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The Changing Face of Public Sector Employment
Author(s) -
Colley Linda
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8500.00194
Subject(s) - public sector , optimal distinctiveness theory , bureaucracy , new public management , flexibility (engineering) , private sector , face (sociological concept) , public service , tertiary sector of the economy , business , public administration , administration (probate law) , economics , political science , economic growth , politics , sociology , marketing , management , economy , social science , law , psychology , psychotherapist
While it is easy, and almost a national sport, to criticise the traditional model of public sector employment as being too generous, there is a rationale for its distinctiveness. The career service model that endured for most of the last century was aligned to the bureaucratic form of public administration of that time. As public administration was ‘transformed’ into public sector management through the importing of private sector techniques, so too has public sector employment been varied in pursuit of greater efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness.