Performance Management in the Public Sector

Emergence of New Public Management New Public Management is a vision, an ideology or a bundle of particular management approaches and techniques In the 1980s, the drivers of change, particularly financial pressures, pushed most Western countries towards a focus on making the public sector more competitive and public administrators

CHAPTER 19 PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION

PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION 19 1 The Public Sector is the principal actor in macro socio-economic policy making infrastructure and an architect of an enabling environment for national development Public Sector management covers such aspects of management as productivity management, and management of human, financial and other resources

Principles for Public Management Practice: From Dichotomies

changing nature of public problems, yet they must do so in a manner that provides accountability to the public and political overseers A dichotomous approach to the study of leadership as management action and the gover-nance structures within which managers operate has inhibited the search for a public management theory that reconciles the

Origin and theoretical basis of New Public Management

4 G Gruening / International Public Management Journal 4 (2001) 1–25 ogy, practice continued to rely on the principles of the classics and on the administrative strictures of the Progressives (Lynn, 1996; Kramer, 1987)

Traditional Public Administration versus The New Public

II The New Public Management The term new public management encompasses a wide range of techniques and perspectives that are intended to overcome the inefficiencies inherent in the traditional model of public administration Robert Behn defines the New Public Management as “ the entire

Chapter 1 AN OVERVIEW OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT

Chapter 1 AN OVERVIEW OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT This chapter has two objectives First, it places public expenditure management (PEM) in the broader context of the role of the state, good governance, macroeconomic policy, and the changing environment (especially in information and communication technology) To view

Applications of Project Management in Public Health

•Limited involvement from public health and preparedness stakeholders •State and localities found it minimally acceptable – low quality, non-useful data •Version 2 initiated in 2010 incorporating concepts from PM –Stakeholder engagement from the very beginning –Improved internal contract management

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Woodrow Wilson is considered the father of public administration As a discipline, public administration is a post-1947 growth in India Despite being very young discipline in a family of social science, it has shot into prominence; and today it is a very popular subject Public Administration is the front of the government, being its visible face