Without Affection or Enthusiasm' Problems of Involvement and Attachment in `Responsive' Public Management

The paper focuses on the changing ethical template that programmes of `responsive' or `entrepreneurial' managerial reform require of civil servants. Contemporary demands for responsive public management contain two emotional injunctions to public bureaucrats. The first, derived from populi...

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Vydané v:Organization (London, England) Ročník 15; číslo 3; s. 335 - 353
Hlavný autor: Gay, Paul Du
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: London, England SAGE Publications 01.05.2008
Sage Publications Ltd
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Attachment
Bureaucracy
Bureaucrats
Civil service
Compassion
Cultural differences
Cultural Pluralism
Democracy
Ethics
Government employees
Human Rights
Identification
Injunctions
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Needs assessment
Ownership
Politicization
Politics
Populism
Public administration
Public management
Public Officials
Reforms
Responsiveness
Rules
Studies
Sympathy
enthusiasm
office
ethics
politicization
bureaucracy
responsiveness
ISSN:1350-5084, 1461-7323
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Shrnutí:The paper focuses on the changing ethical template that programmes of `responsive' or `entrepreneurial' managerial reform require of civil servants. Contemporary demands for responsive public management contain two emotional injunctions to public bureaucrats. The first, derived from populist doctrines of political right, requires bureaucrats to be responsive to the needs of their `clients'. In the name of `recognition' and the `politics of care', for example, it is thought vital to inculcate in bureaucratic conduct a sense of `compassion' or close identification with others' feelings. Secondly, in the name of responsiveness to political superiors and the delivery of their policy objectives, bureaucrats are expected to exhibit `ownership' of and identification with particular policies. They are required to be committed champions for and enthusiastic advocates of those policies. Both of these injunctions are deemed to be more in tune with democratic principles and the currents of contemporary ethical culture (`diversity' or `human rights', for example) than what is represented as the unlamented Weberian world of rule-bound hierarchy. The paper seeks to question this assessment.
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ISSN:1350-5084
1461-7323
DOI:10.1177/1350508408088533