1. Current trends in public sector modernisation. - 2. The impacts of public sector modernisation. - 3. The development dynamic of public sector modernisation. - 4. Ten key issues of public sector modernisation. - I. New frontiers in public sector management: trends and issues in State and local government in Europe - Frieder Naschold - 1. Evaluating and monitoring the transformation of the public sector. - 2. Public sector reform trends in the OECD: profiles, processes and effects. - 3. Management by results(MbR) systems: developments, variants and perspectives. - 4. The modernisation of central government. - 5. The modernisation of local government. - 6. The ambivalent future of public sector modernisation. - II. Restructuring labour administration: investigating the finnish experience - Robert Arnkil. - 1. Introduction. - 2. The context: environment and organization. - 3. The 'first wave' of management by results. - 4. Experiences in developmental projects. - 5. Practical experiences: building blocks of further restructuring. - 6. Summary: the key issues of further restructuring. - III. Surpassing functional bureaucracy with management by results: experiences in finnish State administration. - 1. Management as a culturally formed activity system. - 2. Management by results as a solution to the problems of the functional bureaucracy. - 3. Transition to management by results in the finnish road administration (FinnRA). - 4. Management by results in the Ministry of Transport and Communications. - 5. Management by results in the Ministry of Labour. - 6. Increasing flexibility in the Uusimaa district of labour protection. - 7. Creating flexibility and cost consciousness with management by results in the Sibelius Academy. - 8. Issues of criticism and further development of the management by results system.