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Journal of Organizational Change ManagementNew public management (NPM) refers to an ideology that underpinned public sector reform of the 1980s and 1990s (Hood, 1991; Pollitt &#38; Bouckaert, 2004; 2011; Dieffenbach, 2009).  At its core was a problematisation of existing public sector institutional forms and operations for which the solution was establishing organizational arrangements within state bureaucracies that could be subjected to modern management as practiced in the private sector (Brunsson, 2012).  Central to this are the ideas of steering, effectiveness, and efficiency, which proponents of NPM argue improve public administration by increasing accountability and productivity. Organizational change arising from NPM tended to be around structure, culture, strategy processes, and strategy content (Ashworth, et al., 2009). Some examples of these changes include the development of internal market-like competition, casualisation of employment, and the contracting-out of services in public hospitals, schools, and public transport.Despite the sizeable theoretical arguments in support of NPM-inspired change, empirical research has not always produced results supporting the anticipated desirable and expected outcomes. Rather than improving performance, change seems to create stressful environments for employees, especially when there are reductions in government funding support and tighter government requirements to do more with less. It can be argued that this has potentially significant deleterious effects on employee well-being which might in-turn negatively influence recruitment and retention. For example, research on higher education reform suggests that wide and deep changes to the forms and cultures of universities resulting from NPM-inspired change have had substantial impacts on employees in the sector.  These effects include increased job insecurity and stress (Chandler et al., 2000). Furthermore, Conley (2002) showed that civil servants had more temporary contracts and related job insecurity as a result of NPM reforms. (...)Lire la suite : http://www.emeraldinsight.com/authors/writing/calls.htm?id=4762Deadline: 30 novembre 2013