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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Main Author: Hussain, Ahmad Atory
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 1995
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3055/
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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/
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