Civil Services in the EU of 27

Demmke, Christoph; Moilanen, Timo

doi:10.3726/978-3-653-00038-2

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“…The efforts made to develop public performance and to move closer to the private sector are reflected in the dismantling of the protections and constraints of the civil servant status (Demmke and Moilanen, 2010; Shim, 2001) in order to facilitate the recruitment and dismissal of public workers. The status of local government workers dates back to the 1983 and 1984 laws.…”

Section: Current Developments In Local Hrm: a Hybridisation Of Practicesmentioning

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Hybridisation of human resources management practices: the case of local government in France

Desmarais¹,

Dubouloz

Bichon

2019

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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The dissemination of New Public Management principles is transforming human resources management practices in the public sector. The transformations that have taken place follow four logics: the logics of formalisation, contractualisation, individualisation and politicisation. The article examines the consequences of the interplay of these logics on the hybridisation of human resources management practices. To this end, two complementary methodologies were used: a quantitative methodology based on a survey of 223 local authorities within a French department; and a qualitative methodology based on interviews conducted with 25 of these authorities. The results show that these logics coexist, raising questions about the micro-negotiations that allow this coexistence.

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Section: Current Developments In Local Hrm: a Hybridisation Of Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hybridisation of human resources management practices: the case of local government in France

Desmarais¹,

Dubouloz

Bichon

2019

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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“…5 This is because data availability is less problematic for OECD member nations (e.g. Dahlström et al, 2010; Demmke and Moilanen, 2010; OECD, 2009). Although the organization obviously does not cover all nations on the globe, countries from different regions are included.…”

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Bureaucratic characteristics and citizen trust in civil service in OECD member nations

Choi

2018

International Area Studies Review

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Do various bureaucratic characteristics explain different levels of public trust in civil service? While studies have suggested various desirable traits for public administration in democratic societies, including political responsiveness, representativeness, and professionalism, their possible linkages to public evaluations of government bureaucracies are insufficiently investigated. This article examines how such attributes are related to citizens’ evaluations of civil service using a multilevel analysis across 18 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member nations. The bureaucratic characteristics are measured using data from the Quality of Government (QoG) Expert Survey and the OECD statistics. The survey data from the 2004 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) are used to capture individual perceptions of public administration. The empirical results show that levels of citizens’ trust in bureaucracies is higher when an impartial and gender representative public administration exists. The findings contribute to our understanding of the correlates of public trust in government agencies, as well as consequences of emphasizing different bureaucratic traits across nations.

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“…The effects of fiscal stress have attracted rather more attention (e.g., Bach and Bordogna, 2013; Hood and Lodge, 2012), but even here detailed empirical analyses of what happens on the ground are only just beginning to appear. Sometimes the most interesting academic work turns out to be contained within publications that are not predominantly about the future context, or, at least do not show up on a “futures” keyword search (such as Demmke and Moilanen, 2010; Dunleavy et al., 2006; Hood and Lodge, 2012). It should also be noted that some of the most relevant contributions from PA academics come in the form of books, which are not picked up by searches of journals (e.g., Hood et al., 2014).…”

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Be prepared? An outside-in perspective on the future public sector in Europe

Pollitt

2015

Public Policy and Administration

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This paper takes an outside-in perspective on recent public sector reforms in Europe. It selects three of the most consequential and probable external trends, and then looks at how far management reforms are anticipating them. The conclusion is that European Union government responses to predictable external trends have been limited and unstrategic. Many official studies of climate change and demographic change have been written, but concrete responses such as resource prioritization and relevant public management reforms do not seem to have been substantial. There is a disconnect between mainstream public management reforms and the biggest external pressures public sectors are now beginning to face. Academic public administration has also been slow to respond to these “megatrends,” but has considerable potential for contributing to their amelioration.

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Civil Services in the EU of 27

Cited by 45 publications

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Hybridisation of human resources management practices: the case of local government in France

Hybridisation of human resources management practices: the case of local government in France

Bureaucratic characteristics and citizen trust in civil service in OECD member nations

Be prepared? An outside-in perspective on the future public sector in Europe

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