...Anu Pynnönen; Tuomo Takala Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to qualitatively describe and explain the contemporary Finnish discourse of municipal managers. The emphasis within is on analyzing the encounters of the public sector management discourse and the private sector management...

...Mariannunziata Liguori; Mariafrancesca Sicilia; Ileana Steccolini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the new public management (NPM) literature by investigating how politicians and managers perceive their relationships and respective roles during the accounting cycle and using...

...John Raine; Yusuf Ahmad; Mike Broussine; Jean Hartley; J.C. Ry Nielson; Bríd Quinn; Grete Wennes Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to explore why critical reflexivity should be promoted within mid‐career management education programmes and articulate the benefits of a deliberate research...

...John Raine; Yusuf Ahmad; Mike Broussine; Jean Hartley; J.C. Ry Nielson; John W. Raine; Annie Rubienska Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on issues of assessment in leadership and management programmes for mid career public managers. Drawing on experiences of such programmes from across...

... is to make the case for shifting equality and diversity out of the margins and into the centre of education for mid career public managers, and offers practical methods for doing so. Design/methodology/approach The current EU policy framework requires public services to go beyond eliminating...

... characterize the management plans in Belgian federal administration: external polarization, internal polarization and balanced polarisation. Furthermore, the survey carried out confirms the existence of some effective behaviours of public top managers related to the nature of the public sector and to specific...

... theoretical framework Findings Fuelled by the “new public management” movement, public managers are forced to act in performance‐driven ways and instruments like “performance contracts” and “performance‐related pay” are being used to improve managerial behaviour and the professionalism of public officials...

...Colin Palfrey; Paul Thomas; Ceri Phillips Purpose Sets out to examine arguments that attribute a lack of an ethical dimension to the management function. Design/methodology/approach Discusses the role of health service managers in the context of the NHS and the political and economic contexts...

... in a large university that has such gender equity policies when three women were appointed to head departments. At the end of a year, all three were gone. The women experienced a masculine‐oriented management culture, with little experience of feminine management values. The women and the men had different...

...Ogenyi Omar; Victoria Ogenyi Discusses the role of women in management in the Nigerian Civil Service (NCS). The number of men in management in the NCS far exceeds the number of women. Women also function in a Nigerian society permeated by gender stereotypes. Tries to answer the question: “Why...

... in governance is an ambitious task. It involves knowledge from several related but separate disciplines such as political science, political psychology, policy analysis, management and public administration. Similarly, there are at least two different approaches to the study of the citizens' role in society...

...Faruk Merali National Health Service (NHS) managers as change agents have been given the responsibility for the implementation of the NHS reforms and their views, beliefs and attitudes are therefore paramount to the effective and successful implementation of the reforms. A total of 28 managers from...

...Jenny Harrow Public managers throughout the world work in an unforgiving environment in which to take risks. Managers face varying pressures from a range of informed publics to ensure that risks to them are minimized or eliminated; while many are simultaneously subject to criticism, via private...

...Henry Mintzberg Managing in the public sector can be characterized as “managing on the edges”, between politics and administration and between administration and operations, as well as between external pressures and internal processes. Interestingly, this seems to come out most sharply...

...Inger Boyett Since the early 1980s there have been fundamental changes in the structure and management of the UK public sector, based on the introduction of quasi‐markets. The literature suggests that, for markets to operate at their maximum level of efficiency, there is an overwhelming need...

...Tom Redman; Brian Mathews; Adrian Wilkinson; Ed Snape Quality management has been in vogue within manufacturing for over a decade. Service industries have more recently been making heavy investments in this area. Also there are major initiatives from the public sector to improve quality...

... for organization members, rendering them susceptible to the adverse effects of work stress. This view is supported by a case study which outlines the experiences of one large public sector organization subject to the change process. Consequently, it is essential that the issue of stress and its management features...

...Kabossa A.B. Msimangira Reports the results of a study carried out in Tanzanian public textile manufacturing firms. The purpose was to examine the roles performed by middle and senior managers to enable them to carry out their jobs efficiently and effectively. In addition, the study concentrated...

.... Other findings included that the part of the programme concerned with fostering entrepreneurialism was a failure and that the full range of changes and benefits achieved were more evident to the managers of the branches concerned than they were to the customers of those branches. © MCB UP Limited...

...Richard Paton; Anurag Goel Based on a study of the management requirements and challenges of the position of district magistrates in India. Determines what makes district magistrates effective. The study was based on interviews and workshops involving dozens of district magistrates. Illustrates...