It is the contention of this paper that the nature of the employment relationship (ER) has not been adequately defined in the academic literature and that an understanding of how control is exercised in the ER is needed ...

There is a strange relationship between public service and politics. Public servants work within politics but there have always been attempts to keep politics out of public service. Attempts have been made to keep ...

The employment relationship of local government senior council officers has undergone fundamental changes largely replacing tenured with fixed term contract employment. Many students of public management have argued that ...