Professionals under pressure : the reconfiguration of professional work in changing public services

Professionals under pressure : the reconfiguration of professional work in changing public services / edited by Mirko Noordegraaf and Bram Steijn.

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 a...

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Other Authors: Noordegraaf, Mirko, Steijn, Bram
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]
Series:Care & welfare.
Subjects:
Professional employees.
Social welfare and social services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Professional employees
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Professions, professionals and the 'new' government policies: a reflection on the last 30 years / Stephen Ackroyd
  • Professionals, power and the reform of public services / Janet Newman
  • Professionals dealing with pressures / Peter Hupe & Theo van der Krogt
  • A managerial assault on professionalism? Professionals in changing welfare states / Romke van der Veen
  • Legal professionals under presure: legal professional ideology and new public management / Arie-Jan Kwak
  • Institutionalizing professional conflicts through financial reforms: the case of DBCS in Dutch mental healthcare / Amanda Smullen
  • Public professionals and policy alienation / Lars Tummers, Bram Steign & Victor Bekkers
  • Loyalties of public sector professionals / Gjalt de Graaf & Zeger van der Wal
  • Democratizing social work: from new public management to democratic professionalism / Evelien Tonkens, Marc Hoijtink & Huub Gulikers
  • Bounded professionalism: why self-regulation is part of the problem / Mirgan Oude Vrielink & Jeroen van Bockel
  • Control of front-line workers in welfare agencies: towards professionalism? / Rik van Berkel & Paul van der Aa
  • Professionalization of (police) leaders: contested control / Martijn van der Meulen & Mirko Noordegraaf
  • Conclusions and ways forward / Mirko Noordegraaf & Bram Steijn.

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