scholarly journals Managing the Public Sector in Kenya: Reform and Transformation for Improved Performance

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kempe Ronald Hope
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Public Sector Reform ◽  
Policy Objective ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sector Performance ◽  
Improved Performance

Public sector reform remains a necessary and on-going policy objective for many developing countries. In Kenya, this is being done to overhaul its administrative system to better serve the needs of both government and the citizenry with improved delivery of public services to reduce poverty, improve livelihoods, and sustain good governance. Although the first attempts at the reform and transformation of the public sector in Kenya began in 1965, it was not until the early 1990s that serious efforts were made toward the reform and transformation of the country’s public sector management. This work analytically examines and reviews the public sector reform and transformation efforts in Kenya to improve public sector performance and overall public service delivery.

scholarly journals Emerging Issues in Public Sector Reforms in Africa: An Assessment of Ghana and Nigeria

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salami Issa Afegbua ◽  
Ganiyu L. Ejalonibu
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
West African ◽  
Public Sector Reform ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Reforms ◽  
Emerging Issues

Public sector reform (PSR) has been quite popular in Africa and in recent years, several African countries have implemented far-reaching governance and public service reform measures. The aim of this article is to consider the historical development of Public Sector Reform in Africa and the philosophy behind the ubiquitous wave of reform in the continent. The article discovers that those reform measures have so far gone through three different phases to promote and/or accelerate the revitalization of the public service. It identifies some major challenges that account for the monumental failure of PSR. Finally, the paper offers suggestions on how African countries can free themselves from the doldrums of current PSR. This article will not only broaden the frontier of knowledge in the field of public administration but also address the present and on-going reality of public sector reforms in the West African sub region. This study uses a ‘Literature Survey’ in examining the issue in question.

Peningkatan Penyelenggaraan Pemerintahan yang Bersih dan Bebas KKN dan Indikator-Indikator Hasilnya

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-240
Author(s):  
Andy Fefta Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Information Transparency ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Sector Performance ◽  
New Perspective

This paper presents this new perspective of public management (NPM) and governance in administrative sciences and explains the differences between them. NPM risk leaving the public service function for the poor and marginalized, therefore improving governance perspective NPM movement's weakness. New Public Management Paradigm with no accountability (accountability) would risk leaving the public interest. Accountability as a fundamental pillar of good governance paradigm can improve the weaknesses found in the paradigm previously thought. A major component to the success of public accountability is a system of information transparency. Transparency of information is authorized to be used for public sector performance evaluation measures and for evaluating public sector executive accountability for all decisions and actions, ie to what extent the results/outcomes and impacts resulting from beneficial to the public.

Public Sector Reform and the Public Servant

2021 ◽  
pp. 359-379
Author(s):  
Avery Poole ◽  
Janine O’Flynn ◽  
Patrick Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Sector Reform ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Servant

scholarly journals Aligning profit making organisations’ strategy to the public sector for improved performance: Market orientation

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 574-582
Author(s):  
Daniel Chigudu
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Process Approach ◽  
Marketing Concept ◽  
Organisational Performance ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sector Performance ◽  
Improved Performance

This study is a review of the market orientation concept in relation to performance in the public sector. Related literature reveals a positive correlation of market orientation and public sector performance. Although the MARKOR scale, a process approach and the behavioural approach show a significant organisational performance in the profit making organisation, these models appear to have focussed mainly on generic issues in the public sector. The SERVQUAL instrument attempts to only gauge service delivery quality and not the implementation of the marketing concept which defines market orientation. This paper attempts to fill this gap by examining public sector benefits of market orientation. The contribution prompts public sector organisations to embrace market orientation and in turn enhance performance.

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