New Public Management (NPM) system hasbeen the dominant paradig
m i n public
administration theory and practice since 1980s, having its affi
nity with markets and private sector
management as the old administrative model has been under sever
e criticisms for its inability to
deliver goods and services to the people. NPM is depicted as a
normative conceptualization
totally different in many ways from traditional public administ
ration, providing services that citizens
value to increase the autonomy of public managers and rewarding
organizations and individuals to
enhance the efficiency of public sector production. This paper
focuses on the introductory discussion
of the NPM system which has replaced the traditional public adm
inistration system and analysis of the
trends, rationales and scope of reforms of the public sector in
Bangladesh and African countries. The
paper is based on archival research, where secondary data sourc
es have been used and
methodological filter was applied to confine the literature. Ne
w Public Management (NPM) is a different
paradigm of public management that puts forward a different rel
ationship between governments, the
public service and the public.