Administrative Reform in Malaysia: Strategies for Promoting Efficiency and Productivity in the Public Service, 1981-1991
This article is a macro-analysis of reform in the Malaysian civil service, covering the ten-year period between 1981 and 1991. These reforms were dictated by the need to increase efficiency, effeclivcness and productivity in order to speed up the implementation of development policies and deliver...
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| description | This article is a macro-analysis of reform in the Malaysian civil service, covering the ten-year period between
1981 and 1991. These reforms were dictated by the need to increase efficiency, effeclivcness and productivity
in order to speed up the implementation of development policies and deliver the economic goods to lhe
people. This article brings into focus the opinions of high-ranking civil servants about reforms initialed during
this period. The article concludes that though more effort is still needed, especially in determining how close
programmes and policies have come to achieving their target, bureaucratic reforms carried out in Malaysia
between 198] and] 99] have generally been successful in changing attitudes of civil servanl.S towards lhe goals
of efficiency, effectiveness and productivity. |
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| spelling | upm-30552013-05-27T07:05:24Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3055/ Administrative Reform in Malaysia: Strategies for Promoting Efficiency and Productivity in the Public Service, 1981-1991 Hussain, Ahmad Atory This article is a macro-analysis of reform in the Malaysian civil service, covering the ten-year period between 1981 and 1991. These reforms were dictated by the need to increase efficiency, effeclivcness and productivity in order to speed up the implementation of development policies and deliver the economic goods to lhe people. This article brings into focus the opinions of high-ranking civil servants about reforms initialed during this period. The article concludes that though more effort is still needed, especially in determining how close programmes and policies have come to achieving their target, bureaucratic reforms carried out in Malaysia between 198] and] 99] have generally been successful in changing attitudes of civil servanl.S towards lhe goals of efficiency, effectiveness and productivity. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 1995 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3055/1/Administrative_Reform_in_Malaysia_Strategies_for_Promoting_Efficiency.pdf Hussain, Ahmad Atory (1995) Administrative Reform in Malaysia: Strategies for Promoting Efficiency and Productivity in the Public Service, 1981-1991. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 3 (1). pp. 65-86. ISSN 0128-7702 English |
| spellingShingle | Hussain, Ahmad Atory Administrative Reform in Malaysia: Strategies for Promoting Efficiency and Productivity in the Public Service, 1981-1991 |
| title | Administrative Reform in Malaysia: Strategies for Promoting Efficiency
and Productivity in the Public Service, 1981-1991 |
| title_full | Administrative Reform in Malaysia: Strategies for Promoting Efficiency
and Productivity in the Public Service, 1981-1991 |
| title_fullStr | Administrative Reform in Malaysia: Strategies for Promoting Efficiency
and Productivity in the Public Service, 1981-1991 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Administrative Reform in Malaysia: Strategies for Promoting Efficiency
and Productivity in the Public Service, 1981-1991 |
| title_short | Administrative Reform in Malaysia: Strategies for Promoting Efficiency
and Productivity in the Public Service, 1981-1991 |
| title_sort | administrative reform in malaysia: strategies for promoting efficiency
and productivity in the public service, 1981-1991 |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3055/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3055/1/Administrative_Reform_in_Malaysia_Strategies_for_Promoting_Efficiency.pdf |