The New Public Management: The future for reforms in the African water supply and sanitation sector?

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaas Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

scholarly journals Velferdsteknologi – fremtidens helsevesen med eller uten omsorg?

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Stine Hauvik ◽  
Solfrid Vatne
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
Welfare Technology ◽  
Communicative Discourse

Welfare technology - healthcare in the future with or without care? In the future, it will be a challenge to maintain today’s quality of care. Welfare technology may be a solution to reduce the expected care crisis. The public healthcare system is influenced by New Public Management ideals as” what can we afford? rather than “what are the patients` need”. Questions concerning patients’ rights and healthcare providers’ moral obligation seem to be less important. In the discussion Martinsen criticizes that caring has become a secondary term where patients` have less power. To increase the patient’s user involvement, Habermas suggests communicative discourse as a solution to the discrepancy between the public healthcare systems focus on earnings, and the patients’ need for care. 

Documentality and legitimacy in future libraries – an analytical framework for initiated speculation

2015 ◽  
Vol 116 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 4-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joacim Hansson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Degree

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to contribute to a discussion about the future of librarianship. Design/methodology/approach – An analytical framework is used to discuss the future of libraries. The framework is based on current trends in contemporary librarianship and is used as a way of structuring predictions about the future of librarianship. Special attention is given to public libraries and academic libraries. Findings – Libraries are seen moving from a traditional situation with a high degree of constitutive documentality and internal legitimacy with collections in focus to one with a high degree of performative documentality and external legitimacy, with adjustment to user needs as the prime goal. This development is related to the emergence of New Public Management and can be seen both in public and academic libraries. It is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. Originality/value – The analytical framework and concepts used are originally developed for this text and prove to be valuable tools in fulfilling the purpose of the article. It represents a new and original way of discussing the future of libraries.

"Jedes starre Konzept ist schlecht und passt net' in diese Welt"

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (148) ◽  
pp. 369-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer ◽  
Ariadne Sondermann ◽  
Olaf Behrend
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Public Employment Service ◽  
New Public ◽  
Recent Reform ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
New Procedures

The recent reform of the Bundesagentur fijr Arbeit, Germany's Public Employment Service (PES), has introduced elements of New Public Management, including internal controlling and attempts at standardizing assessments ('profiling' of unemployed people) and procedures. Based on qualitative interviews with PES staff, we show that standardization and controlling are perceived as contradicting the 'case-oriented approach' used by PES staff in dealing with unemployed people. It is therefore not surprising that staff members use considerable discretion when (re-)assigning unemployed people to one of the categories pre-defined by PES headquarters. All in all, the new procedures lead to numerous contradictions, which often result in bewilderment and puzzlement on the part of the unemployed.

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