New public management: its impact on public servant's identity: An introduction to this symposium
International Journal of Public Sector Management
ISSN: 0951-3558
Article publication date: 1 October 2006
Abstract
Purpose
This paper introduces the symposium on public management reform and its impact on public servant's identity. It provides both a descriptive and theoretical context within which the other contributions to the symposium can be located.
Design/methodology/approach
It is based on a literature review and a summary of the articles in the symposium
Findings
The paper describes the changes associated with new public management (NPM) and its variants and their impact on systems of public administration and public officials. It also highlights the contribution that cultural and social theories, drawn from anthropology and organisational psychology, make to an understanding of the processes by which public servants’ identity are formed and changed. It complements this with an examination of different models of bureaucracy, which reflect the transition from classical public administration to NPM. These concepts and ideas are developed further in other articles in the journal.
Originality/value
It provides an introduction for readers unfamiliar with the core concepts and ideas associated with individual, group and organisational identity and highlights for readers what is central to the research papers in the symposium.
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Citation
Horton, S. (2006), "New public management: its impact on public servant's identity: An introduction to this symposium", International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 19 No. 6, pp. 533-542. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513550610685970
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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