Voluntary Organisations and Public Service Delivery

ISBN-13: 9780415874731 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 258 str.

Ian Cunningham; Philip James

Opis

This volume draws together a team of expert contributors to explore how the process of outsourcing is impacting the internal and external labour markets of voluntary organisations, and the implications for the policy objectives underlying the externalisation of the delivery of public services to them.

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction  1. Outsourcing and Voluntary Sector Employment – Understanding the Connections. Ian Cunningham and Phil James  Part II. Policy and Labour Market Contexts  2. Outsourcing and the Voluntary Sector: A Review of the Evolving Policy Landscape. Steve Davies  3. Trends in Voluntary Sector Employment. Jenny Clark and Karl Wilding  4. Trade Union Organising in the Voluntary Sector. Mike Short  Part III. Employment Policies and Practices  5. Shaping HRM in the Voluntary Sector: The Influence of Government. Emma Parry and Clare Kelliher  6. ‘We Could Take On the World if We Had the Space’: Understanding Graduate Recruitment Problems in the Voluntary Sector. Scott. A. Hurrell, Chris Warhurst and Dennis Nickson  7. Recruiting for Values in Charitable Organisations: A Comparative Perspective. Eleanor Burt and Dora Scholarios  Part IV. Work Experiences in an Era of Outsourcing  8. Outsourcing in British Social Care: Its Implications for Worker Security. Ian Cunningham and Phil James  9. Taking the Strain? - The Psychological Contract of Voluntary Sector Employees Following Transfers of Employment. Ian Cunningham  10. Beyond National ‘Varieties’: Public-Service Contracting in Comparative Perspective. Ian Greer, Ian Greenwood and Mark Stuart  11. Restructuring and Labour Processes Under Marketisation: A Canadian Perspective. Donna Baines  12. Outsourcing and the Australian Non-Profit Sector. Catherine Mcdonald and Sara Charlesworth 13. Contracting With Voluntary Service Agencies in the US: Implications for Employment and Professionalization. Steven Rathgeb Smith  Part V. Conclusions  14. Public Service Delivery and the Voluntary Sector: Trends, Explanations and Implications. Ian Cunningham and Phil James

O autorze

Ian Cunningham is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde. He has researched and published in the area of human resource management, employment relations and employment issues in the voluntary sector. His publications include a forthcoming research monograph, contributions to edited volumes and 25 articles in refereed journals.

Philip James is Professor of Employment Relations at Oxford Brookes University Business School. He has researched and published widely in the fields of human resource management and employment relations, his publications including seven authored/co-authored books and monographs, numerous contributions to edited volumes, and over 60 articles in refereed journals. A key strand of his recent research has been concerned with the employment implications of public sector reform, including those associated with the outsourcing of social care services. His recent publications include the following co-edited volumes: Institutions, Production and Working Life (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Modernising Work and Employment in British Public Services: Redefining Roles and Relationships in a Changing Workplace (Palgrave, 2007).