In the last three decades, medical doctors have increasingly been exposed to management
control measures. This phenomenon has been reflected in a number of studies in various …

The impact of the ideas and practices associated with'new managerialism'or'new public
management'on the organisation, management and delivery of public sector services in …

Social enterprises are being promoted as responsive and innovative way to deliver public
services. As part of this promotion, these organizations are being required to demonstrate …

The New Managerialism and Public Service Professionals is a fresh and insightful analysis
of the changes that have taken place in the UK public sector over the past twenty years …

Steering street-level bureaucrats is utterly complex due to their discretion and professional
status which grant them relative autonomy from supervisory directives. Drawing from …

In recent decades neo-liberal reform has significantly impacted on public sector
professionals. Sociological interest in such impact has tended to focus on professionals as …

This paper explores the introduction of New Public Management (NPM) techniques within
the UK police service since the late 1990s, and in particular, the impact upon the role of the …

Taking a critical perspective, Skill, Training and Human Resource Development focuses on
the way people are developed at work; the skills that are encouraged, the way they are …

Although Bourdieu paid scant attention to (and in fact discredited) the notion of
professionalism, his social theory is well-equipped to understand the evolution of …

We apply Weber's distinction between instrumental (outcome focused) and substantive
(values driven) rationality to offer both a conceptually underpinned explanation for the …