Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 19th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Local Government Author(s) Dana Mihaela Mortelmans National School of Political Studies and Public Administration Bucharest Romania Title Managerial re-designing – a way into the future for public administration File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract The global economic crisis has severely affected the Romanian public sector which, in most cases, proved to be economically uncompetitive, rigid, and incapable of a useful reaction in real time. In spite of twenty years of administrative reform “on paper”, the inner mechanisms of the public administration still resemble the former socialist period. The high degree of bureaucracy, the long decision-making process and the behavior of public administration, almost always reactive and not pro-active, are reminiscences of the past, with a strong impact on the shape and activities of the current administrative system. Due to its reluctance to change, the public sector was the one where the impact of the economic crisis was felt the most. The management system employed in the public administration in Romania is an obsolete system, not oriented towards performance and was incapable of providing viable solutions to the economic problems. The paper aims to perform an empirical analysis at the level of the local public administration in Romania, employing a matrix of external and internal factors, in order to analyze the current management system within such entities and to provide an alternative solution, borrowed from the private sector, in the form of the managerial re-designing of the public institutions, by means of reorganizing them as entities comprising almost independent management/administration centers. The administration of the future will certainly be a more dynamic, mobile, changing system. Managerial re-designing, supposed to improve the competitiveness of the organization and, therefore, to make public administration less susceptible to failure in case of future crisis, may be the first step in this direction. UPDATED VERSION
