The Biography of an Institution
The Civil Service Commission of Canada, 1908–1967
J. E. Hodgetts
William McCloskey
Reginald Whitaker
V. Seymour Wilson
©Public Service Commission of Canada 1972
Published on-line with the gracious permission of McGill-Queen's University Press
Part One
Chapter 1 - To Break a Habit: An Organization Is Born
Chapter 2 - The Early Civil Service Commission, 1908–1917
Chapter 3 - The Reforms of 1918
Chapter 4 - Classification, Reorganization, and Reaction, 1918–1921
Chapter 5 - The Twenties: From Lion to Lamb
Chapter 6 - The Commission as an Arbitration Board: The Salary Issue, 1924–1929
Chapter 7 - The Thirties: Depression, Austerity, and the Rise of the Treasury Board
Chapter 8 - The Long Road to the Bargaining Table, 1918–1938
Chapter 9 - The War Years, 1939–1945
Chapter 10 - The Postwar Decade: Interagency Impasse and Organizational Growth
Chapter 11 - The Precursors of Change: The 1954 Secret Committee and the Heeney Report
Chapter 12 - Implementing the Heeney Report
Chapter 13 - The Search for a New Role, 1962–1964
Chapter 14 - Defining a New Role: The Central Staffing Agency, 1964–1968
Part Two
Chapter 15 - Internal Administration of the Civil Service Commission, 1918–1968
Chapter 16 - Role of Leadership in the Civil Service Commission, 1918–1968
Chapter 17 - Management Development in the Canadian Federal Bureaucracy, 1935–1967
Chapter 18 - Special Problems in the Administration of the Merit System