Employer of 17,000 scientists, the British Civil Service faces special problems in the motivation and use of its more senior members. Maybe this calls for some fairly radical solutions.
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Davies, D. Peculiar problems of the British Civil Service. Nature 255, 293–296 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255293a0
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