This book focuses on the relationship between health sector and industrial relations reforms and the impact these have had on employment relations in Australia since 1990. The book adds to the international literature on New Public Management with a distinctively Australian focus and synthesizes the impact of health sector and industrial relations reforms on health care management and work practices. It illustrates that New Public Management practices have been implemented creatively at both macro and micro levels. The book provides context to the changing work practices in the health care sector.

CAMERON ALLEN Senior Lecturer, Department of Industrial Relations, Griffith University, Australia TIMOTHY BARTRAM Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, School of Business, La Trobe University, Australia MARK BRAY Professor of Employment Studies and Head, Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Australia JEFFREY BRAITHWAITE Director, Centre for Clinical Governance Research and Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Australia STEPHEN DUCKETT Professor of Health Policy and Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia JUDITH DWYER Associate Professor and Head of Department, Health Policy and Management, La Trobe University, Australia RAYMOND HARBRIDGE Dean, Faculty of Law and Management, La Trobe University, Australia RICK IEDEMA Senior Researcher, Centre for Clinical Governance Research and Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Australia CHRISTINE JORM Lead Medical Clinician for Quality, St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia SANDRA G. LEGGAT La Trobe University School of Public Health, Australia PETER NUGUS Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Clinical Governance Research, University of New South Wales, Australia JAN SINCLAIR-JONES Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Faculty of Media, Society and Culture, Curtin University of Technology, Australia SUE STACK Contract Researcher, University of South Australia ALEX DE RUYTER Lecturer, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK KEITH TOWNSEND Lecturer, Department of Industrial Relations, Griffith University, Australia KERRYN WEEKES Practising Medical Scientist in Haematology and Genetics ANNA WHELAN Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Australia NADINE WHITE Lecturer, School of Business and Government, University of Canberra, Australia