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Manson, Jenny

Public Service on the Brink

Manson, Jenny - Public Service on the Brink, ebook

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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.

Keywords: Public service, politics, reorganisation, trade union, civil service, government, local government, privatization, NHS, health, education, public management, university, welfare state, railways, legal aid, citizens advice, sociology, reform, public sector, cuts, coalition, public spending, austerity

Author(s)
Publisher
Andrews UK
Publication year
2012
Language
en
Edition
1
Page amount
299 pages
Category
Economy
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781845403539
Printed ISBN
9781845403065

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