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Leadership and Management in UK Local Government: A Role for Elected Mayors? (2006)
Journal Article
Fenwick, J., Elcock, H., & McMillan, J. (2006). Leadership and Management in UK Local Government: A Role for Elected Mayors?. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 72(3), 431-447. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852306068026

The paper assesses the impact of the elected executive mayor on leadership and management in UK local government. After exploring the new executive arrangements introduced by the Local Government Act 2000, the three themes of governing, governance an... Read More about Leadership and Management in UK Local Government: A Role for Elected Mayors?.

What Value Knowledge? Gendered Learning in Public Management (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McMillan, J., & Fenwick, J. (2006, April). What Value Knowledge? Gendered Learning in Public Management. Paper presented at International Research Society for Public Management Annual Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University

Barriers to learning: conflicts that occur between and within organisational systems (2006)
Journal Article
Grieves, J., McMillan, J., & Wilding, P. (2006). Barriers to learning: conflicts that occur between and within organisational systems. International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 3(1), 86. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijlic.2006.009212

The paper argues that Organisational Learning (OL), as the underpinning process for Strategic Human Resource Development, has not yet reached a sufficient degree of maturity. This is partly due to an OL literature base that is generally rich in rheto... Read More about Barriers to learning: conflicts that occur between and within organisational systems.

Organizational Learning and Public Sector Management: An Alternative View (2005)
Journal Article
Fenwick, J., & McMillan, J. (2005). Organizational Learning and Public Sector Management: An Alternative View. Public Policy and Administration, 20(3), 42-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/095207670502000305

The public service modernization agenda has directed attention to the problematic questions of how public sector organisations learn, what they learn, and how they fail to learn. This article considers: definitional problems of organisational learnin... Read More about Organizational Learning and Public Sector Management: An Alternative View.

Managers' views of Barriers to Organisational Learning (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McMillan, J., Wilding, P., & van Zwanenberg, N. (2005, May). Managers' views of Barriers to Organisational Learning. Paper presented at 6th International Conference on HRD Research and Practice across Europe, Leeds University

Central Government and Devolution (2004)
Book Chapter
McMillan, J., & Massey, A. (2004). Central Government and Devolution. In Devolution and British Politics (231-250). Prentice Hall (Pearson Education)

Civil Service Reform: from Thatcher to Blair (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McMillan, J. (2002, December). Civil Service Reform: from Thatcher to Blair. Paper presented at Yemeni Civil Service Reform Programme, Northumbria University

Evolution in Britain's Civil Services (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McMillan, J., Rhodes, R., Carmichael, P., & Massey, A. (2002, August). Evolution in Britain's Civil Services. Paper presented at American Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston