scholarly journals Kulttuurilaitoksesta valintataloksi – yleisen kirjastolaitoksen institutionaaliset tehtävämäärittelyt ja niiden kehitys Suomen itsenäisyyden aikana

2017 ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Jarmo Saarti ◽  
Pirjo Tuomi
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Market Place ◽  
The Public ◽  
Library System ◽  
Public Role ◽  
New Public

From civic educator to a market place - the institutional definitions of the public libraries’ tasks and its development during the Finnish independence The development of the Finnish public library system can be divided into four phases. During the first two, the Swedish reign and the period of the Autonomy, the library was mainly for the upper classes and for the academic use. The trend to strengthen the library as a key actor in the educational system of the newborn independent Finland meant that the public library became an institution. This started to break down from the 1990’s onward with the implementation of the new public management techniques and with the integration of the library system as one of the key players in the information society development. The paper discusses the role of the Finnish library system in the system of the fictional literature and analyses the changes that have happened during the Finnish history. Keywords: public libraries, policies, institutional role, public role

scholarly journals APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT TO MEASURE THE PERFORMANCE IN EDUCATION – VALUE FOR MONEY

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-57
Author(s):  
Jana Štrangfeldová ◽  
Štefan Hronec ◽  
Jana Hroncová Vicianová ◽  
Nikola Štefanišinová
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Comprehensive Measurement

Education is a key area, the results of which play an important role in the development of each society. The role of education focused on the inclusion of children into school groups, to prepare students to enter the labour market or continue their studies in the context of tertiary education is a sufficient argument to enable beginning to look for answers and possible solutions to the difficult question of the quality of schools. Constant pressure from the public forces them to monitor and improve the provision of public services, and continually enhance their own performance in order to achieve long-term existential security. These facts consequently require a comprehensive measurement of their performance. This opens up opportunities for applying the concept of Value For Money based on the principles of New Public Management. The purpose of the scientific study is to show the potential uses of Value for Money on the example of education. The suggestion of methodology of VFM to measure the performance in education presented in this study shows possibilities to measure, evaluate, monitor and achieve necessary and especially relevant information about the situation of education and subsequent decision-making not only for public forces, but also, it can be the suitable tool for public grammar schools themselves. The article is co-financed by the project VEGA 1/0651/17.

Does Citizens’ Self-Identification of Their Public Role Affect Their Satisfaction with Public Services?

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-100
Author(s):  
Hemin Choi ◽  
Jong Seon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Role ◽  
New Public ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Service Expectations ◽  
Manova Analysis

This study investigates how citizens define their role qua citizen and how the public role they assign themselves matters in their assessment of satisfaction with public service performance. We compared survey respondents who identified their citizen role as customer (n=280), partner (n=353) or owner (n=467) to test this relation. Theoretically, the dominance of New Public Management (NPM) scholarship has resulted in the framing of citizens as simply customers, but our empirical study finds that citizens consider themselves more as partners or owners of government. This mismatch in conception was our research hypothesis for further research. We then ran a number of t-tests and carried out a MANOVA analysis, the results of which indicate that there is a significant difference between the customer and partner groups regarding expectations and satisfaction on the quality of their living area but not regarding performance. There is also evidence that shows that the role citizens assign to themselves is related to their public service expectations but that the connection between their view of their role and their assessment of performance is weak.

HRM and the New Public Management

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Bach ◽  
Ian Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Service Organizations ◽  
New Public

As human resource management (HRM) has developed as a field of study, the attention paid to public sector employment relations has been relatively limited. The preoccupation with the link between HR practice and corporate performance has been less applicable to public service organizations that are answerable to a range of stakeholders and in which HR policy has been geared to ensuring political accountability. There has been a recognition that the public sector confronts fiscal and political pressures that are altering HR practice. However, this observation has rarely been backed up by a sustained focus on people management in the public sector. This limited attention arises from characteristics of the sector. Defining the public sector is not straightforward because there are differences between countries in terms of the size, scope, and role of the sector.

Dismantling Democratic States

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 506-507
Author(s):  
Chris Painter
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Political Values ◽  
The Public ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
New Public ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
The Public Sphere

Dismantling Democratic States, Ezra Suleiman, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2003, pp. 327.At the heart of this comparative text is a fundamental critique of the substitution of the norms of the market place for those of collective public interest. As citizens are transformed into ubiquitous consumers, so the reinvention of government raises profound questions about the public domain and its role. To this extent, the New Public Management (NPM) is a vehicle for a deeper ideological program, differentiating it from earlier reform endeavours. However, Suleiman contends it is a global movement very much constrained by cultural contexts. The reluctance of countries such as France or Japan to implement far-reaching reforms reflects deeply embedded socio-cultural and political values that underpin the public sphere, unlike prevalent values in the United States.

scholarly journals Trends in Public Administration after Hegemony of the New Public Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-218
Author(s):  
Pedro Luiz Cavalcante
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Current Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
New Public

The paper’s goal is to advance at understanding of the public management framework after decades of administrative reform under the New Public Management (NPM) hegemony. Based on a broad literature review, the paper maps trends in terms of principles and guidelines and indicates that post-NPM is a process of continuity rather than a disruption with the previous paradigm. The implementation processes of the management trends, as well as in the NPM, are presented in different ways, varying according to the context and institutional framework of each government. The article concludes that the most emblematic characteristic of the contemporary public administration is the prevalence of the governance phenomenon that, in different formats, encompasses most of the post-NPM principles and guidelines discussed in the literature. In this sense, the return of the State and the bureaucracy as protagonists is emphasized, however, far from the traditional hierarchical standard. The current role of the civil service focus on the direction of interdisciplinary skills, collaborative capacities, increasing accountability to society, as well as leadership with interactive components.

scholarly journals The Greatest Good Place: The role of the public library in the development of successful cities, and the relationship between public library contributions and planning policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Kluke
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Public ◽  
Library System ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This paper explores the changing role of the public library, and determines its impacts on communities and cities. It also examines the relationship between libraries and planning policies, and the extend to which they inform the success of public libraries. The analysis centres on the design of modern public libraries, and the community and economic contributions they provide. Through analyses of the Vancouver Public Library, the Seattle Public Library, and the Toronto Public Library, it is evident that public libraries provide significant contributions within the communities they serve. Well-designed library buildings provide an important public space, and provide people with access to information and technology needed to participate in the knowledge economy, in turn producing significant economic gains for the city. This research finds that planning policy alone is unable to ensure the success of a city`s public library system. Support from the public and municipal leaders, combined with strong policy directives, is needed for a city`s public library system to succeed.

scholarly journals The Greatest Good Place: The role of the public library in the development of successful cities, and the relationship between public library contributions and planning policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Kluke
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Public ◽  
Library System ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This paper explores the changing role of the public library, and determines its impacts on communities and cities. It also examines the relationship between libraries and planning policies, and the extend to which they inform the success of public libraries. The analysis centres on the design of modern public libraries, and the community and economic contributions they provide. Through analyses of the Vancouver Public Library, the Seattle Public Library, and the Toronto Public Library, it is evident that public libraries provide significant contributions within the communities they serve. Well-designed library buildings provide an important public space, and provide people with access to information and technology needed to participate in the knowledge economy, in turn producing significant economic gains for the city. This research finds that planning policy alone is unable to ensure the success of a city`s public library system. Support from the public and municipal leaders, combined with strong policy directives, is needed for a city`s public library system to succeed.

scholarly journals Moderniseringsprogrammet, 1983: resultatstyring version 1.0.

Politik ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Gjørling ◽  
Caroline Howard Grøn
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Management By Objectives ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public

The article explores the role of management by objectives in the modernization programme of 1983, which started the development of New Public Management in Denmark. e article is based on an interview with the civil servant who back in 1983 served as secretary for the committee who developed the programme, as well as previous versions of the programme made available to the authors. e article concludes that man- agement by objectives entered the programme almost incidentally and that the programme is much more focused on setting the public sector free with regards to inputs than controlling it with regard to outputs. 

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