Search results for "public management"

Agencification and location: Does agency site matter?

2011

Published version of an article published in Public Organization Review, 11(2), 97-108. Also available from the publisher at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11115-010-0113-8 Two decades of New Public Management have placed agencifiction high on the agenda of administrative policy-makers. However, agencification (and de-agencification) has been one of the enduring themes of public administration. Agencies organized at arm's length from ministerial departments have fairly often been located outside of the capital or political centre. Although practitioners tend to assign some weight to central versus peripheral location as regards political-administrative behavior, this relationship has been almos…

The changing relationship between the academic profession and universities in Finnish higher education

2019

This doctoral dissertation describes how the relationship between the academic profession and universities has changed, and how the global trends, particularly New Public Management (NPM), managerialism and academic capitalism, as well as other societal expectations have influenced it in Finnish higher education. Prior studies show that these global trends have had various effects on academic profession. Additionally, they have driven universities to develop as an organisation. NPM and managerialism emphasise hierarchical management structures, control, performance evaluations, and efficiency, which are commonly incompatible with professional values and practices; collegial decision-making,…

Vanha ja uudistettu julkishallinto : julkishallintomallien ilmeneminen aluehallintovirastojen henkilöstön kokemana

2015

Tämän tutkimuksen aiheena ovat julkishallintomallit New Public Management (NPM), New Public Governance (NPG) ja Neo-Weberian State (NWS) ja niiden ilmeneminen nykyisten aluehallintovirastojen toiminnassa henkilöstön kokemusten perusteella. Julkishallintomallit vaikuttavat merkittävästi julkishallinnon organisointiin ja johtamisen toteutumiseen. Julkishallintomallien kehitykseen ja soveltamiseen liittyvät vahvasti erilaiset yhteiskunnalliset muutokset ja julkishallinnon uudistukset. Erilaiset mallit painottavat erilaisia periaatteita julkishallinnon uudistusten ja johtamisen toteutuksessa. NPM-malli on ollut viime vuosikymmenten valtavirran julkishallintomalli, kun taas NPG-malli ja NWS-mall…

CO-CREATING THE PLACE BRAND OF FINNISH LAPLAND : Mental associations and visual representations

2019

Master's thesis Innovative governance and public management ME523 - University of Agder 2019 Brands are living in an era of customer-centric life where alltheir potential, present and former customers are regardedas co-creators. The center of attention is in customers’ daily lives and they have an enormous amountofpower to influence on brands.Social media hasaccelerated the pace of communication and this has connected also cities and counties into the new brand co-creation paradigm. Places have adopted branding practices from the business world to persuadepeople to move, do business or travel in their area. In Finland, Lapland has been one of the first counties to execute place branding act…

Public Governance Principles in General Education School Management of Latvia

2015

In contemporary world the effect of globalisation and information technologies cause transformational processes of states` public management that promote the application of new managament approaches and principles in public institution management.The changes in the public managament have effected and still effects processes of management also in education. The increase of school autonomy, a stronger focus on the process of education and its results created the need to expand the application of contemporary public management principles also in the managament of education institutions. The main goal of the report is to analyze the principles of public management and their implementation in th…

Can Money buy Love? : The Impact of the Cohesion Policy of the European Union on European Identity

2019

Master's thesis Innovative governance and public management ME523 - University of Agder 2019 This Master thesis explores the relationship between Cohesion policies of the EU and European identity. After first describing the history and context of Cohesion policies of the EU, the literature on European identity studies is reviewed. This discussion develops an economic utilitarian argument, that citizens in Europe develop their identification with the EU partly on rational considerations, and that the added quality of life provided by investments of the EU would positively influence their European identity. This effect is expected to be different throughout European regions.The hypothesesare …

La comunicazione nella pubblica amministrazione e nella scuola

2009

Vulnerabilidad Territorial y Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Proximidad para las Personas Mayores en la Ciudad de Valencia.

2019

The increase in the average age of the population in Western societies is a reality that defines new parameters of coexistence as well as new social demands. In the case of the elderly, the services guarantee not only the care, in particular to the dependents, but also the company (loneliness). This article analyses the location and accessibility to these services, specifically day centres, municipal centres of activity and residences, in the city of Valencia, which is also of great interest for planning and public management. Emphasis is placed on the context of the most vulnerable neighbourhoods. The results indicate that there are clear differences according to the place of residence of …

Diversity, Complexity and Ordinality: Mental Health Services Outside the Institutions—Service Users’ and Professionals’ Experience-Based Practices an…

2021

In conjunction with the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals, social workers have been commissioned to help service users in their daily living in their homes and in the community. The consequences of these changes for experience-based knowledge and practices in their contexts remain relatively unknown. In this study, eighteen service users and the social workers they described as helpful for them were interviewed. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using Thematic Analysis. The following themes emerged: “Here, there and everywhere”, “Doing, being, becoming”, “Talking” and “Order, planning and improvisation” concerning the contradictions service users and professionals m…

Socially Responsible Sector: B Lab Certification of For-Benefit Organizations

2019

Master's thesis Innovative governance and public management ME523 - University of Agder 2019 This is a study of the motivations of organizations to become certified B Corps through thenon-profit B Lab. The Abilities, Motivations and Opportunities framework, rooted in behavioraland organizational management literature is applied to the certified B Corp model, andtheoretically compared to corporate social responsibility. Empirical data collected comparescommon language used to describe 3,508 organizations and self reported motivations to becomecertified through survey responses of 279 active certified B Corps. The results of the study showthe difference between corporate social responsibility…