As a relationship‚ it involves a person or body in a position of authority assigning or negotiating with others the performance of certain responsibilities‚ ideally based on agreed-upon expectations and standards. -Paul G. Thomas To the Public‚ accountability is… A general subjective sense of responsibility‚ the upholding of professional values and standards even in the absence of external scrutiny‚ a demonstrated responsiveness to particular clients or to the community at large‚ and
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How has New Public management (NPM) affected the public services? To what extent has its impact been beneficial? The development of ‘new public management’ (hereafter NPM) over the past 20 years is one of the most striking international trends in public administration. It is important to mention that the rise of NPM is linked with other four megatrends in that period‚ namely: - Attempts to slow down government growth and spending (Dunsire and Hood 1989 cited in Hood 1991‚ p.3);
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The revered pioneer of political economics‚ Adam Smith (1804: 178)‚ defines the difference between the public and private sector as follows; ‘Erecting and maintaining those public institutions and those public works‚ which though they may be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society‚ are of such a nature‚ that the profits could never repay their expenses to any individual or small number of individuals and which it cannot be expected‚ therefore‚ that any individual or small number
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What is the New Public Management? And how has it expressed itself in the workings of public bureaucracies in the Caribbean? Introduction During the last twenty years‚ various public administrations of countries in Europe‚ North America‚ Latin America and the Caribbean‚ were characterised by a practical reform movement defined by Hood (1991) as the New Public Management (NPM). This is documented by other scholars such as Gernod Gruening (1998)[1]‚ and Paul Sutton (2003). Throughout the
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The early 1980s and 1990s saw the emergence of New Public Management (NPM) theory of running public organizations. This concept originated from the UK and USA during the times of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Regan. It has since been implemented in other OECD countries like Canada and New Zealand. In Australia NPM was introduced by the Hawke-Keating Governments (1983-96) and extended by the Howard Government (1996-2007). The governments of the time‚ increasingly under political pressure to cut down
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Task: “What do you understand by performance management? Critically evaluate the effects of using performance management and performance measurement in any public organization of your choice” According to previous years‚ the last quarter of the twentieth century witnessed great developments in all areas such management. The change of structure and functions of the organizations‚ the growing importance of employee‚ contributed to increase the professional performance development and also contributed
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Relations in the Public Sector INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………………... LITERATURE REVIEW ………………………………………………………………. TRADITIONAL IR SYSTEM INCLUDING DISCUSSION OF THE TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SECTOR MODEL ………………………………………… ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS …………………………………………………………. RECOMMENDATIONS ………………………………………………………………. CONCLUSION …………………………………………………………………………. INTRODUCTION Industrial relations is concerned with the relationship between management and workers and
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Public sector reform in Lesotho: Challenges‚ achievements and the way forward ABSTRACT THE GOVERNMENT OF LESOTHO EMBARKED UPON A LARGE-SCALE PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM EXERCISE FROM THE EARLY 1990S (PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME-PSRIP). IT WAS DRIVEN BY THE REALISATION THAT THE PUBLIC SECTOR WAS BLOATED‚ INEFFICIENT WITH REGARD TO POOR SERVICE DELIVERY‚ WITH CORRUPTION CONSTITUTING A DRAIN ON BUDGET. THE INFLUENCE AND ‘PERSUASION’ OF THE WORLD BANK‚ THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
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Volume 7 – No. 1 © OECD 2007 Improving Public Sector Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities by Teresa Curristine‚ Zsuzsanna Lonti and Isabelle Joumard* This article examines key institutional drivers that may contribute to improving public sector efficiency and focuses on one of them in more detail: performance information and its role and use in the budget process (“performance budgeting”). * Teresa Curristine is a Policy Analyst in the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate
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The Differences between Public Sector and Private Sector [pic] by Robyn Z. Abdusamad Dr. Deborah LeBlanc PAD 620 – Research Paper August 23‚ 2010 The Differences between Public Sector and Private Sector SUMMARY When we examine public sector versus private sector‚ plenty of differences come to mind. In defining each‚ we learn a private sector in an economy consist of all businesses and firms owned by ordinary members of the general public. It also consists of all the private
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