This article aims to provide an initial assessment of the response of the civil service unions to the government′s most recent initiatives on management and working practices in ministerial departments. It considers in particular the Ibbs Report on “Improving Management in Government”, the...

This special edition of IJPSM focuses on the implications of managementreforms for the medical, nursing and allied professions. These health careprofessionals within the public sector have been challenged by change, and arebeing reconfigured by a number of factors, not least political pressures...