Record Details

Reclaiming the Public Manager

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Reclaiming the Public Manager
 
Creator CARDOW, Andrew; Lecturer, Department of Management
and International Business, Massey
University, New Zeeland
 
Subject public manager; community; public services; private sector; public sector;
 
Description This article adds to the existing discussion regarding the NPM, and more specifically addresses the role of managerial identity that is often ignored within the existing literature. The research was conducted utilising a grounded, qualitative methodology. The data was analysed utilising the tools of critical discourse. Throughout the article a case will be made that the introduction of private sector ‘business paradigms’ have led the managers to seek their legitimacy and their sense of identity not from the public sector but from the private sector. In doing so they have distanced themselves from the public, the owners of the assets they manage. The research is a qualitative study that highlights the conflict between identity and community expectation. The implications suggest that managers of local government business operations need to be aware of the possible conflict that can arise through seeking identity with the private sector in that it may lead to distancing themselves from the public they serve. The practical implications lie in being able to recognise that too close an identity with “normal” business practice can conflict with provision of public services
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2007-02-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/348
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2007: Issue No. 19 E/February; 36-50
1842-2845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/348/338
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2014 Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences