Put yourself in the place of a public employee, either hypothetical or real.

As a public employee or a future public employee, how do you wish to be categorized: as an “asset” or a “cost”? Are you the equivalent of an appreciating piece of property or are you a liability to be minimized? Do you like these categories: assets and costs? The key question is where the heart and soul of employees fits into a picture of strategic human “capital”

management—if at all.

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