School of Education and Continuing Studies (SECS)

Profile

Works across two departments – SECS and SSHLS – on the MSc in Education and Training Management and the MA in Public Administration.

• External Examiner Greenwich University
• Visiting professor at Leuven University, Belgium
• Member of Editorial Board of Public Policy and Administration
• Member of the IIAS (EGPA)
• Fellow of the PAC

Teaching Areas  

• Public Sector People Management
• Strategic Management and Change Management
• Public Management
• Comparative Public Administration

Research Interests

Has researched public administration and public management in the British Public Sector since 1979. and presents regular academic papers at conferences on developments in public management in both the UK and Europe. The main focus of the research has been on changes and developments in people management and the transition from traditional personnel management to HRM across the public sector. Has authored and co-edited books and journal articles emanating from the work of the EGPA Personnel Polices Study Group of which she was joint convener from 1992 to 2009. Current research interests are in Leadership, Training and Development and Competency Management in civil service systems and higher education.

Selected Publications

• Public Management in the United Kingdom (with June Burnham) Palgrave) (forthcoming 2011)
•  Staff Participation and Public Management Reform: some international comparisons (with Farnham, D and Hondeghem, A.) (Basingstoke: Palgrave) 2005
• Competency Management in the Public Sector: European variations on a theme (with Hondeghem, A. and Farnham, D.) ( Brussels : IOS) 2002
• Human Resource Flexibilities in Public Services: International Comparisons ( with Farnham, D and Hondeghem, A.), London : Macmillan.2000
• Public Management in Britain (edited with Farnham, D) Basingstoke: Macmillan 1999
• Managing the New Public Services (with Farnham, D.) Basingstoke: Macmillan 1996
• Managing People in the Public Services (with Farnham, D), Basingstoke: Macmillan. 1996

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (since 2005)

• Public Ethics in Britain in Kemal Oktem and Ugur Omurgonulson (Eds) Ethical Issues in Modern Systems of Governance , Ankara : Ankara University Press (forthcoming 20011)
• UK- Survey on Competencies in Government ( Paris : OECD) (2010
• Competencies in People Resourcing in Pilbeam, S and Corbridge, M. People Resourcing: Contemporary HRM in Practice, CIPD ( 2010)
• Evaluation of Leadership Development and Training in the UK Senior Civil Service – The Search for the Holy Grail?  In Raffel J., Leisink, P Leading the Future of the Public Sector Edward Elgar 2009
• Human Resource Management in the Public Sector in Bovaird, T and Loeffler, E. Public Management and Governance Routledge 2009
• History and persistence of an idea and an ideal in Perry, J. and Hondeghem, A. (Eds): Motivation in Public Management: The Call of the Public Service Oxford : Oxford University Press pp 17-32 2008
• The evolution of the British public service ethos: a historical institutional approach to explaining continuity and change (with Waiter Vandenabeele) in Ethics and Integrity of Governance- Perspectives across Frontiers. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar pp 7-24 2008
• Turning Leadership into Performance Management ( with David Farnham) in Koch, R, and Weller, P. (Eds) Public Governance and Leadership . Gabler Edition Wissenschaft Deutscher Universitats-Vertag: Wiesbaden pp 429-455, 2007
• Public Management Reform and Employee Voice in UK Public Services (with Geoff White and David Farnham) in Leisink, P., Steijn, B. and Veersma, U. (Eds) Industrial Relations in the New Europe: Enlargement, Integration and Reform. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar pp211-234 2007
• Competencies in People Resourcing in Pilbeam, S. and Corbridge, M. (Eds) People Resourcing.  FT/Prentice Hall pp 61-88. 2006
• The Contexts of Staff Participation and Public Management Reform in Farnham, Horton and Hondeghem, Staff Participation and Public Management Reform: Some international comparisons Palgrave pp 3-26 2005
• Trajectories, Institutions and Stakeholders in Public Management Reform (with Annie Hondeghem) in Staff Participation and Public Management Reform, Palgrave pp 27-53 2005
• Staff Participation in the Public Service (with D. Farnham) in Farnham, Horton and Hondeghem Staff Participation and Public Management Reform (Palgrave) pp54-79. 2005
• Britain : Staff Participation and Modernization under New Labour (with D Farnham and G White) in Staff Participation and Public Management Reform, Palgrave pp 114-129.2005
• Making Sense of Staff Participation within Public Management Reform (with D Farnham and A Hondeghem) in Staff Participation and Public Management Reform, (Palgrave) pp 263-297. 2005

   

ARTICLES

• Editor of Special Edition of the International Journal of Public Sector Management
• Introduction to the Symposium ‘New Public Management: its impact on Public Servants Identity ’ International Journal of Public Sector Management Vol. 19, No 6 pp533-542. 2006
• Editor Special Edition Public Policy and Administration Public Service Motivation and Commitment Vol. 21, No. 1 Introduction to the Symposium pp 1-12 2006
• The Public Service Ethos in the British Civil Service: an historical institutional analysis Public Policy and Administration Vol. 21, No1 pp 32-48  2005
• Modèles de Gestion des Competénces en Europe (with A Hondeghem and S Scheepers) Revue Francaise D’Administartion Publique No. 116 pp 561-576 2005
• New Directions in Staff Consultation and Communication in the British Civil Service and Prison Service (with Farnham, D and White, G.) Review of Public Personnel Administration Vol. 25, No, 1.pp 69-81 2005