Essay On New Public Management

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATON REFORM: FROM TRADITIONAL TO NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

HISTORY OF NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

The new public management (NPM) movement started to develop in the late 70s and early 80s. The United Kingdom was the first mover. They were reformed by the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and communal governments in the United States which faced the predicament of recessive developments and tax revolts of their citizens. Other common wealth nations such as New Zealand and Australia joined and after their reform success, almost all OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and development) countries also joined in, including other countries in the world (OECD 1995).

INTRODUCTION

As a contemporary paradigm of public administration, New Public Management (NPM) unveils the failures and inadequacies of public sector performance over time, and the traditional public administration. It has been established as a summary description of the way of fine structuring the public sector bodies, to bring their management approaches in close proximity to business methods.

The world-wide administrative reform movement ( caused by the Thatcherism process, originating from UK) in public management has been brought about by the necessity of the government to respond to the fiscal stress caused by changes in international economic system, on the other hand by the unrelenting demands for government services and regulations in national political systems.

These stresses bred a lot of policy responses aimed at budgetary restraint and at lowering the public services of governments, including different measures to privatise government operations and to deregulate private economic enterprises.

The global reform movement in public management has been ...

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...lacks some of the good aspects as seen from the old model high ethical standards. Moe (1994) points out that the new public management fails to account for critical differences between private and government sectors, thus it ignores that government is based on a rule of law not market driven mechanisms.

CONCLUSION

There have been changes in public sector and reforms which had never been seen before. For a number of reasons, the traditional model of public administration is replaced by a new model of public management. This change involves much more than mere public sector reform. It implies changes in the operation of the public services. The new public management can be useful to government and ought to be seriously considered. However, new public management is not a blanket solution to all predicaments of public administration in modern governments.