Effect Of New Public Management Research Articles

New public management and corruption: Empirical evidence of local governments in Indonesia

This study is relevant because it examines the determinants of corruption in local governments that have a negative impact on the success of sustainable development. This study aims to examine the effect of New Public Management (NPM), as measured by fiscal decentralization, financial reporting quality and independent audits, on the level of corruption. The sample consisted of 433 local governments in Indonesia based on data from 2011–2017. PLS-SEM was used as a data analysis technique. The results test shows that fiscal decentralization positively affects corruption with a path coefficient of 0.19 and a p-value of 0.004. The quality of financial reporting has a negative effect on the level of corruption with a coefficient of –0.26 and a p-value < 0.001. Hypotheses testing results also show that audit finding positively affects corruption with a coefficient of 0.10 and a p-value < 0.10. On the other hand, follow-up audit results have no significant effect on corruption with a p-value > 0.10. This study concludes that the NPM mechanism in the form of fiscal decentralization positively affects corruption. These results imply that fiscal decentralization needs to be balanced with good governance, among others, by increasing the quality of financial reports and independent audits.

The influence of a university’s HRM practices on women academics’ progression to management positions

The aim of this article is to examine the effect of New Public Management (NPM) inspired universityhuman resource management (HRM) practices on gender segregation at universities. Drawing on gender and organisational theories, we conducted a case study of a managerial university in Lithuania drawing on analyses of policy documents, websites and senior academic staff survey data (n=142). We find vertical gender segregation in the management structures of the case study university, with women academics being more likely to experience career progression barriers than men. This study contributes to higher education, gender and management research in three important ways: (1) by providing empirical evidence of the persistence of gender segregation at a university, despite the transformation of university HRM practices, (2) by providing a more nuanced picture regarding gender and tokenism among university management, (3) by pointing out that despite the long tradition of women employment in the post-Soviet Central and Eastern European context, universities are still the bastions of the masculine culture and power, where women academics face a ‘glass ceiling’ to reach management positions. We discuss the practical implications for gender-balanced composition of higher education management at Lithuanian universities.

Whatever happened to group dynamics in the scientific study of groups?

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore whether a group dynamics perspective still exists in the scientific study of groups and what factors may account for the current situation. Design/methodology/approach Alongside reflections based on my professional experience, I have analyzed the main academic journals that publish group research. Findings A group dynamics perspective is almost totally absent in the scientific study of groups. Contributing factors to this state of affairs are disciplinary developments in psychology (e.g. individualization, experimentalization and specialization), the demise of the status of psychoanalysis, changes in the meaning and manifestation of the “group,” and effects of New Public Management. Originality/value The study offers a critical perspective on current group research practices and considers these in a larger (social and historical) context. It advocates a group dynamics perspective for the study of groups, based on systems-psychodynamic insights.

The effects of new public management on the quality of public services

AbstractHave New Public Management (NPM) reforms in public organizations improved the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery of public policies? NPM reforms, understood as a style of organizing public services towards the efficiency and efficacy of outputs, have been controversial. They have been accused of importing practices and norms from the private sector that could collide with core public values, such as impartiality or equity. Yet, with few exceptions, we lack systematic empirical tests of the actual effects that NPM reforms have had on the delivery of public services. In this introductory article, we summarize a special issue devoted to cover this gap. And, overall, we find that neither the catastrophic nor the balsamic effects of NPM reforms are confirmed, but the success (or failure) depends on the administrative, political and policy context those reforms take place.

Teaching qualitative research in adverse times

This article discusses how the teaching of qualitative research in higher education is threatened by the effects of new public management, by academic culture wars and by a growing belief in big data. The controversy over Alice Goffman’s book On the Run presents one recent example of this. In an effort to counterbalance these developments, this article stresses the importance in social science curricula of ‘naturalistic inquiry’ – the artisanal core of qualitative research. Explicitly acknowledging emic viewpoints, naturalistic inquiry upholds the emancipatory ideal of making society transparent to its members. Teaching naturalistic inquiry as a craft may be the best way to assure ‘qualitative literacy’ among graduates in their various careers as socially responsible professionals.

A mediation effect of new public management on the relationship between intelligence, leadership, HR quality and performance of local government employees in Indonesia

The emergence of New Public Management (NPM) phenomenon creates a new discourse that attracts the attention of human resource management experts around the world, especially in Indonesia. To address this issue, this study tries to focus on how the performance of local government employees is influenced by several factors; namely, intelligence, leadership, quality of human resources, and NPM itself. The population of this study is government employees in the city of Makassar, Indonesia, and given the huge number, the sampling technique uses purposive sampling. The amount determined referred to the variance-based (or Partial Least Square) Structural Equation Analysis tool and obtained by 100 local government employees. Primary data collected through a questionnaire is processed with the assistant of Smart PLS. The results show that intelligence, leadership, and HR quality had positive and significant effects on NPM. The direct relationship also indicates the significance of constructs on performance, except intelligence, which directly has no significant impact on the performance of government employees. The NPM variable also significantly mediates the indirect effect between variables. This research is expected to enrich the treasury of knowledge in the field of human resource studies, and strategies for implementing the concept of NPM in the government environment. Keywords: Intelligence, Leadership, Human Resource Quality, NPM, Performance, Government Employee

A discourse analysis of managerialism and trust amongst nursing professionals

Abstract This study explores the effects of New Public Management (NPM) on trust amongst nursing professionals, nurses and nurse ward managers within the British National Health Service (NHS). Thirty-nine nurses and nurse ward managers, recruited randomly, participated in semi-structured interviews. The original data, collected in 2000-2002, are re-analysed from a discourse analysis perspective. The findings support and extend contemporary research. They show that nurses have a strong professional identity and commitment and that increasing managerialism is eroding trust. Nurses both accommodate and resist managerialist discourses. They conceptualise trust in terms of their own ward environment, line-manager and colleagues. Trust is reciprocal and related to previous experiences and other factors. Trust is beneficial to healthcare organisations, healthcare professionals and their patients. Good communication and openness positively influence the development of trust. Nurse ward managers play a pivotal role in translating contested managerialist discourse into nursing practice to sustain trust and effect professional patient care.

Does the new public management contribute to improving the performance of obstetric care in Mexico public hospitals?

In pursuit of higher performance in the Public Administration, the Mexican government implemented the New Public Management (NPM) model in 2008, with the aim of correcting deficiencies in its public services - including those of the Ministry of Health (MoH) -. In ten years of work under the new model, no information has been provided on the effects of NPM on the performance indicators, such as effectiveness and efficiency, of government institutions. The present study had the objective to analyze the impact of the NPM on the effectiveness and efficiency of MoH care facilities. Effectiveness was evaluated as the proportion of hospital discharges (HD) indicating a recovery diagnosis, and efficiency as the average length of hospital stays, modeled with survival analysis and local kernel regression methods. Data analyzed pertained to a time series of 16.5 million obstetric HD (64% of total discharges) produced from 2000 to 2015. The results revealed high levels of effectiveness (98% of HD with recovery diagnosis) and efficiency (an average hospital stay of 1.74 days), before and after NPM. The consistently high performance throughout the period analyzed, indicate that MoH hospitals had attained optimal effectiveness and efficiency levels prior to the NPM implementation. The indistinctive impact of the public management reform may suggest that NPM was applied as a blanket solution without considering institutional specificities.

Jämställdhetsintegrering med styrning bortom New Public Management

This article discusses the management control of gender mainstreaming within the policy field of infrastructure and transportation. The strategy of gender mainstreaming has been practiced within the Swedish government for over two decades. It was implemented in the era of New Public Management when quantitative performance measures were much more valid than qualitatively assessed aspects on the effects of the performance. Consequently, the status of gendered power relations was only disclosed by the counting of women and men which hampered the intended results of gender mainstreaming. Time has passed and the Swedish government is now scrutinizing the unintended effects of New Public Management. At the same time, the Swedish Transport Administration has ordered a shift from identification with the building of infrastructure to the broader role as a societal developer. This development has brought about new questions concerning the outcomes of the undertakings. Public Value Management is an alternative which can be interpreted as a concept for management control meeting the challenges that New Public Management never could handle. Three strategic questions are in focus: (i) Is it valuable for the public? (ii) Is it legitimate and politically supported? (iii) Do we have the operational capacity? Effectiveness in Public Value Management concerns the capability of the administration to do the right things in order to reach the policy goals. There is no consensus regarding the definition of Public Value. Such an ambiguity can turn out to be a strength, since there are no ready-made facts to take for granted. Hence the administration needs to listen to and discuss together with various actors before decisions are taken regarding societal changes. If gender awareness is included in the management processes the results can

A Study on the Establishment of Ethical Government through Relation to New Public Management and Corruption

본 연구는 행정개혁의 이념적 기반인 신공공관리와 이로 인한 부작용인 부패와의 관계에 대한 기존 국내논의의 부족함을 보완하기 위해 1)공직가치의 전환, 2) 신공공관리론에 입각한 행정개혁수단, 3)불확실성과 소외감과 같은 사회 심리적 요인으로 구분하여 규명함과 동시에 부패문제 극복방안으로 윤리정부구축을 제안하였다. 특히 윤리정부를 구축하는 방안으로 거버넌스 시각에서 제도적 억제(Institutional Restraint), 정치적 책임성(Political Accountability), 경쟁적 민간부문(Competitive Private Sector), 시민사회참여(Civil Society Participation), 교육과 윤리의식제고(Education and Ethics Enhancement), 국제적 협력(International Coalition), 강력한 리더십(Strong Leadership) 등 7가지를 제시하였다.The purpose of this study is to supplement the lack of existing domestic debate on the relationship between corruption and the negative side effect of new public management, by introducing 1) the transformation of public service value, 2) administrative reform measures based on the new public management theory, and 3) social psychological factors such as uncertainty and alienation. At the same time, it proposed the establishment of an ethical government to overcome corruption problems. In particular, Seven strategies(institutional restraint, political accountability, the Competitive Private Sector, the Civil Society Participation, and Education and Ethics Enhancement, International Coalition, and Strong Leadership)have been proposed as ways to build an ethical government.

Exploring narratives of non-faculty professionals in neoliberal higher education: a cultural appropriation perspective on librarians

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study is to explore how the rise of the new public management (NPM) culture in higher education affected librarians. Librarians are a central part of the traditional intellectual model of academia, whose professional ethos is challenged and threatened by the new market-oriented culture. Using a qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews with managers and professional staff of academic libraries at a public university, the present study provides insights into the perceptions of non-faculty professionals on the infiltration of NPM into higher education. Our findings reflect a cultural appropriation of integration taking place under the dominant NPM, resulting in a hybrid traditional-NPM culture. Theoretical and practical implications of the effect of NPM on professional staff of academia are offered.

Why do some municipalities apply accrual-based rules more than others? Evidence from Turkey

In the last decades, public sector has been influenced by New Public Management emphasizing incentives, competition, and performance. With the effect of New Public Management, implementation of accrual accounting based rules in the local government level has been studied from different aspects and within different contexts. In this study, we seek to further delineate factors affecting the level of compliance to accrual based accounting rules in the local government level in an emerging country - Turkey. We shed lights on two new emerging country-like variables: implementation of European Union funded projects and newly founded municipalities with six control variables including municipal size, municipal wealth, citizen education level, staff education level, debt ratio and external audit. Data, to be analyzed, is gathered from 102 Turkish municipalities. We use compliance index, consisting of 39 items, in order to assess the level of compliance of the municipalities. Institutional theory and resource dependence theory have been employed in order to increase our understanding on the factors affecting the level of compliance to the accrual based rules. The results show moderate compliance, 61.2%, with the accrual based rules. Predictors that have clearly significant effect on the level of compliance are respectively, the external audit (b = .123, beta = .450, p = .000), implementation of EU funded projects (b = .074, beta = .267, p = .002) and being a newly founded municipality (b = .071, beta = .155, p = .031). Moreover, we found that coercive institutional pressure to implement accrual-based rules may become a potent force when a supreme audit institution has control and there is resource dependence on an international body.

Not What It Said on the Tin? Reflections on Three Decades of UK Public Management Reform

AbstractDespite decades of research, we still need more long‐term evidence of the effects of New Public Management (NPM) and accompanying changes in government over a generation. Looking at UK experience, a key case in NPM and digital‐age developments, this paper evaluates administrative data to show what happened to indicators of fairness and consistency and of prudent management through limitation of running costs in public administration over three decades. The analysis shows that running costs rose substantially in real terms (contrary to the cost‐cutting stereotype of NPM), while indicators of first‐stage formal challenges to government suggest increased dissatisfaction with fairness and consistency in administration.

Introduction

In this issue, six articles are presented analyzing quite different issues and using very different methods. A common denominator for all of the articles is, however, that they examine new trends and issues in work life, discussed in the public debate and experienced in the working life of many employees. Two articles highlight the current trend toward a labor market with temporary and precarious employment: One article examines artists' work orientation and working conditions. Artists have a long tradition of working in employment arrangements that increasingly characterize the current labor market. Another article explores how our understanding of temporary migrant care workers is constructed.A third article contributes to our understanding of the effect of New Public Management on working conditions: the article analyzes coping and resistance when employees in the public sector experience moral distress as a result of New Public Management.Personality seems to have increasing importance in the differentiation at the labor market. A fourth article examines how the assessment of personality actually is performed by recruitment consultancies.Two articles examine the opportunities to improve working conditions under the new conditions: One article examines the effects of interventions designed to improve the work-life reconciliation. Another article examines the public regulation of the psychosocial work environment (...)

A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? by ChristopherHood and RuthDixon. Oxford: Oxford University, 2015. 256 pp. $50 (cloth).

GovernanceVolume 29, Issue 1 p. 140-143 In this issue of Governance, we have conducted an experiment: multiple reviews of a single book, A Government That Worked Better And Cost Less? by Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon. The book offers an assessment of the effects of New Public Management in the United Kingdom after thirty years. This concept has shaped reform debates around the world, and for this reason we solicited reviews from a variety of perspectives. A fourth review will also appear in a future issue of Governance. A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? by Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon. Oxford: Oxford University, 2015. 256 pp. $50 (cloth). Nancy Roberts, Nancy Roberts Naval Post-Graduate SchoolSearch for more papers by this author Nancy Roberts, Nancy Roberts Naval Post-Graduate SchoolSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 December 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12182Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume29, Issue1January 2016Pages 140-143 RelatedInformation

The Social Life of Learning Theory: The “Ideal” and “Real” of Reflective Learning

There is a growing understanding that public institutions need to be proactive in not only developing their welfare services but doing so continually through various concepts of learning. This article presents an ethnographic study of a public school that aims at working strategically with organizational learning through Donald Schön's concept of “the reflective practitioner.” Schön's concepts provide the school manager with a vocabulary to criticize the destructive effects of New Public Management's linear steering technologies. The study also illustrates that expectations of reflective practitioners produce new uncertainties and managerial challenges, especially in manager-employee relations. The implications of these are discussed.

New Public Management Reforms and Efficiency in Urban Water Service Delivery in Developing Countries

Managing publicly owned entities using private sector principles, commonly known as New Public Management (NPM), is a widespread reform in Developing Countries. The theoretical and empirical debate on the effect of NPM on the performance of Public entities is still ongoing, yet limited research has been conducted in the water sector in developing countries. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Tobit regression on 300 observations, the influence of adopting NPM reform dimensions of segregation of functions, managerial autonomy, accountability for results, customer orientation, and market orientation on technical efficiency of urban public water utilities has been addressed. The results indicate a high likelihood of the NPM reform causing a change in the technical efficiency of the Decision-Making Units (DMUs) in National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) in Uganda though it was not the case for the DMUs of Dar es Salaam Water and Sewerage Corporation (DAWASCO) in Tanzania.

The Effects of New Public Management: Activity-based Reimbursement and Efficiency in the Scandinavian Hospital Sectors

Activity-based reimbursement (ABR) is a key element in the New Public Management reform programme. In recent decades ABR has replaced or supplemented frame-based reimbursement (FRB) in the Scandinavian hospital sectors, and political decision makers have widely believed that ABR would improve efficiency. This article systematically describes and compares 12 studies and their results to determine whether research supports this belief. The article has two main conclusions. First, existing research provides a much more blurry picture than envisaged by decision makers. Studies with positive and non-positive results are approximately equal in number, even when the quality of research designs is taken into account. Second, it is quite likely that the blurry picture is caused mainly by the low credibility of the new ABR schemes, which has undermined the incentives for greater efficiency that the new schemes should provide. The issue of credibility is not tested in existing research and is thus a particularly promising avenue for future research into the effects of economic steering tools like ABR.

A case of mistaken identity

Social welfare professions have been highly exposed to the corrosive effects of New Public Management (NPM) on professional identity and influence. In this article, I argue that ambivalence from within the social welfare professions, and in society more generally, towards professional recognition of these occupations enables NPM to enact an agenda of de-professionalization. Further, gendered assumptions about professional identity, and particularly about the caring professions in which there is a high concentration of women workers, are pivotal to the destabilization of the professional social welfare workforce. I draw on examples from the Queensland Department of Child Safety workforce reforms to illustrate how NPM discourse intersects with, and is enabled by, well-established ambivalence towards professional recognition within and outside the social welfare professions. I suggest that a gender analysis can deepen our understanding of the substantial impact of NPM on social welfare professions and can enable these professions to develop effective responses to the substantial threats they now face.

The effect of new public management on intensive care unit staff

The NHS is largely dependent on two groups of professionals – medics and nurses. Recent government changes support the development of a central role for management. The impact of these changes on the roles and relationships of those working in the NHS must be understood in light of the structures already in place within it. Medical dominance in healthcare decision‐making, nursing power emanating from the strength of the medical‐nursing relationship and the hierarchies within and between the two professions all affect and are affected by recent management changes. In intensive care a key feature of the context, insularity, had already significantly modified these structures prior to recent reforms. This paper starts by discussing and contrasting the response of medics and nurses to these changes before highlighting the differences in the way these changes have impacted on staff in intensive care. Analysis is based on data from an observational study of the formation of a new directorate and interviews with senior nurses, medics and managers in intensive care.