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9 Management reform Resources
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Pressure, Legitimacy, and Innovative Behavior by Public Organizations
blackwell-synergy.com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca— — “According to NPM doctrines public organizations in service delivery and policy implementation will be induced to innovative behavior if they have enough managerial autonomy and simultaneously are subjected to managerial pressure. This is tested using survey data on 84 Flemish public organizations.”
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How Institutions Can Innovate--Creativity in the Public Sector
webcast.berkeley.edu— — “Presentation on creativity in the public sector by Michael R. Peevey President of the California Public Utilities Commission.”
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Evidence Based Management
deimos3.apple.com— — “Stanford University – Organizational decisions are based on fads, not facts. Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor of organizational behaviour at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, explores evidence based management best practices.”
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Public management reform and organizational performance: An empirical assessment of the U.K. Labour government's public service improvement strategy
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“This article presents the first empirical assessment of the U.K. Labour government’s program of public management reform. This reform program is based on rational planning, devolution and delegation, flexibility and incentives, and enhanced choice.”
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What's New about the New Public Management? Administrative Change in the Human Services
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”...this article examines recent administrative innovations in the human services that broadly reflect the New Public Management.”
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Doing Things with Words: The Case of ‘Management’ and ‘Administration’
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“Over the last two decades, management, rather than administration, has become the dominant category through which both academics and practitioners talk, write and argue the organization of public services…the article examines these particular discursive changes…”
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Similar Ends, Differing Means: Contractualism and Civil Service Reform in Denmark and New Zealand
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New Zealand’s “(S)tate sector reform… replaced the traditional tenured public service with a contractual regime.” This article compares New Zealand with Denmark to show although “the reforms were not unique…the strategic approaches in the two countries have been different.”
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Competency, Bureaucracy, and Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis
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“Competency can be considered a central theme in contemporary public service reforms. This article analyzes the development of competency frameworks for senior public servants at the national–government level in three countries.”
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Reorganizing for Results
71.4.192.38— — “In July 2002, EERE leadership restructured the headquarters offices and re-engineered business management processes to focus on program performance and results to better accomplish EERE’s mission.”