If however, there is a considerable degre of continuity and if old values continue to make a comeback, the final point to make is that there appears to be no poss ibiliny of turn There i back to ing back. The changing conditions that have created the pressures for, among other things of adm smaller, more disaggregated government, partnerships with NGos, new forms of accounta d and the need to engage with increasingly complex networks of com bility an al and HRM responses munication and knowledge acquisition d new organiztion in the public sector.