ABSTRACT

Voluntary Organizations and Public Sector Delivery examines how aspects of voluntary sector employment are affected by its engagement with the growing trend to the market-based outsourcing in the delivery of public services within industrialized countries. The volume draws together a team of well-recognized academic contributors from the UK, Canada, Australia and the United States to explore how the process of outsourcing is impacting the internal and external labor markets of voluntary organizations, and the implications for the policy objectives underlying the externalization of the delivery of public services to them.

These themes of change in employment are covered in depth in the UK with dedicated chapters exploring, workforce patterns and skill needs, HR policies and practices, recruitment and selection, graduate recruitment, unionization, pay and conditions and psychological contracts in organizations. The book also contains a significant international comparative dimension with individual chapter analysis of employment issues in Australia, Canada and the United States, as well as an Anglo-German comparison.

part I|11 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|10 pages

Outsourcing and Voluntary Sector Employment

Understanding the Connections

part II|57 pages

Policy and Labour Market Contexts

chapter 2|22 pages

Outsourcing and the Voluntary Sector

A Review of the Evolving Policy Landscape

part III|49 pages

Employment Policies and Practices

chapter 5|15 pages

Shaping HRM in the Voluntary Sector

The Influence of Government

chapter 6|16 pages

‘We Could Take on the World if We Had the Space'

Understanding Graduate Recruitment Problems in the Voluntary Sector

chapter 7|17 pages

Recruiting for Values in Charitable Organisations

A Comparative Perspective

chapter 8|13 pages

Outsourcing in British Social Care

Its Implications for Worker Security

chapter 9|17 pages

Taking the Strain?

The Psychological Contract of Voluntary Sector Employees Following Transfers of Employment

chapter 10|15 pages

Beyond National ‘Varieties'

Public-Service Contracting in Comparative Perspective

chapter 11|17 pages

Restructuring and Labour Processes under Marketisation

A Canadian Perspective

chapter 13|21 pages

Contracting with Voluntary Service Agencies in the USA

Implications for Employment and Professionalisation

chapter V|15 pages

Conclusions

chapter 14|14 pages

Public Service Delivery and the Voluntary Sector

Trends, Explanations, and Implications