Policy Alienation: Analyzing the Experiences of Public Professionals with New Policies

Tummers, Lars

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2193280

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“…Several studies indicate that management styles function as an antecedent of the way new policies are implemented (McDonald & Harrison , Noordegraaf et al . , Tummers ). Nonetheless, more research is required to withstand models of researchers who suggest that performance‐based contracting shapes management practices and subsequently managerial styles and/or their levels of supportiveness (Waters et al .…”

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“…() suggest that management style may affect how new policies are implemented in organisations. For instance, professionals seem to value supportive management styles in which managers consult professionals or their colleagues when designing implementation processes for new policies (Tummers ). However, there are also reasons to assume reverse causation, in that policies may also affect management style.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Performance-based contracting in home-care work in The Netherlands: professionalism under pressure?

Oomkens

Hoogenboom

Knijn

2015

Health Soc Care Community

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Our aim was to improve the understanding of the relationships between performance-based contracting, management supportiveness and professionalism in home care. Using path analysis, this article explores the relationships between home-care workers' perceptions of management support, implementation of performance-based contracting (i.e. use of strict time registration rules and cost-efficiency measures) and autonomy and intrinsic job satisfaction. We hypothesised that: use of strict time registration rules and cost-efficiency measures relates to lower levels of autonomy and intrinsic job satisfaction (H1); there is an indirect relationship between use of strict time registration rules and use of cost-efficiency measures and intrinsic job satisfaction via autonomy (H2); higher levels of management support relate to the use of looser time registration rules and less use of cost-efficiency measures (H3); and higher levels of management support relate to higher levels of autonomy and intrinsic job satisfaction (H4). We used data from a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2010 of a sample of Dutch home-care workers (N = 156, response rate = 34%). Overall, our study suggests that the consequences of performance-based contracting for professionalism are ambiguous. More specifically, using strict time registration rules is related to lower levels of autonomy, whereas using cost-efficiency measures does not seem to affect autonomy (H1). Performance-based contracting has no consequences for the level of fulfilment home-care workers find in their job, as neither of the two contracting dimensions measured was directly or indirectly related to intrinsic job satisfaction (H1, H2). The role of managers must be taken into account when studying performance-based contracting, because perceived higher management support is related to managers' less frequent use of both strict time registration rules and of cost-efficiency measures (H3). The insight we gained into the importance of supportive managers for both autonomy and job satisfaction (H4) can help home-care organisations improve the attractiveness of home-care work.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Performance-based contracting in home-care work in The Netherlands: professionalism under pressure?

Oomkens

Hoogenboom

Knijn

2015

Health Soc Care Community

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“…We find that the agent's reactions to policies are more diverse than previously suggested in principal-agent theory. In addition to compliance, coping and negotiation, there seems to be another option: (policy) alienation (Tummers 2012). Policy alienation is common among professionals and is defined as:…”

Section: Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

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Scientists’ response to societal impact policies: A policy paradox

Jong

Smit

Drooge

2015

Science and Public Policy

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Many countries have amended legislation and introduced policies to stimulate universities to transfer their knowledge to society. The effects of these policies on scientists are relatively unexplored. We employ principal-agent theory to increase our understanding of the relationship between impact policies and scientific practice. Our methodology includes the analysis of policy documents and of data gathered in focus groups. We conclude that there is a gap between policy on the one hand and how scientists perceive it on the other. Policy documents put forward a broad notion of impact, but scientists perceive them as focusing too narrowly on commercial impacts. Scientists are further puzzled by how societal impact is evaluated and organised, and their perceptions frame their behaviour. Our policy recommendations focus on improving the interaction between intermediaries, such as universities and research councils, and scientists so as to include the latter's perspective in policy-making.

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“…They are also prominent in studies of life in corporations (Abbas et al, 2013); in both private and government sectors (Belhassan and Shani, 2013;Hirschfield and Field, 2000;Tummers, 2012).…”

Section: Alienation Researchmentioning

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Alienation: The critique that refuses to disappear

Kalekin‐Fishman

Langman

2015

Current Sociology

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Although it is often condemned as an imprecise concept, alienation continues to flourish as critique in contemporary philosophy, theology, and psychology, as well as in sociology. Historically originating in Roman law, where it referred to the transfer of land ownership, alienation has since been applied extensively to analyses of labor relations, politics, and culture. In the 19th century, Marx showed that workers' alienation, their dehumanization and estrangement, was a consequence of the structure of exploitation in capitalist industry. The concern was echoed in Weber's metaphor of the 'iron cage' as an outcome of rationalized structures, as well as in Durkheim's conceptualization of anomie as a variant of alienation causing socially induced psychological states. Today, while research in the structural tradition does not assume that people necessarily are aware of their condition, researchers who assume that alienation is a conscious experience have invented scales to measure its intensity. Continuing both the structural and the psychosocial traditions, researchers now study alienation in relation to uses of digital technologies and new forms of exploitation in work, as well as in politics and popular culture. Alienation is also studied in families, especially in investigations of parenthood.

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Policy Alienation: Analyzing the Experiences of Public Professionals with New Policies

Cited by 10 publications

References 177 publications

Performance-based contracting in home-care work in The Netherlands: professionalism under pressure?

Performance-based contracting in home-care work in The Netherlands: professionalism under pressure?

Scientists’ response to societal impact policies: A policy paradox

Alienation: The critique that refuses to disappear

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