By:Edwin B.R. Gbargaye
Professor: Jo B. BitonioDM 212 Human Resource Management & Development
• Many concepts in public sector innovation came from a reform movement known as “New Public Management” or “Reinventing Government”
• Most students of governmental reform credit for beginning this movement to Margaret Thatcher who came to office in 1979 in Great Britain
Introduction
• For others the challenge outmoded bureaucracies and bring them into the information age
• In some countries this movement has been called reinventing government
• To other countries, it is referred to as building state capacity or modernization of the State
• To some countries this is named New Public Management
• For some countries government reforms and innovations involves the reform of the old bureaucracies in the context of a newly democratic state.
• For other countries this entails an all out fight against corruption
• the reform aim to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of public action, to reduce costs and put an end to the supposed power of bureaucracies
• Government reforms are not easy
• It disrupts established relationships and behavior
• World’s nation engaged in serious efforts to reform their government and inject a culture of innovation into their government bureaucracies
• * American governmental reform was largely due
to public dissatisfaction with government* European Union was mandated to reform due to
its vision & mission* Former Soviet Bloc administrative reform went
hand in hand with democratization and political reform
* Latin America was repeated economic crises the failure of 'primera generacion' of reforms to achieve economic stability
• Survey conducted in 1999 found that during the last two decades:
• 40 % of the world's 123 countries had at least one major reform movement
• 15 % had some public management reforms but no national level initiatives
• 22 % of the world's largest countries had 2 or more reform movements.
• Most of the major latin american countries have had one major reform especially with 'modernization of the state'
1. 1980’s – Government concentrated on economic liberalization and on privatization of state owned industries
2. 1990’s – focus on the administrative reform of core state functions and the building of state capacity
Two Phases:
A. Malaysia - Asia
B. France - Europe
C. Liberia - Africa
D. Mexico - Latin America
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
• Administrative Reforms• Creation of a development administration• Improvement of government's education and
training program• Strengthening of professional competence of the
civil service• Performance Appraisal• Privatization • Information Technology
French President Nicolas Sarkozy
•Reviewing of Public Policies•Leadership Role •Council of Modernization of Public Policies•Council d'Etat •
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
'A New Era of Democracy‘
Today, we wholeheartedly embrace this change. We recognize that this change is not for the sake of change, but a fundamental break with the past, ... Corruption erodes faith in government because of the mismanagement and misapplication of public resources,...corruption is a national cancer. under my administration corruption is declared as 'public enemy number one'.
January 6, 2006
• Reform in the executive authority
• Restructuring of the national security
• Participatory government
• Civil service reform
• Downsizing and rightsizing the civil service
• Judiciary reform
• Constitutional reform
President Felipe Calderon
• Good governance• Rule of law• transparency• accountability• small and effective bureaucracy• Peoples' participation• Citizen’s Charter• Qualified staff and personnel• Streamline bureaucracy• Regulatory reform
“ one of the fundamental ingredients of the new governance is good government. A government close to society, always ready to listen to it; a government fully respectful of legality, honest, transparent and efficient; but above all, a government conscious of its mission of promoting human and social development as the basis for attaining a more just and prosperous society”
President Vicente Fox of Mexico 2000-2006
As Obama often says – “ a new era of reform where there will be a progressive mobilization to keep the pressure on and overcome entrenched interests” . . .
• Dr. Elaine C. Karmarck Government Innovation Ash Institute for Democratic Governance & Innovation J.F.K SG., Harvard University November 2003
• Zifack, 1994
• Kickert, 2000
• Pollitt and Bouckaert, 2000
• Fauroux, Spitz, 2000
• Centre de recherches politiques de la sorbomue (CPRS), University of Paris1/ CNRSDreyfus, FRtrancois, 2008
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