking in the delivery of public services and in the exercise of corporate responsibility.

OECD International Futures Programme
The OECD International Futures Programme is designed to help decision makers in government and industry come to grips with the challenge of identifying the important trends which will shape the future. It offers monitoring of the long term economic and social horizon, an early warning system for emerging domestic and international issues; pinpointing of major developments and possible trend breaks, analytical appreciation of key long term issues, and dialogue and information sharing to help set policy agendas and map strategy. The programme consists of four elements:

OECD Forum for the Future - a platform for informal high level meetings with the aim of testing new ideas, developing fresh perspectives on problems and advancing the understanding of strategic economic and social issues.
OECD Futures Projects - focussed, multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on special themes, largely as spin offs from Forum for the Future conferences.
OECD Future Studies Information Base - a documentation system providing the key findings and conclusions of published and unpublished literature selected from the worldwide output of futures analysis.
OECD International Futures Network - a global network of some 600 people in government, industry and business, and research institutions who share a common interest in long term developments and related policy issues.

OECD - Public Management Programme (PUMA)
PUMA studies how governments organise and manage the public sector and identifies emerging challenges that governments are likely to face

Pausible futures newsletter
News and analysis for future studies & scenario planning

Public Sector Continuous Improvement Site - US
The Public Sector Continuous Improvement Site aims to help public sector employees improve their organizations

Public Sector Management - WA
WA Government web newsletter (Intersector) with public sector information including developments, jobs, notices etc

Quality Society of Australasia
Promotes quality management practices

Scenario Planning and Research Unit
Graduate School of Business
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U1987 Perth
Western Australia 6845
Phone: (08) 9266 4239
Fax: (08) 9266 4071

Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
Resource site on a wide range of issues

Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) - US
SHRM provides education and information services, conferences and seminars, government and media representation, online services and publications to more than 165,000 members throughout the world

Strategy + business
e-magazine dealing with business ideas

The System Dynamics Society
The System Dynamics Society is an international, non-profit organisation which encourages the development and use of system dynamics around the world. It is run on a volunteer basis by practitioners of system dynamics in academia and industry, and provides a forum for people to keep up-to-date with applications, methodologies and tools. Its web page provides a useful list of websites and a bibliography, which is available on shareware at http://www.vensim.com/sdmail/sdbib.html.

TQM - Don't Let TQM Drain You Dry Without Any ROI
Article

UK Government Online
Open government resource for the United Kingdom - access to government resources

United Nations
Website locator for UN organisations

Unwembi's Resources of South African Government Information
Links to South African legislative and policy resources

Workforce Online
HR trends and tools - collection of articles

Workplace Learning Help Desk
The Help Desk offers practical suggestions and resources for improving the performance and potential of employees

World Bank
The Bank is working in more than 100 developing economies, bringing a mix of finance and ideas to improve living standards and eliminate the worst forms of poverty

World Factbook
CIA website that provides detailed information about the international community

World Future Society
The World Future Society is a non-profit organisation for people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future. With 30,000 members, the Society serves as a non-partisan clearinghouse for ideas about the future, including forecasts, recommendations, scenarios and alternatives. The site provides information about conferences and publications.