Over the past half a century, significant changes have taken place in educational institutions
and work organizations. This has resulted in disernable shifts in the dynamic interaction …

Many have argued that the field of human resource (HR) management has successfully
transformed itself from the functional orientation of personnel management to a strategic …

The global economic crisis that began in 2008 triggered successive waves of
transformational reform within the public services of many nations around the globe. Bach …

This paper focuses on the attitudes of learning professionals towards New Public
Management (NPM). In a survey of the UK further education sector (n= 433), NPM beliefs …

Aims To describe how new public management practices, a global public service
management trend, and a provincial community of practice, a group of people who learn …

Retaining employees with core business skills is a key human resources (HR) activity. This
article examines retention of engineering and technical (E&T) professionals in an Australian …

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Britain has been advocating two contrasting
approaches to union revitalization namely:'labour—management partnership'and 'union …

This paper reports on an in‐depth interview study of the roles, job jurisdictions and
associated learning of higher level teaching assistants (HLTAs). This role has the core …

It is commonplace for public management scholarship to point to waves of reform reshaping
public service delivery across the globe (Hood 2000; Pollitt and Bouckaert 2004). In such a …

Relatively little attention has been paid to questions of how language acts in and through the
interactions of language in situations where people are encouraged to learn to be active in …