1.2.2 Public Sector Reform in The United States of America
Public sector reform in the United States of America has been applied in
different periods, but with the same purpose to improve administrative efficiency.
The contemporary American public sector reform (1993 – Present) was called the
public sector reform of reinventing Government. This reform adapted the concept of
public sector reengineering proposed by David Osbourne and Ted Gaebler into the
public sector reform, with serious action taken from Bill Clinton’s period onwards.
The organization called the National Performance Review (NPR) was established to
study and present some guidelines and standards of public sector reform, which led to
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a report called From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government that Works Better
& Costs Less. The NPR recommended the Government change the administration
ofh “Bureaucratic Government” into an administration of “Entrepreneurial
Government”. In doing this, the government organizations have to eliminate
administrative inefficiency and wastefulness, so as to make this meet the public or
customer’s requirements, as well as adjusting the human resource system, corporate
culture and developing the government officers’ competency and decision-making
skills