| ID | 092650 |
| Title Proper | Public management and administration |
| Other Title Information | a need for evolution |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Rimington, John |
| Publication | 2009. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Recently, British public management has relied too much on private sector approaches suited to market-facing situations, to the detriment of systems based on a realistic estimate of the special nature of public business, and its needs for economy and co-ordination. Accountability processes have suffered from over-simplification (targetry) and from a gross multiplication of mechanisms focusing on individual error, as opposed to ensuring intelligent assessment of business results. There has been an over-emphasis on management of inputs and outputs, as opposed to systems gearing the result-producing mechanisms to means for policy formation and co-ordination of effort. We need now to re-think and define properly the systems whereby ministers are advised, account is rendered, resources are allocated and effort is co-ordinated-and the qualifications of the relevant actors. Suggestions are made to these ends |
| `In' analytical Note | Political Quarterly Vol. 80, No. 4; Oct-Dec 2009: p562-568 |
| Journal Source | Political Quarterly Vol. 80, No. 4; Oct-Dec 2009: p562-568 |
| Key Words | Public Administration ; Public Management ; Public Accountability ; Civil Service ; Administrative Reform |