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10%OFF. Ed(S): Griffith, Alison I.; Smith, Dorothy E. - Under New Public Management - 9781442626560 - V9781442626560
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Under New Public Management

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Description for Under New Public Management Paperback. Under New Public Management explores how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors. Editor(s): Griffith, Alison I.; Smith, Dorothy E. Num Pages: 368 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: JHBL; JPP; KNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.

The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private sector.

In these fields, organizations have increasingly adopted private-sector management techniques, such as standardized and quantitative measures of performance and an obsession with cost reductions and efficiency. These practices of “new public management” are changing the ways in which front-line workers engage with their clients, students, or patients.

Using research drawn from Canada, the United States, Australia, and Denmark, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442626560
SKU
V9781442626560
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About . Ed(S): Griffith, Alison I.; Smith, Dorothy E.
Alison I. Griffith was a professor emerita in the Faculty of Education at York University. Dorothy E. Smith is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria.

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