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Privatization and Its Challenges for Human Resource Management in the Public Sector

Symposium Introduction

University of Texas at Dallas, battaglio{at}utdallas.edu

During the past three decades, extensive reforms have challenged public management by advocating private sector innovation as a more efficient alternative. New public management, the National Performance Review, and other market-based reforms champion private sector innovation as a means for improving accountability and quality of service in the public sector. Privatization is a key component of these reforms that takes advantage of private sector economy in the delivery of public services. Drawing from case studies and current research, the articles in this symposium issue offer new and valuable insights into the dynamics and details of outsourcing the human resource function in the public sector. This introduction provides readers with a synopsis of the contributions to this symposium and urges further research avenues in the wake of findings presented here.

Key Words: privatization • civil service reform • outsourcing • public human resources

Review of Public Personnel Administration, Vol. 29, No. 3, 203-206 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X09339297


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