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The effect of new public management in public servants productivity, the case of Greece.
Introduction
The contemporary socioeconomic conditions and the constantly increasing demands for higher growth rates form the perpetual need to improve the administrative function of the public sector (Aspridis 2013). The implementation of the advanced administrative theories of the new public management and public governance, which represent to a great extent a businesslike approach, defines the transition from the bureaucratic public administration to the effective, flexible, and extrovert public management (Boyle 2006; Goldfinch and Wallis 2009). The case of Greece, due to the peculiar conditions that have been formed under the adverse conjunctures of the economic crisis on the one hand and the chronic malfunction of public administration on the other hand which constitutes an obstacle to the...
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Ioannis, R., Georgios, A., Petros, K., Konstantinos, B. (2018). Human Resource Productivity in Greece. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_608-1
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