Symbosium on public management reform in New Zealand : reflections on the international public management network/Victoria University workshop
By: LAKING, Rob
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ArticlePublisher: 2000International Public Management Journal 3, 1, p. 47-53Abstract: The genesis of the workshop on public management reform in New Zealand, held in Wellington on March 10, 2000, was an invitation from the International Public Management Network to the Graduate School of Business and Goverment Management at Victoria University to organize and co-host a one-day event in Wellington flollowing the Network's Sydney 2000 Conference. Approximately sixty people attended the workshop. The majority of attendees were senior public servants in the New Zealand government. In addition, there was a representation of academics from New Zealand and Network members who came on from the IPMN conference in Sydney at Macquarie Graduate School of Management March 4-6. The mix of speakers was strongly weighted towards practioners, as is reflected in the article in this symposium. The three central agency contributions are all from official who have a reputation for thinking creatively and critically about the future of New Zealand public management, Derek Gill, Andrew Kibblewhite and Anne Neale. Graham Scott kindly agreed to provide the keynot address. Robert Gregory, a well-know critic of the New Zealand reforms, was the sole academic voice in this small chorus of practitioners. Gregory would be the last to claim that he is "representative" of anyone's opinion other than his own
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The genesis of the workshop on public management reform in New Zealand, held in Wellington on March 10, 2000, was an invitation from the International Public Management Network to the Graduate School of Business and Goverment Management at Victoria University to organize and co-host a one-day event in Wellington flollowing the Network's Sydney 2000 Conference. Approximately sixty people attended the workshop. The majority of attendees were senior public servants in the New Zealand government. In addition, there was a representation of academics from New Zealand and Network members who came on from the IPMN conference in Sydney at Macquarie Graduate School of Management March 4-6. The mix of speakers was strongly weighted towards practioners, as is reflected in the article in this symposium. The three central agency contributions are all from official who have a reputation for thinking creatively and critically about the future of New Zealand public management, Derek Gill, Andrew Kibblewhite and Anne Neale. Graham Scott kindly agreed to provide the keynot address. Robert Gregory, a well-know critic of the New Zealand reforms, was the sole academic voice in this small chorus of practitioners. Gregory would be the last to claim that he is "representative" of anyone's opinion other than his own
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