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Karel Lacina MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES IMPLEMENTATION IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
The necessity to improve the European public administration management in general
was and is determined first of all by the fact that it is facing great pressures.The most
significant of them were and are :
- budgetary squeeze;
- the need for the new transnational or cross-border administrative cooperation;
- the membership in the European Union, which has both direct and indirect
impact on the scope of purely national sectoral activities on domestic
administrative structures and on policy networks;
- the necessity to solve cricial environmental issues;
- the so called feminism (the struggle for equal opportunities for women and men
in the working process as well as the public life); and
- the so called consumerism .
The contemporary public administration is also influenced generally by the
„technological change". This factor is contributing to the transformation of
organisational structures, working practices and skills. It is partly connected with the
personal management and services delivery.
Last but not least the public administration in the European Union countries has also
been affected now by the so called “post-modernist managerial revolution“ which
advocates smaller, more flexible, more specialised and more autonomous units run by
enterprising managers - and not by typical officials .
The first important common step to the management principles realization in the
European public administration execution was represented by reforms of state
administration although the scope, the intensity and the objectives of the reforms
programmes have differed widely. The second one oriented to the implementation of
decentralization, deconcentration and subsidiarity principles expresses the direction to
the strenghtening of the role of local government execution in the local level and by the
creation of the regional local government.
Such an orientation became one of very typical features of public administration
execution in the United Kingdom. It was implemented in a smaller scale also in
Germany, France, Portugal, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, France and the Federal
Republic of Germany public administration since the last third of the last century.These
approaches were implemented mainly in the form of several middle- range reforms
implemented since the 1980s till now.
Administration reforms included a wide variety of policies.Those range from the
restructuring of ministries and the creation of new administration bodies to the
implementation of a serie of democratic attitudes inside the whole public
administration.Reforms were oriented in such a way to the underlining of the economy,
efficiency and effectiveness principles in the public administration execution.These
„3Es” representing the key principles of the so called New Public Management
(N.P.M.) started to be implemented in the United Kingdom public administration.
It is possible to stress that NPM relates to the global operation of public
administrations and it is linked to the notion of the so called “hollowing out the
state“.Generally New Public Management involves fragmentation of decision-making
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