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Public Service on the Brink

Autor Jenny Manson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 ian 2012
The contributors to this book mount a robust defence of the concept and practice of public service at a crucial time for its future. They question the ill-conceived assumptions behind the endless programmes of reform imposed by successive governments, often on the basis of advice from people with no direct experience of working in the public sector. With cuts in public spending by the coalition government and austerity programmes being imposed in Britain and abroad, the book could not be more timely in its reminder of the core purpose of public service. After a long period of denigration of the public sector, here is the voice that has not been heard clearly through these decades of reorganisation: I know what my job is and I want to do it as well as I can. Indeed I would love my work if I could get one day's peace to get on with it. But I am beset at every turn by unintelligible, time wasting and fruitless management initiatives, constant change, ill-judged targets, wrong-headed "commercial" exemplars and continuous and misguided restructuring. I have to watch as, instead of my "customers" (actually patients, pupils, taxpayers) getting a better deal from me, the only beneficiaries seem to be those who can lobby for special treatment. The book contains accounts of public service by people of varying backgrounds and ages who work both inside and outside of the public sector. They share an allegiance to the value and purpose of working for the common good and an enthusiasm for getting things right and for the opportunity to recount their experience through this book."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781845403065
ISBN-10: 1845403061
Pagini: 230
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: IMPRINT ACADEMIC

Descriere

"Public Service on the Brink" describes the denigration, unsuccessful reorganization, and general undermining of the public service and the public service ethos over 30 or more years. It attempts to explain how this has become a given in modern political life in the UK.