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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821334603321

Titolo

Employee relations in the public services : themes and issues / / edited by Susan Corby and Geoff White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-134-68701-X

0-203-26729-X

1-280-33700-1

0-203-02916-X

1-134-68702-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in employment relations

Altri autori (Persone)

CorbySusan <1941->

WhiteGeoff <1949->

Disciplina

331/.04135141

Soggetti

Employee-management relations in government - Great Britain

Industrial relations - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; The editors and the contributors; Introduction; From the New Right to New Labour SUSAN CORBY AND GEOFF WHITE; Context; The economic and financial context: the shrinking state? JEAN SHAOUL; The legal context: public or private? SANDRA FREDMAN; Issues; The remuneration of public servants: fair pay or New Pay? GEOFF WHITE; Equal opportunities: fair shares for all? SUSAN CORBY; Employment flexibility: push or pull? ARIANE HEGEWISCH; Tendering and outsourcing: working in the contract state? TREVOR COLLING

Quality management: a new form of control? MIGUEL MARTINEZ LUCIO AND ROBERT MACKENZIE Players; Personnel managers: managing to change? STEPHEN BACH; Trade unions: the challenge of individualism? HAMISH MATHIESON AND SUSAN CORBY; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Almost a fifth of all employees work in the public sector. Employees working in the civil service, NHS, local government, education, the police and fire services also represent a large and growing body of students taking degree courses at universities.  Exploring this



important and rapidly changing area, this book outlines the main developments in the public sector since 1979, including topical issues such as the rise of new public management, decentralisation and contracting out. Themes which currently affect public sector employees are examined, including:* decentralization*