... and to highlight the interplay of health policy, organisational change and occupational structure. The findings indicate the coexistence of innovation and conservatism. Corporatism is not replaced but ‘modernized’ through several elements from new governance. New governance brings the state into corporatist...

...This chapter discusses the social services in Sweden. In this chapter, the focus is on the features that block or facilitate the balance between work and family as well as the features that form social workers' career paths in a context of organisational change. The balance between work and family...

... of Social Services and Social Affairs systems approach professional qualifications qualifications social workers social services Reason J child protection policy implementation systems approach working conditions organisational change This chapter is positioned at the implementation stage...

... in arenas feedback organisational cultures leadership Collaboration collaborative governance policy design design science leadership organisational change power structuration In complex, shared-power settings, policy-makers, administrators and many other decision makers increasingly must engage...

...This chapter examines an often-neglected outcome of organisational-change programmes: the effects they have on employee health and wellbeing. It presents a case study of the organisational restructuring of Reproductive Medicine in a UK National Health Service Trust. Based on in-depth interviews...

... Davies Huw Greenhalgh T Walter I contextual receptivity Knowledge to action? Dopson and Fitzgerald communication knowledge transfer Allen B Currie G Langlands Alan enlightenment model Weiss C organisational change Andrew Pettigrew Shaping Strategic Change power relationships...

...This chapter contrasts and compare organisational change as it affects working parents in social services and finance consultancy. It shows how a consultancy company abided by general labour laws and had no specific workplace policies for working parents, but followed an informal policy of flexible...

...This chapter is divided in two parts, with a central focus on parents' need for flexible working arrangements in order effectively and efficiently to manage their everyday lives. The first part of the chapter discusses organisational change in public sector social services and in private sector...

... in the UK, to one that demonstrates an appreciation of the interactions between health policy, organisation and society. The book acts as a bridge between conventional textbooks on the NHS and contemporary health policy research, provides an account of the development of policy and organisational change...

...) observe, written ‘for managers only’. This is perhaps unproblematic in the world of local and ‘laissez-faire’ business management, where organisational change is to a large extent internally devised. But to write about public management solely for public managers is insufficient if the ambition is to aid...

..., are the resulting changes internally or externally devised? Nonetheless, externally driven reform is typically also less incremental and more discontinuous than many spontaneous organisational changes ( Goldfinch, 2023 ), and usually involves a more explicitly envisaged end-state – a plan or vision of what...

... the value of direct personal experience of managing organisational change or of sharing lessons learnt within peer networks, confirmation bias poses at least two risks in this regard. One, as Denise Rousseau (2012, p12) writes, is that what leaders or consultants think they learnt from...

... theory organisational change organisational sociology public administration public services structure and agency ...

... service inter-disciplinary social science new public management organisational change public administration public services paradigms top-down reform ...

... resources ICT accountability NGOisation professionalisation donors beneficiaries organisational change resource needs Founded in 1971, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors without Borders) is one of the largest and most prominent humanitarian organisations. According to its website, ¹...

... The DoH privatisation Walshe K Gillam S Lewis R Public Private Partnerships PPP Audit Commission National Institute for Clinical Excellence NICE national service frameworks NSFs inequality elderly personal social services Scotland Wales recent reform health policy organisational change...