Complexity and the Public Sector (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mowles, Chris; Norman, Karen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores some of the tensions which arise in institutions where New Public Management methods prevail, introduces different ways of thinking about the task of managing for public good, and offers a radical challenge to the dominant assumptions regarding professional communities of practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000685985
• Artikelnr.: 65033794

Autorenporträt

Chris Mowles is Professor of Complexity and Management at the University of Hertfordshire Business School and Director of the Doctor of Management programme there. He is the author of Complexity: A Key Idea for Business and Society (2021) also published by Routledge. Karen Norman is Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire Business School, UK, and Visiting Professor at the School of Nursing, Kingston University and St George's, University of London, UK. She also works as a Non-Executive Director at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Complexity of Managing in the Public Sector: Introduction ; 2. Calls
to Interprofessionalism and 'Best' Practice in Healthcare Distract
Attention from Everyday Experience: Practical Implication for Leaders and
Practice Consultants; 3. The Double Bind of Metrics; 4. Working with
Difference: The Emergence of Prejudice When Integrating Care in the
National Health Service (NHS); 5. Trust, Metrics and Complexity in
Meaning-Making; 6. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the UK
University: From Idealism to Pragmatism; 7. Reflections on How Differing
Values and Power Relationships Impact on the Local Implementation of
Central Policy Directives in the UK National Health Service; 8. Reworking
Meaning through Process Consultancy Interventions; 9. Complexity and the
Public Sector: Key Themes