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Implications of new public management and modernization policies within the national probation service : an interpretative approach
thesis
posted on 2015-01-28, 11:42 authored by Ofelia A. PalermoThis thesis focuses on the implications of New Public Management and
Modernization reform policies in the National Probation Service. In an attempt to
understand how National Probation Service employees .make sense of those
reforms, actors' organizational context, their organizational identity and roles
have been explored. The study takes interpretivist, qualitative approach. It is
based on ethnographic data, collected over a one-year period in an English
regional probation service (RPA). In the course of the fieldwork, forty. five
employees were interviewed. Data were also collected through participant
observation, and analysis of formal documents. Empiric,al and theoretical
contributions emerge from this thesis. The former relate to control, organizational
identity, and role issues in the probation service, while the latter relate to
resistance.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Publisher
© Ofelia A PalermoPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2009Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.EThOS Persistent ID
uk.bl.ethos.605805Language
- en