Statistics Canada's Corporate Assignments Program: Follow-up to a success story.

The article offers information on the experiment referred as the Corporate Assignment Program (CAD) conducted by the Statistics Canada on 1983 in Canada. According to the author, the experiment is designed to create a pool of employees capable of undertaking short-term priority projects within the department. He added that the director of Corporate Assignment Division (CAD) Mr. Alexander Martin has published a brief note outlining the objectives of the program and describing results obtained during its first year of operation. He emphasized that the principal achievement of the CAD program is injecting mobility and staffing flexibility within a highly structured, large-scale organization during a protracted period of restraint.