Professionals & New Managerialism - Softcover

Exworthy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335198198 ISBN 13: 9780335198191

Publisher: Open University Press, 1998

Synopsis

* What do 'managerialism' and 'professionalism' mean in today's public sector?

* How do managers and professionals relate to each other?

* What are the implications of changing notions of managerialism and professionalism? And of changing relations between managers and professionals?

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, there have been substantial changes to public sector organization and management. A key aspect of this change has been the emergence of a 'new managerialism' which appears to have challenged many widely held and established principles and practices within the public sector. Not least, this new managerialism has been seen to pose a significant threat across the public sector to the traditional dominance of professionalism and professionals.

This book explores the relationship between professionals (and professionalism) and the new managerialism by using in-depth studies from education, social work and medicine. It shows that, in practice, the relationship is characterized by a range of outcomes, from conflict to patterns of compromise and collaboration. This challenges the often taken-for-granted assumptions about the distinctiveness, even oppositional nature, of managerialism and managers on the one hand and professionalism and professionals on the other, and sheds new light on long-standing debates.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Exworthy has been a Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of Southampton since 1991. His principal research interests relate to purchasing in the NHS, professional-managerial relations in primary and community care, and clinical audit. Susan Halford has been a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton for the past 5 years. Her recent research has involved in-depth investigations of the relationships between gender, organisation and identity. She is co-author (with Mike Savage and Anne Witz) of Gender, Careers and Organisations (1997) and has written several journal articles in this area.

Review:

"...an up-to-date collection of the latest thinking in the field of educational management." - Education in the North. "There is certainly plenty of meat between its covers...The authors have succeeded in including some thought provoking articles." - Education Today.

About this edition

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0335198198
• ISBN 13: 9780335198191
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168