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Article: Public management reform in the UK and its consequences for professional organization: A comparative analysis

TitlePublic management reform in the UK and its consequences for professional organization: A comparative analysis
Authors
Issue Date2007
PublisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0033-3298
Citation
Public Administration, 2007, v. 85 n. 1, p. 9-20 How to Cite?
AbstractIt is often assumed in the literature on public management reforms that radical changes in values, work and organization have occurred or are under way. In this paper our aim is to raise questions about this account. Focusing on three services in the UK, each dominated by organized professions - health care, housing, and social services - significant variations in the effectiveness of reforms are noted. The available research also suggests that these outcomes have been inversely proportional to the efforts expended on introducing new management practices. The most radical changes have been in housing, where, paradoxically, successive UK governments focused least attention. By contrast, in health and social services, management restructuring has been less effective, despite the greater resources devoted to it. This variation is attributed to professional values and institutions, against which reforms were directed, and the extent to which different groups became locked either into strategies of resistance or accommodation. © Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2007.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/89756
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2023 Impact Factor: 4.3
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.754
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dc.description.abstractIt is often assumed in the literature on public management reforms that radical changes in values, work and organization have occurred or are under way. In this paper our aim is to raise questions about this account. Focusing on three services in the UK, each dominated by organized professions - health care, housing, and social services - significant variations in the effectiveness of reforms are noted. The available research also suggests that these outcomes have been inversely proportional to the efforts expended on introducing new management practices. The most radical changes have been in housing, where, paradoxically, successive UK governments focused least attention. By contrast, in health and social services, management restructuring has been less effective, despite the greater resources devoted to it. This variation is attributed to professional values and institutions, against which reforms were directed, and the extent to which different groups became locked either into strategies of resistance or accommodation. © Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2007.en_HK
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