Value consciousness and public management
International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior
ISSN: 1093-4537
Article publication date: 1 March 2006
Abstract
Many changes taking place in the public sector raise value questions. Examples are New Public Management, mixed governance forms, globalised recipes on good governance, transnationalisation of public organisations and clashes between Christian and Islamic values in most European states. How to deal with value confusion and value conflicts, thus, is an important challenge for the public manager. Stated in 10 normative prescriptions, various strategies are suggested in the paper. The basic questions addressed are two. How can public management distinguish the central values from those of lesser interest? And how can public management handle value conflicts and organisational design conflicts
Citation
Jørgensen, T.B. (2006), "Value consciousness and public management", International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 510-536. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOTB-09-04-2006-B003
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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