Management development has become an important part of the debate over reforms of public services in the UK and Ireland since the early 1980s. The argument was that the crisis of public sector delivery was not one of resources, but of the management of available resources. Thus management became...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine how the labour process of further education lecturers has changed as a result of legislative reforms introduced in the early 1990s. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on labour process theory and emergent perspectives on “the...