New public management and public service employment

Ian Cunningham and Jennifer Remnant

Chapter 13 in Theories and Concepts in Work and Employment Relations, 2025, pp 116-123 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explores the outcomes for employment relations from the continuing application of the principles of the marketisation of public services, influenced by the values and practices of New Public Management (NPM). The focus is on the UK where, despite NPM's influence, there is not complete convergence with private sector models. At the time of writing, a new Labour government has entered power at the end of a significant period of public sector industrial action, including strikes by teachers, civil servants, higher education, junior doctors, consultants and nurses. NPM, marketisation and austerity remain contested.

Keywords: Marketisation; NPM; Austerity; Employment relations; Public sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035316199
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035316205.00022 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:22522_14

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jack Sweeney ().