scholarly journals Measuring performance of invasive plant eradication efforts in New Zealand

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Holloran
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measures ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Invasive Plant ◽  
Seed Banks ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
New Public ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Site Population

New Zealands Biosecurity Act 1993 which has enabled local governments to pursue eradication of 69 different invasive plant taxa is strongly influenced by new public management doctrine and its emphasis on specific management objectives annual plans and performance measures Data to support meaningful eradication performance measures are still rare despite such requirements It can take several decades to achieve eradication since seed banks and other factors often complicate invasive plant eradication efforts Since eradication of all sites is often preceded by the gradual elimination of some infestations evaluating trends in site status (whether aboveground plants are present or absent) and site population size (based on complete censuses) may help biosecurity staff to evaluate progress improve eradication efforts and communicate their successes These performance measures are illustrated using a 7year dataset from Raoul Island

scholarly journals “Deliverology” and Evaluation: A Tale of Two Worlds

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Birch ◽  
Steve Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Innovative Method ◽  
New Public ◽  
Permanent Campaign ◽  
And Performance ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Political Governance ◽  
Evidence Based Decision Making

In recent years, the new political governance, a partisan model that contributes to a permanent campaign, gained ground in public organizations. In this new context, “deliverology” is portrayed as an innovative method to help governments implement new policies and deliver on election promises. This article presents the similarities and diff erences that exist between “deliverology” and evaluation. Is deliverology really something new or is it another case of old wine in a new bottle? Is deliverology a substitute for or, instead, a complement to institutionalized evaluation? To what extent does new political governance (exemplified by deliverology and performance measurement) undermine evidence-based decision making? What is the value-added of deliverology? These questions are addressed through a critical reflection on deliverology and its value-added in Canada, where evaluation became institutionalized in many departments and agencies under the influence of results-based management, promoted by the advocates of new public management over four decades.r four decades.

Electronic Service Delivery in the Local Indian Community of Visakhapatnam

2011 ◽  
pp. 664-669
Author(s):  
V. Venkatakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Indian Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Electronic Service ◽  
New Public ◽  
Managing For Results ◽  
And Performance

New public management (NPM) conceptualised public administration as a business, to be managed with business-like techniques. Since services had to be assessed by the criteria of quality, efficiency, and satisfaction of citizens, the public sector had to reorganize its processes. As strong emphasis was on the services, improving their delivery was expected to facilitate achieving the above criteria. The terms of the NPM approach such as “customer focus, managing for results, and performance management” have become part of the standard language of public administration (Ali, 2001; Bekkers & Zouridis, 1999; Crossing Boundaries, 2005; Spicer, 2004).

scholarly journals Nursing in Times of Neoliberal Change: An Ethnographic Study of Nurses’ Experiences of Work Intensification

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Selberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Care Work ◽  
New Public ◽  
Work Intensification ◽  
And Performance

Through an ethnographic study of nurses’ experiences of work intensification, this article shows how nurses respond to and act upon neoliberal transformations of work. The article identifies and explores those transformations considered by the informants, nurses working in public sector hospital wards, as central to changing conditions of work and experiences of work intensifications. It further analyzes nurses’ responses toward these transformations and locates these responses within a particular form of femininity evolving from rationalities of care, nurses’ conditions within the organization, and classed and gendered experiences of care work. The article illustrates that in times of neoliberal change and public sector resource depletion, nurses respond to women’s traditional caring responsibilities as well as to professional commitments and cover for the organization. Maintaining the level of frontline service is contingent on increased exploitation and performance control of ward nurses, and their ability and willingness to sacrifice their own time and health for the sake of their patients. The article argues that in the case of ward nurses in the Swedish public sector, work intensification is a multilayered process propelled by three intersecting forces: austerity ideology linked to the neoliberal transformation of the welfare state and public sector retrenchment; explicit care rationalities impelled by aspirations of the nursing profession to establish, render visible, and expand the nursing field both in relation to the medical profession and in relation to so-called unskilled care work performed by assistant nurses and auxiliaries; and the progressive aspect of New Public Management, which challenges the power and authority of the professions and contributes to strengthening the positions of clients and patients.

scholarly journals Put your money where your mouth is - participatory budgeting in Romanian cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 338 ◽  
pp. 303-312
Author(s):  
Nicolae Urs
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
New Public ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
The Government

Almost 40 years ago, New Public Management theorists reserved an increasingly important role for citizens and civil society in the policy making process. This trend continued afterwards with proponents of Digital Era Governance or New Public Service theories. But without the opportunity of taking decisions on how to spend at least some parts of the government money, the influence of citizens and NGOs is fairly limited. Local governments, as the institutions closer to the needs and wishes of the communities, have gradually taken note of the increasing clamor for more power and transparency. Participatory budgeting processes have sprung up all over the world in the last years. Romania is no exception; a number of cities have implemented platforms that allow their citizens to propose and vote on projects to improve the quality of life in their communities. Our research will try to ascertain the level of success such initiatives have in Romania, a country with a generally low level of civic engagement. For this, we will use questionnaires and interviews with public servants in charge of these platforms.

scholarly journals Implementation of New Public Management Concept in Budget Preparation in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
Yuwin Ali ◽  
Haliah Haliah
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measures ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Main Difficulty ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Management Application ◽  
Management Concept

New Public Management (NPM) is an umbrella concept that men aungi range of meanings that organizational design and management, application of economic institutions over the management of the public and policy patterns. Implements concept of New Public Management in the preparation of the Budget in Indonesia a show a positive development, the effect on improving the performance of government, namely the implementation of the Performance-Based Budgeting. But the main difficulty in implementing performance-based budgets is the difficulty of agreeing on appropriate performance measures. Measuring an activity or output is easier than determining the size of the expected results or outcomes.

scholarly journals Customer-Oriented Public Service in Township Administration: Enabling Quick Response

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui-Fun Yu ◽  
Kuo-Yan Wang ◽  
Chun-Ying Shen
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Quick Response ◽  
Lighting System ◽  
Street Lighting ◽  
Office Management ◽  
New Public ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys

The quality reliability and maintenance of a street lighting system are highly related to society, which reflect the administrative performance of a local government. However, the existing published studies seldom discuss the specific civil customer-oriented street lighting system, which is the key factor of both the local administration performance indicators and resident’s satisfaction. This study proposes a management conclusion based on an empirical electronic street lighting system (ESLS) and the 280 resident questionnaire surveys in Taiwan. The implication of the existing perspective on management concept is that electronic governance (e-governance) systems emerging in Eastern Europe are going to meet the needs of local governments in terms of the experience level of townships that practice e-governance in Taiwan. KEYWORDS: • electronic governance • e-governance • quick response • township office management • new public management • NPM

scholarly journals Evidence-based Nursing in the IED: From Caring to Curing?

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jette Ernst
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
New Public ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Nursing Career

Danish hospitals are major sites of healthcare reform, and new public management accountability and performance management tools have been applied to improve the quality and efficiency of services. One consequence of this is that nurses’ work in hospitals is increasingly standardized through medical evidence. Using Bourdieu’s theory of practice in combination with an ethnographic field study, it is analyzed how the nurses of a Danish Integrated Emergency Department respond to the changing conditions of work. It is illuminated how two opposing approaches to nursing of humanistically and pluralistically oriented caring, and evidence-based scientifically oriented curing inform nursing in the department. The curing approach is however trumping the caring approach. Curing creates new nursing career pathways and is by some nurses embraced with enthusiasm. For others, the new situation creates tension and distress. It is illustrated how the nurses position their practice in relation to the changing working conditions taking sides for either curing or caring, or finding a way to maneuver in between the two. The article argues that the normative enforcement of the curing approach may carry unintended side effects to the goals of quality and efficiency enhancements.

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