Changing Conceptions of Public ‘Management’ and Public Sector Reform in South Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Naidoo, Vinothan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-20T11:50:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-10-20T11:50:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | South Africa’s political transition to democratic rule was the catalyst for ambitious public sector reform efforts, which sought to restructure the organisational and personnel profile of the state. A key aim of this process was to enhance the state’s management capacity to steer a far-reaching socio-economic policy agenda, which drew on the principles and tools of comparative public management practice as it had evolved globally and intellectually. This article examines how South Africa’s policy commitment to management reform can be characterised in comparative terms, and twenty years on, assess if and how this commitment has materialised in practice. I will argue that the South African case exhibits a confusing and directionless mix of traditional management control and unconsummated NPM advocacy. Although this is generally consistent with NPM practice in developing countries, I will propose that there are at least three specific elements that lend texture to the South African case, namely, capacity, commitment and capture. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Naidoo, V. (2015). Changing Conceptions of Public ‘Management’ and Public Sector Reform in South Africa. <i>International Public Management Review</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22228 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Naidoo, Vinothan "Changing Conceptions of Public ‘Management’ and Public Sector Reform in South Africa." <i>International Public Management Review</i> (2015) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22228 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Naidoo, V. (2015). Changing Conceptions of Public ‘Management’ and Public Sector Reform in South Africa. International Public Management Review, 16(1), 23-42. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1471-9045 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Naidoo, Vinothan AB - South Africa’s political transition to democratic rule was the catalyst for ambitious public sector reform efforts, which sought to restructure the organisational and personnel profile of the state. A key aim of this process was to enhance the state’s management capacity to steer a far-reaching socio-economic policy agenda, which drew on the principles and tools of comparative public management practice as it had evolved globally and intellectually. This article examines how South Africa’s policy commitment to management reform can be characterised in comparative terms, and twenty years on, assess if and how this commitment has materialised in practice. I will argue that the South African case exhibits a confusing and directionless mix of traditional management control and unconsummated NPM advocacy. Although this is generally consistent with NPM practice in developing countries, I will propose that there are at least three specific elements that lend texture to the South African case, namely, capacity, commitment and capture. DA - 2015 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - International Public Management Review KW - Management Development KW - Public Management Reform KW - South Africa LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 SM - 1471-9045 T1 - Changing Conceptions of Public ‘Management’ and Public Sector Reform in South Africa TI - Changing Conceptions of Public ‘Management’ and Public Sector Reform in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22228 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22228 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Naidoo V. Changing Conceptions of Public ‘Management’ and Public Sector Reform in South Africa. International Public Management Review. 2015; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22228. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | International Public Management Network | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Political Studies | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License | * |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.source | International Public Management Review | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://journals.sfu.ca/ipmr/index.php/ipmr | |
| dc.subject | Management Development | |
| dc.subject | Public Management Reform | |
| dc.subject | South Africa | |
| dc.title | Changing Conceptions of Public ‘Management’ and Public Sector Reform in South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |