The Costs of Increased Control: Corporate Management and Australian Community Organisations

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This paper examines aspects of the recent changes to public sector management practices in Australia from the viewpoint of community organisations in the human services sector. Several of the major changes are categorised under the heading of corporate management and links and contrasts are established between this approach to social administration and other traditions in Australia. The paper argues that this new generation of initiatives is overly concerned with establishing tighter forms of direct control over programmes and practitioners in this field to the cost of policy development, diversity of service and programme autonomy. The particular difficulties faced by community organisations are identified and a number of possible directions for progressive change are explored.

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