Research Catalog

Title

Policy alienation and the power of professionals : confronting new policies / Lars Tummers.

Author

Tummers, Lars

Publication

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, c2013.

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Description

187 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Professionals often have problems with governmental policies they have to implement. This ranges from Israeli teachers striking against school reforms, via British civil servants quitting their jobs as they have problems with New Public Management reforms focused on cost cutting, to US healthcare professionals feeling overwhelmed by a constant flow of policy changes, resulting in tensions, conflicts, and burn-outs. This eloquent book by Lars Tummers develops a framework to understand these important issues with policy implementation, using the innovative concept of 'policy alienation'. Policie

Subject

• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch
• Public administration
• Organizational change > Management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-183) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Source of Description (note)

• Description based on print version record.

Contents

1. Introduction to policy alienation and the power of professionals -- 2. Historical background of alienation -- 3. Public policies and alienation -- 4. Measurement instrument of policy alienation -- 5. Antecedents of policy alienation -- 6. Policy alienation and resistance to change -- 7. Policy alienation, organizational context, personality and resistance to change -- 8. Discussion and conclusions.

ISBN

• 9781781954034 (electronic bk.)
• 1781954038 (electronic bk.)
• 9781781954027
• 178195402X

OCLC

• 857286748
• SCSB-10909083

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library