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the key resources for sustainable competitive advantage, attention is focused on the management of knowledge workers. There has, ...

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May,T. Y. , Korczynski,M., and Frenkel,S. J. ( 2002 ). ‘Organizational and Occupational Commitment: Knowledge Workers in Large O ...

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the state sector. In many continental European countries health and education are services provided by the independent sector, b ...

and indirect political intervention in public services has no direct equivalent in the private sector. For example, in many coun ...

that their political objectives are met, lending managerial decision within public services an intrinsically political dimension ...

public servants as ‘knights’ with a distinctive public service ethos comprising a strong commitment to the public interest and a ...

density of 38 percent compared to less than 9 percent in the private sector (Thomason and Burton 2003 : 72 ). The distinction be ...

Economic growth provided the opportunity to fund the welfare state and the adoption of Keynesian demand management techniques vi ...

Reviews of the reform process in OECD countries reveal variation in the uptake and application of the NPM (Pollitt and Bouckaert ...

between managers and professionals who have diVering goals and orientations. The early NPM literature noted the capacity of prof ...

direct employer, its application to the health service and local government was limited. In the civil service, it is questionabl ...

(e.g. British Airways), whilst others (e.g. in water supply) sought to sustain cooperative relations with unions and the workfor ...

similar features, suggesting mimicking or copying. The reluctance of disaggregated service units to use their HR discretions can ...

Drawing upon some of the distinctions made in the HR literature on manage- ment styles, this focus on the eYcient use of human r ...

are implemented to safeguard constitutional values. Governance signals that a wider range of agencies and stakeholders from with ...

2 Partnership In recent debates on the reform of the public sector, the term ‘partnership’ has been center stage, signifyi ...

at the workplace level there is evidence to suggest that partnership working is often based on a restricted form of union involv ...