L’organizzazione e il valore sociale del lavoro pubblico tra riforme e crisi pandemica

This paper offers a discussion concerning the social value of the labour in public sector as perceived by the public employees and emerging from some research conducted from 2017 onwards in different sector of the public administration. The issue of public administration has been pertinent given that regulatory and market failures have been attributed to its inefficiencies. The last reforms have changed the public administration and modified the relationship with citizens. In this context, public employees are copying growing difficulty to reconcile their professional ethos with the aims of the public administration.