Staff Participation and Public Management Reform: Some International Comparisons

ISBN-13: 9781403935069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 339 str.

David Farnham; Annie Hondeghem; Sylvia Horton

Opis

This book explores the role of civil servants and their trade unions in the public management reform process, framing it in its economic, social, cultural and legal contexts. Building on neo-institutional and stakeholder theories, the book shows how staff and their representative organisations have influenced the formulation and implementation of public management reforms in twelve OECD countries. This study challenges top-down elite theories that have dominated the existing literature, explaining how staff participation practices, both direct and indirect, have impacted on the implementation of reforms in different ways in different countries. The book concludes that variations in staff participation in the reform process depend upon institutional and political factors and the distribution of power in the employment relationship.

Recenzje

'This book is a very welcome addition to the literature on public service reform...From a research point of view, the book is valueable in that it provides a series of frameworks within which further studies can be conducted not just in the civil service but in other parts of the public services.' - Hamish Mathieson, Public Administration

'...a timely and welcome contribution to both the current public management and HRM literature...the systematic structure and rigour of templates used in the book give it strong coherence and make it a very useful handbook for researchers and HRM specialists with international interests. This book should be available in every university library.' - Elke Löffler, International Employment Relations Review

Spis treści

List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION The Contexts of Staff Participation and Public Management Reform Trajectories, Institutions and Stakeholders in Public Management Reform Staff Participation in the Public Services PART II: COUNTRY STUDIES Austria: The Dynamics of Public Management Reform and Staff Participation; G.Hammerschmid & R.Meyer Belgium: Staff Participation in the Copernic Reform; M.Parys & A.Hondeghem Britain: Staff Participation and Modernisation under 'New' Labour; D.Farnham, S.Horton & G.White The Czech Republic: Staff Participation and Modernization of Central State Administration; Z.Dvorakova Finland: Catchall Systems, Developing Practices; T.Virtanen France: From Direct to Indirect Participation to Where?; J-M.Denis & G.Jeannot Germany: Limited Reforms and Restricted Participation; D.Farnham & R.Koch Italy: The Case of the Revenue Agency; F.P.Cerese The Netherlands: Modernization, Participation and Strategic Choice; P.Leisink & B.Steijn New Zealand: Public Management Reform and the Partnership for Quality Agreement; R.Shaw Switzerland: Staff Participation in Government Agencies Undergoing Change; Y.Emery & D.Giauque The United States: Staff Participation in Administrative Reform 1993-2004; J.R.Thompson PART III: CONCLUSION Making Sense of Staff Participation within Public Management Reform Appendix A: Questionnaire for the Leuven Project Appendix B: An Analysis of the Range of Direct Participation Methods Used in 12 Civil Services Index

O autorze

FRANCESCO CERASE Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Naples Federico II, Italy JEAN MICHEL DENIS Assistant Professor, Marne La Vallée University, France ZUZANA DVORAKOVA Associate Professor, Department of Human Resource Management, University of Economics, Czech Republic YVES EMERY Professor, Public Management and Human Resources Department, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Switzerland DAVID GIAUQUE Professor, Public Management Unit, Institute of Economics and Toursim, University of Applied Sciences, Austria GILLES JEANNOT Deputy Manager, Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés, Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussés, France RAINER KOCH Professor, Institute of Public Management, Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany PETER LEISINK Professor, Utrecht School of Governance, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands RENATE MEYER Associate Professor, Department of Public Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria MYRIAM PARYS Advisor, Cabinet of Minister Marino Keulen, Belgium RICHARD SHAW Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology and Social Policy, Massey University, New Zealand TRUI STEEN Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Leiden, The Netherlands BRAM STEIJN Associate Professor, Department of Public Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands JAMES THOMPSON Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Public Administration, University of Illinois, USA TURO VIRTANEN Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki, Finland GEOFFREY WHITE Professor, Department of Management, University of Greenwich, UK GERHARD HAMMERSCHMID Assistant Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Public Management, Austria