scholarly journals Introduction to 2021-1

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Buch
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
New Public ◽  
Disability Employment

In this first issue of Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies in 2021, we have compiled six articles and one book review. The first article, Leading the Way? State Empoyers’ Engagement with a Disability Employment Policy, by Kaja Larsen Østerud, investigates governmental labor market attempts to integrate persons with disabilities in Norway. Specifically, the study addresses policy documents and analyzes interviews with state employers to investigate their engagement with the policy. Østerud concludes that even though the employers recognize the importance of the policy, their engagement to enact it is passive and forged with obstacles. Mainly, the New Public Management discourse of productivity standards and cost-cutting, combined with an apparent lack of disabled applicants, makes state employers reluctant to actively promote the implementation of the policy (...)

Disability employment services under new public management: A comparison of Australia and Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-450
Author(s):  
Hsiu-shan Yeh ◽  
Wan-I Lin
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Disability Employment ◽  
For Profit Organizations

In the 1990s, both Australia and Taiwan were influenced by new public management (NPM) and subsequently reformed their public employment services. However, the reforms of the two countries have led to divergent results. This study assumes that the essential differences lay in the mobilization capacity of the disabled rights advocacy organizations and the disability employment benefits. Taiwan’s disability employment services (supported employment), though privatized, are limited to nonprofit organizations (NPOs), while for-profit organizations (POs) remain absent in this area. In Australia, the employment services (open employment services for people with disabilities) have been privatized, and for-profit organizations are encouraged to compete with one another to enhance the service quality and to reduce the costs. By providing job-search benefits for disabled people and implementing workfare policy, the Australian government reforms have resulted in the change of the relationship between the government and the citizens. In contrast, since the Taiwanese government never provided sufficient social welfare benefits for disabled people, they have to actively seek employment not after encouragement from the government, but as a result of their desperate need to earn a living. Despite the two countries’ differences, the force of neoliberalism, along with NPM, ostensibly continues to be a part of their employment policies for the socially underprivileged.

scholarly journals Leading the Way? State Employers’ Engagement with a Disability Employment Policy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaja Larsen Østerud
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
Employer Engagement ◽  
Disability Employment ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Stage Analysis

In the literature on labor market integration, there is growing recognition of the importance of employers. This article aims to contribute to this stream of research by investigating state employers’ engagement with a soft employment quota launched alongside a wider initiative in Norway, named the Inclusion Dugnad. An initial document analysis showed that only 3.1% of state employers fulfill the quota at the early stage. Analysis of 10 state employer interviews revealed that they appeared to be mostly passive and, to some degree, dismissive of the Inclusion Dugnad. They relied on passive measures where disabled job seekers are expected to actively seek out the employer and not the other way around. The main obstacles to achieving employer engagement seemed to be the apparent lack of disabled applicants and the reported conflict between the goals of the Inclusion Dugnad and the cost-cutting and productivity standards governing the state employer sector.

scholarly journals The Introduction and the Application of Technological Innovations as Administrative Efficiency Factor in Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Belias D. ◽  
Velissariou E. ◽  
Kyriakou D. ◽  
Koustelios A. ◽  
Sdrolias L. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Efficiency Factor ◽  
Educational Structure ◽  
Administrative Efficiency ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
New Public ◽  
Management Concepts

Innovation is a rapidly developed issue, keeping all the aforementioned alerted. Considering this picture, the key issue of this thesis is to clarify the concept innovation as administrative efficiency factor in relation with education using the relevant literature. The existing literature indicates that educational structure and practices are in the center of great reforms. These reforms associated with New Public Management. NPM is a process that involves interaction between managers and markets. It is a set of cost-cutting and management concepts from the private sector including downsizing, entrepreneurialism, enterprise operations, quality management, customer service etc. According to that concept, school managers are trying to create a smaller, more responsive, more entrepreneurial and more effective public sector. Technological innovation has a key role on this and surely it can be the cornerstone of every change which may occur on this field of public administration.

Principles of Public Management in Scandinavian Countries: A Theoretical Assessment

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Ole Vanebo ◽  
Jon Aarum Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Leadership Research ◽  
Theoretical Assessment

strengthen leadership practices in the public sector. The policy documents ”Code for Chief Executive Excellence” (Denmark) and ”Leadership in Norway’s Civil Service” pertain to how the public sector ought to be managed. This article addresses two problems concerning these documents. To what degree does New Public Management (NPM) influence them? To what degree does management and leadership theory and research support the principles proposed by these documents? This article concludes that NPM has had a significant impact on public management in the Scandinavian countries. The policy documents are based on leadership research and are in accordance with mainstream management theory. The idea of formulating a principle of management that would characterize the classical contributions is also evident in these documents.

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