Care by the Quarter*

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - population

	"A review of almost 1,000 audits by a professional accounting body has found that about a quarter were substandard."

 

*5ths really - the spiritual and never an after-thought...

When we talk of achieving 'balance', 'leverage', being 'on message' and other c-speak, this is clearly never straightforward.

Source:

Louisa Clarence-Smith, Inspectors find a quarter of audits are substandard, The Times, September 29, 2020, p.42.

See also:

Bloomfield, B. P., & Danieli, A. (1995). THE ROLE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: THE INDISSOLUBLE NATURE OF SOCIO-POLITICAL AND TECHNICAL SKILLS*. Journal of Management Studies, 32(1), 23–46. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.1995.tb00644.x 

Leys, C. (1999). Intellectual Mercenaries and the Public Interest: Management consultancies and the NHS. Policy & Politics, 27(4), 447–465. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557399782218353

Oliver, D. (2014). Stop wasting taxpayers’ money on management consultancy for the NHS. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 349. Retrieved October 9, 2020, from https://www.jstor.org/stable/26519046

Kirkpatrick, I., Sturdy, A J, Alvarado, N, Blanco-Oliver, A and Veronesi, G. ‘The impact of management consultants on public service efficiency’ Policy & Politics: doi.org/10.1332/030557318X15167881150799. 

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/policybristol/PolicyBristol_Briefing_54_2018_management_consultancy_inefficiency_in_the_NHS.pdf

Begley, P., & Sheard, S. (2019). McKinsey and the ‘Tripartite Monster’: The Role of Management Consultants in the 1974 NHS Reorganisation. Medical History, 63(4), 390-410. doi:10.1017/mdh.2019.41

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