...This chapter continues the analysis of social policy in the Hong Kong SAR. It focuses on the mode of welfare management: the essential nature of state intervention in welfare and the heavy impact of the Asian economic crisis. The chapter details recent cuts in public expenditure and the contracting...

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... and choice: A decent home for all, with its emphasis on supply diversity and choice and the application of ‘new public sector management’. In stage three, a new emphasis on supply culminated in Homes for the future: More affordable, more sustainable, with its promise to boost...

...This chapter provides an experientially based robust critique of the penetration of neoliberal ideologies into university management and professional practice. It discusses the role of professional identities in the individual, and collective, response to institutional micromanagement; and outlines...

... the ‘emotion management’ of work and caring commitments. Mothers have an important role to play in encouraging their daughters' ambition. The chapter then discusses contemporary feminisms in the context of the culture of ‘maternal citizenship’ and the masked cost to the professional, middle-class women...

...Face-to-face contacts are the cornerstone of community supervision. As community supervision in the United States and Canada emerges into a new behavioral management approach, new training curricula have emerged to conceptualize the techniques of supervision and develop the skill sets of officers...

... ambiguity. The discussion also considers perspectives on leadership, the personal qualities of the leader, leadership as a position, leadership as a social process and management. concepts of leadership definitions of leadership Burns J Grint K Heifetz R A influencing people Locke E Morgan G process...

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... then reviews attempts to develop metropolitan strategies in response to emerging problems of growth management in Australian cities, including the landmark programs of the Whitlam and Hawke/Keating federal governments and the concerted but unsuccessful efforts of the last Labor governments of Rudd and Gillard...

...This chapter examines the development of policy analysis at the local and regional level. Under the influence of New Public Management (NPM) different methodologies have been introduced on the local level like zero base budgeting, value for money auditing, management by objectives. The latest...

...Table 2.1: The doctrinal components of new public management • Explicit formal measure standards and measures of performance success • Accountability means clearly stated aims; efficiency needs hard looks at goals • Qualitative and implicit standards and norms • Erosion...

... the governing coalition of ASB to incorporate housing professionals and different housing management mechanisms, which are increasingly arranged beyond the social housing tenure and the judiciary. The chapter shows that these two are able to provide an ‘interpretative ventriloquism’, which reinforces...

... of specialist ASB teams that are within the housing management structures, while another section provides evidence taken from national surveys on how social landlords have used evictions and injunctions. acceptable behaviour contracts ABCs anti social behaviour antisocial behaviour orders ASBOs...

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...This chapter introduces ten case studies of how local knowledge is generated, managed and used for influencing policy and community practices. The cases are from Aceh, Java, South Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara, Kalimantan and Maluku, and address issues such as forest management, water resources...

...This chapter takes on the final question of Part II: Can we formulate a concern in common that isn’t anti-populist? Answering in the affirmative, it introduces the notion of anger management, shorthand for a mode of governance that ‘leads’ by stoking aggrieved entitlement (keeping victimized anger...

...Chapter 8 reflects on the position of wardens and scheme managers – specifically villa managers – as personnel responsible for providing a concierge service to residents, and a facilities management service to property developers. The chapter provides background information on this group of workers...

... institutional power dynamics political management problem framing technical systems The previous chapter set out some of the points in the child support process where women may fall out of the leaky pipeline, across a range of international settings. The purpose was to construct a general understanding...

... in Scotland. The chapter reveals how austerity, in one sense, has moved away from New Public Management (NPM) by recentralizing control of services. This 'break' with NPM is in parallel with continuing ideological attachment to values that see public services as wasteful. Restructuring efforts at the various...

...This chapter examines from a neo-Weberian perspective the management and leadership of health and social care support workers in the United Kingdom and the wider European context. It sets out the evolution of the management and organisation of health support work consequent on the introduction...