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Author McDermott, Kathy.

Title Whatever happened to frank and fearless? : the impact of the new public service management on the Australian public service / Kathy McDermott.

Publication Info. Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 159 pages)).
Series [ANZSOG series]
ANZSOG (Series)
Note Title from PDF title page (viewed July 16, 2008).
Contents A failure of public administration? -- The regime of contestability -- Individual performance management and assessment and 'assumption cultures' -- Devolution -- Aligning the service: the impact of workplace relations -- To market, to market: outsourcing the public service -- Reforming the reforms?
Summary "In this evidence-based and closely argued work, Kathy MacDermott plots the changes in the culture of the Australian Public Service that have led many contemporary commentators to lament the purported loss of traditional public service values of impartiality, intellectual rigour and, most importantly, the willingness of public servants at all levels to offer frank and fearless advice to their superiors and their ministers. MacDermott brings to her analysis an insider's sensibility and a thorough forensic analysis of the impact of some 20 years of relentless administrative 'reform' on the values and behaviour of the APS. Although this story has its beginnings in the Hawke-Keating eras, MacDermott convincingly argues that structural and cultural change compromising the integrity of the public service reached its apogee towards the end of the eleven years of the Howard government. This is a 'must read' for students of Australian political and administrative history. MacDermott offers cautionary observations that the new national government might do well to heed"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-150).
Note Print version record.
Subject Civil service -- Australia.
Public administration -- Australia.
Australia -- Politics and government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.
Civil service. (OCoLC)fst00862730
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Public administration. (OCoLC)fst01081976
Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543
Added Author Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
ANU E Press.
Other Form: Print version: MacDermott, Kathy. Whatever happened to frank and fearless? Canberra : ANU E Press, 2008 9781921313912 (DLC) 2009367106 (OCoLC)271754772
ISBN 9781921313929 (electronic bk.)
1921313927 (electronic bk.)
9781921313912
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