According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

This is a study in industrial sociology; it a partial report, to be followed by another, of an investigation of singel factory seen in the light of Max Weber's theory of bureacracy.

Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy.

For many years the proponents of New Public Management (NPM) have promised to improve public services by making public sector organizations much more 'business-like'. There have been many investigations and empirical studies about the nature of NPM as well as its impact on organizations. However, most of these studies concentrate only on some elements of NPM and provide interesting, but often anecdotal, evidence and insights. Perhaps exactly because of the large amount of extremely revealing and telling empirical studies, there is, therefore, a lack of a systematic identification and understanding of the nature of NPM and its overall relevance. This paper contributes to a systematic identification and understanding of the concept of NPM as well as its multi-dimensional impact on public sector organizations. First, the paper aims at (re-) constructing a comprehensive taxonomy of NPM's main assumptions and core elements. Secondly, the paper tries to provide a more comprehensive and meta-analytical analysis of primarily the negative consequences of NPM-strategies for public sector organizations as well as the people working in them.

New public management in public sector organizations: the dark sides of managerialistic ‘enlightenment’

This article outlines a taxonomy of skills necessary for cross-cultural learning based on Kolb's experiential learning theory. Review of the empirical literature on expatriate adaptation identifies...

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An Experiential Approach to Cross-Cultural Learning: A Review and Integration of Competencies for Successful Expatriate Adaptation

Higher and postexperience education in many parts of the world have unfortunately overlooked what practice can contribute to our knowledge base interactively with and distinctly from classroom educ...

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Toward an Epistemology of Practice

The ethical dimension of human resource management

This paper explores the introduction of New Public Management (NPM) techniques within the UK police service since the late 1990s, and in particular, the impact upon the role of the first line manager: the police sergeant. It draws upon qualitative data collected within 'City Police Service' by means of in-depth interviews with role sets of police sergeants, constables, inspectors and members of the senior management team in two police divisions. After evaluating a number of NPM precepts in the light of the findings, the paper makes a number of conclusions relating to the role of police sergeants. These echo the findings of other research on changes in managerial roles, including a shift towards more strategic responsibilities, but with a significant intensification of work, tighter control and scrutiny through organizational performance management systems, and less daily contact with their police constables. As elsewhere in the public sector, a shift towards becoming a 'practitioner manager' was apparent, but with respect to police sergeants the effect was to limit their ability to provide leadership and support for their constables, and to encourage a greater reliance upon peer group networks and on the constables they supervised.

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The New Public Management and Managerial Roles: the Case of the Police Sergeant

List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Exhibits. Acknowledgements. Part I: The Purpose of Management Development. 1. Management Development: Purposes, Processes and Prerequisites. 2. Management Development and Organizational Strategy: Justifying and Evaluating the Business Focus. 3. Supporting Individual Managerial Careers. Part II: Identifying Development Needs. 4. Understanding Managerial Work, Roles and Competences. 5. Methodologies for Analysing Managerial Roles and Competences. 6. Analysing Individual Development Needs. Part III: Management Development Interventions. 7. The Managerial Learning Process and its Context. 8. Using Formal Off the Job Management Development. 9 Work--based Management Development Methods: Informal and Incidental. Part IV: Meeting Different Management Development Needs. 10. Management Development for Professionals. 11. Management Development for Women. 12. Management Development for International Managers. 13. Executive Development and the Top Team. Index.

Management development : strategy and practice

This article explores the impact of the introduction of the New Public Management (NPM) within the UK Police Service since the mid-1990s. A specific focus upon individual performance management (one of the central features of NPM) is examined from the perspective of the police sergeant who has primary responsibility for managing performance and ultimately the delivery of policing services within one of the UK's 'essential' public services. After a discussion of the literature on individual performance management within the context of the NPM, the article identifies four major research questions relating to: the job role demands of performance management; access to valid and reliable performance management information; the capacity to provide follow-up development and support; and the wider integration of performance management with organization strategy and service objectives. After reporting on interview data collected from role sets in which the sergeant is a focal member, the article concludes with a discussion of the constraints upon effective performance management within the NPM.

The new public management and the UK Police Service

PART ONE: THE ETHICAL CONTEXT FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Introduction D.Winstanley & J.Woodall The Ethical Context of HRM: the Ethical Organisation in the Boundaryless World K.Legge PART TWO: AREAS OF ETHICAL INQUIRY IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT What Ethics in the Employment Interview? L.Spence Occupational Testing and Psychometric Instruments: an Ethical Perspective B.Baker & J.Cooper Ethics and Equality: Reconciling False Dilemmas S.Liff & L.Dickens HRM and Employee Well-Being: Raising the Ethical Stakes N.Doherty & S.Tyson Winning Hearts and Minds: Ethical Issues in Human Resource Development J.Woodall & D.Douglas Flexible Working Patterns C.Stanworth Presenteeism and the Impact of Long Working Hours on Managers in the UK R.Simpson The New Pay: Risk and Representation at Work E.Heery Conditions of Worth and the Performance Management Paradox D.Winstanley Employee Participation and Involvement T.Claydon PART THREE: ETHICAL INTERVENTION IN PRACTICE Conducting a Social Audit: Lessons from the Body Shop Experience M.Sillanpaa & C.Jackson Staff Charters: A Framework for Identifying the Rights and Responsibilities of Employers and their Staff P.Taylor & P.Jones Whistleblowing D.Lewis Concluding Comments: Ethical Frameworks for Action J.Woodall & D.Winstanley

Jean Woodall

Papers

The ethical dimension of human resource management

The New Public Management and Managerial Roles: the Case of the Police Sergeant

Management development : strategy and practice

The new public management and the UK Police Service

Ethical issues in contemporary human resource management