Jaana Pirkkalainen, Ph.D., project manager
Email: jaana.pirkkalainen@helsinki.fi
Tel.: +358 9 191 44251
Mobile: +358 50 541 5442
Postal address:
Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research
P.O. Box 26
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
Current Activities
The project - Options of privatization and shared responsibility: organization of work and mastery of change in new hybrids of private and public sectors - is financed by the Finnish Ministry of Labour and it is a part of a large scale undertaking by the Ministry called Workplace Development Programme(Työelämän kehittämisohjelma www.tykes.fi). The three-year project started at the beginning of November in 2004.
This project has two-folded objective. First we aim to examine theoretical questions that the so-called hybrids impose on activity theory and especially on developmental work research. Secondly the project includes developmental interventions aimed at creating and testing practical tools for understanding and developing these new hybrid forms of organisations and work.
Public-private partnerships (PPP) and so-called purchaser-provider split are ways of creating hybrids in the realm of public sector. These new ways of financing infrastructure and producing services mean also changes in governing and policies practiced within public sector and of course they have an effect on employment contracts.
All these practical transformations can be seen changing the positions of different agents in the field. And by doing that they also can change the ethos or motivation of employees, the culture in organisations, even change the identities of employee. In short the creation of different forms of public-private-partnering creates intense challenges for political, administrative and managerial systems within public sector.
Also in private sector different hybrid forms of organizing work are being developed. Hybridity is created by outsourcing personnel management, maintenance of information technology, quality control and even r&d. Merges and other means of market concentration create both intra- and intercultural hybrids. Also co-configurative type of work can be seen as a form of hybrid organisation.
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