Manager and Civil Servant - Inbunden Finns i lager, 430 kr

Manager and Civil Servant

Av Tom Karlsson

Bok- presentation:	Manager and Civil Servant
Författar- presentation:	Tom Karlsson
Inbunden Finns i lager, 430 kr

During more than 30 years, the public sector has been subjected to

increased forms of economification. A general trend of imposing management

techniques within public administration has shifted previous

understandings of how organising and control should be undertaken.

Instances of efficiency and economy have become important, overshadowing

instances of effectiveness and equity. As these instances

play out within public administration dilemmas emerge, which actors

need to make sense of.

In this dissertation, an exploration of actors’ taken-for-granted assumptions

within the Swedish central government is undertaken. More

specifically, actors engaged in public administration within the Swedish

Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan) make out the central

empirical focus. This dissertation contains open-ended interviews, selfadministered

surveys, as well as the use of focus groups as methods for

continuous exploration.

Taking a theoretical stance within institutional theory, the concept

of taken-for-granted assumptions is elaborated and explored in order

to challenge prior knowledge of actors’ understandings and behavioural

alignment. It is argued that such taken-for-granted assumptions

align with social systems, dominating certain contexts. Within public

administration, these social systems are understood as Management

and Civil Service.

It is concluded that dilemmas inherent in public administration are

made sense of in two manners. Firstly on the basis of rejecting the

premises for dilemma and secondly by compartmentalising internal

and external perspectives. The separation of Management from Civil

Service enables actors engaged in public administration to understand

beliefs and practices within contemporary public administration.

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