Public sector transformation : rethinking markets and hierarchies in government / / Frieder Naschold, Casten von Otter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971263303321
• Autore: Naschold Frieder
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 1996
• ISBN: 1-283-32788-0; 9786613327888; 90-272-7617-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 pages)
• Collana: Dialogues on Work and Innovation ; ; 1
• Altri autori (Persone): OtterCasten von <1941->
• Disciplina: 350
• Soggetti: Comparative government; Government business enterprises - Management; Government productivity; Public administration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: PUBLIC SECTOR TRANSFORMATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Modernization of the State: Structural reforms and innovation strategies of the public sector; Preface; PART I. Structural reforms and innovation strategies in the public sector; 1. Strategic turning points in the public sector of OECD countries since the 1970's; 1.1. Quantitative changes in the volume and structure of national public sectors; 1.2. Strategic turning points in underlying public-sector philosophies; 1.3. A new phase in the relationship between politics, regulation and competition; 2. Comparing public-sector performance across OECD countries 3. Redefining public-sector tasks at the interface between public and private service provision: Privatization, contracting out, the core responsibilities of the state; 3.1. Redefining public-sector responsibilities via privatization of state-run firms - The lessons of the privatization program in Great Britain; 3.2. Outsourcing public services to private firms: The lessons of the contracting out and compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) program in Great Britain; 3.3. Redefining the public sector by means of the concept of 'core public sector activities'; 3.4. The political-analytical redefinition of public-sector tasks: Instruments and methods; 4. A re-balancing of traditional design principles in the public sector and the basic principles of the new public management movement; 4.1. The key themes of public-sector modernization; 4.2. Questioning the classical premises of administration; 4.3. The different logics of the public and private-sector model and the dangers of the current rationalization strategy; PART II. The modernization of internal government structures 1. The point of departure; 2. New demands on the state: The changed environment at the end of the twentieth century; 2.1. New problematics; 2.2. Changed international context; 2.3. Change in organizational paradigm in private-sector firms; 2.4. Modernization policies in OECD competitor countries; 3. Aims of public-sector modernization policies in Germany; 4. Redefining public-sector tasks:Political task controlling; 5. Public-sector modernization: Raising efficiencyand cooperation within networks; 5.1. Modernization of public-sector organization 5.2. The modernization of management: democratic leadership and its instruments; 5.3. From personnel management to personnel development; 5.4. Information and communication technology and administrative modernization; 5.5. From bureaucratic to customer-oriented quality production; 5.6. Normalizing working conditions and industrial relations in the public sector by modernizing the statutory framework; 5.7. Ensuring the continuity of the modernization process; 6. The conditions of implementation of a modernization strategy; 6.1. Alternative implementation strategies
• Sommario/riassunto: State administration in modern industrialized countries is facing major challenges to its basic institutional premises. The changing conditions of the global economy mean that the public sector needs to develop far-reaching strategies for innovation. A fundamental reform of the public sector is thus one of the most urgent issues on the international agenda. The volume examines and compares trends, issues and experiences of this reform process in Sweden and Germany.