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NPM is dead, long live NPM: The strategic shift in public sector discourse

2016

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Four Ideal Type Organizational Responses To NPM Reforms and Some Consequences---2005.pdf

With its dual focus on service and accountability, New Public Management (NPM) accentuates the inherent tension between the logics of service and accountability respectively in local public administration. The present article explores, from an organization theory perspective, possible organizational responses to tensions created by the introduction of NPM. The article identifies four possible ideal-type organizational responses to NPM. First, paralysis, whereby unresolved conflict leads to a stand-off situation between management and staff. Second, ritualistic decoupling, in the sense of decoupling between espoused and enacted practices. Third, loose coupling between functions and individuals. Fourth, organic adaptation, whereby the tension is handled constructively through internal structural and cultural differentiation. Possible causes and consequences of each of these responses for management are discussed.

INVITED EDITORIAL The UK NPM Reforms

The United Kingdom was a "vanguard state" for experimentation with administrative reforms that came to be known as the New Public Management or NPM strategies aiming market orientation of the public sector. After three decades, what results has NPM produced in the UK? This is a review of a research report by Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon, who tries to explain maladministration and judicial challenges to nUK government actions.

The new public management: Improving research and policy dialogue

2001

on NPM can make a genuine contribution to our understanding of public management and public sector reform. The essential theme is that to improve our thinking and research on NPM, it is necessary to define and structure more carefully the dialogue and methodological approaches we use to engage in this effort. To do this, Barzelay suggests a framework within which more meaningful dialogue can take place.

New Public Management (NPM) as an Effort in Governance

Jurnal Manajemen Pelayanan Publik

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.

Analysing NPM-inspired Public Sector Reforms

This paper discusses NPM-inspired public sector reforms in Finland and analyses bus services as an example. It seems that most of the reforms in OECD countries are framed by loosely defined NPM doctrine, thus emphasising such institutional arrangements and measures as downsizing, privatisation, corporatisation, outsourcing and competitive tendering. Nordic countries are not exceptions to this trend, even if they seem to adopt a kind of mixed strategy of traditional and NPM-inspired reforms. In this paper Finland is used as ...

The Rise and Demise of the New Public Management

post-autistic economics review, 2005

Within the public sphere, the most important reform movement of the last quarter of a century has been the New Public Management (NPM). It is of particular interest in the post-autistic economics (pae) context because NPM largely rests on the same ideology and epistemology as standard textbook economics (STE) is based (on my take on this, see Drechsler 2000), and it has had, and still has, similar results. Already more on the defensive within public administration (PA) than STE is within economics, NPM also shows that such major paradigm shifts in theory and policy may actually happen. In addition, it occasionally appears that pae-oriented scholars have overlooked the fact that some features in public management reform, state organization, and the economic interpretation of state functions that they advocatefrom "Good Governance" to "efficiency" as a goal in itself -actually belong into the "other camp" and by and large have a disastrous effect on "industrial" and "developing" countries alike, although the consequences for the latter are much more severe.

New Public Management (NPM): A dominating paradigm in public sectors

African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 2015

New Public M a n a g e m e n t (NPM) s y s t e m h a s been the dominant p a r a d i g m i n public administration theory and practice since 1980s, having its affinity with markets and private sector management as the old administrative model has been under severe criticisms for its inability to deliver goods and services to the people. NPM is depicted as a normative conceptualization totally different in many ways from traditional public administration, providing services that citizens value to increase the autonomy of public managers and rewarding organizations and individuals to enhance the efficiency of public sector production. This paper focuses on the introductory discussion of the NPM system which has replaced the traditional public administration system and analysis of the trends, rationales and scope of reforms of the public sector in Bangladesh and African countries. The paper is based on archival research, where secondary data sources have been used and methodological filter was applied to confine the literature. New Public Management (NPM) is a different paradigm of public management that puts forward a different relationship between governments, the public service and the public.