Public Sector Employment in a Time of Transition

Public Sector Employment in a Time of Transition
Author: Dale Belman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780913447673

Examines the transformation of the employment relationship in governmental agencies, with particular emphasis on human resources policies and workplace practices.

Strategic Choices in Reforming Public Service Employment

Strategic Choices in Reforming Public Service Employment
Author: C. Dell'Aringa
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2001-09-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1403920176

Although many industrialized countries have had to face the same political and economic pressures in reforming their public sectors there have been different reactions and a diversity of solutions to the emerging problems. This book examines the most significant initiatives targeted towards the restructuring of public sector employment relations in countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The contributors focus on national and local governments, and health, education and social services. The first section provides an up-to-date analysis of six European countries. The second part considers the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Japan.

Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing Workplace

Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing Workplace
Author: Adrienne E. Eaton
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780913447772

Have the speed, informality, and low cost of the grievance and arbitration system deteriorated? Has the system become too adversarial? Has it lost its problem-solving character? This book examines the nature and degree of change in workplace dispute resolution in the context of ongoing changes in work and in labor relations.The volume begins with an editors' introduction that provides context and offers a political perspective on the current state of dispute resolution in the workplace. The chapters that follow contain critiques of the existing legal framework surrounding mandatory arbitration in the nonunion sector and a review of the empirical literature on nonunion dispute resolution. Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing Workplace includes sections on grievance mediation, the status of the grievance procedure in workplaces with extensive worker and/or union participation in decision making, and high-performance workplaces. The study concludes with trends in dispute resolution in the public sector and with the alternative dispute resolution system commonly practiced in the unionized construction industry.

Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy: A-J

Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy: A-J
Author: Jack Rabin
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780824709464

From the Nuremberg trials to the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 to recent budget reconciliation bills, the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy provides detailed coverage of watershed policies and decisions from such fields as privatization, biomedical ethics, education, and diversity. This second edition features a wide range of new topics, including military administration, government procurement, social theory, and justice administration in developed democracies. It also addresses current issues such as the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and covers public administration in the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America.

Public Service Employment Relations in Europe

Public Service Employment Relations in Europe
Author: Stephen Bach
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2005-08-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134630034

The book provides an up-to-date analysis of the restructuring of public service employment relations in six European countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark and the UK. Each of the chapters on national systems is organized around a set of themes and policy issues including: * the impact of fiscal crises, and increasing macro-economic integration within the European Union, on the scope and organization of public services * changes in the patterns and status of public service employment * the shift from centralized administration to new models of devolved management * changes in the organization and policies of public service trade unions * reforms in the structure, process and outcome of collective bargaining * patterns of conflict and cooperation between unions, managers and the state. Written and edited by some of the country's primary authorities on public sector industrial relations, this outstanding book on this high profile field is sure to be a valuable resource for those studying this important topic.

Public Service Management and Employment Relations in Europe

Public Service Management and Employment Relations in Europe
Author: Stephen Bach
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2016-07-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 131752991X

Has there been a transformation of public service employment relations in Europe since the crisis? Public Service Management and Employment Relations in Europe examines public service employment relations after the economic crisis, including analysis of more than thirty years of public service and workforce reform, and addresses the interplay between an emerging post-crisis public service sector and the consequences for the state, employers and trade unions in core public services. Written by leading national experts, this book places the economic crisis in a longer timeframe and examines how far trends in public sector employment relations were reinforced or reversed by the crisis. It provides an up-to-date analysis of the restructuring of public service employment relations in 12 major European countries, including analysis of little studied central and Eastern European countries. This book will be vital reading for researchers, academics and PhD Students in the fields of Public Management, Public Administration, Employment Relations, and Human Resource Management.