Public Service Management and Employment Relations in Europe

"The dynamics of employment relations in the wake of the financial crisis have become an issue of major political and social concern, nowhere more than so than in the public sector. As this outstanding collection of essays from leading scholars in the field demonstrates, public service employment relations in Europe have been profoundly influenced by the crisis, but in divergent, distinctive and quite different ways. By comparing and contrasting the experience of European countries, this book lays out the challenges facing policy-makers, public managers and employees as they seek to make sense of the new post-crisis environment. Highly recommended." Rhys Andrews, Cardiff University, UK "... we highly recommend this volume to everyone interested in the public sector and its employment relations, in particular to all scholars, practitioners and politicians who like to think beyond national boxes and are interested in evidence-based substantiation of their decisions on the public sector." - Werner Schmidt and Andrea Mu ller, Research Institute for Work, Technology and Culture, Tubingen, Transfer: The European Review of Labour and Research "This is a terrific book. Anyone interested in developments in labor relations or political economy in the public sector in Europe and elsewhere will want to read it." - Harry C. Katz, Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining, Director, Scheinman Institute, ILR School, Cornell University "I highly recommend this anthology to everyone interested in the public sector and employment relations. The book is relevant for scholars, practitioners, politicians and students of political science, employment relations, HRM and public administration. The book looks beyond the traditional national case study and provides an important account of post-crisis Europe without neglecting past traditions and institutions." - LAUST HGEDAHL

Stephen Bach is Professor of Employment Relations at Kings College London, UK. Lorenzo Bordogna is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Milan, Italy.

1. Emerging From the Crisis: The Transformation of Public Sector Employment Relations? Stephen Bach and Lorenzo Bordogna 2. Greece Public Service Employment Relations: Adjustment and Reforms Christos A. Ioannou 3. Spain Rationalization without Modernization: Public Service Employment Relations under Austerity Oscar Molina 4. Italy The Uncertainties of Endless Reform: Which Public Service Employment Relations after Austerity? Lorenzo Bordogna 5. France The Crisis Speeds Up Public Service Reform and Adjustment Catherine Vincent 6. Britain Contracting the State: Public Service Employment Relations in a Period of Crisis Stephen Bach 7. The Netherlands The Economic Crisis Spurs Public Service and Employment Relations Reform Peter Leisink 8. Germany Retrenchment before the Great Recession and its Lasting Consequences Berndt Keller 9. Denmark and Sweden The Consequences of Public Service Reform and Economic Crisis for Public Service Employment Relations Mikkel Mailand and Nana Wesley Hansen 10. Hungary Public Service Management and Employment Relations in Europe: Emerging from the Crisis? Imre Szab 11. Czechia and Slovakia Facing Austerity through Collective Action: Economic Crisis and Public Service Employment Relations Marta Kahancov and Monika Martikov