Professionals under Pressure : The Reconfiguration of Professional Work in Changing Public Services /
Professionals under Pressure : The Reconfiguration of Professional Work in Changing Public Services /
ed. by Mirko Noordegraaf, Bram Steijn.
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Care and Welfare Series .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Professions, professionals and the ‘new’ government policies. A reflection on the last 30 years -- 3. Professionals, power and the reform of public services -- 4. Professionals dealing with pressures -- 5. A managerial assault on professionalism? Professionals in changing welfare states -- 6. Legal professionals under pressure. Legal professional ideology and New Public Management -- 7. Institutionalizing professional conflicts through financial reforms. The case of DBCS in Dutch mental healthcare -- 8. Public professionals and policy alienation -- 9. Loyalties of public sector professionals -- 10. Democratizing social work. From New Public Management to democratic professionalism -- 11. Bounded professionalism. Why self-regulation is part of the problem -- 12. Control of front-line workers in welfare agencies. Towards professionalism? -- 13. Professionalization of (police) leaders. Contested control -- 14. Conclusions and ways forward -- About the editors and authors
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Over the past decades, professional public services have been burdened with demands for accountability and with businesslike managerial systems that are endemic to the private sector. In this volume, a team of international experts shows that these influences are relative. They present theoretical and empirical insights on broader changes in and around professional work in healthcare, social welfare, education, and policing. They also analyze coping mechanisms of professionals, which vary from sector to sector and they argue that public professionals will need to develop new skills for working in reconfigured public services.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789089645098 9789048518302
10.1515/9789048518302 doi
2014416091
Civil service--Congresses.
Professional employees.
Social service--Congresses.
Politics and Government.
SOC.
Social and Political Sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
JF1601 / .P78 2013
352.6
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Professions, professionals and the ‘new’ government policies. A reflection on the last 30 years -- 3. Professionals, power and the reform of public services -- 4. Professionals dealing with pressures -- 5. A managerial assault on professionalism? Professionals in changing welfare states -- 6. Legal professionals under pressure. Legal professional ideology and New Public Management -- 7. Institutionalizing professional conflicts through financial reforms. The case of DBCS in Dutch mental healthcare -- 8. Public professionals and policy alienation -- 9. Loyalties of public sector professionals -- 10. Democratizing social work. From New Public Management to democratic professionalism -- 11. Bounded professionalism. Why self-regulation is part of the problem -- 12. Control of front-line workers in welfare agencies. Towards professionalism? -- 13. Professionalization of (police) leaders. Contested control -- 14. Conclusions and ways forward -- About the editors and authors
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Over the past decades, professional public services have been burdened with demands for accountability and with businesslike managerial systems that are endemic to the private sector. In this volume, a team of international experts shows that these influences are relative. They present theoretical and empirical insights on broader changes in and around professional work in healthcare, social welfare, education, and policing. They also analyze coping mechanisms of professionals, which vary from sector to sector and they argue that public professionals will need to develop new skills for working in reconfigured public services.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789089645098 9789048518302
10.1515/9789048518302 doi
2014416091
Civil service--Congresses.
Professional employees.
Social service--Congresses.
Politics and Government.
SOC.
Social and Political Sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
JF1601 / .P78 2013
352.6