Staff Participation and Public Management Reform

Part I. Introduction

1. The Contexts of Staff Participation and Public Management Reform
David Farnham, Annie Hondeghem, Sylvia Horton

2. Trajectories, Institutions and Stakeholders in Public Management Reform
David Farnham, Annie Hondeghem, Sylvia Horton

3. Staff Participation in the Public Services
David Farnham, Annie Hondeghem, Sylvia Horton

Part II. Country Studies

4. Austria: The Dynamics of Public Management Reform and Staff Participation
Gerhard Hammerschmid, Renate Meyer

5. Belgium: Staff Participation in the Copernic Reform
Myriam Parys, Annie Hondeghem

6. Britain: Staff Participation and Modernization under ‘New’ Labour
David Farnham, Sylvia Horton, Geoff White

7. The Czech Republic: Staff Participation and Modernization of Central State Administration
Zuzana Dvorakova

8. Finland: Catchall Systems, Developing Practices
Turo Virtanen

9. France: From Direct to Indirect Participation to Where?
Jean Michel Denis, Gilles Jeannot

10. Germany: Limited Reforms and Restricted Participation
David Farnham, Rainer Koch

11. Italy: The Case of the Revenue Agency
Francesco Paolo Cerase

12. The Netherlands: Modernization, Participation and Strategic Choice
Peter Leisink, Bram Steijn

13. New Zealand: Public Management Reform and the Partnership for Quality Agreement
Richard Shaw

14. Switzerland: Staff Participation in Government Agencies Undergoing Change
Yves Emery, David Giauque

15. The United States: Staff Participation in Administrative Reform 1993–2004
James R. Thompson

Part III. Conclusion

16. Making Sense of Staff Participation Within Public Management Reform
David Farnham, Annie Hondeghem, Sylvia Horton

Nyckelord: Business and Management, Human Resource Management, Economic Policy, Public Administration