Public Money & Management

This PMM theme will concentrate on understanding the short- and long-term impact on economies, organizations and public sector and not-for-profit employees if the present priorities, funding and management models persist in terms of equity, fairness and the wellbeing of societies. Organizations need to do more than examine their efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility, they need to examine the sustainability of the ’hyper lean’ post managerialism logic. We welcome articles that challenge the present entrenched paradigm and instead propose new funding and management logics.

Examples of topics might include:

1. Research at the international and national level that explores the wicked problems related to how societies value particular types of employment and its impact on the funding and management of PSOs (particularly in terms of workforce demand and supply) in delivering public services before the pandemic and projected into the future.
2. Micro-level explorations of public and NFP sector employee experiences with resourcing prior to Covid 19 and their current context and the implications for short- and long-term individual and community wellbeing and sustainability.
3. Articles that explore the wicked problems associated with societal norms that de-value the work undertaken by the caring industry that appears to be impacting the attraction and retention of graduates working in the public and NFP sector.
4. The HRM-wellbeing-performance continuum—a focus on mutual gains.
5. The positive/negative aspects of working from home and how this influences employee wellbeing. Such research might include, but is not limited to, a re-examination of work–life balance, burnout, and work harassment in a work environment consisting of more work from home than prior to the Covid 19 pandemic.
6. The interconnected role of management practices, organizational and personal resources, and employee wellbeing in response to the Covid 19 work environment.
7. The impact of the cognitive dissonance that forms when workplace behaviour does not align with professional values (i.e. when service demand outstrips the supply of the service) and the impact on employee–wellbeing–performance.

Submission instructions

This theme will include research articles (maximum 8,000 words, including references), new development articles (maximum 3,500 words) and debate articles (maximum 1,000 words). Articles that are innovative in their approach, in terms of themes, methods of data collection and theories are especially welcome.

Research articles must be suitable for both academic and reflective practitioner readers and are subject to the same conditions as PMM’s freely submitted articles as explained in PMM’s instructions to authors: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=rpmm20

Authors must submit research and new development articles through ScholarOne: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rpmm

Research articles will be double-blind refereed by both an academic and a practitioner (in the same way as regular submissions to PMM).

Debate articles should be submitted directly to the guest editors, not through ScholarOne.

The deadline for submission of research articles is 31 July 2023. New development and debate articles should be submitted by 30 September 2023.

This PMM theme will concentrate on understanding the short- and long-term impact on economies, organizations and public sector and not-for-profit employees if the present priorities, funding and management models persist in terms of equity, fairness and the wellbeing of societies. Organizations need to do more than examine their efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility, they need to examine the sustainability of the ’hyper lean’ post managerialism logic. We welcome articles that challenge the present entrenched paradigm and instead propose new funding and management logics.

Examples of topics might include:

1. Research at the international and national level that explores the wicked problems related to how societies value particular types of employment and its impact on the funding and management of PSOs (particularly in terms of workforce demand and supply) in delivering public services before the pandemic and projected into the future.
2. Micro-level explorations of public and NFP sector employee experiences with resourcing prior to Covid 19 and their current context and the implications for short- and long-term individual and community wellbeing and sustainability.
3. Articles that explore the wicked problems associated with societal norms that de-value the work undertaken by the caring industry that appears to be impacting the attraction and retention of graduates working in the public and NFP sector.
4. The HRM-wellbeing-performance continuum—a focus on mutual gains.
5. The positive/negative aspects of working from home and how this influences employee wellbeing. Such research might include, but is not limited to, a re-examination of work–life balance, burnout, and work harassment in a work environment consisting of more work from home than prior to the Covid 19 pandemic.
6. The interconnected role of management practices, organizational and personal resources, and employee wellbeing in response to the Covid 19 work environment.
7. The impact of the cognitive dissonance that forms when workplace behaviour does not align with professional values (i.e. when service demand outstrips the supply of the service) and the impact on employee–wellbeing–performance.

This theme will include research articles (maximum 8,000 words, including references), new development articles (maximum 3,500 words) and debate articles (maximum 1,000 words). Articles that are innovative in their approach, in terms of themes, methods of data collection and theories are especially welcome.

Research articles must be suitable for both academic and reflective practitioner readers and are subject to the same conditions as PMM’s freely submitted articles as explained in PMM’s instructions to authors: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=rpmm20

Authors must submit research and new development articles through ScholarOne: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rpmm

Research articles will be double-blind refereed by both an academic and a practitioner (in the same way as regular submissions to PMM).

Debate articles should be submitted directly to the guest editors, not through ScholarOne.

The deadline for submission of research articles is 31 July 2023. New development and debate articles should be submitted by 30 September 2023.

Instructions for AuthorsSubmit an Article