scholarly journals The Challenges of Linking Pay and Promotion: Repeated Reforms of the European Commission Staff Appraisal Process

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Ban
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Management Culture ◽  
Appraisal Process ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
Staff Appraisal ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Status

In response to the 1999 crisis caused by the mass resignation of the European Commission, the Commission introduced a series of administrative reforms based in large part on New Public Management models.  A centerpiece of those reforms was a new staff appraisal process linking numeric ratings with promotions, which was designed explicitly to change the management culture of the Commission.  Of all parts of the reform, this was by far the most controversial.  This paper traces the long arc of reform, as the original reform was replaced with a second version that was even more rigid and complex, leading to a third reform, in 2012, which returned the Commission in large part to the status quo ante, abandoning numeric ratings and the formal link to promotions.  I analyze the reasons for the reforms and the problems and unintended consequences of each.  In conclusion, I link this saga of repeated reforms to the broader literature on the effectiveness of attempts to change organizational culture through formal structural reforms.

scholarly journals New Public Management in The Changing Status of Higher Education Institution in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Muhammad Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
University Reforms

Global competition among universities in the world has become more challenging over years. This makes it demanding not only for universities in Indonesia to create positive improvements but also for the government to adapt with its innovations and policy initiatives. Meanwhile, New Public Management approach which was initially introduced in 1990s has been proposing administrative reforms on the old inefficient bureaucracy. In response to this, universities along with the government have been incorporating some aspects of The New Public Management theory in order for them to strive in global competition. This study seeks to analyze the changing status of Indonesian universities. It further discusses how some aspects of New Public Management are incorporated in university’s administration. This Indonesian case study argues that NPM values has influenced the changing system of universities in Indonesia. NPS still exists partially if not fully, in Indonesian universities despite the problem of public acceptance responding to the government’s policy on university reforms.

Understanding public performance measurement through theoretical pluralism

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Barbato ◽  
Matteo Turri
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
New Public ◽  
Performance Measurement Systems ◽  
Italian Context

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate, through different interpretative theories, the implementation and operation of performance measurement systems (PMS) considering the factors crucial in influencing the development and the operational difficulties of the PMS in a context such as Italy, which is typically unresponsive to new public management-inspired ideas. Design/methodology/approach A theoretical framework is developed through the use of new institutional sociology and management control theory. The empirical study involves the whole ministerial sector, and explores some strategic documents belonging to the new PMS introduced in Italy in 2009. Findings The research illustrates a widespread dissemination of the reform in ministries. However, it has also shown the ceremonial and superficial implementation of the PMS. In addition, the findings confirm that the operation and the actual development of a PMS is strongly affected by the characteristics of the activity under examination. Research limitations/implications The peculiarity of the Italian context limits the generalizability of the findings to countries with similar public sector management and culture. Further studies may investigate the system through an individual perspective, i.e. exploring the role of individual managers in slowing down the operations of the evaluation systems. Originality/value This paper contributes to the debate on the implementation and operation of administrative reforms in legalistic countries also known as Rechtsstaat countries. The use of multiple theories allows investigating the subject matter by considering its complexity in a holistic way.

scholarly journals New Public Management in The Changing Status of Higher Education Institution in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Muhammad Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
University Reforms

Global competition among universities in the world has become more challenging over years. This makes it demanding not only for universities in Indonesia to create positive improvements but also for the government to adapt with its innovations and policy initiatives. Meanwhile, New Public Management approach which was initially introduced in 1990s has been proposing administrative reforms on the old inefficient bureaucracy. In response to this, universities along with the government have been incorporating some aspects of The New Public Management theory in order for them to strive in global competition. This study seeks to analyze the changing status of Indonesian universities. It further discusses how some aspects of New Public Management are incorporated in university’s administration. This Indonesian case study argues that NPM values has influenced the changing system of universities in Indonesia. NPS still exists partially if not fully, in Indonesian universities despite the problem of public acceptance responding to the government’s policy on university reforms.

scholarly journals The Causes and Status of Civil Service Reforms in Korea

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Geunjoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Service System ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Environmental Causes ◽  
Major Factors

This paper seeks to evaluate the status of civil service reform, which followed the prescription of the so-called neo-liberalism and new public management. The first part of the paper explores the environmental causes that brought about the recent civil service system reform in Korea. Major factors that shape the details of civil service reform are examined. The second part of the paper reviews the reform effort and assesses the outcomes of the reform programs. The tentative evaluation shows that some civil service reform programs produced noticeable achievement while others are in need of continouos attention.

It’s the Mix That Matters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. W. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Power Dependence ◽  
Institutional Complexity ◽  
New Public ◽  
Self Organizing

After explaining the idea of the differentiated polity, the chapter discusses the characteristics of governance with examples; institutional complexity, power-dependence, game playing, self-organizing, and steering. It argues that the shift to governance requires the new language of diplomacy, not marketization. Governments must choose between markets and networks and bureaucracy. It is the mix that matters. Networks are pervasive. Government is picking up the skills of indirect management, but slowly. This chapter aims to hasten that process by providing a language for exploring and managing the mix of governing structures in the differentiated polity. The new public management, whether in the guise of managerialism or institutional economics, is no longer the challenge confronting government. The challenge is diplomacy in governance. The Afterword expands on the ideas of governing structures, unintended consequences, and metagovernance.

Public Administration

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Calliope Spanou
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Economic Adjustment ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
System P ◽  
New Public

The chapter examines the legacies of Greek public administration and the drivers of modernization, from democratization in the 1980s, to Europeanization in the 1990s and the economic crisis starting in 2010. It describes public administration as a quasi-Weberian bureaucracy that is characterized by three interrelated deficits: legitimacy, efficiency, and institutionalization. These capture its most important weaknesses. Politicization which has been the most debated aspect, is seen as a form of symbiosis between politics and administration that tends to sideline efficiency and modernization requirements. The ‘low reform capacity’, which is usually attributed to its Napoleonic origins, contrasts vividly with the profusion of administrative reforms and the constant presence of the issue on the domestic political agenda. Administrative modernization progressed in the 1990s as part of Europeanization, though the then dominant new public management ideas have generally been resisted in favour of a neo-Weberian reform mix. However, critical deficiencies were exposed with the outbreak of the economic crisis in 2010. Subsequently, administrative reform became an extensive chapter of the three fiscal and macro-economic adjustment programmes. External pressure induced reform activity, but results appear uneven, depending on the reform area. Despite improvements, intrinsic and contextual factors linked to fiscal consolidation and the adjustment programmes’ conditionality account for the absence of radical transformation in the modus operandi of the political-administrative system.

American Electronic Constitution

2009 ◽  
pp. 54-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fortunato Musella
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Private Organizations ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Difference

The chapter is dedicated at analyzing the strategic use of new technologies in the United States. An evident synergy has been noted between the digital policy projects and the neo-liberal ideology wave that has traced origin in the fiscal crisis of the State in the 1970s. About four decades have transformed some political directions in true imperatives: public sector downsizing, cost-cutting in public agencies, decision-making privatization, and the principle of efficiency as a measure of collective action. If new public management has been imposed as a dominant paradigm for administrative restructuring, ICTs programs sustain reform objectives by putting emphasis on the sure advantages of technological applications. In addition to this, administrative reforms seem to be in continuity with some American historical tradition, in reasserting a central role of private actor in public activities and realizing a significant “fusion of political and economic power”. Digital era seems to have added a new chapter to the American corporate liberalism history, with the difference – and the aggravating circumstance – that private organizations have now more powerful instruments to control and regulate society. New technological instruments seem to be used essentially to produce a neo-liberal interpretation of government activities.

scholarly journals Traditional Bureaucratic Culture as an Impeding Factor in Implementing New Public Management in Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Naim Ebna Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Power Distribution ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
New Public ◽  
Strong Body

Since the independence in 1971, Bangladesh has made a commendable progress in all sector of the state in its 47 years of journey. Over this period it has come across to a long way in administrative reforms under different political regimes. Most of the reforms in the administrative section could not achieve the desired results due to different reasons. This paper particularly tries to find out how traditional bureaucratic culture has been an impeding force on the way of implementing New Public Management in Bangladesh. Public servants have been a strong body in Bangladesh due to different political incidents. Basically military backed governments at different times were highly dependent on bureaucratic administration. Such political practice has grown a peculiar culture of reform resistant behavior among administrative members. As a result, they are not enough open to new changes in the administrative system and thus impeding the implementation of new administrative reforms frequently as there remain uncertainties of power distribution.

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