Cover -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- New public management: its impact on public servant's identity -- Civil servant identity at the crossroads: new challenges for public administrations -- Transforming public services -- transforming the public servant? -- Modernizing public administration: the impact on organisational identities -- Identifying identities: performance-driven, but professional public managers -- Diffusing values or adjusting practices? A review of research on French public utilities -- New pay in European civil services: is the psychological contract changing?
Summary
New public management (NPM) and its variants of entrepreneurial government have been with us for more than twenty years. This e-book explores the relationship between public management reform and its impact on systems of public administration and public officials