- Title
- Double bind in the public service : Competing Paradigms in the Australian public sector
- Creator
- Bilney, Chris; Pillay, Soma; Jones, Robert
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/158630
- Identifier
- vital:11833
- Identifier
- https://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf-manager/1643_ANZAM-2014-184.PDF
- Abstract
- A dramatic transformation has taken place in the public sector worldwide as many governments have privatised many of their organisations and agencies. As a result, public sector employees worldwide have been exposed to contradictory pressures as their senior executive managers demand adherence to the traditional bureaucratic mechanisms for which they have always been known while concurrently attempting to conform to the economic reductionist principles of their private sector competitors. We argue that this has led to many staff, as well as the organisations in which they work, experiencing situations of double bind. Through the lens of autoethnography, this paper examines the double bind with which I, as an Australian public sector worker, am faced and some of the effects.
- Publisher
- ANZAM
- Relation
- Reshaping Management for Impact, 28th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2014); Sydney, Australia; 3rd-5th December 2014 p. 1-19
- Rights
- Copyright © 2014 Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Public Service; Double bind; Organisational Change; Autoethnography
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