The Post-Bureaucratic Organization and Public Service Values

Recent public sector reforms, especially those associated with the new public management movement, have increased concern about the state of public service values. This concern has arisen in large part because some advocates of public sector reform pay little or no attention to values and others focus narrowly on the application of private sector values to the public sector. The primary means by which public organizations can move toward the post-bureaucratic model have become well known to the public administration community, especially over the past decade. They include partnerships, empowerment, restructuring, re-engineering, information technology and continuous learning. Many public organizations around the world have undergone significant reform by moving toward the post-bureaucratic model. The model is not a normative one in the sense that all public organizations are encouraged to conform as closely as possible to its several components. Values have long been an important concept in scholarly writings on public administration, especially in the United States.

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