Answer to Question #226838 in Management for Donsai

Question

How do the characteristics/features of Traditional Public Administration (TPA) & New Public Management (NPM) apply to your country/Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs)? Use relevant and real-life examples to support your answer (e.g. examples of how the public sector or ministries is/are organized; examples of public sector reforms and their implications in terms of public management, performance management, and human resource management; examples of public enterprises, privatizations of public enterprises, or private-public partnerships, etc.). , make sure to explain how the elements/characteristics/examples of TPA, NPM or reforms you have identified/presented in your paper fit your country/PICTs’ context(s) and what are their pros and cons in this/these context(s), from how well they match the culture, structures, and needs to what are the challenges, pitfalls, or issues/obstacles.

Answer 1

Fundamental control in the conventional model of public administration is vested in the legislature's enactment of legislation and the executive authority's loyal implementation of those laws. The conventional paradigm of public administration places a strong focus on mission accomplishment and resource accountability.

By delegating greater freedom and discretion to lower levels in creating products and services, the new public management would ease the issues produced by strict, hierarchical control. It would delegate discrete implementation. They'd have more say over who gets hired and fired, as well as how money is spent to achieve policy objectives. If the program is directed at people closest to the service delivery, it will be more effective. Implementation is outsourced, and management choices are left to the discretion of private sector executives; these judgments are permissible as long as the goods or services under the contract are produced lawfully.

Traditional government accounting focuses on the inputs utilized to complete missions, such as persons, cash totals, number of cars, number of computers, and energy spent. The public sector in Africa has been changed in structure and procedure since the introduction of NPM. The fundamental shift in how African nations pursue development today is by adopting a new functional model that allows public sectors to act more like private sectors through reforms. For example, Hope claims that before these changes, Africa's economic growth was slowed by restricted economic development, resulting in difficulties such as hunger, starvation, malnutrition, and a general worsening of the quality of life.