Voluntary Organizations and Public Service Delivery (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cunningham, Ian; James, Philip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Voluntary Organizations and Public Sector Delivery explores employment issues in NPOs in the era of contracting. In the UK this includes changing workforce patterns, recruitment, HR policies and practices, unionisation, pay and conditions and psychological contracts in voluntary organisations. It also provides international comparisons of issues from Canada, Australia, the United States and Germany.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136814242
• Artikelnr.: 38280190

Autorenporträt

Ian Cunningham is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde. He has researched and published in the area of human resource management, employment relations and employment issues in the voluntary sector. His publications include a forthcoming research monograph, contributions to edited volumes and 25 articles in refereed journals. Philip James is Professor of Employment Relations at Oxford Brookes University Business School. He has researched and published widely in the fields of human resource management and employment relations, his publications including seven authored/co-authored books and monographs, numerous contributions to edited volumes, and over 60 articles in refereed journals. A key strand of his recent research has been concerned with the employment implications of public sector reform, including those associated with the outsourcing of social care services. His recent publications include the following co-edited volumes: Institutions, Production and Working Life (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Modernising Work and Employment in British Public Services: Redefining Roles and Relationships in a Changing Workplace (Palgrave, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction 1. Outsourcing and Voluntary Sector Employment -
Understanding the Connections. Ian Cunningham and Phil James Part II.
Policy and Labour Market Contexts 2. Outsourcing and the Voluntary Sector:
A Review of the Evolving Policy Landscape. Steve Davies 3. Trends in
Voluntary Sector Employment. Jenny Clark and Karl Wilding 4. Trade Union
Organising in the Voluntary Sector. Mike Short Part III. Employment
Policies and Practices 5. Shaping HRM in the Voluntary Sector: The
Influence of Government. Emma Parry and Clare Kelliher 6. 'We Could Take On
the World if We Had the Space': Understanding Graduate Recruitment Problems
in the Voluntary Sector. Scott. A. Hurrell, Chris Warhurst and Dennis
Nickson 7. Recruiting for Values in Charitable Organisations: A Comparative
Perspective. Eleanor Burt and Dora Scholarios Part IV. Work Experiences in
an Era of Outsourcing 8. Outsourcing in British Social Care: Its
Implications for Worker Security. Ian Cunningham and Phil James 9. Taking
the Strain? - The Psychological Contract of Voluntary Sector Employees
Following Transfers of Employment. Ian Cunningham 10. Beyond National
'Varieties': Public-Service Contracting in Comparative Perspective. Ian
Greer, Ian Greenwood and Mark Stuart 11. Restructuring and Labour Processes
Under Marketisation: A Canadian Perspective. Donna Baines 12. Outsourcing
and the Australian Non-Profit Sector. Catherine Mcdonald and Sara
Charlesworth 13. Contracting With Voluntary Service Agencies in the US:
Implications for Employment and Professionalization. Steven Rathgeb Smith
Part V. Conclusions 14. Public Service Delivery and the Voluntary Sector:
Trends, Explanations and Implications. Ian Cunningham and Phil James