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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"managerialism"”.
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On the Front Lines: Managerialism in Substance Abuse Agencies
… Management (NPM), which is also referred to as ‘Managerialism’, and is characterized by output-orientated, quantitative focused, performance based measures and evidence-based practice. These characteristics have impacted the workforce in human service organizations. Using qualitative …
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The new administrative landscape- implications of managerialism for administrative law
In the introductory section to Baxter's Administrative Law, the author in an attempt to delineate the field of administrative law stated the following: 'A factor retarding the development of administrative law as a significant discipline has been a lack of agreement as to what "administrative law" …
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Mission Adrift: The Impact of Managerialism on Graduate Social Work Education
… policies have led to the installation of managerialism, or the application of business practices and principles in institutions of higher education. Although much is known about the impact of managerialism on faculty in the overall academy, very little is known about its impact in specific …
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Modernisation or managerialism ? An investigation of the managerial paradigm and local tourism services
Tourism in England has grown to become an activity worth around £111billion to the English economy, and constituting around 4% of employment. This has led to increasing numbers of local areas becoming involved with tourism development. However local authorities supporting tourism are impacted by …
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External quality assessment in the context of managerialism and higher education public policy
… of state-sector and institution-department managerialism gave conflicts over external accountability policy and external quality assessment processes broader significance. The research adopted a qualitative case study methodology, incorporating thirty six semistructured interviews with key …
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Anti-Imperialism and the Critique of Managerialism in Post- War American Thought, 1939–1995
… topics from the late-1930s to the mid-1990s. Managerialism created a triad of new political dilemmas in post-war America. These can be condensed into three leading questions: a) are economic or non-economic factors behind elite formation? (b) has the rule of the expert created a new form of …
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Managerialism as a professionalising catalyst for the front-line practitioner community of New Zealand's Department of Conservation
… bureaucratic structures of contemporary managerialism. The reactions of front-line public servants to New Management’s unfamiliar ‘market-place’ imperatives and the concomitant loss of occupational autonomy have received very little rigorous qualitative analysis. This study addresses that …
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The dynamics of organizational change : an analysis of power, professions and new managerialism in the case of CoastElectric
… the importance of the broader discourse of new managerialism in terms of shaping what is considered to be a 'commonsensical, rational' strategy. The second concern of this thesis is that of the process of organizational change. The study of CoastElectric attempts to provide a rich account of the …
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‘Over, under and through the walls’: The dynamics of public security, police-community relations and the limits of managerialism in crime control in Recife, Brazil
This dissertation contributes to Brazilian public security studies from the perspective of critical criminology. It examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in one Brazilian city: Recife. Between 1982 and 2007, Recife had …
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Student governance in transition : University democratisation and managerialism : a governance approach to the study of student politics and the case of the University of Cape Town
… much academic interest and debate: the rise of managerialism. The participation of students in university governance was the key issue in debates on university democratisation; however, in the recent debates about managerialism in universities, there is little mention of the new place of …
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Probation workers' practice and practice ideals in a culture of control
… the Probation Service and examine the impact of managerialism on practice. The dissertation emanates from a disjunction between Garland’s (2001a) thesis of a ‘culture of control’ and traditional notions of probation culture, and investigates this with reference to four key themes: rehabilitation, …
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The Evolving Role of Head of Department in Irish Higher Education
… impact of the discourses of neoliberalism and managerialism on Irish higher education at the macro, meso and micro–levels. For HoDs in this study the discourse and institutional practices of managerialism entails less autonomy and a more regulated, monitored and managed regime than in the past. …
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The constitutional position of the British Civil Service : an assessment of the impact of managerialism on the notion of 'the servant of the Crown' via a case study of HM Prison Service
The institution of the civil service is of much contemporary interest here in Britain and elsewhere. The phenomenon of civil service reform forms a significant part of the wider movement to remould public services or in the now legendary phrase, to ‘reinvent government’ on what could be perceived …
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A critical analysis of devolution and the corporate reform of teachers' work
… the reforms is described as corporate managerialism. Devolution has impacted heavily on schools and teachers' work. Evidence presented in this thesis suggests that the corporate values and practices that dominate the organisation and management of schools create personal and …
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To care or not care? What impact if any, does care have on men in their teaching practises within adult education?
… to the research questions. Neo-liberal and managerialism lead agenda’s are squeezing the life out of the ethos of adult education. This research has uncovered some interesting findings such as how policy makers and neo-liberal ideologies are impacting significantly on adult education through …
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Competing constructions of children's participation in social care : analysing text and talk
… of protectionism, developmentalism, rights and managerialism compete unevenly across them. I argue that there is a new configuration of welfare developing around children’s services where managerialism is dominant and children’s rights are collapsed into the customer discourse. Children’s voices …
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An outsider's take: A case study of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority to theorize the need for change towards a qualifications framework for the organization of the Eastern Caribbean States
… of a global world such as the discourse of managerialism, the OECS' quest for international competitiveness and economic advantage based on a qualified and skilled workforce makes a compelling case for this research on changing its qualifications system. Notably, however, qualifications are …
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Constituting Modern Matron: exploring role, identity and action in an English NHS Trust
… is under threat from a dominant ‘new managerialism’ discourse. Sustained organisational change and reform during the past thirty years has impacted on the nature of professional work and role relationships between health care practitioners, managers, patients and the public. Identity …
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A mixed methods study of the implications of academic change related managerial decisions on university faculty teaching effectiveness and student success
… perceptions about the effects of managerialism. Through this process patterns of decision making can be identified and linked to emerging themes and connections. The study yielded results to support the theory that administrators and managers in academic settings do impact teaching …
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