The Transformations of Professions Under New Public Management: The Case of Quebec’s Public Service Engineers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper focuses on the transformative dynamics within the state engineering profession, considering changes in public organizations. It examines New Public Management (NPM)-inspired practices and their influence on the work activity and commitment of engineers in Quebec, Canada. Based on Evetts’ typology of forms of professionalism, the paper aims to shed light on the little-known reality of state engineers and to report on the impacts of NPM-inspired practices on their professional practices and experiences. The results of twenty-one interviews with state engineers highlight the gradual spread of organizational professionalism, which places management at the heart of the process. This paper examines the resulting tensions and paradoxes in professional practices, particularly regarding their autonomy and professional responsibilities. Their work involvement is likely to be affected, especially when administrative tasks distract them from the most significant aspects of their activity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.033 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".