Answer to Question #232299 in Management for Diane

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.). Reflect on your experience, do research and ask people around to give you examples.

Answer 1

Features of Traditional Public Administration (TPA) & New Public Management (NPM) applied to Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) through the following reasons; large scale government resulting in overconsumption of resources; government involvement in too many activities; widespread bureaucracy; high rates of inflation; the absence of separation between policy and administration; the absence of rational decision making; and disregard for citizens’ satisfaction. However, this led to the implementation of New Public Management was set as a condition by those organizations for obtaining financial assistance.