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