scholarly journals A Critical Review of New Public Management Reforms in Korea

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Tobin Im
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
New Public ◽  
Service Charter ◽  
The Way

This paper argues the limits of New Public Management reforms. More precisely, it examines the process of introducing pulic service charters in Korean local governments simply benchmarking fom western countries. Having elaborated two opposing models, the Jupiter and Hercules models, this paper defines public service charter as a reform based on the Hercules model, which goes against Korean public administration based on Jupiter model. From this theoretical viewpoint, I examine the way of introducing this reform and discuss its questionable cost and effectiveness.

scholarly journals Paradigm shift from New Public Administration to New Public Management: theory and practice in Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shikha Vyas-Doorgapersad
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
African Countries ◽  
New Public

The African continent is facing a number of administrative crises. The recent decline of public administration on the continent has forced some African countries to re-assess their governance systems. Their public service reforms are evidence of the emergence of New Public Management (NPM) for improved public sector administrative structures and operations. This article discusses the paradigm shifts from New Public Administration to New Public Management, as a means of meeting public administration challenges in Africa. At a contextual level, the paper examines the practical implementation by some African countries of NPM and the outcomes of NPM-led reform in these countries.Keywords: Public Administration (PA); New Public Administration (NPA); New Public Management (NPM); Public Value Management (PVM); paradigm; paradigm shift; public service reforms; governanceDisciplines: Public Management; Political Science; Sociology; Economics

New Public Administration Understanding and Reform Effects as Products of Neolibal Management Concept

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eray Acar
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Late Period ◽  
New Public ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Management Concept

Globalization has been a process that has deeply and continuously influenced societies and states in the late period of historical development. With neoliberalism, the ideological thought system of the process, all social organizations, especially state apparatus and public administrations, are affected by this process and continue to be affected. This transformation process, supported by its international organizations, has led to the preparation and implementation of reforms in order to adopt a new approach to public administration. This change in public administration has affected both public service understanding and public service delivery. It is a process that aims to provide the citizens/customers satisfaction by offering a faster, more efficient, and high-quality public service along with the new public management understanding. Current practices are questioned and improvements are tried.

scholarly journals New Public Management-based Reform in Bangladesh: A Review of Public Administration Reform Commission

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Shariar Islam
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Service Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Reform Implementation ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
The People ◽  
New Public

This article highlights that Bangladesh has not been able to achieve desired success in implementing Public Administration Reform Commission’s (PARC) new public management (NPM)-driven reform recommendations as there are major challenges such as lack of political commitment, bureaucratic unwillingness to bring about change, lack of advocacy for NPM reform among the people and inefficient public service management. To face the challenges of NPM reform implementation, it is needed to ensure political commitment, bureaucratic support, awareness among the people through government, non-government and social organisations.

An Interpretive-Phenomenological Critique of the Science of (New?) Public Management: A Polemic

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence M Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Technical Rationality ◽  
Executive Level ◽  
General Technical

Public Administration as a field of academic inquiry has faced numerous challenges. Public management scholars focus exclusively on the executive level of management in public organizations. Knowledge possessed by lower-level managers, workers, and/or the public is ignored and deemed to be irrelevant or unimportant in the decision-making process within agencies. In general, technical rationality, or what passes for traditional management practice and the new public management, has had some success for executives and managers in public organizations insofar as motivating individuals for instrumental purposes. (*) The success of public management as a social and political movement makes it difficult to overcome. The concentration of the “public management movement” on the executive level of management has supplanted traditional public administration and public service. It is the ideology of public management that is the primary focus of this paper. Alternatives including the New Public Service and the knowledge analytic will be presented briefly as a counterpoint to address the democratic shortcomings of the public management movement, both new and old.*See Guy B. Adams and V. Ingersoll’s “Culture, Technical Rationality, and Organizational Culture,” in American Review of Public Administration, December 1990, 20/4: 285 – 302, for an excellent elaboration of the concept. In general, technical rationality is an approach to thinking that “has stripped reason of any normative role in shaping human affairs” (Adams and Balfour 1998, xiii).

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Public Management Concepts in Thailand

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaiyanant Panyasiri
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Evolution And Development ◽  
New Public ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
New Public Governance

The main purpose of this article is to explore the competing concepts and perspectives in modern Public Management literatures including: New Public Management (NPM), New Public Governance (NPG) and New Public Service (NPS) and to compare the viability of these concepts toward public sectors of Thailand. The method of study relies mostly on documentary research on influential academic writings from well-known Public Administration theorists. This article explores these modern PA concepts in terms of rationale, assumptions, discursive aspects, evolution and development, strengths and limitations, applicability and so on.The result of the study shows dimensional comparison between various contemporary public management perspectives, including NPM, NPG and NPS in their theoretical backgrounds, perspectives and solutions on public governance in Thailand. Based on the results of the study, to properly adopt these competing modern Public Management concepts, Thailand should pursue a “hybrid” style of public management consisting of all elements from those three modern PA perspectives namely, NPM, NPG and NPS, plus Thai national value of moral and professionalism. The key to the sustainability of Thailand is to retain traditional value that is proven to be relevant and supportive of the responsive and participating form of public governance and to keep up with the postmodernist characteristics of the 21st century.

Decomposing Isomorphism: What Drives Similarity in the Adoption of New Public Management?

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Li ◽  
Ken Chung
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Face ◽  
Primary Form

New public management is a major paradigm in public administration, and its widespread adoption has been explained by institutional theory. However, most studies treat adoption as a discrete event and cannot explain why some organizations are moving away in the face of isomorphic pressure. We investigate three dimensions of isomorphism—convergence, compliance, and commitment—and test their separate effects on interorganizational similarity in adopting private service delivery, a primary form of outsourcing, among U.S. local governments. This study contributes to the literature by demonstrating the multiplicity of isomorphism and by showing how variation occurs in the isomorphic process.

scholarly journals PERJALANAN PANJANG ILMU ADMINISTRASI PUBLIK (DARI PARADIGMA KLASIK MENUJU KONTEMPORER)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Imanuel Jaya
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
New Public

Tulisan ini memberikan gambaran yang jelas mengenai perjalanan panjang ilmu administrasi publik dari waktu ke waktu, di mana akan terlihat pergeseran sudut pandang mengenai posisi pemerintah terhadap masyarakat maupun sebaliknya. Dalam tulisan ini tergambar bagaimana awal mula munculnya konsep administrasi yang secara jelas terpisah dari induknya yaitu ilmu politik hingga paradigma terakhir yaitu New Public Service. Tidak dapat dipungkiri bahwa tulisan ini berakar dari pemikiran Denhardt dan Denhardt (2004) yang termuat dalam bukunya The New Public Service: Serving, Not Steering yang membagi paradigma administrasi publik menjadi 3 (tiga) yaitu Old Public Administration (OPA), New Public Management (NPM), dan New Public Service (NPS) dan tulisan ini juga memuat kritik-kritik terhadap masing-masing paradigmatersebut.

scholarly journals New Public Management (NPM) as an Effort in Governance

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Charity Latanza Indahsari ◽  
Sam'un Jaja Raharja
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
New Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Insight Into

New Public Management (NPM) is an approach in public administration that applies knowledge and experience gained in the world of management and other disciplines to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public service performance in modern bureaucracies. New public management focuses on public sector management that is performance-oriented, not policy-oriented. Based on the results of this study, there were three policies or strategies in the New Public Management (NPM) as an effort in governance, which were the reorganization of public administration, decentralization of partnerships and networks, and innovation. The purpose of making this literature review was to add insight into the New Public Management (NPM) as an effort in governance. The method used in this research was Study Literature Review (SLR), using several articles found in searches on Scopus, which were published in the last five years.

scholarly journals Quality Management in Turkish Public Management: Challenges and Benefits

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Hasan Alpay Karasoy
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public

From the late 1970’s onwards, traditional public administration was criticized because it does not meet the needs of developing and changing new world. Following this critique, a new approach to public administration was proposed under the name of New Public Management. The development of new public management changed the concept of the public service. Accountable, transparent, effective, and efficient services have become the basic principles of management. On the other hand, the term “quality” has also gained popularity in public administration. In this sense, Total Quality Management (TQM) was adopted to develop quality systems in public administration worldwide. Turkey has also adopted that system. In this study, the situation assessment of TQM process in Turkey was made through the presentation of strengths and weaknesses. The literature search is conducted to achieve this aim and it is obtained from the research that since quality management cannot be fully realized, there are some deficiencies in practice and in regulatory. In this context the regulatory process needs to be revised specially in terms of evaluating and auditing.

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