Why are some Flemish municipal party group leaders more familiar with NPM principles than others? Assessing the influence of individual factors.

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedicte Buylen ◽  
Johan Christiaens
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Group Leaders ◽  
New Public ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Political Expertise ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Party Group

This study addresses the controversy in the literature regarding the effects of individual factors on party group leaders’ familiarity with a selection of New Public Management concepts. In doing so, it contributes to the scarce literature regarding this group of non-executive politicians. Furthermore, this study has an innovative methodological approach, introducing an NPM “familiarity coefficient” in order to make a quantitative assessment. Data was gathered from a survey of 363 party group leaders in Flemish municipalities and the results reveal moderate familiarity. Factors that had a positive effect on the NPM familiarity coefficient were being a majority leader, dual mandate holding and financial as well as political expertise.

scholarly journals Gestão Estratégica de Recursos Humanos: já se Pode Falar dela na Administração Pública em Moçambique?

Revista Foco ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Albino Alves Simione
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Recursos Humanos

A gestão estratégica de recursos humanos no setor público constitui-se como desafio contemporâneo para a sustentabilidade dos programas de governo. Estratégias relacionadas à reforma da gestão de pessoal são recomendadas por vários praticantes, pesquisadores e organizações internacionais especializadas, com o propósito de que os governos as adotem para melhor gerir seus funcionários como meio de garantir resultados positivos. As recomendações propõem o uso de abordagens estratégicas na gestão de recursos humanos fundamentadas na modernização das respetivas políticas, inspiradas nas concepções da New Public Management que advogam uma administração mais eficiente baseada nas práticas aplicadas pelas empresas privadas. Porém, pairam questões sobre a aplicabilidade dessas recomendações, bem como sobre de que modo a gestão estratégica de pessoas, mecanismo pensado fundamentalmente para as empresas privadas, irá se efetivar na área pública. O ensaio foi baseado em uma revisão bibliográfica e documental e enfatiza o contexto do serviço público em Moçambique. The strategic management of human resources in the public sector constitutes a contemporary challenge for the sustainability of government programs. Strategies related to personnel management reform are recommended by a number of practitioners, researchers, and specialized international organizations, with the aim of governments adopt them to better manage their employees as a means of ensuring positive results. The recommendations propose the use of strategic approaches in human resources management based on the modernization of their policies, inspired by the New Public Management concepts that advocate a more efficient administration based on the practices applied by private companies. However, questions remain about the applicability of these recommendations, as well as how the strategic management of people, a mechanism designed primarily for private companies, will be implemented in the public area. The essay was based on a literature and documentary review and emphasizes the public service context in Mozambique.

New public management and accounting in a Fiji telecommunications company

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 331-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umesh Sharma ◽  
Stewart Lawrence ◽  
Carolyn Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Telecommunication Sector ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
New Public ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Telecommunications Company

The aim of this article is to investigate tension between the implementation of new public management and associated accounting technologies in the Fiji telecommunication sector and the indigenous Fijian culture and political structure. In doing so, the article contrasts the economic-based reforms of the telecommunications sector (from 1990), with the traditional social relations that were exercised post-independence (1970 onwards). This research aim is achieved by focusing on archival documents and interviews with those involved in Fiji telecommunications. We illustrate how the use of new public management concepts replaced traditional social relations with the disciplinary technologies of modern capitalism but were also altered as a result of these social relations. In the Fiji Telecommunications company, the cultural conflicts and political influences led to the new public management process being resisted and modified to reduce the tension between economic and social relations.

THE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SYSTEM IN POLAND IN THE LIGHT OF THE NEW CONCEPT OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-198
Author(s):  
Leszek Zelek
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Welfare Model

The aim of the article is to present the social assistance model in Poland in the light of new concepts of public management in this area. As a result of the review of the available literature on the subject, the genesis, evolution and directions of development of social assistance in Poland are shown. New directions of management in the context of social policy were discussed. The description of the social welfare model presented in the article is systematising knowledge in the scope of the discussed problem and by comparing new management concepts, assessing the possibilities of their implementation on the ground of social assistance. The first part of the article describes the genesis and evolution of social welfare in Poland and discusses its structure. In the second part, through comparative analysis, an attempt was made to characterize new management concepts, New Public Management and governance, in the light of the social welfare model in Poland

scholarly journals The Introduction and the Application of Technological Innovations as Administrative Efficiency Factor in Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Belias D. ◽  
Velissariou E. ◽  
Kyriakou D. ◽  
Koustelios A. ◽  
Sdrolias L. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Efficiency Factor ◽  
Educational Structure ◽  
Administrative Efficiency ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
New Public ◽  
Management Concepts

Innovation is a rapidly developed issue, keeping all the aforementioned alerted. Considering this picture, the key issue of this thesis is to clarify the concept innovation as administrative efficiency factor in relation with education using the relevant literature. The existing literature indicates that educational structure and practices are in the center of great reforms. These reforms associated with New Public Management. NPM is a process that involves interaction between managers and markets. It is a set of cost-cutting and management concepts from the private sector including downsizing, entrepreneurialism, enterprise operations, quality management, customer service etc. According to that concept, school managers are trying to create a smaller, more responsive, more entrepreneurial and more effective public sector. Technological innovation has a key role on this and surely it can be the cornerstone of every change which may occur on this field of public administration.

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.

scholarly journals Accounting Aspects of Reporting Business Relationships between Public Enterprises and Municipalities in Slovenia, Individual Comparisons with Italy and Austria, and International Guidelines

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-291
Author(s):  
Aleš Novak ◽  
Majda Kokotec-Novak ◽  
Nives Halužan
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Public Enterprise ◽  
Business Relationships ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
New Public ◽  
Management Concepts

Adequate accounting information is the foundation of an efficient public sector. As of 2010, the accounting aspect of business relationships between public enterprises and municipalities in Slovenia had to be redefined due to the abandonment of ‘assets under management’ reporting. The regulation recommending municipalities to hand over infrastructure to public enterprises in the form of an operating lease has resulted in the need for different accounting information on the part of the municipalities. Regarding the water sector of municipalities in Austria and Italy, the need for more comprehensive accounting information exists as well. Due to the application of New Public Management concepts, many countries have adopted or committed to adopt some variant of accrual accounting also for the public sector. The large-scale adoption of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (the IPSASs) would significantly enhance the international public sector comparability. KEYWORDS: • accrual basis accounting • cash basis accounting • municipality • public enterprise • Slovenia • Italy • Austria

"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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