Effect-oriented management
The action oriented public management (WoV) is the Swiss and Austrian version of the New Public Management , which shows already in the name of the core concern: focus on the intended effects.
history
- 1991 First reform discussions among executives in public administration in the Bern area.
- 1993 Start of the first major projects: Cantons of Bern and Lucerne, City of Bern.
- 1996 Pilot phase: the impact-oriented management goes into the practical test with the new global budget, linked to performance agreements. Exception: the canton of Zurich goes straight to the final introduction after a referendum.
- From 2000 evaluation of the projects and decisions for or against the definitive introduction. At the same time, the control instruments are being expanded to the medium-term level (task and financial planning).
Performance and impact orientation
It is based primarily on three pillars:
- Concretization of the control specifications through performance and impact goals, not - as is conventional - through the provision of funds. This usually happens through performance contracts;
- Granting more freedom to make decisions for administrative managers in the use of resources (mostly through the global budget );
- Use of competitive incentive mechanisms.
With these three main elements, the focus of political control is to be steered from (too) strong resource orientation to increased performance and impact orientation and the strategic perspective is to be strengthened (“Let's do the right things”). At the same time, management in public administration is to be improved.
distribution
The impact-oriented administrative management (WoV) is today (as of 2008) its greatest dissemination at the cantonal level. Almost all cantons in Switzerland have introduced important elements of the WoV or are planning to do so. In 2007, six out of 16 reform cantons had introduced NPM in all administrative units across the board (Aargau, Bern, Lucerne, Solothurn, Thurgau and Zurich).
The WoV is far less well received by small communities with less than 10,000 inhabitants and at the federal level. The cantons of Zug, Schaffhausen and Basel-Landschaft rejected a nationwide introduction. The cities of Zurich and Dübendorf canceled their reforms.
However, the WoV has led to public management becoming an essential part of the training of future administrative managers. Since 1998, no fewer than 11 new research and teaching institutions for public management have been created in Switzerland that are actively involved in the practice of administrative reform.
There is now a wide selection of scientific articles on WoV in Switzerland. The online administrative encyclopedia lists the latest articles, and the discussion is also largely promoted by the Swiss Society for Administrative Sciences SGVW, which reports on current developments and new publications.
literature
- Ernst Buschor : Effect-oriented management . Zurich Chamber of Commerce, Zurich 1993
- Ernst Buschor: New public management: international experiences and contributions. Zuendel & Partner (ed.), Verlag ddv, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 978-3-930174-04-1
- Mastronardi, Philippe, and Kuno Schedler : New Public Management in State and Law. A discourse. Bern: Haupt, 1998 ISBN 3-258-05788-5
- Alessandro Pelizzari: Financial Policy and Sociopolitical Counter-Reforms in the Canton of Zurich. In: The economization of the political. UVK / Raisons d'Agir, Konstanz 2001, ISBN 3-89669-998-9 .
- Lienhard, Andreas, et al. (Ed.): 10 years of New Public Management in Switzerland. Bern: Haupt, 2005. ISBN 3-258-06872-0
- Ladner, Andreas, et al .: Evaluation of the parliamentary and administrative reform. New city administration of Bern NSB . Bern: KPM-Verlag, 2007 ISBN 978-3-906789-17-2 , correct ISBN 978-3-906798-17-2
- Rieder, Stefan, and Thomas Widmer: Cantons in Transition. Reform activities of the Swiss cantons between 1990 and 1999: causes, structure and consequences . Bern: Haupt, 2007 ISBN 978-3-258-07249-4
See also
- Guidelines for the management of the federal government
- Administrative management (content-related, Germany)
- Administrative management (personal, Germany)
Web links
- Martin Heimgartner, Andreas Dietrich: Effect-oriented administrative management in the Swiss cantons. (PDF) Federal Finance Administration Expenditure Policy Department, December 18, 2008, accessed on October 14, 2014 .