Job Centre Management and Organisation
– First-Year Experience of the Joint Job Centres

This study looks at the new Danish Joint Job Centres, which are the most widespread, but also, because of their particular form of organisation, the most debated. The Joint Job Centres have bipartite manage­ment and are responsible to their two separate parent organisations, and their employees are appointed either by the local authority or by the state.

The study is based on the experience of the Joint Job Centres in their first year following the Danish structural reform, i.e. 2007. How have the centres organised themselves? Have the two earlier systems approached each other? How does the bipartite management work? Is there a link between manage­ment, organisation and the results in the new structure constituted by the Joint Job Centres?