The New Public Management brings this idea of consumerism directly
into the debate about the appropriate relationship between public administrators
and citizens by conceiving of the recipients of government services (or
delivered by contracted agencies) as consumers or “customers.” Like other
elements of the New Public Management, the customer-service orientation
is clearly related to the experience of business, in this case the customerservice
movement of the last twenty-five years. In such books as In Search of
Excellence (Peters and Waterman 1982) and Service America (Albretch and
Zemke 1985), management consultants made the argument that if businesses
are fully attentive to customers, then everything else, including profits, will
fall into place. The customer is conceived as constantly calculating satisfaction
utilities: “We can think of the customer as carrying around a kind of
‘report card’ in his or her head, which is the basis of a grading system that
leads the customers to decided whether to partake of the service again or
go elsewhere” (Albretch and Zemke 1985, 32). The customer is clearly a
construct derived from the classic model of economic man.
The New Public Management brings this idea of consumerism directly
into the debate about the appropriate relationship between public administrators
and citizens by conceiving of the recipients of government services (or
delivered by contracted agencies) as consumers or “customers.” Like other
elements of the New Public Management, the customer-service orientation
is clearly related to the experience of business, in this case the customerservice
movement of the last twenty-five years. In such books as In Search of
Excellence (Peters and Waterman 1982) and Service America (Albretch and
Zemke 1985), management consultants made the argument that if businesses
are fully attentive to customers, then everything else, including profits, will
fall into place. The customer is conceived as constantly calculating satisfaction
utilities: “We can think of the customer as carrying around a kind of
‘report card’ in his or her head, which is the basis of a grading system that
leads the customers to decided whether to partake of the service again or
go elsewhere” (Albretch and Zemke 1985, 32). The customer is clearly a
construct derived from the classic model of economic man.
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