scholarly journals Construyendo la resistencia profesional en un espacio educativo neoliberalizado

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1 Mar-Jun) ◽  
pp. 91-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julián Luengo Navas ◽  
Javier Molina-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Teacher Professionalism ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
New Public ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Emergence Of Resistance

El profesionalismo docente está reestructurándose como consecuencia de los procesos de neoliberalización. Este artículo estudia la recontextualización de las prácticas neoliberales en el sistema educativo andaluz y su influencia en elejercicio de la práctica docente. Es un estudio cualitativo que utiliza la entrevista semiestructurada en profundidad como técnica susceptible de análisis mediante la Teoría Fundamentada. Se han realizado diez entrevistas en cinco colegios públicos: un/a docente de sexto de primaria y el/la director/a en cada uno de los centros. Para el tratamiento y categorización de la información se ha utilizado el software cualitativo QSR NVivo 11. Los resultados evidencian la consolidación de prácticas de la Nueva Gestión Pública y la emergencia de acciones de resistencia a éstas. Destacan las políticas de gerencialismo, la competencia entre centros, la estandarización educativa y los principios de la cultura performativa como principales cambios que están modificando el profesionalismo docente. Estos cambios políticos están desprofesionalizando la docencia bajo directrices de instrumentalidad técnica y despolitización. Sin embargo, las actitudes de rechazo a esta desprofesionalización docente están generando nuevos espacios de resistencia mediante prácticas de reflexividad, la deconstrucción de discursos hegemónicos y el desarrollo de tareas orientadas a lograr mayor igualdad, equidad y justicia social. Teacher professionalism is getting restructured as a consequence of the different neoliberalisation processes. This article focuses on the recontextualisation of neoliberal practices in the Andalusian educational system and its influence on teaching practices. It is a qualitative study that draws on Grounded Theory and obtains the data through in-depth semi-structured interviews. Ten interviews were conducted in five public schools with a Primary Year-Six teacher and the headmaster of each of the educational centres. For the treatment and categorisation of the information, the QSR NVivo 11 qualitative software was used. The results reveal the consolidation of New Public Management practices andthe emergence of resistance actions against these practices. Managerial policies, inter-school competitions, educational standardisation and the principles of performative culture are the main changes affecting teacher professionalism. These political changes are de-professionalizing teaching practices according to guidelines  of technical instrumentality and depoliticisation. However, rejection attitudes against this de-skilling of teachers are generating new spaces of resistance through reflective practices, the deconstruction of hegemonic discourses and the development of tasks aimed at achieving greater equality, equity and social justice.

Collaboration Consequences: New Public Management and Police-Academic Partnerships

2021 ◽  
pp. 193672442098437
Author(s):  
Carrie B. Sanders ◽  
Debra Langan
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Police Services ◽  
New Public ◽  
Academic Partnerships ◽  
Institutional Strategies

With increasing pressure on public organizations to demonstrate accountability, police services and public universities are being tasked with demonstrating how their institutional strategies are effective and economically efficient. In this paper, we draw on our own research collaborations with two different Canadian police services (Bluewater and Greenfield) on a similar community crime prevention strategy, Situation Tables. We illustrate how new public management practices are embedded in the political, economic, and organizational contexts that have inspired police-academic partnerships and invigorated the evidence-based policing movement in Canada. Our analysis illustrates how our partnerships were influenced by the performance strand of new public management that prioritizes the quantification of measures of outputs over qualitative evaluations of impact. We argue that these practices, if not interrogated, can jeopardize the integrity of evidence-based practice and policy development. Academic freedom must be retained when partnering with the police to ensure an examination of the implications of police practices.

scholarly journals Bringing the Law Back in the Law-Government Nexus in an Era of Network Governance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stavros Zouridis ◽  
Vera Leijtens
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Law

Abstract Recently, scholars have claimed that public management theory has too much ignored law. Consequently, the under-legalized conception of public management has produced a flawed understanding of public management theory as well as public management practices, threatening public institutions’ legitimacy. In this article, we argue that law never left public management theory. Rather, the link between government and law has been redefined twice. We refer to the assumptions that constitute this link as the law-government nexus. This nexus changed from lawfulness in a public administration paradigm, to legal instrumentalism in a (new) public management paradigm, and to a networked concept in the public governance (PG) paradigm. In order to prevent a faulty over-legalized conception of public management, bringing the law back in should be built on lessons from the past. This article elaborates on three strategies to reconnect law and public management. We map the strengths and weaknesses of each law-government nexus and illustrate these with the case of the Dutch tax agency. In our strategies that aim to reconceptualize the current law-government nexus, we incorporate the benefits of each paradigm for public management theory. The revised law-governance nexus enables the PG paradigm to correspond to contemporary issues without encountering old pathologies.

About New Public Management Practices in Russian Universities (on Results of Field Studies)

Upravlenie ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Ломовицкая ◽  
V. Lomovitskaya ◽  
Хватова ◽  
T. Khvatova ◽  
Душина ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
New Public ◽  
Control Department ◽  
And Control ◽  
Russian Universities

New public management practices in prestigious universities are researched in this paper. Based on the field study — higher-education teaching personnel (HETP) interrogation — problem areas related to university managerialism policy have been revealed. It has been shown, that the administrative machine and control department extension, as well as low level of professorship involvement in decision-making destroy the academic autonomy and create a latent conflict between managers and HETP.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF A STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN GREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLS

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Arvanitakis
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Quality Service ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
New Public ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
Management Issues

The New Public Management, as a philosophy, focuses on providing more quality service to the citizen by delivering it to "the customer", a concept derived from the theory of Total Quality Management. Besides, it contributes to optimizing the decision-making process by linking costs - benefits and taking into account emerging efficiencies, as well as achieving predetermined results - objectives set in specific time frames. Concepts such as indicators, performance, evaluation, due to misuse and mistakes made at the political level in previous years, cause reactions to the educational community, which is distrustful of political leadership and shows the majority is reluctant to participate in processes that their outcome could be interpreted as perceived by the superior authority. There is no doubt that education has the most important contribution to the improvement of human capital from birth to university studies. The Greek Ministry of Interior is responsible for the supervision over decentralized administrations and local authorities (municipalities and regions), coordination and organization of recourse to the popular verdict (elections, referendums), legislation on Greek citizenship and expatriates, and legislation on registers, registries and demographics. So, it can be considered as the main stakeholder for Public Management issues. With a series of Legislation, the roadmap seems to be set. Recently, by the Greek Law 4692/2020, some of the basic concepts of Management are institutionalized, such as the process of planning and evaluation (internal and external) the school unit and Teachers evaluation are being defined. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0770/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

From Accounting to Accountability at the Virtual Museums in Pompeii and Herculaneum

2014 ◽  
pp. 245-256
Author(s):  
Paolo Esposito
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Organizations ◽  
New Public ◽  
Regulatory Complexity

The enhancement of artistic and cultural heritage has been a recurring theme within the scientific and cultural debate by scholars from different disciplines and in the political agenda of most countries over the last decades (Senese, 2002; Meneguzzo & Grossi, 2002; Ferri & Zan, 2012). During the early 90s, researchers focused their attention on management practices, tools and models referring to arts and cultural organizations (Peacock, 1982; Frey, 1994; Towse, 1997; Christiansen & Skaerbaeck, 1997; Zan, 2002), as well as on the development of new and different organizational forms under pressure from the New Public Management (Pollitt, 2001; Lapsley, 2008; Ferri & Zan, 2012; Lindqvist, 2012). These studies aimed at analyzing, developing and proposing different conceptual and management frameworks within a context characterized by increasing scarcity of financial resources in addition to regulatory complexity. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an analysis of the growing phenomenon represented by the “Virtual Musealization” of archaeological sites in Italy, focusing on the case of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Successful policy transfer and public sector reform in developing countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-618
Author(s):  
Lhawang Ugyel ◽  
Carsten Daugbjerg
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Public Sector Reform ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
New Public

The scope and intensity of policy transfer has increased in recent years as developing countries have drawn on public sector reform programmes based on new public management practices originally designed in western democracies. However, there is mounting evidence that to be successful, reform programmes must be adapted to local contexts. This article demonstrates that national government control of policy transfer can enable localisation which in turn enhances the effectiveness of public reforms. Analysis of the Position Classification System ‐ which sought to enhance accountability, efficiency and professionalism in the civil service in Bhutan ‐ highlights two conditions that enable domestic control of the policy transfer process: strong internal motivation for engaging in policy transfer and the establishment or adaptation of institutions to manage processes of policy transfer. We conclude that when these conditions apply, a developing country can engage in successful voluntary policy transfer and retain control of the process.

Does board structure improve financial reporting quality? Evidence of real earnings manipulation among Pakistani firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Farhan Shah ◽  
Abdul Rashid ◽  
Faisal Shahzad
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
The Body ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Project Staff ◽  
New Public

The purpose of this study was to understand organizational change initiated in the public sector of Pakistan. This study investigated the case of reform initiative of Computerized driving licensing authority (CDLA) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Traffic Police (KPTP). Keeping in view the research questions, an in-depth study was conducted through the interpretivist research philosophy. Thirty semi-structured interviews were conducted from the top, middle and lower management (including permanent staff and project staff). Moreover, the secondary source of information was also used. For data analysis purpose, thematic networking technique was adopted as it helps in summarizing the whole set of information and also in presenting the codes in a simplified manner. Findings of the study show that change was planned and implemented in isolation from the internal stakeholders. Neither planned nor emergent change approach was adopted. New Public Management (NPM) features were evident, however, they were not planned properly. Moreover, the reasons for change, types and approach to change, causes of resistance to change, issues in implementation, the outcome of organizational change, and the role of technocrats were also identified. This study contributes theoretically by adding into the body of knowledge from the developing country perspective as well as by studying change in an autocratic system of police. Keywords: Organizational change, public sector reforms, thematic networks, new public management, qualitative methodology.

“New Public Management” in China at the Local Level: Competition-Driven Local Public Service Reform in Tianjin

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xufeng Zhu ◽  
Qiyuan Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Service Outsourcing ◽  
New Public ◽  
Tianjin City ◽  
Administrative Licensing

New public management (NPM) paradigm plays an increasingly important role in contemporary public management practices throughout the democratic world. This article argues that the driving force behind NPM reform in China at the local level is the competitive pressure to improve administrative performance. In China, where there is no electoral democratic regime, local governments face pressure in competition with counterparts over economic performance and consequent promotion opportunities for their leadership. The introduction of NPM can make local governments more effective and efficient in providing public services, which can result in local governments attracting more investments and enhancing competitiveness. The administrative licensing reform with public service outsourcing in Heping District, Tianjin City, China, is an example of NPM reform driven by competition among local governments. Keywords: new public management • local governments • administrative licensing • public service outsourcing • China

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