Corresponding Chair:
Karen Johnston, karen.johnston@port.ac.uk
Description:
In line with the aim of our Special Interest Group and the IRSPM 2020 theme of Smart Public Services, we invite papers that address the following:
- What has been the impact of HRM business models on the public sector?
- How has the career service model changed with the introduction of public sector reforms, transferable HRM business models, and hybrid forms of public service delivery?
- What have been the implications for PS HRM and development, careers, employee relations, leadership, equality and accountability with the introduction of business models, co-governance and public sector austerity?
- What has been the impact of smart working on public sector employees, HRM practices and public sector capacity?
- What HRM practices have been transferred across the globe and what has been the outcome of policy transfers?
- What has been the effects of new modes of public service delivery terms of dialogue/adoption/transfer of practices from the private, non-profit, civil society (e.g. religious organizations) sector to public sector organizations?
We also invite contributions that reflect specifically on whether the HRM paradigm is working in the public sector, with a view to publishing a collection of papers (as a special issue or an edited book). These contributions should address some or all of the following:
(a) The history of HR practice and the HR profession in a country, including the trajectory of institutional responsibilities alongside public management reforms.
(b) The current state of HRM in a country.
(c) An in-depth study of a critical issue, which demonstrates this trajectory and the challenges in the current state of HRM.
(d) Reflection on whether the HRM paradigm is working in a country, and the future of Public Sector HRM.
We welcome new research and a variety of research methodologies from literature reviews, to qualitative and interpretive research, quantitative and positivist research, experimental research, and innovative methodologies.