DIFFERENT POSITIONS CONCERNING THE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONIN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS AND THE DIŞTINCTIVE PLACE OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT IN THE SPECTRUM OF THESE POSITIONS

Year 1999, Volume: 17 Issue: 1, 125 - 168, 31.07.1999

Uğur Ömürgönülşen

Abstract

There has
been a profusion of approaches and then confusion in describing
the stüdy and practice of management in the public sector. The similarities and
differences between organisations and management functions in the public and
private sectors are a constant source of conroversy.
What does management mean in the public sector? What makes public
management new and different?

In this
study we have developed eight different positions conceming the similarities
and differences between management âınctions in both sectors: (ü) public
adminisration iş unique; (fi) pubiic adminİstratİon and private
(business) management are alike in unimponant respects; (iii) there is a
unique management for the public domain; (iv) public management
is an integative paradigm; (v) the new public management (NPM) is a new
paradigm; (vii) there is a convergence between public management
and private management; (vii) management is generic; (viii) public management is only a less efficientform of private (business)management.

 A
"general public management approach", which can be developed from
positions (ili), (iv) and (v) by integrating the contributions of politics,
public law, economics and management, Will be a new and enriched
approach to the stüdy and practice ofthe public sector, However, it should be
kept İn mind that this approach is only a promisıng direction rather than
a full panacea or a miraculous elixir for all problems of the pub[ic
sector.

Keywords

Traditional public administration, public management, the new public management, convergence between the public and private sectors

References

• ALLISON, Jr. G, T. (1983), “PubIic and Private Management: Are They Fundamentally Alike in All Unimportant Respects?" in J. L, Perry and K. L. Kraemer (eds.), Public Management: Public and Private Perspectives, (Palo Alto: Cal.: Mayfield). (This article was originally presented as part of the Public Management Research Conference, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., November 1979),