Challenging Scandinavian employment relations: The effects of new public management reforms

Christian Lyhne Ibsen; Trine Pernille Larsen; Jørgen Steen Madsen; Jesper Jørgen Due

doi:10.1080/09585192.2011.584392

Challenging Scandinavian employment relations: The effects of new public management reforms

Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Trine Pernille Larsen, Jørgen Steen Madsen, Jesper Jørgen Due

Employment Relations Research Centre

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Abstract

Building on the convergence/divergence approach, this paper examines whether recent new public management (NPM) inspired reforms entailing inter alia cutbacks in the public sector, marketisation and management by performance measures have had significant implications for service provision and employment relations in the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish public sector. In this paper, we argue that although differences exist across the Scandinavian countries, it is evident that they have managed to adopt and implement NPM-inspired reforms without dismantling their universal welfare services and strong traditions of collective bargaining in the public sector. However, this restructuring is taking its toll on the work environment.

Translated title of the contribution	Udfordring af skandinaviske arbejdsmarkedsrelationer : effekten af New Public Management reformer
Original language	English
Journal	International Journal of Human Resource Management
Volume	22
Issue number	11
Pages (from-to)	2295–2310
Number of pages	16
ISSN	0958-5192
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2011.584392
Publication status	Published - Jun 2011

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