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Dream on: team work from the confines of the bureaucratic cage

✍ Scribed by Marie McHugh; Hadyn Bennett

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
187 KB
Volume
8
Category
Article
ISSN
1086-1718

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✦ Synopsis

Dream on: team work from the con®nes of the bureaucratic cage

. This paper examines the dif®culties experienced by public sector organizations in their attempts to formulate and implement programmes of strategic change whilst adhering rigidly to an outmoded set of values and inappropriate organizational culture.

. Many public sector organizations have been forced to engage in major programmes of change. Often these programmes which are perceived to be unsettling and disruptive, embrace structural change with team working perceived as the preferred option.

. This paper explores the dif®culties experienced by one Next Steps agency in its attempt to introduce team working as part of its strategic change. More speci®cally, it highlights the problems associated with the introduction of structural change from within the con®nes of the bureaucratic cage.

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