Organizational change in the public sector: augmenting the demand control model to predict employee outcomes under New Public Management

This study identifies the environmental and personal characteristics that predict employee outcomes within an Australian public sector organization that had, under New Public Management (NPM), implemented a variety of practices traditionally found in the private sector. These are more results-oriented, and their adoption can be accompanied by increased strain for employees. The current investigation was guided by two complementary theories, the Demand Control Support (DCS) model and Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, and sought to examine the benefits of building on the DCS to include both situation-specific stressors and internal coping resources. Survey responses from 1,155 employees were analysed. The hierarchical regression analyses indicated that both external and employee-centred variables made significant contributions to variations in psychological health, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. The external resources, work based support and, to a lesser extent, job control, predicted relatively large proportions of the variance in the target variables. The situation-specific stressors, particularly those involving harmful management practices (e.g., insufficient time to do job as well as you would like, lack of recognition for good work), made significant contributions to the outcome measures and generally supported the process of augmenting the generic components of the DCS with more situation-specific variables. In terms of internal resources, problem and emotion-based coping improved the capacity of the model to predict psychological health. The results suggest that the impact of NPM can be ameliorated by incorporating the dimensions of the augmented DCS and coping resources into the change programme.

Modelling new public management in an Asian context : public sector reform in Malaysia

This article combines the key elements of new public management theories with theories of privatisation and total quality management. The key elements identified in this review are used to establish a general model of new public management. Based on western theorising, the model is acknowledged as having a cultural bias. As a corrective, the article reviews the empirical experience of Malaysian public sector reform between 1980 and 2000, with the findings being used to identifying country-specific characteristics as a means of refining the model in a way that reflects that experience. The discussion concludes by setting out a revised model of new public management which takes account of its application in a Malaysian context. The contention is that the process of enquiry leading to this contingent model of new public management might be adapted along similar lines for the purposes of analysing the application of public sector reform in other developing countries.

The new public management in Malaysian public enterprise

The thesis explored New Public Management (NPM) reforms of three Malaysian public enterprises. The finding indicated they differed - privatisation influenced by cronysim; 'quality projects' partially implemented; workforce unchanged. Instead efficiency improvements found were not attributed to NPS. This evidence questions the employability of NPM in a developing economy.

Análise do processo de implantação do balanced scorecard: o caso do painel corporativo de uma empresa brasileira do setor público

Um assunto cada vez mais recorrente na literatura sobre administração é a questão dos modismos de gestão. Nos anos 90 se observou a euforia em torno da gestão pela qualidade total (TQM) e a explosão da reengenharia de processos, que veio junto com a terceirização. Em seguida emergiu o conceito de core-competencies ou competências essências que deu origem à revolução da gestão baseada em competências. Surgido nos anos 90, a partir de pesquisas acadêmicas, o Balanced Scorecard (BSC) aparece como uma nova tecnologia de gestão que rapidamente foi difundida e passou a ser utilizada por uma extensa gama de organizações. A recente utilização dessa tecnologia de gestão e o excesso de euforia sobre o tema trazem a tona o questionamento sobre a correta utilização da mesma. Sendo assim, essa pesquisa se dedica a fazer uma análise sobre a utilização do BSC em uma empresa brasileira do setor público frente à metodologia proposta pela literatura. Os resultados da pesquisa demonstraram que os motivos que levaram a empresa em questão a escolher o BSC como tecnologia de gestão e a construção do BSC foram coerentes com a metodologia proposta pela literatura. Por fim a pesquisa também revelou dois resultados inesperados: primeiro um possível fator de sucesso na utilização do BSC não encontrado na literatura; e segundo uma certa peculiaridade quanto a adoção dessa tecnologia de gestão em empresas do setor público.