The Bureaucratic Organizational Structure Reform in the New Public Management Movement

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmsd.202412507

Author(s)

Yuanwei Xiong

Affiliation(s)

School of Government Management, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Abstract

With the progress of society, the functions and scale of administrative agencies have been expanding, and handling complex administrative agencies affairs has become a challenge. The existing simple administrative system cannot meet the needs, prompting people to seek a new system. The bureaucracy, as a rational system for effectively implementing public policies, emerged in response to this need. Bureaucracy emphasizes efficiency, discipline, and other rational principles, reflecting the efficiency and orderly organization of social organizations, with clear responsibilities and standardized operations. The New Public Management (NPM) movement criticizes its centralized rigidity, the influence of officials' motives on operations, and therefore seeks changes in personnel, structure, operation, and morality. However, the inefficiency of administrative agencies is not only due to bureaucracy, but also brings new challenges from marketization and decentralization. This article aims to improve the New Public Management model through administrative agencies integration. Overall, the New Public Management movement is a continuous revision of bureaucracy, rather than a fundamental transformation.

Keywords

New Public Management; Bureaucratic Organization; Organizational Institutional Change; Bureaucratic Organization

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