Cultural Aspects of Public Management Reform

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7623-1400-3
Verlag: Jai Press Inc.

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 700 g

In an international context, public management arrangements differ significantly from country to country, but also regionally and locally. One reason for these differences may be different civic cultures with differing views of the state and its institutions. This may sound trivial, but it becomes highly important when public management reform models are proposed and transferred from one country to others such as was (and still is) the case with, for examle, the new public management. Scholars in public management as well as internationally acting practitioners should be aware of the impact civic culture has on the possibilities and limits of concept transfers between different justisdictions.

One precondition for a better consideration of cultural elements in public management reforms is a better understanding of culture itself. Among the public management community, cultural theory has gained considerable attention. There are, however, other concepts for the analysis of cultural facts that may be of interest to the subject, too. Examples of these could be; the influence of religious concepts on public management arrangements; the adoption of English as the new public management's lingua franca,; The influence of different cultures and culture processes on public management arrangements.

These are just some examples of how the book will explore civic cultural (including organizational culture of public organizations) influences on public management and its reform.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Schedler, Kuno

Proeller, Isabella

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Öffentlicher Dienst, Öffentlicher Sektor
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Public Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Literatur für Manager

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Defining culture

Culture and public management: towards a new understanding of a natural interlinkage; Cultural characteristics of public management reforms worldwide; The poetics of management, and the politics of organizational cultures. A sociological view on NPM reforms in Switzerland; Reforms of central government coordination in OECD countries: culture as a counterforce for cross-national unifying processes?

Part 2: Artefacts of culture

Public managers' religiosity: impacts on work attitudes and perceptions of co-workers; Balancing decentralization and accountability - different paths and national understandings in EU countries; Determinants of confidence in the civil service: an international comparison of 62 societies; In the long term.

Part 3: Country perspectives

Considerations of cultural aspects in new public management: a review and research agenda on the basis of Swiss experiences; Governance reform outcomes through cultural lens: Thailand; Decon-structig administrative culture: the relationship between state traditions, cultural dimensions and public sector change in the UK and Germany; Triggering change through culture clash: the UK Civil Service Reform Programme, 1999 2005; E-Government in Asia: how culture affects patterns of adoption.