New Frontiers in the Public Sector Management

Trends and Issues in State and Local Government in Europe

By: Frieder Naschold, Andrew Watt (Translator)

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Hardcover | 30 September 2017

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Preface
Summary	p. 1
Current Trends in Public Sector Modernisation	p. 1
The Impacts of Public Sector Modernisation	p. 3
The Development Dynamic of Public Sector Modernisation	p. 5
Ten Key Issues of Public Sector Modernisation	p. 7
New Frontiers in Public Sector Management - Trends and Issues in State and Local Government in Europe	p. 13
Evaluating and Monitoring the Transformation of the Public Sector	p. 13
Public sector reform trends in the OECD: Profiles, processes and effects	p. 19
Management by Results (MbR) Systems: Developments, Variants and Perspectives	p. 64
The Modernisation of Central Government	p. 86
The Modernisation of Local Government	p. 131
The Ambivalent Future of Public Sector Modernisation	p. 189
Restructuring Labour Administration investigating the Finnish experience	p. 221
Introduction	p. 221
The context: environment and organization	p. 222
The "first wave" of management by results	p. 225
Experiences in developmental projects	p. 237
Practical experiences: building blocks of further restructuring	p. 241
Summary: The key issues of further restructuring	p. 263
Surpassing Functional Bureaucracy with Management by Results - Experiences in Finnish State Administration	p. 271
Management as a culturally formed activity system	p. 271
Management by results as a solution to the problems of the functional bureaucracy	p. 279
Transition to management by results in the Finnish Road Administration (FinnRA)	p. 285
Management by results in the Ministry of Transport and Communications	p. 293
Management by results in the Ministry of Labour	p. 303
Increasing flexibility in the Uusimaa district of labour protection	p. 309
Creating flexibility and cost consciousness with management by results in the Sibelius Academy	p. 313
Issues of criticism and further development of the management by results system	p. 319
References	p. 325
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