Research Catalog

Title

Staff participation and public management reform : some international comparisons / edited by David Farnham, Annie Hondeghem, and Sylvia Horton.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Farnham, David
• Hondeghem, Annie, 1960-
• Horton, Sylvia

Description

p. cm.

Subject

• Organizational change
• Administrative agencies > Reorganization
• Administrative agencies > Management > Employee participation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The contexts of staff participation and public management reform -- Trajectories, institutions, and stakeholders in public management reform -- Staff participation in the public services -- Austria : they dynamics of public management reform and staff participation / Gerhard Hammerschmid and Renate Meyer -- Belgium : staff participation in the Copernic reform / Myriam Parys and Annie Hondeghem -- Britain : staff participation and modernization under "new" Labour / David Farnham, Sylvia Horton, and Geoff White -- The Czech Republic : staff participation and modernization of central state administration / Zuzana Dvorakova -- Finland : catchall systems, developing practices / Turo Virtanen -- France : from direct to indirect participation to where? / Jean Michel Denis and Gilles Jeannot -- Germany : limited reforms and restricted participation / David Farnham and Rainer Koch -- Italy : the case of the revenue agency / Francesco Paolo Cerase -- The Netherlands : modernization, participation, and strategic choice / Peter Leisink and Bram Steijn -- New Zealand : public management reform and the partnership for quality agreement / Richard Shaw -- Switzerland : staff participation in government agencies undergoing change / Yves Emery and David Giauque -- The United States : staff participation in administrative reform, 1993-2004 / James R. Thompson -- 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.

ISBN

1403935068 (cloth)

LCCN

^^2004065750

OCLC

• 57342017
• SCSB-12483464

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library