- New Public Management (NPM) is management change and organizational routines affecting expenditure planning and financial management, procurement, organization and methods and audit evaluation. (1).
- It affects how government agencies are managed, operated, and overseen. Fundamental themes of NPM are derived from managerialism and economic rationalism. (2)
- Principally, NPM is focused on the uses of market-based and business-like ways of public administration to achieve public goals. Although some scholars are skeptical of its applicability to the public sector, (3)
- the prospect of NPM seems to be convincing. The emergence of NPM in local administration in Thailand was found its roots in the administrative reform movement at the national level. (4)