Morocco: The Politics of HRM

Two things make Morocco an interesting case. First, Morocco, like Mauritius, has made an explicit link between the efficiency of its civil service and the health of its economy: ‘Morocco has undertaken reforms to ensure sustained economic growth, macro-economic stability, opening up to the global economy … Their success … is intimately linked to the quality of the civil servants involved’ (Ministèe de la Fonction Publique, 1998; see also Proulx, 1999). Second, Morocco is a North African middle-income country whose public administration is coloured by the French colonial legacy, distinguishing it from the Anglophone countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia that make up the remainder of the cases in this book; the Francophone/Anglophone divide is a major fissure in the post-colonial developing world.