Performance mechanisms meet professional autonomy: performance management and professional discretion within police investigation departments

As with other parts of the public sector, policing has had to confront the principles and processes attached to new public management. This paper examines the impact of police performance management on the ‘occupational professionalism’ of British policing actors with a particular focus on organisat...

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Authors: Maillard, Jacques de 1972- (Author) ; Savage, Stephen P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Policing and society
Year: 2022, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 145-158
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