Staff Participation and Public Management Reform: Some International Comparisons

355 Pages·2005·2.088 MB·English

by  David Farnham, Annie Hondeghem, Sylvia Horton (auth.)

Staff Participation and Public Management Reform
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Staff Participation and Public
Management Reform
Some International Comparisons
David Farnham, Annie Hondeghem and Sylvia Horton
with contributions from
Francesco Paolo Cerase, Jean Michel Denis, ZuzanaDvorakova,YvesEmery,
David Giauque, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Gilles Jeannot,Rainer Koch,
Peter Leisink,Renate Meyer, Myriam Parys,RichardShaw, Trui Steen,
Bram Steijn, James R.Thompson, TuroVirtanen, Geoff White
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables vii
ListofContributors viii
Preface x
Part I Introduction
1 TheContextsofStaffParticipationandPublic
ManagementReform 3
2 Trajectories,InstitutionsandStakeholdersinPublic
ManagementReform 27
3 StaffParticipationinthePublicServices 54
Part II Country Studies
4 Austria:TheDynamicsofPublicManagementReform
andStaffParticipation 83
GerhardHammerschmidandRenateMeyer
5 Belgium:StaffParticipationintheCopernicReform 100
MyriamParysandAnnieHondeghem
6 Britain:StaffParticipationandModernizationunder
‘New’Labour 114
DavidFarnham,SylviaHortonandGeoffWhite
7 TheCzechRepublic:StaffParticipationandModernization
ofCentralStateAdministration 130
ZuzanaDvorakova
8 Finland:CatchallSystems,DevelopingPractices 143
TuroVirtanen
9 France:FromDirecttoIndirectParticipationtoWhere? 156
JeanMichelDenisandGillesJeannot
10 Germany:LimitedReformsandRestrictedParticipation 168
DavidFarnhamandRainerKoch
11 Italy:TheCaseoftheRevenueAgency 184
FrancescoPaoloCerase
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12 TheNetherlands:Modernization,Participationand
StrategicChoice 199
PeterLeisinkandBramSteijn
13 NewZealand:PublicManagementReformandthe
PartnershipforQualityAgreement 214
RichardShaw
14 Switzerland:StaffParticipationinGovernmentAgencies
UndergoingChange 230
YvesEmeryandDavidGiauque
15 TheUnitedStates:StaffParticipationinAdministrative
Reform1993–2004 245
JamesR.Thompson
Part III Conclusion
16 MakingSenseofStaffParticipationWithinPublic
ManagementReform 263
AppendixA:QuestionnairefortheLeuvenProject 298
AppendixB:AnAnalysisoftheRangeofDirectParticipation
MethodsUsedin12CivilServices 302
NameIndex 304
SubjectIndex 309
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
0.1 Aneo-institutionalframeworkforunderstandingpublic
managementreformandstaffparticipation xii
2.1 Changestrategies 41
2.2 Classificationofstakeholders 43
5.1 ThefourpillarsoftheCopernicreform 102
10.1 DegreesofcodeterminationintheFederalPersonnel
RepresentationAct 175
12.1 Aheuristicframeworkforanalysisofpublicmanagement
reformandstaffparticipation 209
14.1 TypesofstaffparticipationinSwisspublicadministration 235
Tables
2.1 Theinstitutionalframeworksofstaffparticipationand
publicmanagementreform 34
2.2 Oldstyleandnewstylereformprocesses 42
3.1 Percentageemploymentincentral,regional,provincial
andmunicipalgovernmentin12selectedstates 57
3.2 Levels,contentandformsofindirectanddirect
participation 76
4.1 SpeakersinthepublicarenainAustria,1998–2002 92
13.1 PartnershipforQualityprinciples 219
14.1 MainSwissunionsandtheirmembership 231
16.1 Stylesandtrajectoriesofpublicmanagementreform 265
16.2 Somekeystakeholdervariablesinthe12countrystudies 271
16.3 Impactofindirectstaffparticipationonpublic
managementreform 277
16.4 Impactofdirectstaffparticipationonpublicmanagement
reform 281
16.5 Impactofpublicmanagementreformonindirectstaff
participation 285
16.6 Impactofpublicmanagementreformondirectstaff
participation 290
A.1 Reportedfrequencyofdirectparticipationmethods
usedincentral/federalcivilservicein12countries 302
A.2 Reportedfrequencyofdirectparticipationmethods
usedincentral/federalcivilservicesbycountry 303
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List of Contributors
FrancescoPaoloCeraseisprofessorattheUniversityofNaplesFedericoII,
DepartmentofSociology,Naples,Italy.
JeanMichelDenisisassistantprofessorinMarneLaValle´eUniversityand
research fellow in GIP Mutation des industries et des services, Noisy-le-Grand,
France.
ZuzanaDvorakovaisassociateprofessorattheUniversityofEconomics,
Faculty of Business Administration, Department of Human Resource
Management,Prague,CzechRepublic.
YvesEmeryisprofessorattheSwissGraduateSchoolofPublicAdministra-
tion (IDHEAP), Public Management and Human Resources Department,
Chavannes-pres-Renens,Switzerland.
David Farnham is professor at the University of Portsmouth, England;
at the time of writing this book he was a senior fellow at the University
of Leuven, Belgium; he is also visiting professor at the Universities of
GreenwichandEastLondon,England.
David Giauque is professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Public
ManagementUnit,InstituteofEconomicsandTourism,Valais,Switzerland.
GerhardHammerschmid isassistantprofessor attheViennaUniversity
of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Public Manage-
ment,Vienna,Austria.
Annie Hondeghem is associate professor in public administration at the
CatholicUniversityofLeuvenandresearchandtrainingcoordinatoratthe
PublicManagementInstitute,Leuven,Belgium.
SylviaHortonisassociateprincipallecturerinpublicsectorstudies,School
ofSocial,HistoricalandLiteraryStudies,UniversityofPortsmouth,England.
Gilles Jeannot is Deputy Manager at the Laboratoire Techniques,
TerritoiresetSocie´te´s,Ecolenationaledespontsetchausse´es,France.
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Contributors ix
Rainer Koch is professor at the Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of
the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Institute of Public Management,
Hamburg,Germany.
Peter Leisink is professor at the University of Utrecht, Utrecht School of
Governance,Utrecht,theNetherlands.
RenateMeyerisassociateprofessorattheViennaUniversityofEconomics
and Business Administration, Department of Public Management, Vienna,
Austria.
Myriam Parys is adviser in the Cabinet of Minister Marino Keulen,
Brussels;at thetimeof writingthis book shewas aresearcher at thePublic
ManagementInstitute,Leuven,Belgium.
Richard Shaw is senior lecturer at the Massey University, School of
SociologyandSocialPolicy,NewZealand.
TruiSteenisassistantprofessorattheUniversityofLeiden,Departmentof
PublicAdministration,Leiden,theNetherlands.
BramSteijnisassociateprofessorattheErasmusUniversity,Departmentof
PublicManagement,Rotterdam,theNetherlands.
James R. Thompson is associate professor at the University of Illinois,
Graduate Program in Public Administration, College of Urban Planning
andPublicAffairs,Chicago,theUnitedStates.
Turo Virtanen is professor at the University of Helsinki, Department of
PoliticalScience,Helsinki,Finland.
Geoff White is professor at the University of Greenwich, Department of
Management,BusinessSchool,London,England.