Staff Participation and Public Management Reform

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Contexts of Staff Participation and Public Management Reform

      • David Farnham, Annie Hondeghem, Sylvia Horton

      Pages 3-26

   3. Trajectories, Institutions and Stakeholders in Public Management Reform

      • David Farnham, Annie Hondeghem, Sylvia Horton

      Pages 27-53

   4. Staff Participation in the Public Services

      • David Farnham, Annie Hondeghem, Sylvia Horton

      Pages 54-79

3. Country Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Austria: The Dynamics of Public Management Reform and Staff Participation

      • Gerhard Hammerschmid, Renate Meyer

      Pages 83-99

   3. Belgium: Staff Participation in the Copernic Reform

      • Myriam Parys, Annie Hondeghem

      Pages 100-113

   4. Britain: Staff Participation and Modernization under ‘New’ Labour

      • David Farnham, Sylvia Horton, Geoff White

      Pages 114-129

   5. The Czech Republic: Staff Participation and Modernization of Central State Administration

      • Zuzana Dvorakova

      Pages 130-142

   6. Finland: Catchall Systems, Developing Practices

      • Turo Virtanen

      Pages 143-155

   7. France: From Direct to Indirect Participation to Where?

      • Jean Michel Denis, Gilles Jeannot

      Pages 156-167

   8. Germany: Limited Reforms and Restricted Participation

      • David Farnham, Rainer Koch

      Pages 168-183

   9. Italy: The Case of the Revenue Agency

      • Francesco Paolo Cerase

      Pages 184-198

   10. The Netherlands: Modernization, Participation and Strategic Choice

       • Peter Leisink, Bram Steijn

       Pages 199-213

   11. New Zealand: Public Management Reform and the Partnership for Quality Agreement

       • Richard Shaw

       Pages 214-229

   12. Switzerland: Staff Participation in Government Agencies Undergoing Change

       • Yves Emery, David Giauque

       Pages 230-244

   13. The United States: Staff Participation in Administrative Reform 1993–2004

       • James R. Thompson

       Pages 245-259

4. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261

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   2. Making Sense of Staff Participation Within Public Management Reform

      • David Farnham, Annie Hondeghem, Sylvia Horton

      Pages 263-297

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.

• management
• methods
• public management
• Public Services
• reforms

'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

• University of Portsmouth, England

  David Farnham

• Universities of Greenwich and East London, England

  David Farnham

• Public Management Institute, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  Annie Hondeghem

• School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth, England

  Sylvia Horton

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 PublicAdministration, 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

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