Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I Introduction and Fundamentals
  • 1. Public Administration and Outcome-Oriented Public Management
  • Administration? or Management? or Both?
  • Fundamentals
  • The Functions of the State
  • Public Administration
  • The Implementing Arm of the State
  • Crises in Public Administration
  • A Way Out of the Crisis
  • Public Governance
  • New Public Management as a Reform Model
  • Publications and Rhetoric about New Public Management
  • Best-Practice Approaches
  • Theoretically Conceptual Approaches
  • The Analysis of Processual Elements
  • The Interdisciplinary View of Reform
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings
  • 2. Theoretical Foundations and Fundamental Premises of NPM
  • The Theoretical Foundations of NPM
  • Fundamental Premises
  • An Optimistic View of Humanity
  • The State and Administration are Necessary
  • The Problems to be Solved in Administration are Efficiency and Effectiveness, not Legality or Legitimation.
  • Rational Public Management is Possible
  • Competition Results in More Efficiency and Effectiveness Than Planning and Control
  • Politics and Administration are Able to Learn
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings
  • pt. II Strategic Elements in the Concept of NPM
  • 3. The Strategy of NPM
  • The Vision of "Human Administration" and of the "State as a Service Provider"
  • Processes and Actors: Normative-Strategic Management
  • The Distribution of Competence between Politics and Administration in NPM
  • Role Assignment According to Administrative Units
  • The Essence: The Strategic Objectives of NPM
  • Customer Orientation
  • Outcome Orientation
  • Quality Orientation
  • Competition Orientation
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings
  • pt. III Structural and Processual Elements in the Concept of OPM
  • 4. The Decentralisation of the Management and Organisation Structure
  • Hallmarks of the New Management and Organisation Structure.
  • Political Leadership and Administrative Management
  • Decentralised, Flat Organisation
  • Separation of Funder, Buyer and Provider
  • The Model of the Enabling Authority
  • Interministerial and Multicorporate Functions
  • Functions and Control Mechanisms of Interministerial Units
  • Organisational Structure and Decentralised Responsibility for Resources
  • Effects and Consequences of the New Management and Organisation Structure
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings
  • 5.Organisation from the Points of View of Customers and Quality
  • Coordination by Customers
  • Coordination by Intermediaries
  • One-Stop Concept
  • Customer-Segment-Oriented Organisation
  • Customer and Quality Orientation in the Life-Cycle of Output Production
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings
  • 6. Outcome-Oriented Control through Performance Agreements
  • The Control Process in OPM
  • Value Planning
  • Output Production
  • Value Creation and Measurement
  • The Three Levels of Control.
  • The Executive's Priority Programme
  • The Integrated Tasks and Finance Plan
  • Annual Performance Budget
  • Contract Management
  • Divergences from Performance Agreements
  • Qualifications Required for Contract Management
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings
  • 7. The Reinforcement of Leadership Responsibility through One-Line Budgets and Management
  • Demands Made on Financial Management
  • The Internal Providers' One-Line Budgets
  • Calculation of the Contract Amount
  • Financial and Management Accounting
  • Accountancy
  • Accrual Accounting as the Basis
  • Cost Accounting
  • Internal Recoveries
  • Accounting for Outputs
  • Accounting for Outcomes
  • Accounting for Impact
  • Indices for Public Management
  • Comprehensive Management Accounting
  • Reporting in Cockpit Systems
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings
  • 8.Competition and Market Mechanisms
  • Competition in Public Administration
  • Government Institutions as Market Participants.
  • Competition Mechanisms in Public Administration
  • Non-Market Competition
  • Quasi-Market Competition
  • Market Competition
  • Public-Private Partnerships
  • Performance Depth in the Public Sector
  • Performance Depth Analysis
  • Task Review and Relinquishment
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings
  • 9. The Relationship between OPM and the Law
  • Legal Systems
  • The Functions and Configurations of Law
  • Principles of Governance
  • Requirements and Guidelines for Administrative Action
  • Requirements Under Administrative Law
  • Selected Issues and Fields of Tension
  • Outcome and Output Orientation versus the Principle of Legality
  • Decentralised Leadership Structures versus Organisation Law
  • One-Line Budgeting versus Financial and Budget Law
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings
  • pt. IV Capacities
  • the Resources of OPM
  • 10. Human Resources Capacity
  • Personnel Policy
  • OPM's Demands on Managerial Behaviour
  • Leading through Target Agreements.
  • Elements of Modern Personnel Management
  • Staff Selection in OPM
  • Performance Reviews in OPM
  • Staff Reward in OPM
  • Personnel and Organisation Development
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings
  • 11. Technical Capacity: Information Technology
  • Application Levels of Information Technology
  • Target Groups and Interfaces
  • Electronic Government
  • Development of a Conceptual Frame for e-Government
  • Obstacles in the Way of e-Government
  • Data Protection
  • Data Security
  • Digital Divide
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings
  • pt. V Cultural Aspects in the Concept of OPM
  • 12. The Administrative Culture of OPM
  • What is Administrative Culture?
  • The Significance of Administrative Culture
  • How Does OPM Change Administrative Culture?
  • Little or No Awareness of Administrative Culture
  • Customer Orientation was Enhanced
  • Legality Does not Impose a Limit on Customer Orientation
  • Bureaucrats do not Experience Themselves as Bureaucratic.
  • The Middle Management is Ignored
  • Political Culture
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings
  • pt. VI Reflections on the Model
  • 13. The Model of Outcome-Oriented Public Management under Scrutiny
  • How Can the Implementation of OPM be Judged?
  • Comparison with Other Reform Efforts
  • NPM Put Up for Discussion
  • Debating Point 1 Changes in the Personnel Situation
  • Debating Point 2 The Haziness of the Term, "New Public Management"
  • Debating Point 3 New Public Management Weakens the Working Order of the State
  • Debating Point 4 New Public Management as a "One Size Fits All"
  • Debating Point 5 New Public Management and Power
  • Debating Point 6 The Technocracy of NPM
  • Debating Point 7 Outcome Orientation and Outcome Measurement
  • OPM's Dilemma of the Supervisors and the Supervised
  • Discuss
  • Further Readings.