Understanding the meaning of politicisation of hte employment relationship through historical analysis

Spooner, KB; Haidar, A

Understanding the meaning of politicisation of hte employment relationship through historical analysis

Spooner, KB Haidar, A

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Publisher:: Pacific Employment Relations Association
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference - Workforce Planning in times of Crisis and Change, 2010, pp. 155 - 167
Issue Date:: 2010-01

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dc.contributor.author	Spooner, KB	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Haidar, A	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Barrett, S	en_US
dc.date	2009-11-17	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of the 9th Annual Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference - Workforce Planning in times of Crisis and Change, 2010, pp. 155 - 167	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-9808444-0-5	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/16648
dc.description.abstract	For more than one hundred years, Australian governments have supported the principle that the employment relationship of public servants should be independent of direct control by politicians. In recent decades, concern has been expressed that the independence of public servants has been undermined and that they have become politicised. Scholarly examination of the issue has been somewhat limited by the absence of a clear definition of what is meant by politicisation, with the term being associated both with the exercise of control over the human resource management (HRM) elements of the relationship as well as the tasks performed by public servants. The purpose of this paper is to establish a valid definition of politicisation through historical analysis of the patronage and the independent civil service systems of employment.	en_US
dc.publisher	Pacific Employment Relations Association	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the 9th Annual Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference - Workforce Planning in times of Crisis and Change	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Annual Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference	en_US
dc.title	Understanding the meaning of politicisation of hte employment relationship through historical analysis	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location	Adelaide, Australia	en_US
utslib.location.activity	Adelaide, Australia	en_US
utslib.for	150306 Industrial Relations	en_US
dc.location.activity	Adelaide, Australia	en_US
dc.location.activity	ISI:000284389500018
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
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pubs.place-of-publication	Adelaide, Australia	en_US
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Abstract:

For more than one hundred years, Australian governments have supported the principle that the employment relationship of public servants should be independent of direct control by politicians. In recent decades, concern has been expressed that the independence of public servants has been undermined and that they have become politicised. Scholarly examination of the issue has been somewhat limited by the absence of a clear definition of what is meant by politicisation, with the term being associated both with the exercise of control over the human resource management (HRM) elements of the relationship as well as the tasks performed by public servants. The purpose of this paper is to establish a valid definition of politicisation through historical analysis of the patronage and the independent civil service systems of employment.

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