HYBRIDITY IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: The Consequences of its Adoption in Public Sector Management in Ghana
Opoku, Michael (2016)
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Ghana’s Public Sector, which comprises the various Ministries, Municipalities, Departments and Agencies (MMDA’s), has come under intense criticism over the past decade over its bureaucratic and inefficient tendencies, comparable to the private sector.
With the advantage of hindsight, contemporary political leaders are restructuring, retrenching, empowering and repositioning Public Sector Organizations to make them cost effective and business-like, and also meet its Millennium Development Goals. This development has led to a steady increase in hybrid features of some public institutions and hence, the preference for hybrid organizations to execute some key public policies and projects. The synergy of public, private as well as the voluntary sector values and ethos is essential for organizational growth and development.
It is evident from current public policy choices and analysis that the country will soon witness substantial proliferation of hybrid organizations. However, the palpable prospects and challenges that are likely to emanate from this paradigm shift still remain oblivious. The quest for maximizing profit without losing sight of its fiducially public duties has bequeathed further obligations on public sector managers and inadvertently affected management style.
The essay examined and expatiated the possible consequences the adoption of hybrid organizations will have on public management practices since the practicality of managing hybrids is quite problematic. The research also accounted for the various factors and developments that have led to this sudden preference for hybridity. Qualitative research method was adopted and the canonical use of face-to-face interviews was resorted to in soliciting data.
In fine, it concludes that hybridity presents the country with enormous opportunities and its significance would be greatly realized when measures are taken by stakeholders to ameliorate old systemic practices.
The Electricity Company of Ghana, Driver Vehicle Licensing Authority, Tema Oil Refinery, as well as Ghana Water Company constituted the primary cases in point of analysis and the final data was subjected to qualitative analysis in bridging the gap between theory and practice.
With the advantage of hindsight, contemporary political leaders are restructuring, retrenching, empowering and repositioning Public Sector Organizations to make them cost effective and business-like, and also meet its Millennium Development Goals. This development has led to a steady increase in hybrid features of some public institutions and hence, the preference for hybrid organizations to execute some key public policies and projects. The synergy of public, private as well as the voluntary sector values and ethos is essential for organizational growth and development.
It is evident from current public policy choices and analysis that the country will soon witness substantial proliferation of hybrid organizations. However, the palpable prospects and challenges that are likely to emanate from this paradigm shift still remain oblivious. The quest for maximizing profit without losing sight of its fiducially public duties has bequeathed further obligations on public sector managers and inadvertently affected management style.
The essay examined and expatiated the possible consequences the adoption of hybrid organizations will have on public management practices since the practicality of managing hybrids is quite problematic. The research also accounted for the various factors and developments that have led to this sudden preference for hybridity. Qualitative research method was adopted and the canonical use of face-to-face interviews was resorted to in soliciting data.
In fine, it concludes that hybridity presents the country with enormous opportunities and its significance would be greatly realized when measures are taken by stakeholders to ameliorate old systemic practices.
The Electricity Company of Ghana, Driver Vehicle Licensing Authority, Tema Oil Refinery, as well as Ghana Water Company constituted the primary cases in point of analysis and the final data was subjected to qualitative analysis in bridging the gap between theory and practice.